TUESDAY, MAY 22:
Golf:   State “B” Boys @ Hart Ranch, Rapid City
   State “B” Girls @ The Elks, Rapid City
   State “A” Girls @ Southern Hills, Hot Springs
   State “AA” Girls @ Elmwood, Sioux Falls

Baseball:  Milbank @ Chester/Colman-Egan/Flandreau (District 2B title), 6:00pm
Garretson @ Harrisburg (District 3B title), 8:30pm
   Winner/Colome @ St. Thomas More (District 4B title), 7:00pm

STATE “AA” GOLF…Pierre leads after day one of the State AA girls' golf tournament, being played at Elmwood in Sioux Falls.
    The Lady Govs sit four strokes in front of Yankton. Pierre and Yankton each had two golfers in the top ten.
    Individually, there is a tie for top spot as Yankton's Megan Mingo and Watertown's Hailee Peiper each shot rounds of 84.
    TEAM SCORES: Pierre 331, Yankton 335, Sioux Falls O'Gorman 339, Sioux Falls Lincoln 351, Aberdeen Central 353, Rapid City Stevens 354, Watertown 359, Huron 366, Brookings 373, Sioux Falls Roosevelt 375, Sioux Falls Washington 378, Brandon Valley 383, Mitchell 388, Sturgis 399, Rapid City Central 416, Douglas 477.
    BROOKINGS: 8, Lauren Fitts, B, 42-38-80; 28, (tie) Maria Darrah, B, 44-46-90; 58, (tie) Sidney Berreth, B, 48-53-101; 60, (tie) Madison Ammann, B, 52-50-102, Brooke Piearson, B, 50-52-102; 87, (tie) Heidi Bien, B, 59-58-117.

STATE “A” GOLF…Parkston sits in first place after day one of the State A girls' high school golf tournament, being played at Southern Hills in Hot Springs.
    Parkston, with a team score of 326, sits eight shots ahead of Hot Springs. Parkston has three golfers in the top 10, and Hot Springs has two. Cassidy Vollmer of Hot Springs is the individual leader with a score of 76.
    TEAM SCORES: Parkston 326, Hot Springs 334, Spearfish 345, Sioux Falls Christian 349, Vermillion 386, Dell Rapids 388, Mobridge-Pollock 394, Canton 395, Aberdeen Roncalli 412, Harrisburg 417, Wagner 418, Lead-Deadwood 424, Madison 437, Milbank 443, Chamberlain 472.

STATE “B” GIRLS…South Central holds both the team and individual lead after one day of the state “B” girls golf tourney in Rapid City. 
    TEAM SCORES: 1. South Central 268, 2. Clark/Willow Lake 279, 3. Deuel 280, 4. Deubrook Area 286, 5. Sully Buttes 288, 6. Irene-Wakonda 290, 7. Wall 305, 8. Platte-Geddes 310, 9. Garretson 313, 10. Scotland 314, 11. Lemmon 316, 12. Herreid 325, 13. Howard 333.
    Medalist:  81-Kristen Shanahan, South Central

STATE “B” BOYS…Webster climbed to the top of the leader board after the first day of the State B boys' golf tournament.
The Bearcats carded a 252 on Monday at Hart Ranch Golf Course. White River is second with a 259, while Garretson is eight strokes off the lead.
    Defending state champion Cal Wiese of Howard fired a 76 after the first day and leads Arron Lickteig of Freeman by two strokes. Spencer Lux of Webster is three strokes off the lead.
    TEAM SCORES: 1. Webster 252, 2. White River 259, 3. Garretson 260, 4. Kimball 262, 5. Wall 264, 6. Deuel 270, 7. Deubrook Area 272, 8. (tie) Baltic, Howard, Platte-Geddes 274; 11. McCook/Montrose 278, 12. Newell 279, 13. (tie) Colman-Egan, Philp 282, 15. Sully Buttes 283; 16. Lyman 295, 17. Ipswich 296, 18. Gettysburg 307.

