Just got this from the Gatorade Player of the Year people:
@YhsBucks
@matthew_mors
was the first sophomore EVER to get Gatorade Boys' Basketball Player of the Year for South Dakota.
Praying for Sully Buttes coach Mark Senftner, who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor.
If you're wondering what kind of person he is, 4 years ago he intentionally took a technical foul so that an injured Cheylee Nagel could score for Avon in the state tournament.
Just a reminder:
If you play high school sports, there are kids looking up to you. (Yes, in this gym they look down, but they are "looking up to you.")
Mount Marty senior Mikayla Prouty announced as a starter for the second half and immediately taken out, allowing her to step on the court one last time. The
@LancerWBB
standout suffered a season-ending injury earlier this season.
Chamberlain fans rise to their feet as they sense the end of the Polar Bear era. Nash Hutmacher needed 1:29 to pin Brookings' Gus Miller for his 73rd straight pin and 4th straight state title.
The Gatorade South Dakota Player of the Year is
@YhsBucks
@matthew_mors
. He is the second Buck ever to receive the honor for basketball, joining Tate Pesicka.
With the
@YhsBucks
coming to a close, let's update the
@matthew_mors
tracker:
He finished with 585 points, breaking the old record of 531 (Steve Diekmann, 90-91)
Broke scoring average 24.375 avg (23.1, Diekmann)
Broke single-game scoring 42 (41)
Broke career 3s 121
LANCERS WIN!
Cole Bowen drains a DEEP one from past half court for
@MMULancersMBB
first GPAC win of the season.
73-70 over
#13
Northwestern
Lancers host
@GPACSports
leader Hastings on Wednesday.
Going to give
@EEWoodiel
all the credit for having the brains to post her version of these photos from
@thesummitleague
Volleyball Tournament yesterday.
It was a great mother-daughter moment among many good moments.
Have a weekend, Billy Hancock.
The
@MMULancersBSB
catcher went 6-for-6 with 3 HR and 7 RBI today.
In 4 games this weekend, he was 9-for-12, 4 HR, 9 RBI, as the Lancers went 3-1.
He has a hit in all 8 of the Lancers' games this month (15-26, 4 HR, 13 RBI)
.
@YhsBucks
@matthew_mors
finished with a school-record 45 points, including these two, in Yankton's 66-60 victory over Huron. Teegan Evers dropped 31 for Huron to keep the Tigers in the game.
Jordan Johnson averaged 27 ppg last week, including dropping 35 on 13-18 shooting (5-6 3s) to beat
#6
DWU. That effort earned the
@MountMartyHoops
guard
@GPACSports
Player of the Week honors.
Before the game, I told another reporter I expected Mors to get called for a BS technical foul by the end of the first quarter. It took until a minute into the third.
Yankton's
@matthew_mors
will open the 2020-21 season by breaking his own single-game scoring record. He has 48 points with 35.3 seconds remaining.
@YhsBucks
76
@Spartan_BBB
58
Spearfish kept it close for much of the game.
From
@thesummitleague
:
Today's women's final attendance (record 8,704) bests the women's final attendance for "Power 5" leagues.
SEC 8,215
American (UConn's league) 7,501
ACC 7,424
Pac12 5,387
Big Ten 4,519
Big 12 3,520
Remember
@kennadiw_15
as a little kid running around the DakotaDome when mom
@gussowilliams5
was coaching the USD women. So cool to see them both having success.
I am so happy for Coach
@gussowilliams5
& her wonderful family. Her daughter
@kennadiw_15
just led Lincoln Southwest to an upset win in the Class A semifinals. On to the state title game! Proud of Kennadi & her teammates.
#nebpreps
#Huskers
The name
@matthew_mors
will be all over the
@YhsBucks
record books when his prep career ends in March.
Besides 5 career records, add points in a game (48) and season (585), and blocks in a game (6) and season (41).
He plays his final regular season game today against Douglas.
Besides his going over 1,000 points for his career,
@YhsBucks
freshman
@matthew_mors
became the Bucks' all-time leader in career three-pointers.
Tate Pesicka had 109, Mors hit his 110th tonight.
Good news for high school track and field fans in the region:
Dan Lennon is back.
@SDCoyotesXCTF
will host the 2-day meet, March 21 (A) and 22 (B) at the DakotaDome in Vermillion.
Thank you to
@SDCoyotesVB
for being so exciting and photogenic. This photo from them winning the 2022
@thesummitleague
tournament was the first place photo in the
@SD_Newspapers
annual contest.
Still going through photos from tonight because I had to drive back and I took way too many (gallery coming later, BTW).
Got this connection photo from
@BluebirdsTabor
's Chase Kortan.
This is the 5th year of the SoDak 16 for AA basketball.
Only 2 boys' programs have made all 5 state tournaments during that era:
@YhsBucks
@OGHSKnights
Yankton had hired new head coaches for three programs.
Matt Decker, who was an assistant on the Bucks' state title team, will take over the girls' basketball program.
Robert Coyle III will head the wrestling program.
Tayler Stacey will lead the volleyball program.
Every track season, there are typically a couple of athletes other athletes will stop to watch.
One of those is Viborg-Hurley's Angel Johnson.
@AngelJo16347001
YHS has announced two new head coaches:
Shanna Ibarolle-Koenig will head the
@GazelleVball
program
Brady Muth (
@dobalina54
) will head the
@BuckFootball
program
Both are YHS Alumni
Ok, Yankton, now comes the hard part.
When you enter the arena today, leave last night at the curb. The result will not change, so don't let it lead to another bad experience.
The Big Ten found out what those of us in South Dakota already knew:
Bergen Reilly is very good at volleyball.
