Fall Sports 2012
| « PREVIOUS | » NEXT |
Ads on this page from the following advertisers...
Keywords: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
PRESS & DAKOTAN / PLAIN TALK FALL SPORTS 2012 PAGE 4 Bucks Hope To Be The Surprise Team Of The Season BY NICK ROBINSON sports@yankton.net EDITOR S NOTE: This article originally appeared in the Aug. 18 edition of the Press & Dakotan. It has been updated to reflect the ongoing season. Despite losing five seniors and some key varsity experience from last year, the Yankton Bucks boys soccer team is looking to make a run for the state championship. Yankton opened the 2012 season on Aug. 18 at home with an 8-0 rout of Brandon Valley. The Bucks have significant varsity experience back this fall, including juniors Landon Breen and Derek Brenner, and senior Andrew Hummel. Hummel is back from two torn labrums in his shoulders this past year. Other returning seniors that will play a role this season that have varsity experience are Zach Benjamin, Derek Gravholt, Zander Savag, and Cameron Luken. Juniors Tully Taggart and Casey Skillingstad also return with experience. The underclassmen who will see a strong amount on the field will be John Dannenbring and Osmar Pacheco. Our goal is to compete in every game, Hummel said. (Sioux Falls) Lincoln will be our best competition, because they are the defending state champs and have a lot of guys back. Along with the Gazelles, the Bucks will have a new varsity head coach, Warren Brenner. Even though they have a new coach, the players expectations are still going to be GAZELLES: Jaclyn Arens high even though the preseason poll has Yankton at number ten. We re gonna be a surprise team, coach Brenner said. I feel like we are one of the better teams this year. The (preseason) ranking system is usually way off. Helping Warren Brenner, as his assistant coaches this autumn will be Riley Smith and Wes Chambers. The JV coach is Nick Shade. version of the Gazelles may not So far we have been really good in pracresemble the finished product. Probably the first part of the tice, Brenner said. Our defense could be a season, we ll get the girls used to little better. But, were a good team, and we re going to be fun to watch. their roles, said Goeden. Wins For the Bucks to have a successful camaren t too important during the BUCKS: Zach Benjamin paign this fall they will be leaning on the ofearly part of the season; it s a feeling-out approach at the begin- fensive side of the ball to take the pressure away from a lesser experienced defensive ning of the season, and we ll try Breen, the team s goalkeeper. My expectaare all dedicated. They really want to make side. to get the girls used to their tions are to make it to state and to compete things happen. We have a lot of returning experience, roles. for a state title. and a new coach. But, he (Brenner) knows With their returning experiAdded coach Brenner, We re a really exYou can follow Nick Robinson on Twitter at ence, Yankton hopes to incorpo- his stuff and what he s talking about, said citing team. They all want to be there, and twitter.com/ @theFRANCHISE_9 rate all of the facets of the game in to a winning season We should be a pretty solid defensive team, Goeden said. For us to reach our goals, we re going to have to play the defense BY NICK ROBINSON and by the time of the state tournawe re capable of. ment be in the top three. Lasports@yankton.net Our hitting can be pretty Combe added. good this year, Goeden said. The strengths for Yankton will EDITOR S NOTE: This article The girls coming back have be having a lot of talent back, originally appeared in the Aug. 18 spent a lot of extra time to imthough many of those players will edition of the Press & Dakotan. It prove on their hitting and it be moved to different positions. has been updated to reflect the oncould pay off. Senior Katie Greeneway will be going season. The Gazelles also hope to add counted on at goalkeeper, a