PRESS & DAKOTAN ■ THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2014 PAGE 9 Press&Dakotan Ready Or Not, Fall Is Here BY JAMES D. CIMBUREK are still running, or have run, in the Press & Dakotan and Plain Talk.) [email protected] Among the stories that we wrote for this preview were features on Yankton record-setting quarter- DAILY DOSE back Mason Strahl, Avon’s Devin Tolsma and Parkston’s Brady Reiff. We did a feature on the changes Tuesday morning I stumbled home from work, not because I started my day with some pre-dawn that have undergone since Yankton high school soccer changed hands from Yankton Youth Soccer to libations, but because I had just finished delivering a 24-page baby, the Fall Sports preview section that the Yankton School District. We also did a story on the Gayville-Volin volleyball team, the changes in Daily opinions will hit the newsstands for both the Press & Dakotan and the Vermillion Plain Talk on Friday. the Nebraska C1 and C2 football playoffs and the four area runners who had won state cross country from the P&D I am usually capable of spreading the work around enough so that I don’t have to do what I did this titles and were back this year. Sports Staff on week, as in go from 7 a.m. Monday to 11 a.m. Tuesday with only two breaks for meals and a 90-minute All of these stories might have served as a “cover” story for our preview in the past, when we would semi-nap. But I survived — even took my wife to a movie in Sioux Falls after she let me have another 90- only do one or two features along with all of the previews. In our opinion, this will make our preview mor local and minute nap — and, after a good night’s sleep, returned to work Wednesday morning feeling almost human. interesting to our readers. national high What kept me going through what had been a rough few days in finishing the preview was my ex- We have also shot some video to go with some of those stories, some of which has already been school, college citement about the product we’re putting out there. shared on the Press & Dakotan Youtube account. We did make a major change this year, replacing the college previews — most of which typically had We hope you like our preview as much as we liked putting it together for you ... even if we lost a lit- and pro sports. run prior to the preview publication — with more features on area athletes and teams. (Those previews tle sleep over it. SCOREBOARD AREA CALENDAR Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m. Thursday, August 28 Inv. at Hillcrest (MMC, 11 a.m.) Area Players Named To Am. BASEBALL Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m. FOOTBALL, PREP O’Neill St. GOLF, BOYS’ Huron Tourn. AMERICAN LEAGUE Miami at Atlanta, 6:35 p.m. Mary’s at Allen (YHS, 10 a.m.) Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m. GOLF, DAKOTAS TOUR The GOLF, GIRLS’ Wayne Inv. East Division Colorado at Arizona, 8:40 p.m. Ridge Open at Sioux Center, Iowa (Crofton, Hartington Cedar Catholic, WLPctGB L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 9:10 p.m. GOLF, BOYS’ S.F. Christian Inv. Laurel-Concord-Coleridge, 9 a.m.) Baltimore 75 56 .573 — Washington at Seattle, 9:10 p.m. at Bakker Crossing (Beresford, SOCCER, WOMEN’S USD vs. Baseball All-Tourney Team New York 68 62 .523 6 1/2 Milwaukee at San Francisco, 9:15 Dakota Valley, Elk Point-Jefferson, Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Little Rock, Toronto 67 66 .504 9 p.m. Parkston, Wagner, Vermillion, 8 a.m.) Ark. (4 p.m.) MITCHELL — Three mem- honored, Robin Chute, A.J. Clark’s Bryce DesLauriers Tampa Bay 65 68 .489 11 SOCCER, GIRLS’ Vermillion at SOFTBALL, GIRLS’ Yankton at Boston 58 75 .436 18 Garretson Rapid City tournament (vs. Rapid City bers of the Class B champion Staiert and Kendall Hazel. and Plankinton’s Billy Hamil- Central Division FOOTBALL SOCCER, BOYS’ YHS at S.F. Central, vs. Rapid City Stevens, vs. W L Pct GB Wynot Expos were named to Yankton’s Derrik Nelson was ton. NFL PRESEASON O’Gorman (8 p.m.) Douglas) Kansas City 73 58 .557 — SOCCER, BOYS’ JV YHS at TENNIS, GIRLS’ YHS/Aberdeen the Class B all-tournament also selected. Class A champion Renner Detroit 71 59 .546 1 1/2 Thursday, Aug. 28 Atlanta at Jacksonville, 5 p.m. S.F. O’Gorman (4 p.m.) Central/Marshall at Brookings (1 team, announced on Wednes- Class B runner-up Alexan- had six players honored, in- Cleveland 67 63 .515 5 1/2 SOCCER, GIRLS’ YHS at S.F. p.m.) Chicago 59 72 .450 14 Kansas City at Green Bay, 6 p.m. day. dria had three players hon- cluding MVP Tim Huber and Detroit at Buffalo, 6 p.m. O’Gorman (6 p.m.); Vermillion at Gar- VOLLEYBALL, WOMEN’S Minnesota 58 73 .443 15 retson Green Bay Tourn. — USD vs. Arizona West Division Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. Besides tournament MVP ored, Peyton Smith, Corey batting champion Michael N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. SOCCER, GIRLS’ JV YHS at (4:30 p.m.) W L Pct GB S.F. O’Gorman (4 p.m.) VOLLEYBALL, PREP Water- Brett Scherschligt, a pickup Marek and batting champion Clapp. Also selected from the Los Angeles 78 53 .595 — St. Louis at Miami, 6 p.m. New England at N.Y. Giants, 6:30 VOLLEYBALL, PREP Hanson town at YHS (7 p.m.) player from Freeman, Cole Wenande. Parkston also Monarchs were Eric DeJong, Oakland 77 54 .588 1 Early Bird Tourn. (Andes Central, VOLLEYBALL, JV Watertown at Seattle 72 60 .545 6 1/2 p.m. Wynot’s Kyle Wiepen and Lee had three honorees, Jeff Fish, Dallas Schneiderman, Juan Carolina at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m. Freeman Academy, Marion, Menno); YHS (4:30 p.m.) Houston 56 77 .421 23 Dell Rapids St. Mary at Centerville; VOLLEYBALL, SOPH Water- Texas 52 80 .394 26 1/2 Washington at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m. Heimes were honored. Trevor Freudenthal and Thomas and David Borchard. San Francisco at Houston, 7 p.m. Scotland vs. Irene-Wakonda at town at YHS (5:45 p.m.) Tuesday’s Games Wakonda; S.C. West at Elk Point-Jef- VOLLEYBALL, 9TH Watertown Crofton, which advanced Brady Nolz. Other Class A honorees in- Baltimore 4, Tampa Bay 2 Baltimore at New Orleans, 7 p.m. Denver at Dallas, 7 p.m. ferson; S.F. Lincoln at Dakota Valley at YHS (4:30 p.m.) to the semifinals, had Rand Also honored in Class B cluded Castlewood’s Eric Boston 11, Toronto 7, 11 innings Friday, August 29 Saturday, August 30 Detroit 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 Minnesota at Tennessee, 7 p.m. Thygeson and Tyler Zimmer- were Platte’s Richard Stern- Danforth and Ryan Ellingson, Chicago at Cleveland, 7 p.m. CROSS COUNTRY, COLLEGE CHEER & DANCE Gregory Inv. Cleveland 8, Chicago White Sox 6, Bison Inv. at Fargo, N.D. (USD, 5 (Bon Homme, Dakota Valley, man selected. Irene’s Simon berg, Flandreau’s Brett Sever- and Sioux Falls Brewers’ 10 innings Arizona at San Diego, 9 p.m. Seattle at Oakland, 9 p.m. p.m.) Gayville-Volin, Platte-Geddes-Dakota Healy was also honored. son and Mitch Foster, Bryce Ahrendt and James Kansas City 2, Minnesota 1 CROSS COUNTRY, PREP S.F. Christian, 11 a.m.) Houston 4, Oakland 2 O’Gorman Inv. (YHS, 4 p.m.); Beres- CROSS COUNTRY, PREP Three members of Class A Harrisburg’s Brian Stoebner, Borges. L.A. Angels 8, Miami 2 AUTO RACING ford Inv. (Alcester-Hudson, Beresford, Mitchell Inv. (Avon, Bon Homme, runner-up Vermillion were Larchwood’s Travis Feekes, Seattle 5, Texas 0 Centerville, Dakota Valley, Elk Point- Platte-Geddes, Wagner, 10 a.m.) Wednesday’s Games NASCAR SPRINT CUP Jefferson, Freeman, Freeman Acad- FOOTBALL, COLLEGE USD at Texas 12, Seattle 4 2014 SEASON SCHEDULE emy, Gayville-Volin, Irene-Wakonda, Oregon (9:30 p.m., KVHT-FM) Tampa Bay 3, Baltimore 1 July 27 — The John Wayne Walding Marion, Parker, Vermillion, Viborg- FOOTBALL, PREP YHS at Toronto 5, Boston 2 400, Indianapolis (Jeff Gordon) Hurley, 10 a.m.) Mitchell (7 p.m., KYNT-AM, KVTK- N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, 7:08 p.m. Aug. 3 — GoBowling.com 400, Long FOOTBALL, PREP Alcester- AM) Hanson, Ethan Advance To Early Bird Final Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, Pond, Pa. (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) Hudson at Baltic; Andes Central vs. SOCCER, BOYS’ Hot Springs at 8:10 p.m. Aug. 10 — Cheez-It 355 at the Glen, Tripp-Delmont-Armour at Armour; Freeman Academy ALEXANDRIA — Hanson and seventh place matches, digs, and Hailey Doyle had 20 assists and Minnesota at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m. Watkins Glen, N.Y. (AJ Allmendinger) Beresford at Flandreau; Bon Homme SOFTBALL, GIRLS’ Yankton at and Ethan will play for the and the third place and three ace serves to lead Hanson. Kelsey Oakland at Houston, 8:10 p.m. Aug. 17 — Pure Michigan 400, at Canton (7 p.m., KKYA-FM); Burke- Rapid City tournament (vs. Rapid City Dawson had six assists and Kayla Pardy Miami at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m. Brooklyn, Mich. (Jeff Gordon) South Central at Avon; Centerville at Central, vs. Rapid City Stevens, vs. championship of the Hanson championship matches. Thursday’s Games had seven digs for Howard. Aug. 23 — Irwin Tools Night Race, Scotland; Creighton vs.