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The first round of the NFL draft is now official. The Vikings took quarterback Christian Ponder out of Florida State with their pick in the 12th round last night. While Ponder is a pretty good quarterback, he wasn't among the 4 or 5 elite in the NCAA last year so the pick is interesting but you never know, it might work out for the Purple crew.

Three members of the Governors track and field squad have been invited (and they have accepted) to run in the special 400 meter run at the Black Hills Relays in Sturgis. Parker McKittrick, Steven Nielsen and Eileen Leong will all run in the Special Event. And Pierre will have to wait until Tuesday to head to Sturgis as the meet has been postponed for tomorrow and rescheduled for Tuesday due to the forecast of imclement weather for tomorrow.

The Lady Governor golf team has won their last two tournaments and are golfing today in Mitchell at Lakeview Golf Course in the Mitchell Invitational tournament. They will see a majority of their ESD competiton at the tournament, but they should do just fine. And the Governor tennis team will find out a little more about itself this weekend at the Rapid City Invitational tennis tournament. Despite the fact the Governors are 5-0 in duals this season, they have not been pressed yet by any of their opponents. Rapid City Stevens and especially Sioux Falls O'Gorman will do that this weekend. We will see how the Governors react.

Sophmore golfer Hallie Getz is the Pierre Athletic Coaches Association Athlete of the Week after winning the rain shortened Aberdeen Invitational on Tuesday by 4 strokes over two other players so congratulations to Hallie.

And our congratulations go out to Dick and Jan Stabnow of Pierre for being named the Hometown Hero award winners by Modern Woodman at last night's Pierre Post 8 Roast Beef Sandwich feed which was a huge success with a large number of poeple attending. At 5:45 pm they were lined up outside the door! The Stabnows have been long time baseball fans in Pierre and you can usually find them sitting in their lawn chairs if their is a Legion game being played at Hyde Stadium in the summer.