Rods' Friday Sports Post

The Pierre Governor tennis team improved their dual record to 5-2 yesterday by splitting with Rapid City Stevens and Aberdeen Central. The Governors dropped a 6-3 verdict to Stevens but bounced back for a 8-1 win over Aberdeen Central. The Governors lost two very close matches at number 3 singles and number 3 doubles in the loss to Stevens that proved to be the difference in the meet. They got their wins at number 2 singles and at number 1 and 2 doubles. Against the Golden Eagles, the Govs swept all 6 singles and lost only at the number 3 doubles. The Governors return to action on Monday when they travel to Sioux Falls to face Sioux Falls Washington and Brandon Valley in a pair of duals.

The Pierre Governor tennis team improved their dual record to 5-2 yesterday by splitting with Rapid City Stevens and Aberdeen Central. The Governors dropped a 6-3 verdict to Stevens but bounced back for a 8-1 win over Aberdeen Central. The Governors lost two very close matches at number 3 singles and number 3 doubles in the loss to Stevens that proved to be the difference in the meet. They got their wins at number 2 singles and at number 1 and 2 doubles. Against the Golden Eagles, the Govs swept all 6 singles and lost only at the number 3 doubles. The Governors return to action on Monday when they travel to Sioux Falls to face Sioux Falls Washington and Brandon Valley in a pair of duals.

The South Dakota State Class B Wrestling Tournament in 2014 has been moved. The tournament will now be held in Aberdeen. The State B Wrestling tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Sioux Falls in 2014, but a conflict arose in Sioux Falls and the South Dakota High School Activities Association decided to move the tournament to Aberdeen. The two day tournament will be held on February 28th and March 1st of 2014 at Wachs Arena in the Barnett Center on the campus of Northern State University in Aberdeen.

The Stanley County School held it's annual Athletic Banquet last night in Ft. Pierre. Award winners from each fall and winter sport were honored by the head coaches of the individual sport and each coach gave the crowd in attendance a recap of the season. 5 specialty award winners were also honored. Austin Lopour won the Ron Jones Memorial Award and Chantry Norman was the recipient of the Launie Rhebourg Award for football. The BJ Stoeser Award in wrestling was given to Thomas Tolton. The Kim Reeves Memorial Award for girls basketball was awarded to Tory Deal and the Grandpa Hannum Award was presented to Shantel Norman.

The Pierre Area Coaches Association named their Riggs High Athletes of the Week for the week that ended April 7th. Governor tennis player Ethan Case and Lady Gov Track Athletic Eileen Leong earned the honor. Case was nominated by his head coach Jeff Schlekeway. He started the season with a 5-0 record and outscored his competiton 44-14 proving that he is one of the top players in the state at Flight 6 singles. Leong was nominated by her head coach Misty Larson. Leong finished in 2nd place in the 400 m dash at Tuesday's Dakota Clash Meet with a provisional time of 1:02.20. She also ran a great legs in the 2nd place finishing 4 x 800 m relay and 3rd place finishing 4 x 400 m relay. On Thursday at the Huron Invitational, Eileen ran the same time in the 400 m dash, and placed 2nd in the 200 m dash.