spot an element of speed to the game vacated with the graduation of forThe Yankton Gazelles soccer this year. mer standout Courtney True. team is looking to take off where We have some team speed Though the Gazelles boast six they left off last year; a berth to we ll try to incorporate into our seniors on the roster (Morgan the state tournament. offensive scheme and we ll try to Yankton finished last year with Bakke, Carli Al-Azzeh, Newman, take advantage of that at times, Kennedy Winterringer, Megan Ford a 13-6 record and got 8th in the Goeden said. and Greeneway), they are still relastate tournament. In which they As the fall season commences, tively young. Yankton still has the only lost four seniors from last Sioux Falls Washington leads the mindset of making a late post-seayear s squad. AA pack. son run later this fall. Yankton, which finished last They have the best pitcher in What us (as seniors) want to year at 13-6 and eighth place in the the state and that s a pretty big state tournament, opens its season do is help make the younger girls deal, Goeden said of the Wargrow in their soccer experience today (Saturday) against Brandon riors. Rapid City Stevens should and help the team make it to the Valley at 3 p.m. Lewis & Clark Socbe tough and Sioux Falls Roostate tournament, Newman said. cer Complex. sevelt is pretty good then it s To repeat what Yankton did last So basically, make this very young pretty wide open after that. year it will take, a lot of teamwork. team into champions in the end. The seniors will be seeing the Goeden is assisted by Bob CaUs (seniors) and the older ones most of the playing time along with with more varsity experience have balka, who has teamed with Goejunior Morgan Tessier. But, that to help the whole team out, Briden for all of his 14 years. Jon doesn t mean the underclassmen anna Newman said. If we all work Andersen and Tiffany Townsend will be left out. They consist of together and come to every pracwill coach the Gazelle JV squad sophomores Raquel Cole, Taylor tice locked in like it s a game I d while Kim Velk, Sean Cordell, Ruter, Janae Osborne, Danielle say we would have a successful Mark Velleck and Amanda Sparks Beckmann, Elizabeth Rust and season. will coach the Yankton middleThere will be a new but familiar Kendall Lillie. The newest memschool girls. GAZELLES: Brianna Benjamin (left) bers of the varsity squad are freshcoach on the sidelines for the men Amanda Gravholt, Madeline Gazelles in head coach Dave LaManning, Haley Schild, Madason Combe. LaCombe has 12 years of coaching soccer experience (seven Tessier, Erin Luken and Brianna came into practice this week, the Other than the state meet schools in Iowa. Benjamin. with Yankton and five with Vermilother guys saw that they were in which will be held in Huron on But in the mind of a success Rapid City Stevens will be our lion) and has been a part of three pretty good shape, Dannenbring October 20, Yankton is focused ful squad like Yankton, these toughest opponent this year, and sportsmanship awards. His assissaid. So they tend to set the on a few key meets on the sched- meets are only training for the we play them at home so that will tant is Jason Winterringer, and the standard and pull the rest of the ule to see where they will measone day that counts in cross help us, Ford said. JV coach is Kellen Moser. team up with them. Same with ure up to not only their South country, the South Dakota State In the preseason polls, Yankton Whitlee and Annie. They had a Dakota competitors, but also the AA Championships. You can follow Nick Robinson lot of miles this summer so the best of Nebraska and Iowa. We have the philosophy that is ranked 10th out of 11 Class AA teams. on Twitter at twitter.com/ @thekids could see when they started We kind of focus on the Auin cross country, you only have My expectations are to excel FRANCHISE_9 practice they were ready to go. gustana Invitational on Septemto be good on one day and that That s what it takes to be a top ber 8 because a lot of the Sioux day is going to be October 20 at team. Falls schools and the Rapid City the state meet, Dannenbring Schools are there, Dannenbring said. So our whole season is said. So it s good to see how we working towards getting better, match up with them. Then the competing better, and being able next week we go down to the to compete at our best at the Norfolk Invite and we really like state meet. to see how we compare with the good teams from Nebraska. And You can follow Jilanne Doom the South Sioux City meet has be- on Twitter at twitter.com/ Jicome a big meet for us because lanneDoom 25410 Park Ave. we get to see all the Sioux City schools and some of the better Niobrara, NE 101 W. 5th St. Yankton Aims To Improve On Fourth Place Showing BY KEITH A. BROCKBERG P&D Correspondent The Yankton Gazelles softball team issued a surprise during last year s South Dakota State Softball Tournament, and they have the pieces in place to add to that finish in 2012. The Gazelles, who finished with a 17-14 mark, went into the tournament as the eighth seed and finished fourth. Yankton coach Bernie Goeden, who will be coaching the Yankton girls for a 14th season, returns seven letter-winners from the 2011 team along with junior Brooke Loecker, who lettered in 2010. We have a pretty good nucleus coming back with eight letterwinners, Goeden said. We re looking at finishing higher that we did at last year s state tournament, and we have a good chance to do that, Goeden said. Seniors who return are Hannah Horn, Tayler Hutchison, Jessica Wirth, Karlee Kozak and Kourtney Erickson. The Gazelle juniors are Loecker, Abby Schulte, Alisa Ruzicka, Brynn Albers, Jennifer Feilmeier and Kaylyn Peterka. Andriana Sprakel and Jaclyn Arens return as sophomore letter-winners. Other returning sophomores are Heather Hauer, Danielle Schmidt and Madison Dangler. Arens will manage the bulk of the Yankton pitching duties while Peterka and Dangler battle to back her up. The Gazelle infield should be comprised of Wirth at third, Kozak at shortstop and Sprakel at second base. The Gazelles embarked on their season Monday as they play a double-header at Sioux Falls Roosevelt, but the early season YHS Cross From Page 1 Annie Kruse, tenth, Ashtyn Haak, and freshman Savannah Woods. For the boys, Brice and Justin have put in a lot of miles this summer and when they BLUE DEVIL BAR & GRILL Daily Lunch Specials Monday-Friday 11am-1:30pm 417 St. James Ave. Wynot, NE 402-357-2792 Gazelles Look To Build On Eighth Place Finish Farnik s Market Wynot Oil Co. (402) 857-3300 Wynot, NE 402-357-2463 Niobrara-Verdigre Cougars Football 8/30 9/7 9/14 9/21 Wynot Blue Devils Football 8/24 8/31 9/7 9/22 Humphrey Bloomfield Wynot Allen A H H A 9/28 10/5 10/12 10/19 Winnebago Pender Randolph Emerson-Hubbard A H H A Wynot Tourn. Allen Viborg-Hurley Hartington Lynch West Boyd Wisner-Pilger Inv. Ponca Inv. Wynot H H A H A Wisner Ponca 10/4 10/6 10/9 10/11 10/13 10/16 10/18 10/22-26 Winside H Wisner-Pilger Inv. Wisner Bloomfield A Wausa A Hartington Tourn. Hartington Osmond H Niobrara-Verdigre H Lewis & Clark Conf. TBD 9/28 10/5 10/12 10/19 Elgin Pub.-PJ Neligh-Oakdale Bloomfield Creighton Verdigre A Niobrara Niobrara Niobrara-Verdigre Cougars Volleyball 8/30 9/4 Wynot Lady Blue Devils Volleyball 8/30 9/4 9/6 9/11 9/13 9/20 9/22 9/24-25 Boyd County A O Neill St. Mary s A Allen Verdigre Plainview A 9/11 OUR CLASSIFIEDS WORK FOR YOU! CALL THE P&D AT (605) 665-7811 9/20 9/24 9/25 9/27 Creighton/Osmond Osmond Elgin Public-Pope John/ Stuart Elgin O Neill St. Mary s/Santee Santee Ewing H Santee H N-V Tourn. Niobrara Clearwater-Orchard/Wausa Orchard 10/2 10/4 10/9 Winside H (TBD) Stuart/N. Central O Neill Clearwater-Orchard/Stuart Orchard 10/11 Elgin Pub.-Pope John A 10/15-16 Knox Co. Tourn. Crofton 10/18 Wynot A 10/22-26 Niobrara Valley Conf. TBD/West Boyd/O Neill
- Blue Devil
- Wynot Oil Co.
- Moody Motor Company
- Olsons Insurance Agency
- Farniks Market
Keywords: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
PRESS & DAKOTAN / PLAIN TALK FALL SPORTS 2012 PAGE 4 Bucks Hope To Be The Surprise Team Of The Season BY NICK ROBINSON sports@yankton.net EDITOR S NOTE: This article originally appeared in the Aug. 18 edition of the Press & Dakotan. It has been updated to reflect the ongoing season. Despite losing five seniors and some key varsity experience from last year, the Yankton Bucks boys soccer team is looking to make a run for the state championship. Yankton opened the 2012 season on Aug. 18 at home with an 8-0 rout of Brandon Valley. The Bucks have significant varsity experience back this fall, including juniors Landon Breen and Derek Brenner, and senior Andrew Hummel. Hummel is back from two torn labrums in his shoulders this past year. Other returning seniors that will play a role this season that have varsity experience are Zach Benjamin, Derek Gravholt, Zander Savag, and Cameron Luken. Juniors Tully Taggart and Casey Skillingstad also return with experience. The underclassmen who will see a strong amount on the field will be John Dannenbring and Osmar Pacheco. Our goal is to compete in every game, Hummel said. (Sioux Falls) Lincoln will be our best competition, because they are the defending state champs and have a lot of guys back. Along with the Gazelles, the Bucks will have a new varsity head coach, Warren Brenner. Even though they have a new coach, the players expectations are still going to be GAZELLES: Jaclyn Arens high even though the preseason poll has Yankton at number ten. We re gonna be a surprise team, coach Brenner said. I feel like we are one of the better teams this year. The (preseason) ranking system is usually way off. Helping Warren Brenner, as his assistant coaches this autumn will be Riley Smith and Wes Chambers. The JV coach is Nick Shade. version of the Gazelles may not So far we have been really good in pracresemble the finished product. Probably the first part of the tice, Brenner said. Our defense could be a season, we ll get the girls used to little better. But, were a good team, and we re going to be fun to watch. their roles, said Goeden. Wins For the Bucks to have a successful camaren t too important during the BUCKS: Zach Benjamin paign this fall they will be leaning on the ofearly part of the season; it s a feeling-out approach at the begin- fensive side of the ball to take the pressure away from a lesser experienced defensive ning of the season, and we ll try Breen, the team s goalkeeper. My expectaare all dedicated. They really want to make side. to get the girls used to their tions are to make it to state and to compete things happen. We have a lot of returning experience, roles. for a state title. and a new coach. But, he (Brenner) knows With their returning experiAdded coach Brenner, We re a really exYou can follow Nick Robinson on Twitter at ence, Yankton hopes to incorpo- his stuff and what he s talking about, said citing team. They all want to be there, and twitter.com/ @theFRANCHISE_9 rate all of the facets of the game in to a winning season We should be a pretty solid defensive team, Goeden said. For us to reach our goals, we re going to have to play the defense BY NICK ROBINSON and by the time of the state tournawe re capable of. ment be in the top three. Lasports@yankton.net Our hitting can be pretty Combe added. good this year, Goeden said. The strengths for Yankton will EDITOR S NOTE: This article The girls coming back have be having a lot of talent back, originally appeared in the Aug. 18 spent a lot of extra time to imthough many of those players will edition of the Press & Dakotan. It prove on their hitting and it be moved to different positions. has been updated to reflect the oncould pay off. Senior Katie Greeneway will be going season. The Gazelles also hope to add counted on at goalkeeper, a spot an element of speed to the game vacated with the graduation of forThe Yankton Gazelles soccer this year. mer standout Courtney True. team is looking to take off where We have some team speed Though the Gazelles boast six they left off last year; a berth to we ll try to incorporate into our seniors on the roster (Morgan the state tournament. offensive scheme and we ll try to Yankton finished last year with Bakke, Carli Al-Azzeh, Newman, take advantage of that at times, Kennedy Winterringer, Megan Ford a 13-6 record and got 8th in the Goeden said. and Greeneway), they are still relastate tournament. In which they As the fall season commences, tively young. Yankton still has the only lost four seniors from last Sioux Falls Washington leads the mindset of making a late post-seayear s squad. AA pack. son run later this fall. Yankton, which finished last They have the best pitcher in What us (as seniors) want to year at 13-6 and eighth place in the the state and that s a pretty big state tournament, opens its season do is help make the younger girls deal, Goeden said of the Wargrow in their soccer experience today (Saturday) against Brandon riors. Rapid City Stevens should and help the team make it to the Valley at 3 p.m. Lewis & Clark Socbe tough and Sioux Falls Roostate tournament, Newman said. cer Complex. sevelt is pretty good then it s To repeat what Yankton did last So basically, make this very young pretty