THURSDAY, JULY 12:
Baseball:  Brookings Cubby’s @ Sioux Falls Saints, 7:30pm
   Brookings Bandits @ Mitchell
   Aurora Legion @ Volga Post 114 (DH), 6:00pm
   Bullets 16’s @ Huron (DH), 5:00pm
   Huron @ Bombers Maroon (DH), Noon, Mickelson Field

Golf:   SDGA Men’s Match Play Championship, Meadowbrook, Rapid City

FRIDAY, JULY 13:
Baseball:  Clark Traders @ Aurora A’s, 8:00pm
   Bullets 15’s @ Sioux Falls Tournament
   Huron @ Bombers Black (DH), 4:00pm, Mickelson Field
   Brookings Little League All-Stars vs. Fargo @ Valley Springs, 7:00pm (State Playoffs)
   Pizza Ranch U10 & U12 Tournament, Medary Complex

Golf:   SDGA Men’s Match Play Championship, Meadowbrook, Rapid City
   SDGA Women’s Match Play Championship, Hillcrest, Yankton

SATURDAY, JULY 14:
Baseball:  Brookings Bandits @ Renner
   Bullets 15’s @ Sioux Falls Tournament
   Brookings Little League All-Stars vs. Brandon Valley @ Valley Springs, 3:00pm (State Playoffs)
   Pizza Ranch U10 & U12 Tournament, Medary Complex

Golf:   SDGA Men’s Match Play Championship, Meadowbrook, Rapid City
   SDGA Women’s Match Play Championship, Hillcrest, Yankton

SUNDAY, JULY 15:
Baseball:  Milbank Firechiefs @ Aurora A’s, 7:00pm
   Volga Cormorants @ Watertown Lake Sox, 2:00pm
   Brookings Bandits @ Renner
   Bullets 15’s @ Sioux Falls Tournament
   Brookings Little League All-Stars vs. Dell Rapids @ Valley Springs, 1:00pm (State Playoffs)
   Pizza Ranch U10 & U12 Tournament, Medary Complex

Golf:   SDGA Men’s Match Play Championship, Meadowbrook, Rapid City
   SDGA Women’s Match Play Championship, Hillcrest, Yankton

MONDAY, JULY 16:
Baseball:  Brookings Bullets 15’s @ Watertown (DH), 4:00pm

Golf:   SDGA Men’s Match Play Championship, Meadowbrook, Rapid City
   SDGA Women’s Match Play Championship, Hillcrest, Yankton   

TUESDAY, JULY 17:
Baseball:  Castlewood Ravens @ Volga Cormorants, 8:00pm
   Sioux Falls Post 15 West @ Brookings Bandits (DH), 5:00pm
   Bombers Black @ Aberdeen (DH), 1:00pm

BANDITS SWEEP…Brookings swept Watertown Wednesday in American Legion baseball at Bob Shelden – scores were 13-3 in five innings and 10-2.
    The Bandits scored eight times in the first inning, and rolled to the win in the opener.  Landon Busch had four hits and Riley Bullington three – each drove in three runs.  Konner Beste had two hits and Kelby Beste drove in two runs.  Matt Thomas allowed three hits, with two walks and seven strikeouts, for the win.
    Skylar Cary, Matt Pesja and Konner Beste accounted for six of the eight Bandits hits in the nightcap – Pesja drove in three runs and Cary two.  Corey Roach threw six innings of eight-hit baseball for the win.
    Brookings is now 28-5 on the season.

MATCH PLAY GOLF…The South Dakota Golf Association’s match play tournaments will be held this weekend.
    Eighty-five men begin play Thursday at Meadowbrook in Rapid City.  Area players entered are Brian Berkenhoff and Adolph Shepardson of Brooking; and Drew Trautman of Clear Lake.
    The women’s event starts Saturday at Hillcrest at Yankton.  Brookings-area entrants include Morgan and Lauren Fitts.

