Rod's Friday Take N Things

First day of the State Girls Basketball Tournaments are in the books and upsets galore, or as my long time friend Phil Trautner used to argue with me "how can you call any game in high school sports an upset". Aberdeen Central and Newell are top seeds that go down. The AA tournament has seeds 5 through 8 playing in the semi finals tonight. Again, proving my point from earlier that it is tougher to win in the AA post season than in the other two classes and the lower level teams are more equal to the higher level teams than in the other classes. Highmore-Harrold's win over Newell was a nice win. And Newell did not help any of west river's argument that they are as good as the east river teams. And strengthened the East River question "Who have they played". Highmore-Harrold was the 8th seed and probably were the favorites cause of the argument "Who has Newell played". Well, Wall loses in overtime by 1 to Summit and Newell beat Wall 2 times out of 3. Wall beat Highmore-Harrold by 1. So that could give some credence to the west river argument that we can play with the east river schools. And the two Rapid City teams are in the semis of the AA. Pine Ridge is the lone West River team left in the A, and from what I saw yesterday, a pretty good West River rep.

And the latest that I saw as of 7 p.m. eastern time last night from the ESPN bracketology dude for the NCAA women's basktball tournament, he still has SDSU headed to South Bend as a 15th seed in the Minneapolis Region and play Notre Dame on their home court in the first round. Gonzaga and Middle Tennessee St are in the other bracket. If that holds true, if SDSU can pull off an upset over Notre Dame then they could have a real chance of making the Sweet 16. Maybe a better chance that last year.

Little League Baseball registration for Capital City Baseball Association is Thursday 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm at Georgia Morse Middle School. Registration fees are the same as last year. $35 for Pee Wee's, $40 for Minor and Major divisions and $45 for Ponys. Kids should be bringing the info home if they haven't already from school. Otherwise, get ahold of Bill Sarringer or Pat Snyder. And Bob Sullivan is still putting the final touches on the Legion and Teener schedules for baseball. He tells me he has some 20 and 25 guys working out with their indoor stuff and may get more if the guys don't compete in a spring sport. And Minnesota Twins single game tickets will go on sale beginning tomorrow thru their outlets including their website. There will be less singles game tickets to go around cause Target Field has less seating than the Metrodome did.