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PRESS & DAKOTAN n MONDAY, JULY 6, 2015 SPORTS :PAGE 9 SPORTS DIGEST Thygeson, Crofton Blanks Wynot taught. Parents and coaches are welcome to attend. Yankton USBC Annual Meeting Participants are asked to bring appropriate soccer gear BY JEREMY HOECK Aug. 5 and plenty of water. Cost is a free-will donation. [email protected] The Yankton USBC #80476 will hold its annual meeting on For more information, contact Warren Brenner at 605-665- Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 7 p.m. at Yankton Bowl. 1602 or Tyler Schuring at 605-380-7667. CROFTON, Neb. — Be- All current members of the association and anyone inter- fore the sound of fireworks ested in joining a bowling league is encouraged to attend. UND’s Jeff Campbell Champ In popping behind the outfield For more information, contact association manager Jan fence, Rand Thygeson had Putnam at 605-661-1174. College Home Run Derby the catcher’s mitt popping at OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Jeff Campbell of North Dakota won home plate. Tabor-Irene Game Rescheduled the College Home Run Derby, hitting 10 homers in the finals The Crofton ace struck to easily defeat Wake Forest’s Will Craig on Thursday night. out 11 in a 5-hit shutout for For July 15 Campbell set a derby record with 20 first-round homers, the Bluejays in Friday night’s IRENE – The amateur baseball game featuring Irene and the longest traveling 479 feet. The senior first baseman- pitcher followed with four more in the second round to secure 3-0 South Central League vic- Tabor, originally scheduled for June 25 in Tabor, has been tory over rival — and defend- moved to July 15 at Irene. a spot in the two-man finals. Start time is set for 7:30 p.m. at Lars Anderson Field. Craig went deep nine times in the first round and waited ing state champion — Wynot. two hours until his next turn. He hit 16 in the second round for Thygeson, the hard- a total of 25, quitting with two outs left after he took the overall throwing veteran, punctuated Youth Soccer Camp July 7-9 lead and knocked out Georgia Tech’s Kel Johnson. the annual Fourth of July There will be a youth soccer camp for boys and girls in U6 Craig had only 18 minutes between his turn in the second round and the finals, and he could only get five more balls weekend showdown with a through U14 (grades K-7), held July 7-9 from 5:30-7 p.m. each strikeout in the top of the JAMES D. CIMBUREK/P&D day. The camp will be held at Lewis & Clark Soccer Park. over the fence. Crofton pitcher Rand Thygeson sends the ball home dur- Yankton Bucks and Gazelles soccer coaches and players There were no bat restrictions for the eight contestants, ninth inning and an emphatic ing the Bluejays’ South Central League amateur baseball will conduct the camps. Basic soccer skills and drills will be and major-league baseballs were used. fist pump on the mound. matchup with Wynot on Friday in Crofton. Thygeson struck “I was extremely pumped,” out 11 in a complete game 3-0 victory. Thygeson said later, minutes SCOREBOARD AREA CALENDAR before the fireworks display. “This is always a good game, ally,” Crofton manager Carl Alex Mueller and Mason Tampa Bay at Kansas City, 7:10 Monday, July 6 SOFTBALL, GIRLS’ Vermillion Schieffer said later, chuckling. Mueller all had one hit. SOCCER p.m. BASEBALL, LEGION Tabor Flames at Yankton Fury Crush (DH, with two very good teams. WOMEN’S WORLD CUP Toronto at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 at Winner-Colome; Tabor Teeners 6:30 p.m., Riverside) “You couldn’t ask for a “But he worked around it.” It’s been on the mound, THIRD PLACE p.m. at Yankton Juniors (DH, 5 p.m.); Wednesday, July 8 better game.” Thygeson threw more though, where the Bluejays Saturday, July 4 L.A. Angels at Colorado, 7:40 p.m. Vermillion at Beresford (6:30 p.m.) BASEBALL, AMATEUR Akron pitches than he usually does, have needed help this sea- England 1, Germany 0, OT Detroit at Seattle, 9:10 p.m. BASEBALL, VFW TEENER at Vermillion Greysox (7:30 p.m.) As is usually the case CHAMPIONSHIP Yankton Reds at Mitchell (DH, 4 BASEBALL, LEGION S.F. when the Bluejays and Expos but was able to still go nine son. With Scot Donner, Tre- Sunday, July 5 NATIONAL LEAGUE p.m.) Post 307 at Yankton Juniors (DH, SOFTBALL, GIRLS’ Yankton 6 p.m.); Wagner at Tabor innings — the shutout being vor Arens and Seth Erdmann United States 5, Japan 2 East Division meet on the diamond, Friday Fury White at Norfolk Kelly’s