HS BASEBALL…Sioux Falls Roosevelt defeated Mitchell 3-0 Monday night, to win the wild card berth in the state “A” high school baseball tournament Saturday in Sioux Falls.  Chester/Colman-Egan/Flandreau defeated Madison to advance to Tuesday’s “B” regional title game against Milbank.

SUMMIT BASEBALL… After winning its 14th consecutive regular season title with a 17-6 league record, Oral Roberts earns the No. 1 seed for the 2012 Summit League Baseball Championship presented by Currington Mortgage.
    The 2012 baseball tournament takes place from May 24-26, at J.L. Johnson Stadium in Tulsa, Okla., and is hosted by Oral Roberts University.
    No. 2 Oakland (24-29, 15-6 Summit) faces No. 3 North Dakota State (38-18, 14-10 Summit) in game one Thursday at 3:30 p.m. (CDT). No. 1 Oral Roberts (33-22, 17-6 Summit) will meet No. 4 Southern Utah (18-34, 12-11 Summit) in Thursday's nightcap at 7 p.m. (CDT).

BHS VB COACH…Pending school board approval, Jodi Melius has been named head volleyball coach at Brookings High School, succeding Camrin Vaux.
    Melius has been an Bobcat assistant.  She played high school volleyball at Northwestern, and collegiately at Northern State.  Activities director Randy Soma says Melius has a good volleyball background.  97621   :20   “the next level”.
    Soma says Melius seems to have a good repoire with the student-athletes.  97622   :13   “coaches set up”.
    Soma says Melius has already started preparations for summer and fall.  97623   :14   “starts next year”.
    The board is scheduled to take up the appointment during its June meeting.   

SDSU TRACK… The South Dakota State men's and women's track and field teams qualified five athletes for the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championship preliminary round...
    The NCAA preliminary round (west site) is set to begin on Thursday, May 24 in Austin, Texas.
    On the men's side, Jared Vlastuin and Jake Brinkmann qualified, while Mary Wirth, Brooke Garner and Amy Paulzine qualified for the women.
    Vlastuin is set to compete in the high jump and long jump. Brinkmann is set to compete in the hammer throw.
    Wirth repeated as champion in the high jump at the Summit League Outdoor Championships to qualify. Garner, two-time The Summit League's Outdoor Track and Field Women's Athlete of the Week, qualified with two school-record marks posted prior to the league meet. Garner set the record in the hammer at the Wayne State Classic in March. The 197 feet, nine inch mark was a school record by nearly 10 feet. The top mark of 173 feet, three inches in the discus added to the SDSU records at the USF Relays
    Paulzine earned an invitation in the javelin after a school-record mark of 149 feet, nine inches on the same weekend as the other records prior to the league meet, but at the NDSU Dual.

CSU COACH…Colorado State has hired Ryun Williams as the new coach of the women's basketball team.
    Williams most recently coached at South Dakota, where he spent four seasons. He coached the Coyotes to a 23-8 record and a WNIT berth last season.
    Former Colorado State women's basketball coach Kristen Holt resigned earlier this spring after four seasons in charge. Assistant coach Dick Lien was filling in on an interim basis while the school looked for Holt's replacement.

SD WR COY…Ryan Noyes of Pierre has been named South Dakota's Wrestling Coach of the Year.
Noyes led the Governors to the State A team title at Wachs Arena in Aberdeen last winter. It was Pierre's first state title since 1974.

VIKINGS IN NORWAY… Some football players and coaches from Augustana College in Sioux Falls are in Norway to teach the game to another culture.
    Head Coach Mike Aldrich says players don't always have the chance to study in foreign countries because of the time commitment to practice and games. So Augustana arranged the trip to teach the finer points of American football in a foreign country.
    Each of the 16 players and eight coaches are paying the $3,500 fee for the 10-day journey. Some of the players did their own fundraising, and each student-athlete receives one service credit for participating.
    Aldrich says Norway was a logical choice considering Augustana's steep Norwegian heritage.
    The Augustana contingent will spend two days organizing and running a practice for the Oslo Vikings.