Rod's Sunday Morning Sports Post

The Pierre-Ft. Pierre Lady Capitals were tied 1-1 after two periods in yesterday's semi final game of the State Varsity Girls Hockey Tournament. But Brookings outscored Pierre-Ft. Pierre 2-1 in the third to claim a 3-2 victory and advance to the championship game. After Liz Knutson scored twice in the third period, the second to tie the game at 2, Brookings Lexi Koenig scored the game winner at 15:34. The Lady Capitals will play Rushmore for third place today in the tournament in Aberdeen.

The Pierre Lady Governors basketball season came to an end Saturday night as they were beatenb 50-39 by Rapid City Central sending the Cobblers to this week's State AA Girls Basketball tournament in Brookings. Rapid City Central outscored the Lady Govs 11-0 over the course of a 4 minute stretch in the first quarter to take a 10 point lead. Pierre trailed by as many as 15 in the game but got to within 7 with about 3 minutes to go but would get no closer. Taylor Hyde hit 3 3-point baskets to lead the Lady Govs with 12 points. She was the only double figure scorer for Pierre who saw their season come to an end with a 5 and 17 record. This will be the third consevutive year that Pierre has not made the state tournament field.

The Sioux Falls Flyers JV hockey team downed the Pierre-Ft. Pierre Capitals 2-1 in overtime of the semi final round of the State JV Hockey tournament in Sioux Falls last night. Grady Tibbs scored the only goal for the Capital JV's in the second period to take a 1-0 lead but Sioux Falls scored a pair of unanswered goals in the third period and the overtime stanza to advance to the Championship game.

The Mitchell Marlins beat the Pierre-Ft. Pierre Capitals 8-3 in the final regular season varsity hockey game for both teams Saturday at the EXPO Center in Ft. Pierre. After a 3-2 Mitchell lead after the first period, the Marlins scored 3 unanswered goals in the second period and two more in the third before Austin Wagner scored at the 14:13 mark of the period. Wagner scored the first Pierre-Ft. Pierre goal in the first period and James Gilkerson added the second. Kyle Mammenga made 19saves on 27 shots on goal to take the loss. The Capitals are the 6th seed in next weekends State Varsity Hockey championship tournament at the EXPO Center in Ft. Pierre.