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PAGE 8: SPORTS PRESS & DAKOTAN n THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2015 PRESS&DAKOTAN Summer Quickly Winding Down — Enjoy It While You Can BY JAMES D. CIMBUREK its four state qualifiers, who will play in the Class B amateur baseball SDHSAA-sanctioned competition. [email protected] tournament Aug. 5-16 in Mitchell. Class A – to which Yankton received Yankton will host two home matches and play their first road soccer DAILY DOSE a free pass for hosting the opening rounds – begins Aug. 7-9 here, then match before the Riverboat Days fireworks are set off, a necessity in a My life is about to get extremely busy … and it has nothing to do with concludes Aug. 14-16 in Mitchell. season where the playoffs begin on Sept. 29. Opinions the fact that my boss is on vacation for the rest of the week. This week also starts the extended stay of the Dakotas golf Tour here The Yankton boys’ golf team also gets off to a fast start, opening on from the After an early conclusion to the girls’ softball season three weeks ago, in Yankton, with the Thrivent Financial Charity Pro-Am Friday-Sunday at Aug. 17 and holding five events before Labor Day. The Gazelles tennis Fox Run. The tour will have nine days of competition in a 10-day span, team, under new head coach Kim Velk, debuts at home on Riverboat Days P&D Sports the end of the summer sports schedule is now underway. The South Dako- ta State Legion Baseball Tournament began in Brookings on Wednesday. concluding with the Hillcrest Pro-Am Aug. 6-9. The tour has 19 events in weekend (A quad on Saturday, Aug. 22) and plays four events before Staff on Tournaments for Yankton’s two VFW Teener teams – and its quasi-Teener five states, but does not spend more than four days in any one place … Labor Day. local and team – begin on Friday. (By “quasi-Teener,” I mean the Yankton team that except here. Yankton’s volleyball (four matches), football (two games), cross country played a junior American Legion schedule this summer. They dropped their As those summer events wind down, the fall will be heating up. Practice (two meets) and competitive cheer and dance (one event) also get started national 16-year-olds, one of which moved up to the Legion team, and will host the for some Yankton sports begin Aug. 3, with the first high school competi- before Labor Day which, believe it or not, is only five-and-a-half weeks high school, 15-16 Minors state tournament this weekend.) tions of 2015-16 taking place on Friday, Aug. 14, when Yankton hosts away. Watertown in Eastern South Dakota Conference boys’ and girls’ soccer Summer has once again flown by and fall is crashing down upon us. Be college and Amateur baseball is also winding down. By this time on Sunday, the four teams out of District 6B will be decided. (Crofton and Tabor are in, action. Boys’ soccer is one of the ESD titles Yankton will be defending this sure to take in the rest of summer – especially those events in Yankton – pro sports. but their seed is yet to be determined.) District 7B has already determined year, as the Bucks went unbeaten in league play in their first season of before the season fades away. SCOREBOARD AREA CALENDAR SPORTS DIGEST CHAMPIONSHIP: Crofton vs. Tabor, Thursday, July 30 15-16 Minors State Tourn. at Yank- S.D. Sporting Clays Championship batting 11-19 for a .579 average. McCook-Miner’s Luke Loudenburg was BASEBALL 7:30 p.m. (Loser is Rep #1) BASEBALL, AMATEUR Dis- ton (S.F. West vs. Renner, 11 a.m.; named the tournament’s Player of the Year. S.D. CLASS A LEGION TOURN. trict 6B at Irene (Game 9 — Menno Pierre vs. Brookings, 1:15 p.m.; July 31-Aug. 2 McCook-Miner advances to the Division II American Legion Baseball July 29-Aug. 2 at Brookings AMERICAN LEAGUE vs. Irene, 6 p.m., KVHT-FM; Game Watertown vs. S.F. East, 3:30 p.m.; Tournament, Aug. 6-9 at Le Sueur, Minnesota. 