Rod's Monday Sports Post

Pierre Governor juniors Lane Severyn and Zach Hansen were named to the All ESD Conference Boys Basketball team named today. Hanson led the Governors in scoring this year averaging 18 points and pulling down 8 rebounds before missing 6 games late in the season with a stress fracture to his left leg. Severyn averaged just over 15 points a game and pulled down 5 rebound per contest. The Two Governor juniors are joined on the first team by seniors Brady Maxwell, Jade Miller and Tate Martin of ESD Champion Mitchell. Tanner Odegaard and Landon Busch of Brookings. Ben Schultz of Brandon Valley and Lucas Carr of Huron. Junior Tanner Hesier of Watertown also made the All Conference squad. Named to the Honorable Mention team are seniors Reid Fust and Josh White of Aberdeen Central, Conner Daugherty of Brookings, Tucker Volesky of Mitchell, Blake Heiser of Watertown, Spencer Stahly of Huron and Jacson Seitzinger of Yankton along with junior Adam Zwanziger of Huron.

Lane Severyn and Zach Hanson of the Pierre Governors were named to the State Class AA All tournament game. Hanson and Severyn were joined on the team by Robert Connot - Rapid City Central, Luke Carr - Huron, Tanner Odegaard - Brookings, Tyler Howard - Sioux Falls Roosevelt, Joey Habtemariam - Sioux Falls Washington, Jade Miller - Mitchell, Brady Maxwell - Mitchell and Connor Schaefbauer, Sam Wallin and Nick Mimmack of State Champion Sioux Falls O'Gorman.

The South Dakota High School Activities Association will hold a regular meeting of the Board of Directors today in Pierre at the High School Activities Association's office on North Euclid. The Board is expected to add a 7th class to High School Football splitting up the Class 11AA division into 11AAA and 11AA. Pierre would be in the 11AA division and would become the second largest school in the division. 11AAA would consist of the three public Sioux Falls Schools, two public Rapid City schools, Aberdeen, Watertown and Brandon Valley. If Sioux Falls O'Gorman petitions up to the 11AAA, Brandon Valley would have the opportunity to drop down to the 11AA division. The board will also review it's current state and event venues and begin discussions on where to place the state events for the 2015-16 school year. The board is also expected to approve the contract for John Krogstrand to become the new assistant executive director to replace the retiring Bob Lowery. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 10:30 am. Today's meeting is the rescheduled meeting from the originally scheduled board meeting in January.