First freshmen ever named B1G Setter of the Year
Let me try to be clear on this:
There are NO (AS IN ZERO) situations where a parent/fan going up to an official after (or during) a game to dispute a call is acceptable or justified behavior.
Doesn't matter how bad you think the call was. IT IS NOT JUSTIFIED OR ACCEPTABLE!!!!!
Very emotional game but unfortunately a
@Post307Baseball
had a parent that met the umpires at their vehicles after the game questioning a call. We have a tough time getting umpires already. This type of interaction unacceptable at any level.
Paul Paul, the
@mmclancers
' redshirt freshman from Harrisburg, was named the Outstanding Male Performer of the
@GPACSports
Indoor Track and Field Meet.
Won the 200 and 400 and anchored the winning 4x400 relay for Mount Marty.
A
@LancerWBB
note that does not involve 3-pointers:
Senior Hannah Williams (
#22
) has made 14 straight free throws, dating back to the Concordia game on Dec. 14.
Since a 1-4 against Briar Cliff on Nov. 20, Williams is 22-24 from the line. She is 29-36 on the season.
I have no problem admitting that the best photo from the
@YhsBucks
win at Aberdeen yesterday was not one of mine:
Thanks to
@jdavis_AAN
(Aberdeen American News photo genius John Davis) for this one.
Best Sports Photo
1st -
@jhoeck
Best Sports Reporting
2nd -
@RDockendorf
3rd - Jeremy
Best Sports Series
2nd - Jeremy & James
3rd - Jeremy
Best Spot News Photo
1st -
@kelly_hertz
2nd - Cora Van Olson
3rd - Randy
Best Spot News Story
2nd - Randy
So...
Have S.D. sports fans wrapped their head around the fact that the city of Sioux Falls hosted both the Division II men's basketball championship (with a sellout crowd of over 3.5K) and a Division I men's hockey region final (with a crowd of over 8K) on the same day?
Big announcements by
@MMULancers
The "interim" tag has been removed from AD Andy Bernatow. The longtime
@MMULancersBSB
coach will take the helm of the entire athletic department.
One of my favorite parts of a track meet: watching kids that have been working hard all day sprinting back and forth to cheer on their teammates in the final event of the meet.
Going to try bringing up something Nebraska does without the SD lifers throwing a fit:
At state basketball/FB/VB each school gets to bring its pep band, if they so choose. Instead of random music on the PA the bands take turns playing.
Have heard some good bands this week.
One day
@ChrisNilsen2
is setting the 2024 world
#1
mark in the men's pole vault.
Next day he's helping out with the women's event at the meet hosted by his alma mater,
@SDCoyotesXCTF
. Not seeking attention, just helping out where he can.
93-90
@MountMartyHoops
victory over
#20
St. Ambrose
No, I don't know the last time MMC (RV) beat 2 ranked opponents in same week. (
#16
Jamestown Monday)
But the last time MMC (10-2) had double-digit wins in a season was 2011-12 (11-18).
Lancers are at
#7
DWU on Wednesday.
No matter the outcome of Saturday's third place game, this year's
@YhsBucks
senior class has more wins and a better finish than any YHS group since the 70s.
I got to sit with them Friday to talk about what makes them special.
via
@pressanddakotan
Rugby Ryken of
@YhsBucks
officially credited with a triple-double in last night's win over Huron: 16p, 16a (school record) and 11r.
YHS has Hudl handle its official stats, which is why they were not available until this morning.
Photo: Mike Carroll, Huron Plainsman.
@BNeuman7
@SportsCenter
Wow, writing him off a 1/8 of way through his rookie season. I'm not sold on him yet, but I haven't given up on him, either. He does have a lot of work to do, though.
What a concept: holding a state event in the same place every year, in a town with enough restaurants and hotels to accommodate crowds. Speaking from experience, Nebraska does state track right.
In the past 20 SD volleyball seasons, the winner of the Northwestern-Warner district final played for a state title 19, winning 14 of them.
Saturday, they will play each other for the title IN THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH, instead of 2 matches before the state.
#AsItShouldBe
The GPAC with 7⃣ teams in the
@NAIA
Women's Basketball Tournament! Nice work
#GPACNation
!
First/Second Round - March 7-8 (16 sites)
Final Site - March 13-18 at the
@TysonEventsCent
in
@locatesiouxcity
Full NAIA WBB Bracket ->
As the
@pressanddakotan
I have been Sports Editor for Yankton's
7 Girls’ XC Titles
5 Boys’ XC Titles
4 FB Titles
2 Boys’ Golf Titles
2 Boys’ Track Titles
1 Girls’ Golf Title
1 Competitive Cheer Title
1 VB Title
1 Girls’ Basketball Title
And now,
1 Boys’ Basketball Title
My fellow 2020
@MMULancers
inductees and I were supposed to be inducted June of 2020. Then COVID.
We are happy to share the Oct. 15 (Friday before Homecoming) induction with the Class of 2021.
And maybe, some time before then, I'll think about working on my speech.
Introducing MMU's first 2020 Hall of Fame Inductee...James Cimburek '94!
"Both his peers and coaches have recognized his exemplary work, naming him the South Dakota Sportswriter of the Year TWICE."
Read on here:
#LancerDays2021
#HallofFame
An interesting tidbit, that I'm sure someone else has already shared:
Former
@SDCoyotesWBB
coach Amy Williams (Nebraska) and former
@GoJacksMBB
coach Scott Nagy (Wright St) each won their respective league's COY honor.
So did their successors:
@CoachDawnP
and
@coachotz
The Yankton Bucks are ESD golf champs, 337 to 338 over Brookings.
Gavin Haselhorst (3rd, 80), Michael Frick (t6, 82) & Austin Frick (t12, 87) earn all-ESD. Also for YHS, Landon Moe 88, Jimmie Cunningham 90, Simon Hacecky 90.