Friday, December 16, 2011

Rod's Friday Sports Blog

The Stanley County Lady Buffalo girls basketball team won their first game of the season edging Philip 54-51 last night at Parkview Gym. Phillip erased an 11 point halftime deficit to tie the game in the 4th quarter but the Lady Buffalos prevailed hitting key free throws down the stretch. Tory Deal and Kelley Sweetman scored 15 points apiece to pace the Lady Buffs. Madison Hand finished with 12.

The Stanley County Buffalo boys basketball team picked up their first win of the season dowing Philip 63-57 last night at Parkview Gym. Latrell LaRoche scored 21 to pace the Buffalos. The score was tied at the half but Stanley County came out as Tucker Fishbach scored 12 points in the third period to give Stanley County a 6 point lead they would not relinquish.

The Pierre Governor and Lady Governor basketball teams have tonight off but are back on the court tomorrow. The 5th ranked Governors host Sioux Falls Roosevelt at Riggs High Gym in their first non-conference game of the season. Pierre goes into the game after knocking off number 1 rated Mitchell at Mitchell on Tuesday. The Lady Govs go on the road looking for their first win of the season tomorrow night as well when they travel to Sioux Falls to face Roosevelt. Pierre comes into the game after getting beat by number 2 Mitchell on Tuesday. Tip off of both varsity games are scheduled for 7:30 pm.

Stanley County won all 3 duals it wrestled last night at quadrangular in Redfield. The Buffalos downed Redfield/Doland 49-24, Britton-Hecla/Langford Area 51-11 and Faulkton 37-33. Stanley County's effort featured 3-0 nights from Herman Fennell and Casey Hettinger while Cody LaCompte, Daniel Slama and Wyatt Harrowa went 2-1 for the Buffaloes. Stanley County is now off until December 27th when they host Gregory in a 2 pm dual at Parkview Gym.

The Pierre Governor wrestling team, the pre-season pick by ESD coaches to win the ESD Conference wrestling title this year opens up its ESD dual schedule tonight when they host Brandon Valley at Riggs High Gym. Head coach Ryan Noyes says there are several good wrestlers in the Lynx lineup and his squad needs to be ready. The JV match begins at 6:00 pm with the varsity match scheduled for a 7:30 pm start time. Tomorrow, the Governors travel to Valentine to take part in the Valentine Invitational wrestling tournament, a tournament the Governors have dominated in recent years.

The Pierre Lady Governor gymnastics team will travel to Mitchell tomorrow to compete in the Mitchell Invitational Gymnastics meet that will use a Capital Cup format where teams will warm up before they compete in an event. Lady Gov head coach Nicki Abels says that she will be interested to see Rapid City Central for the first time this season as well as Yankton and Madison. The meet will be held at the Mitchell High School Gym and is scheduled to begin at 11:00 am.

The Stanley County Lady Buffalo gymnastics team will host the Stanley County Central meet tomorrow at Parkview Gym. Lady Buffalo head coach Hilary Hanson is hoping that senior Shelby Gienger will be able to perform. The top all around performer for the Lady Buffalos was injured during warm-ups last weekend at Wagner and did not compete in the meet. Chamberlain, Hot Springs and Wall-Kadoka will join the Lady Buffalos in the 4 team meet.

The Pierre-Ft. Pierre Capitals varsity boys hockey team returns to action this weekend as they head to North Dakota. The Capitals will travel to Dickinson to face the Dickinson High School team tonight at 8 pm central time before heading to Mandan to face the Mandan High School squad tomorrow at 3 pm central time. The JV's will play tomorrow as well at 1 pm. It will be the first time that Pierre-Ft. Pierre will play actual high school teams from another state.

The Pierre-Ft. Pierre Lady Capitals varsity and JV hockey teams play tonight and the varsity squad has games tomorrow and Sunday. The Lady Capitals will host Mitchell at the EXPO Center in Ft. Pierre. The JV game begins at 6 pm with the varsity contest at 8 pm. Although it will be the first league contest between the two it will be the second time the teams have played each other. They played an exhibition match at the beginning of the season with Mitchell winning the game in overtime. Tomorrow and Sunday the Lady Caps will travel to Huron to face Huron in varsity only games. They play tomorrow at 3:30 pm and Sunday morning at 10:30 am. The Lady Capitals went 1 and 2 last weekend in league play.

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