Pierre qualified for the State American Legion Championship tournament that begins Wednesday in Yankton with their runnerup finish last week in the Region 3A tournament. Post 8 dropped a 17-7 verdict in 8 innings to Rapid City Post 22 Friday night in the championship game. Pierre will open the tournament at 9:30 am against Sioux Falls East, the only team that Pierre did not play this year over the course of the regular season. Pierre is 28 and 24 on the season. Sioux Falls East won the Region 2A tournament. The other pairings for the first day of the tournament have Brookings taking on Class B champion Garretson at 12:30 pm. Watertown will face Sioux Falls West at 4:30 pm and Rapid City Post 22, the defending state champions, will take on the host team Yankton in the final game of the first day of the double elimination tournament at 7:30 pm. The double elimination tournament continues through Sunday with the State Champion qualifying for the Central Plains Region Championship tournament in Dickinson, North Dakota.
The Pierre White 15-16 Teener baseball team won an important league contest yesterday as the split a doubleheader with Aberdeen in the Hub City. The White's won game 1 11-6 before dropping the second 5 inning contest 15-7. In the opener, Pierre banged out 16 hits in the game with Ben Liedholt leading the way with 4 hits and Graham Protexter had 3 RBI's for Pierre. Protexter pitched 4 innings of shutout relief for starter Bo Atkins. Protexter allowed 3 hits. In the nightcap, The Whites outhit Aberdeen 8-7 but committed 9 errors in the loss. Aberdeen scored 10 runs in the first inning off of starting and losing pitcher Taylor Dowling. Dowling did have 2 hits to lead the offense. With the victory in game 1, the Pierre Whites have won 3 league games in a row and are still in contention to make the State AA Teener Tournament field.
The Pierre 13-14 Teener baseball team swept a doubleheader yesterday and went 4-0 over the weekend with victories over Sioux Falls East and Sioux Falls South in Pierre. After Saturday's 12-4 win over East and 14-4 win over South, yesterday the 13-14 Teeners posted a 12-2 win over Sioux Falls East and then had to outscore Sioux Falls South 11-10 scoring the winning run in the bottom of the 7th inning. The 13-14 Teeners are back in action on Friday when they travel to Mitchell with a 5 pm first pitch of the doubleheader.
The Big Dakota Conference will be losing a pair of teams when Stanley County and Miller make the move to nine-man classes this year. The conference included Winner, Chamberlain and Mobridge-Pollock as well. Mobridge-Pollock was the defending champion of the Big Dakota, compiling a 4-0 conference record last season. For basketball the conference will remain in-tact with the members Mobridge-Pollock, McLaughlin, Miller, Winner, Cheyenne Eagle Butte, Chamberlain, Todd County and Stanley County.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment