The Pierre Governor football team is putting in it's final touches for the season opener tomorrow night in Yankton. Governor head football coach Joe Kramer has a handful of players back from last year's squad that tied with Watertown and Brandon Valley for the ESD Football championship. The Governors are picked 6th in the ESD Coaches pre season poll while Yankton is selected to finish third. Head Coach Arlin Likness at Yankton has severel returning players from last year's squad including quarterback Michael Rucker who started the last five games of the season for the Bucks last year. Tomorrow Night’s game can be heard on River 92.7-FM.
While most of the area high school football squads don't open their season until next week, there is are a few openers on the schedule for tonight including Highmore-Harrold who opens the season on the road at Ipswich. Sully Buttes will open the season tonight at home entertaining McLaughlin and Jones County will host Colome in their season opener tonight.
The Pierre Governor Golf varsity squad travels to Huron today to compete in the Huron Invitational being golfed at the Broadland Creek Golf Course. Most of the Class AA schools and ESD teams will be in attendance. The Governors are looking to improve upon their fifth place finish last week at the West River Invitational.
The Pierre Lady Governors volleyball team opens their season tonight when they entertain Yankton at Riggs High Gym. Lady Gov head coach Kacy Kienholz lost only one senior to graduation in Amber Olson and has everybody else back from last year's squad. After tonight, the Lady Govs travel to Douglas for an afternoon contest tomorrow. You can hear tonight’s match on River 92.7-FM.
The Pierre Lady Governor tennis team coming off a 1 and 2 start in their dual season, heads to Rapid City today to compete in the Rapid City Invitational tournament today and tomorrow. Head Coach Jeff Bloomberg says last weekends season opener against the 3 Sioux Falls public schools went about the way he thought they might have. This week, the competition level picks up a notch with top rated Rapid City Stevens and number 2 Sioux Falls O'Gorman in the tournament field. Coach Bloomberg says that O'Gorman from all accounts has improved from last year's squad and is probably better than Stevens at this point in the young season.
The Pierre Governor and Lady Governor soccer teams will have their home openers this weekend when they host Yankton this evening and Brookings tomorrow at the Hilgers Gulch soccer fields. The Governors are 0-1-1 on the season after losing to Rapid City Central and tieing Rapid City Stevens last week in their opening weekend in Rapid City. The Lady Govs are off to a 0 and 2 record after losing both of their matches to the Rapid City Schools last weekend. Tonight's varsity matches are scheduled to begin at 6 pm vs. Yankton. Tomorrows matches against Brookings have 1:30 pm start times with both the boys and the girls varsity matches being played simultaneously following the JV matches.
The final 4H rodeo event of the season will be held this weekend in Ft. Pierre. The South Dakota State 4H Finals Rodeo begins it's 3 day run today at the Stanley County Fairgrounds in Ft. Pierre.
Pro Darrell Peters of Slayton, Minn., and co-angler Jeff Sass of Waupun, Wis., brought in five walleyes weighing 21 pounds, 9 ounces Thursday to lead day one of the National Guard FLW Walleye Tour tournament on Lake Oahe. The pair now hold a 2-pound, 1-ounce lead over their closest rivals in an event featuring 113 pros and 113 co-anglers representing 18 states and Canada fishing for top awards of $63,000 in the Pro Division and $10,500 in the Co-angler Division. Tommy Skarlis of Waukon, Iowa and Randy Rock of Brandon, S.D. caught five walleyes weighing 19 lbs. and 8 oz. to sit in second place after day 1.
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