10 — Wynot vs. Freeman, 8 p.m., Fifth — 5th seed vs. 6th seed, 5:45 The South Dakota Sporting Clays Championship will be Wednesday’s Games East Division R.C. Post 320 17, S.F. West 7, 7 KVHT-FM) p.m.); 13-14 Majors State Tourn. held July 31 through August 2 at James Valley Sporting Clays W L Pct GB State A at Watertown; 13-14 Minors State innings New York 57 42 .576 — BASEBALL, LEGION near Yankton. SDSU Single-Game Football Tickets Go Tourn. at Brookings (Yankton vs. Tourn. at Sioux Falls R.C. Post 22 9, Aberdeen 5 Baltimore 51 49 .510 6 1/2 R.C. Post 320, KYNT-AM, KVTK- Thri- The event is open to the public. It has both registered and Yankton 20, Watertown 7, 7 innings Toronto 51 51 .500 7 1/2 GOLF, DAKOTAS TOUR AM) vent Financial Charity Pro-Am at non-registered targets. On Sale On Saturday GAME 4: Pierre vs. Brookings, 8 Tampa Bay 51 52 .495 8 BROOKINGS — Single-game tickets for South Dakota State University Fox Run GC p.m. Boston 44 57 .436 14 Friday, July 31 Competition runs from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. each day. For more home football games will go on sale to the general public this Saturday BASEBALL, LEGION State GOLF, SDGA Two-Woman Thursday’s Games Central Division information, call 660-3765. (Aug. 1) at the Jackrabbit Ticket Office. GAME 5: S.F. West vs. Watertown, A Tourn. at Brookings (Yankton, Championships at Brandon Golf W L Pct GB KYNT-AM, KVHT-FM) Course To accommodate customers, the ticket office, which is located on the 10 a.m. Kansas City 61 39 .610 — main level of the Stanley J. Marshall HPER Center, will be open from 9 GAME 6: Aberdeen vs. Game 4 Minnesota 52 48 .520 9 BASEBALL, VFW TEENER Sunday, August 2 15-16 Minors State Tourn. at Yank- State a.m. to 5 p.m. Orders also can be placed at JackrabbitTickets.com or by loser, 1 p.m. Chicago 48 50 .490 12 BASEBALL, LEGION Post 1 Earns Sportsmanship Award ton (Yankton vs. Pierre, 1 p.m.; A Tourn. at Brookings (Yankton, SALEM – Vermillion Post 1 was recognized with the Porter T. Talcott calling 1-866-GO JACKS. GAME 7: R.C. Post 320 vs. Yankton, Detroit 49 52 .485 12 1/2 Brookings vs. S.F. West, 3:15 p.m.; KYNT-AM, KVHT-FM); Neb. Class Season tickets and mini plans also remain available for the 2015 5 p.m. Cleveland 46 54 .460 15 Sportsmanship Award after the 2015 South Dakota Class B American Renner vs. Watertown, 5:30 p.m.; C Senior Tourn. at Battle Creek season. Seating capacity will be increased by more than 4,000 permanent GAME 8: R.C. Post 22 vs. Game 4 West Division Legion Baseball Tournament, which concluded on Tuesday in Salem. winner, 8 p.m. S.F. East vs. Yankton, 7:45 p.m.); (Crofton) Vermillion went 2-2, eliminated by eventual champion McCook-Miner seats as the first phase of replacing Coughlin-Alumni Stadium is completed W L Pct GB 13-14 Majors State Tourn. at Wa- Friday’s Games Los Angeles 55 44 .556 — BASEBALL, VFW TEENER on Monday. this summer. tertown; 13-14 Minors State Tourn. 15-16 Minors State Tourn. at Yank- GAME 9: Game 6 winner vs. Game Houston 56 45 .554 — Humboldt’s Riley Schrader earned the tournament’s Big Stick Award, at Sioux Falls ton (Semifinals — 1st seed vs. 4th 7 loser, noon Texas 47 52 .475 8 Thri- seed, 10:30 a.m.; 2nd seed vs. 3rd GAME 10: Game 5 winner vs. Game Seattle 46 56 .451 10 1/2 GOLF, DAKOTAS TOUR vent Financial Charity Pro-Am at seed, 12:45 p.m.; Third — Semifi- 8 loser, 3 p.m. Oakland 45 56 .446 11 GAME 11: Game 7 winner vs. Game Fox Run GC nal losers, 3 p.m.; Championship Tuesday’s Games — Semifinal winners, 5:15 p.m.); 8 p.m., 7 p.m Baltimore 7, Atlanta 3 Saturday, August 1 Saturday’s Games BASEBALL, AMATEUR Dis- 13-14 Majors State Tourn. at Wa- Yankton Philadelphia 3, Toronto 2 trict 6B at Irene (Championship tertown; 13-14 Minors State Tourn. GAME 12: Game 9 winner vs. Game Chicago White Sox 9, Boston 4 — Crofton vs. Tabor, 7:30 p.m., at Sioux Falls 11 loser, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay 10, Detroit 2 FROM PAGE 7 KVHT-FM) Thri- GAME 13: Game 10 winner vs. Kansas City 2, Cleveland 1 GOLF, DAKOTAS TOUR State vent Financial Charity Pro-Am at Game 11 winner, 4 p.m. N.Y. Yankees 21, Texas 5 BASEBALL, LEGION A Tourn. at Brookings (Yankton, Fox Run GC NOTE: Pairings for Games 12 and Houston 10, L.A. Angels 5 KYNT-AM, KVHT-FM); Neb. Class Two-Woman Post 320 today (Thursday) at 13 will not match previous opponents Pittsburgh 8, Minnesota 7 GOLF, SDGA C Senior Tourn. at Battle Creek Championships at Brandon Golf against each other unless absolutely Arizona 8, Seattle 4 5 p.m. (Crofton vs. Battle Creek, 8 p.m.) Course necessary. Oakland 2, L.A. Dodgers 0 BASEBALL, VFW TEENER The Yankton lead Wednes- Sunday’s Games Wednesday’s Games GAME 14: Game 12 winner vs. Detroit 2, Tampa Bay 1 day was 9-3 midway through Game 13 winner, 1 p.m.