BASEBALL, VFW TEENER icing on the cake. no longer playing, Crofton W L Pct GB Mitchell at Yankton Lakers (DH, night’s affair was a tightly- Washington 46 36 .561 — Tuesday, July 7 S.F. 1 p.m.); Yankton Reds at Renner “He had all three pitches needed Thygeson to take on New York 42 41 .506 4 1/2 BASEBALL, LEGION contested game with few BASEBALL West at Yankton (DH, 5 p.m., Barons Blue (DH, 5 p.m.) Atlanta 40 42 .488 6 working tonight,” Wynot man- a greater role — rather than AMERICAN LEAGUE KYNT-AM coverage beginning at 6 errors (one by each side) be- Miami 35 48 .422 11 1/2 GOLF, DAKOTAS TOUR East Division p.m.); Yankton Juniors at S.F. East Carstens Financial Wounded War- ager Lee Heimes said. pitching two or three innings. Philadelphia 28 56 .333 19 tween two teams with South W L Pct GB (DH, 5 p.m.); South Sioux City at rior Pro-Am at Emerald Hills GC, Dakota state title aspirations. Crofton took a 1-0 lead in “I had to step up and be New York 44 38 .537 — Central Division Vermillion (DH, 6 p.m.) Arnolds Park, Iowa Baltimore 43 39 .524 1 W L Pct GB Thygeson’s performance the bottom of the third inning that veteran,” Thygeson said. Tampa Bay 43 41 .512 2 St. Louis 53 28 .654 — when Kyle Mueller singled “And I’ll never turn down Toronto 43 41 .512 2 Pittsburgh 47 34 .580 6 has the first-place Bluejays Chicago 44 36 .550 8 1/2 home Tyler Zimmerman. The a chance to take the ball,” he Boston 39 45 .464 6 p.m. (IL). Designated RHP Nick Masset and (10-2) thinking exactly that. Cincinnati 36 44 .450 16 1/2 Central Division N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, 9:15 LHP Dana Eveland for assignment. Bluejays later added two runs added, smiling. Milwaukee 36 48 .429 18 1/2 What was working for W L Pct GB p.m. Agreed to terms with SS Derian Cruz in the seventh inning, on an Not only was there a Kansas City 46 33 .582 — West Division and OF Cristian Pache on minor league him? Minnesota 43 39 .524 4 1/2 W L Pct GB contracts. RBI single by Mason Mueller Crofton win and a fireworks Los Angeles 46 37 .554 — ALL-STAR STARTERS “Everything, to be hon- Detroit 41 40 .506 6 CHICAGO CUBS — Optioned OF San Francisco 42 41 .506 4 To Be Held Tuesday, July 14, At and RBI double by Zimmer- display on Friday night, there Cleveland 38 43 .469 9 Matt Szczur to Iowa (PCL). Reinstated est,” Thygeson said, smiling. Arizona 40 42 .488 5 1/2 Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati Chicago 36 43 .456 10 OF Jorge Soler from the 15-day DL. man. was also a proposal. San Diego 39 45 .464 7 1/2 AMERICAN LEAGUE “I was a little off early with West Division Agreed to terms with RHP Ben Rowen Colorado 35 47 .427 10 1/2 C: Salvador Perez, Royals Wynot, on the other hand, Crofton’s Kyle Mueller sur- W L Pct GB on a minor league contract. the changeup, but I got the 1B: Miguel Cabrera, Tigers Houston 48 36 .571 — Friday’s Games LOS ANGELES DODGERS — couldn’t get that hit when it prised his girlfriend, Lakyn Miami 2, Chicago Cubs 1 2B: Jose Altuve, Astros mechanics eventually figured Los Angeles 44 38 .537 3 Placed RHP Carlos Frias on the 15-day Washington 2, San Francisco 1 3B: Josh Donaldson, Blue Jays mattered most. Schmidt, after the game with Texas 41 42 .494 6 1/2 DL, retroactive to Wednesday. Recalled out.” Cleveland 5, Pittsburgh 2 SS: Alcides Escobar, Royals Seattle 38 44 .463 9 LHP Daniel Coulombe from Oklahoma “We got some runners on, a fake raffle promotion at Milwaukee 12, Cincinnati 1 OF: Mike Trout, Angels The biggest threat by Oakland 38 47 .447 10 1/2 City (PCL). Atlanta 2, Philadelphia 1 OF: Lorenzo Cain, Royals but couldn’t get that timely home plate. Schmidt thought Friday’s Games MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned RHP Wynot, now 8-5, was the top San Diego 2, St. Louis 1 OF: Alex Gordon, Royals Cleveland 5, Pittsburgh 2 Jarred Cosart and OF Marcell Ozuna to hit,” Lee Heimes said. “We she had won a special draw- Arizona 4, Colorado 3, 10 innings DH: Nelson Cruz, Mariners of the second inning, when N.Y. Yankees 7, Tampa Bay 5, 12 New Orleans (PCL). Reinstated 1B Mi- N.Y. Mets 2, L.A. Dodgers 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE just didn’t come through.” ing, but was instead pre- innings chael Morse from the 15-day DL. the Expos loaded the bases C: Buster Posey, Giants Detroit 8, Toronto 6 Saturday’s Games PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Zimmerman had three sented with a ring by Mueller Washington 9, San Francisco 3 1B: Paul Goldschmidt, Diamond- with two outs.