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PAGE 8 PRESS & DAKOTAN ■ TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2013 Press&Dakotan Closing Practices To Media Seems Like A Strange Idea BY JEREMY HOECK It’s not an uncommon practice for larger schools or professional are straight game previews or a feature. [email protected] teams to want to control their message; to control what reaches Would I ever intentionally write down USD’s defensive game- DAILY DOSE certain platforms like Twitter and Facebook. In today’s age of every- plan (from what I could tell, which wouldn’t be much) and text them As I talked to a few University of South Dakota athletic depart- one-can-see-everything, you can understand why they would want to an opposing coach? Of course not. ment officials Monday at the first fall football practice, I couldn’t help to keep as many things in-house as possible. I could see where video of a fight between two players could Daily opinions but joke. What I don’t understand is this: What could a reporter possibly eventually reach Twitter or YouTube, which would obviously cause from the P&D “As long as you don’t close practices to the media” was my line. post that would be damaging to a team? a PR nightmare for bigger schools. But I, personally, wouldn’t delve Sports Staff on Because, believe it or not, some schools actually prohibit media I tried to go over all the possibilities in my head Monday as I too much into it; things like that are bound to happen in an intense members from attending or shooting practices. watched USD run through its 2-hour practice. (Yes, I recorded a practice setting. local and Our friends in Fargo, N.D., who regularly cover North Dakota few quick snippets of video, but I have not yet edited them and up- My hope is that schools are more worried about what fans would national high State football were ‘welcomed’ to this scenario Saturday. The rea- loaded them anywhere). post than what media members would share with the public. That, school, college son given, according to the reporter, was “proliferation of social Like the Fargo Forum reporter said in his blog entry, I too would to me, makes more sense. Though in a setting like USD’s, where media.” have a hard time dissecting a certain play or a specific defensive they maybe get 2-3 fans at a practice, it’s not really an issue. and pro sports. Does that sound strange to you? It sure does to me. scheme. I rarely delve that deep into football stories, whether they COLLEGE/YHS EVENTS SCOREBOARD AREA CALENDAR Yankton-Valerie Robinson, Vermillion def. Tuesday, August 6 at Harrisburg; S.D. State B Tourn. at Flandreau Senior Championships at Fox Run GC, Yankton; GOLF Leah Branaugh, Yankton-Vickie Stolen, No activities scheduled GOLF, DAKOTAS TOUR Arrowhead Pro-Am Men’s Amateur Championships at Prairie Green GC, AREA LAKEVIEW GOLF COURSE Sioux City 10-6 Wednesday, August 7 GOLF, SDGA Women’s Amateur & Women’s Sioux Falls AMATEUR MIXED 8.0 DOUBLES BASEBALL, AMATEUR S.D. State Tourn. at Senior Championships at Fox Run GC, Yankton; Sunday, August 11 BASEBALL LADIES LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP: Leah Branaugh, Sioux Falls (Wynot vs. Wessington Springs, 6 p.m., Men’s Amateur Championships at Prairie Green GC, BASEBALL, AMATEUR S.D. State Tourn. at LOW GROSS: Katie Paulson 43 Yankton-Chad Larson, Mitchell def. Steve KVHT-FM) Sioux Falls Sioux Falls (Tabor vs. Lennox Only One, 11 a.m., LOW NET: Katie Paulson 31, Laurie Stolen, Sioux City-Vickie Stolen, Sioux Thursday, August 8 Saturday, August 10 KVHT-FM); S.D. State A Tourn. at Rapid City Bailey 31 City 10-7 BASEBALL, AMATEUR S.D. State Tourn. at BASEBALL, AMATEUR S.D. State Tourn. at BASEBALL, VFW TEENER S.D. State A Tourn. STANDINGS: Deanna Lockman- WOMEN'S 4.0 SINGLES Sioux Falls (Lesterville vs. Parkston Rock Bass, 11 Sioux Falls (Irene vs. Miller, 11 a.m., KVHT-FM; at Harrisburg; S.D. State B Tourn. at Flandreau TODAY Linda Trenhaile 352, Patty Zavadil-Carol August 6 CHAMPIONSHIP: Valerie Robinson, a.m., KVHT-FM) Crofton vs. Lake Norden, 7:30 p.m., KVHT-FM); S.D. GOLF, SDGA Women’s Amateur Championships Leader 318, Irma Arens-Kathy Magorian Vermillion def. Whitney Pahl, Mitchell 10- GOLF, DAKOTAS TOUR Arrowhead Pro-Am State A Tourn. at Rapid City (Vermillion Red Sox vs. at Fox Run GC, Yankton; Men’s Amateur Champi- 312, Barb Dooley-Dawn Stukel 308, Judy WEDNESDAY WYNOT: vs. Wessington Springs, 6 p.m., at Sioux Falls (State 4 Friday, August 9 Renner or R.C. Angels, noon or 2:30 p.m.) onships at Prairie Green GC, Sioux