Rod's Friday Sports Blog

The Pierre Governor wrestling team will open their season tomorrow when they travel to Watertown to compete in the 8 team Watertown Invitational Dual tournament. The Governor grapplers have 6 state place winners back from last year's squad and are the pick by the league coaches to win the ESD Conference title this year. The Governors will dual Milbank, Watertown and Yankton and then have a 4th match with either Aberdeen Central, Huron, Mitchell or Canby, Minnesota. The JV and Varsity dual tournament is scheduled to begin at 10:00 am.

12 teams are scheduled to wrestle in Ft. Pierre tomorrow as the Stanley County Invitational wrestling tournament will be held at Parkview Gym. Stanley County head wrestling coach John Latham says there should be some good wrestling during the day with teams from as far south as Gregory-Burke, as far north as Mobridge-Pollock and as far west as Spearfish are expected to compete. The tournament, moved to just one day this year, is scheduled to begin at 9 am.


The Pierre-Ft. Pierre Capitals boys hockey team opens up South Dakota High School League play tomorrow night in Brookings before moving to Sioux Falls for a contest Sunday. The Capitals are 3 and 1 on the season after last weekend's season opening Rooster Cup tournament in Huron. Capitals head coach Rob Kittay says Brookings is improved from last year and will be a tough test on their home ice. He says Sioux Falls has dropped sending a team to play in a league in Iowa so the Cap's will face Sioux Falls top players. Tomorrow night’s matches in Brookings are scheduled for 5:30 pm for the JV contest and 8 pm for the varsity game. Sunday in Sioux Falls the JV game will be at 11:30 am and the Varsity contest is scheduled for 1:30 pm. The Pierre-Ft. Pierre Lady Capitals are off this weekend after winning their first game of the season last week. The Lady Capitals travel to Sioux Falls and Brookings next week for their next league matchups.


A perfect game was bowled last night at the Lariat Lanes in Pierre. Terry Keller rolled his very first 300 game in his very first league bowling appearance of the season. Keller joins AJ Wald, Jeff Holden and Shauna Cunningham as the only bowlers to register perfect games so far this season at the Lariat Lanes.