Rod's Saturday Sports Blog

Pierre Post 8 American Legion baseball team split a doubleheader in Bismarck last night winning the second game 3-2 after losing the opener 11-1. Pierre won 3 of the 4 games played in Mandan and Bismarck. In the second game, Pierre won the game in the top of the 7th when Jared Nielan doubled and Taylor Owens hit a sacrifice fly to score Nielan from third. Owen pitched the final two innings in relief to pick up the win. Pierre had 9 hits in the game. In the opener, Bismarck scored 5 times in the first inning and 4 more in the second to set the pace of the game that was called on the 10 run rule after 5 innings. Tyler Ness was the losing pitcher allowing 8 runs through the first 3 innings. Garrett Weber drove in Adam Deneke with Pierre’s only run in the 4th inning. Pierre is now 10-8 on the season as they host Mitchell Monday in a doubleheader at Hyde Stadium

Pierre youth golfer Cody Kuehl fired a 89 to finish in a 3 way tie for first but after the playoff, Kuehl settled for third place in the boys 12-13 age division tournament of the Austad’s Junior Golf tour on the South Dakota Golf Association’s tournament stop in Rapid City yesterday at Meadowbrook Golf Course. In the girls 16-18 division tournament, Hallie Getz finished second as she fired a 86 to finish one shot back of the tournament champion. Katie Bartlett also finished second in the girls 12-13 age division as she fired a 101 to finish two strokes back of the tournament champion. The 3 golfers were the only ones from Pierre to compete in the tournament.

Bob Lowery, an assistant executive director of the South Dakota High School Activities Association, will resign and retire from the position on June 30th in 2012. Lowery submitted his letter of resignation to the SDHSAA Board of Directors during their meeting this week in Pierre. Lowery has served as an assistant executive director on the SDHSAA for the last 17 years where he was the lead administrator for the sports of cross country, football, wrestling, golf and track and field. He has also overseen the development of soccer, which becomes a sanctioned sport in the 2012-13 school year.