Falls Heine-Kathy Meink 307, Katie Paulson- MEN'S 4.0 SINGLES BASEBALL, AMATEUR S.D. State Tourn. at BASEBALL, VFW TEENER S.D. State A Tourn. Monday, August 12 August 7 Class B Amateurs) Bonnie Gusso 297, Andrea Tramp- CHAMPIONSHIP: Logan Meyer, Sioux Falls; S.D. State A Tourn. at Rapid City (Ver- at Harrisburg; S.D. State B Tourn. at Flandreau BASEBALL, AMATEUR S.D. State Tourn. at Michelle Townsend 296, Katie Huron def. Ken Chan, Mitchell 10-5 million Red Sox vs. Redfield DQ, 6:30 p.m.) GOLF, DAKOTAS TOUR Arrowhead Pro-Am Sioux Falls THURSDAY LESTERVILLE: vs. Parkston Rock Bass, 11 a.m., at Sioux Falls Tramp-Julie Tramp-Kay Blankenfeld 289, CONSOLATION: Chris Stienstra, BASEBALL, VFW TEENER S.D. State A Tourn. GOLF, SDGA Women’s Amateur & Women’s August 8 (State Class B Amateurs) Donna Steckler-Kim Brannen 248, Sioux Falls def. Ross Horning, Sioux Norma Garvey-Karen Clark 246, Sharon Falls 10-7 Koller-Jane Brown 215, Mardy Mack- FRIDAY VERMILLION RED SOX: vs. Redfield Dairy Queen, 6:30 p.m., eprang-Ann Arens 182, Sheri Moser-Gin- August 9 at Rapid City (State A Amateurs) ger Schieffer-Danielle McFarland 178, BASEBALL Barb Hermanek-Peck-Linda Fox 123, City Softball Champs IRENE: vs. Miller, 11 a.m., at Sioux Falls (State Class B Ama- Judy VanDerhule-Laurie Baily 116, AMERICAN LEAGUE teurs) Melissa Lindahl-Robin Svendsen 75 East Division W L Pct GB SATURDAY CROFTON: vs. Lake Norden, 7:30 p.m., at Sioux Falls (State TUESDAY LEAGUE LOW GROSS: Eric Baily 37, Rob Boston 68 45 .602 — August 10 Class B Amateurs) Wiebelhaus 37 Tampa Bay 66 45 .595 1 VERMILLION RED SOX: vs. Renner or Rapid City Angels, LOW NET: Bob Glowcheski 32, Dan Baltimore 61 51 .545 6 1/2 noon or 2:30 p.m., at Rapid City (State Class A Amateurs) Graveland 32 New York 57 53 .518 9 1/2 STANDINGS: Baily-Kuchta 113, Toronto 51 60 .459 16 TABOR: vs. Lennox Only One, 11 a.m., at Sioux Falls (State Kuchta-Merkel 92, Ferden-Johannasen Central Division Class B Amateurs) 92, Bartles Hoffart 87, Sprakel-Brady 86, W L Pct GB Detroit 65 45 .591 — SUNDAY WYNOT: vs. Akron or Plankinton, 5:30 p.m., at Sioux Falls Nohr-Goeden 84, Merkel-Weiseler 82, Wiebelhaus-Wiebelhaus 79, Sailor-Grav- Cleveland 62 50 .554 4 August 11 (State Class B Amateurs, if win Wednesday) eland 76, Murphey-Petersen 75, Baily- Kansas City 57 52 .523 7 1/2 LESTERVILLE: vs. Milbank or Winner-Colome, 7:30 p.m., at Edwards 72, Jackson-Thunker 71, Minnesota 48 61 .440 16 1/2 Sioux Falls (State Class B Amateurs, if win Thursday) Clark-Fish-Christiansen 71, Haubrick- Chicago 40 69 .367 24 1/2 Lemmon 70, Anderson-Larson 69, West Division MONDAY Zavadil-Pooler 69, Hysell-Brauer 63, W L Pct GB August 12 Wilken-Schurman 62, Folkers-Van Essen Oakland 64 47 .577 — 61, Keiser-Weinandt 60, Pokorney-Tren- Texas 62 50 .554 2 1/2 haile 59, Sprakel-Janssen 55, Tramp- Seattle 52 59 .468 12 Lancaster 50, Tramp-Leader 47, Los Angeles 51 59 .464 12 1/2 Pautler-Suing 41, Schmidt-Ryan 24 Houston 36 74 .327 27 1/2 OTHER EVENTS Sunday’s Games TENNIS Detroit 3, Chicago White Sox 2, 12 Baseball innings LEWIS & CLARK CLASSIC Cleveland 2, Miami 0 VFW TEENER: Friday-Sunday, S.D. Class A Tourn., Harrisburg; Friday-Sunday, Kansas City 6, N.Y. Mets 2 S.D. Class B Tourn., Flandreau Aug. 2-4 at Yankton Boston 4, Arizona 0 BOYS' 12-UNDER SINGLES Seattle 3, Baltimore 2 Golf CHAMPIONSHIP: Cade Damgaard, Tampa Bay 4, San Francisco 3 DAKOTAS TOUR: Thursday-Saturday, Arrowhead Pro-Am, Rapid City Sioux Falls def. Michael Yousef, Sioux Minnesota 3, Houston 2 SDGA: Friday-Sunday, Women’s Amateur & Women’s Senior Championships, Falls 10-4 Toronto 6, L.A. Angels 5 Fox Run Golf Course, Yankton; Friday-Sunday, Men’s Amateur Championships, CONSOLATION: Smarah Marupudi, Texas 4, Oakland 0 Prairie Green Golf Course, Sioux Falls Omaha def. Carter Stucky, Mitchell 8-5 San Diego 6, N.Y. Yankees 3 BOYS' 14-UNDER SINGLES Monday’s Games CHAMPIONSHIP: Kevn Shan, Detroit 4, Cleveland 2 Madison def. Wil McDowell, Sioux Falls Kansas City 13, Minnesota 0 RADIO & TELEVISION 10-7 Boston at Houston, 8:10 p.m. CONSOLATION: Jared Suelflow, N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox, Mitchell def. Logan McKenzie, Sioux 8:10 p.m. Wednesday Falls 8-1 6 p.m. AMATEUR BASEBALL: Wynot vs. Wessington Springs KVHT-FM Texas at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m. BOYS' 16-UNDER SINGLES Toronto at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. CHAMPIONSHIP: Kaleb Dobbs, Thursday Tuesday’s Games The Bud Light team won the Yankton women’s softball league title. Team members include (front) Sioux Falls def.