Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Rod's Wednesday Sports Post

Stanley County had 3 champions in the boys division and 1 in the girls in the Miller Booster Club Track and Field Meet yesterday in Miller. All three of the championships in the boys division was captured by Cody LeCompte. The Buffalo senior won the High Jump clearing 5-09. The Triple Jump by leaping 40-07.25 and the 100 meter dash in a time of 11.41. Kelsey VanDenHemel was the winner on the girls side as she posted a time of 2:34.01 to win the 800 meter run. The Buffalo boys had a total of 5 place winners while the Lady Buffalos had 10. Stanley County returns to the track on Thursday when they travel to Presho to compete in the Cecil Johnson Invitational.

For the first time this season, the Pierre Lady Governor golf team did not win a tournament. In their third tournament of the season and fourth golf outing of the season, the Lady Govs shot a 335 to finish 15 strokes behind tournament champion Sioux Falls O'Gorman and one stroke ahead of third place finishing Aberdeen Central. Lauren Fitts of Brookings defeated Hallie Getz of Pierre in a playoff to win individual medalist honors. Both golfers ended the regulation 18 holes with identical 75 scores. Fitts won the tournament on the fourth playoff hole. The Lady Govs had two other golfers finish in the top 10 to place in the tournament. Paige Erickson fired an 81 to fnish 5th and Katie Bartlett had a 89 to finish in a tie for 10th. The Lady Govs will head to Mitchell on Friday for the Mitchell Invitatinal for their next action.

The Pierre Governor tennis team improved it's record to 10-3 on the season with a dual sweep of Huron and Spearfish yesterday. The Governors lost just 1 match on the day as Pierre downed Huron 8-1 and Spearfish 9-0. The only loss on the day came at number 5 singles in the Huron match. Jared Smith, who plays number 3 singles and teams with Hans Leong at number 1 doubles got overheated and sat out the Spearfish match. Everybody moved up a spot in singles and Zane Frederick won his first varsity match by shutting out Brett Hersch of Spearfish. Frederick also teamed with Hans Leong at number 1 doubles and defeated MIke Maskell and Nate Terveen 10-0. Governor head coach Jeff Schlekeway said his squad played great yesterday and will need to keep that intensity going this weekend when they travel to Rapid City to dual Rapid City Central on Friday and then play in the two day Rapid City Invitational tennis tournament.

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