SDGA GOLF…The SDGA junior golf tour stopped at Prairie Green at Sioux Falls Wednesday.  Results of area players:
14-15 Girls: 4. Kayla Ovall, White, 99
16-18 Girls: 4, Lauren Fitts, 83
16-18 Boys: James Chapman, Dell Rapids, 97

ACE…Matt Yonkovich of the Brookings Country Club had his first hole-in-one Wednesday at the Brookings Country Club. He used an 8-iron to ace the 159-yard, par-three, seventh hole. The shot was witnessed by Cory Lunn, Ben Knutzen and Jeremy Scheiner.

ALL-STARS…The 26th South Dakota All-Star Games are scheduled July 15 through July 18 in Aberdeen.  The games are held in conjunction with the South Dakota High School Activities Association’s summer coaches clinic.
    This year’s All-Star games include boys and girls basketball on Tuesday, July 17 and football and volleyball on Wednesday, July 18. Players who graduated this spring will compete in the games.
    Slated to play for the North squad in the All-Star Football Game, including Blake Lohr and Connor Schoepp of Watertown, Nick Mears and Matt Stephan of Milbank, Tyson and Taylor Zemlicka of Waverly-South Shore and Casey Goodhart and Tanner Stapleton of Sisseton.  Troy Gauer of Grant-Deuel will serve as the head coach of the North squad. One of his assistants will be Jeremy Tostenson of Milbank.
    Nancy Hoeke of Milbank will serve as an assistant for the North squad in the All-Star Volleyball Match. Kelsey Kaufmann of Arlington will play for the North squad.
    Blake Heiser of Watertown and Collin Fitz of Sisseton are slated to play for the North squad in the boys basketball game.
    In the girls basketball game, Megan Taylor of Estelline will compete for the North team, along with Kelsey Little and Kayla McEldowney of Castlewood.

BEMIDJI COACH…Mike Boschee has been named the men's basketball coach at Bemidji State.
    Boschee earned his master's degree in teaching at Northern State in 1993, when he served as a graduate assistant coach for a Wolves' men's basketball team that won the conference title and finished as the NAIA national runners-up. For the last nine years, Boschee has been the head coach at Central College in Pella, Iowa, where his teams compiled a 115-115 record.
    He was an all-North Central Conference basketball player at the University of North Dakota, helping UND finish third at the NCAA Division II National Tournament in 1990.

THOMPSON-SOCCER EXPAND…The technical director of the Brookings Futbol Club says the annual Fishback Classic soccer tournament could expand.
    Eighty-five teams played in this year’s event – Brock Thompson says that number could exceed one hundred.  97627   :27   “would gladly do”.
    Thompson says an obstacle to expansion is a limited amount of hotel accomodations in Brookings.  97628   :28   “our hotel availability”.
     But help may be on the way – the city of Brookings is currently accepting proposals from companies looking to build hotels in the community.

RAYMOND-NSIC…Northern Sun Conference football and basketball teams won’t have a lot of room to add non-conference opponents to their schedules.
    The 16-member league is split into two, eight-team divisions for football and basketball.  Commissioner Butch Raymond says football teams will play the other seven divisional teams, then round out the 11-game slate with four opponents from the other division.  97625   :24   “to lose that”.
    Basketball teams will play each divisional opponent twice, and one game each against the opposite division – for 22 games of a 28-game schedule.  97626   :21   “the same trip”.
    Raymond says some schools may lose natural geographic rivalries, but says a number of conferences have gone to a similar scheduling formula.

FULLERTON-BIG SKY…The Big Sky Conference recently added Southern Utah and North Dakota as league members – and more may be forthcoming.
    Commissioner Doug Fullerton says the conference has become a major player in the western U-S – he says six membership applications are sitting on his desk.  97621   :24   “both of them”.
    Fullerton says the recent additions leave the Big Sky in a good position.  97622   :22   “a little bit”.
    Cal Poly and Cal-Davis also joined the Big Sky as associate members for football only.  Fullerton doesn’t see them becoming full conference members:  97623   :32   “where it is”. 
    North Dakota voters last month resolved the UND nickname and logo issue – the state’s board of higher education is in the process of retiring both.  Fullerton says, had the nickname and logo stayed, UND’s membership could have been at stake.  97624   :30   “about our business”.
    Fullerton says football will be the driving force behind most future conference realignments.