wide open after that. year it will take, a lot of teamwork. team into champions in the end. The seniors will be seeing the Goeden is assisted by Bob CaUs (seniors) and the older ones most of the playing time along with with more varsity experience have balka, who has teamed with Goejunior Morgan Tessier. But, that to help the whole team out, Briden for all of his 14 years. Jon doesn t mean the underclassmen anna Newman said. If we all work Andersen and Tiffany Townsend will be left out. They consist of together and come to every pracwill coach the Gazelle JV squad sophomores Raquel Cole, Taylor tice locked in like it s a game I d while Kim Velk, Sean Cordell, Ruter, Janae Osborne, Danielle say we would have a successful Mark Velleck and Amanda Sparks Beckmann, Elizabeth Rust and season. will coach the Yankton middleThere will be a new but familiar Kendall Lillie. The newest memschool girls. GAZELLES: Brianna Benjamin (left) bers of the varsity squad are freshcoach on the sidelines for the men Amanda Gravholt, Madeline Gazelles in head coach Dave LaManning, Haley Schild, Madason Combe. LaCombe has 12 years of coaching soccer experience (seven Tessier, Erin Luken and Brianna came into practice this week, the Other than the state meet schools in Iowa. Benjamin. with Yankton and five with Vermilother guys saw that they were in which will be held in Huron on But in the mind of a success Rapid City Stevens will be our lion) and has been a part of three pretty good shape, Dannenbring October 20, Yankton is focused ful squad like Yankton, these toughest opponent this year, and sportsmanship awards. His assissaid. So they tend to set the on a few key meets on the sched- meets are only training for the we play them at home so that will tant is Jason Winterringer, and the standard and pull the rest of the ule to see where they will measone day that counts in cross help us, Ford said. JV coach is Kellen Moser. team up with them. Same with ure up to not only their South country, the South Dakota State In the preseason polls, Yankton Whitlee and Annie. They had a Dakota competitors, but also the AA Championships. You can follow Nick Robinson lot of miles this summer so the best of Nebraska and Iowa. We have the philosophy that is ranked 10th out of 11 Class AA teams. on Twitter at twitter.com/ @thekids could see when they started We kind of focus on the Auin cross country, you only have My expectations are to excel FRANCHISE_9 practice they were ready to go. gustana Invitational on Septemto be good on one day and that That s what it takes to be a top ber 8 because a lot of the Sioux day is going to be October 20 at team. Falls schools and the Rapid City the state meet, Dannenbring Schools are there, Dannenbring said. So our whole season is said. So it s good to see how we working towards getting better, match up with them. Then the competing better, and being able next week we go down to the to compete at our best at the Norfolk Invite and we really like state meet. to see how we compare with the good teams from Nebraska. And You can follow Jilanne Doom the South Sioux City meet has be- on Twitter at twitter.com/ Jicome a big meet for us because lanneDoom 25410 Park Ave. we get to see all the Sioux City schools and some of the better Niobrara, NE 101 W. 5th St. Yankton Aims To Improve On Fourth Place Showing BY KEITH A. BROCKBERG P&D Correspondent The Yankton Gazelles softball team issued a surprise during last year s South Dakota State Softball Tournament, and they have the pieces in place to add to that finish in 2012. The Gazelles, who finished with a 17-14 mark, went into the tournament as the eighth seed and finished fourth. Yankton coach Bernie Goeden, who will be coaching the Yankton girls for a 14th season, returns seven letter-winners from the 2011 team along with junior Brooke Loecker, who lettered in 2010. We have a pretty good nucleus coming back with eight letterwinners, Goeden said. We re looking at finishing higher that we did at last year s state tournament, and we have a good chance to do that, Goeden said. Seniors who return are Hannah Horn, Tayler Hutchison, Jessica Wirth, Karlee Kozak and Kourtney Erickson. The Gazelle juniors are Loecker, Abby Schulte, Alisa Ruzicka, Brynn Albers, Jennifer Feilmeier and Kaylyn Peterka. Andriana Sprakel and Jaclyn Arens return as sophomore letter-winners. Other returning sophomores are Heather Hauer, Danielle Schmidt and Madison Dangler. Arens will manage the bulk of the Yankton pitching duties while Peterka and Dangler battle to back her up. The Gazelle infield should be comprised of Wirth at third, Kozak at shortstop and Sprakel at second base. The Gazelles embarked on their season Monday as they play a double-header at Sioux Falls Roosevelt, but the early season YHS Cross From Page 1 Annie Kruse, tenth, Ashtyn Haak, and freshman Savannah Woods. For the boys, Brice and Justin have put in a lot of miles this summer and when they BLUE DEVIL BAR & GRILL Daily Lunch Specials Monday-Friday 11am-1:30pm 417 St. James Ave. Wynot, NE 402-357-2792 Gazelles Look To Build On Eighth Place Finish Farnik s Market Wynot Oil Co. (402) 857-3300 Wynot, NE 402-357-2463 Niobrara-Verdigre Cougars Football 8/30 9/7 9/14 9/21 Wynot Blue Devils Football 8/24 8/31 9/7 9/22 Humphrey Bloomfield Wynot Allen A H H A 9/28 10/5 10/12 10/19 Winnebago Pender Randolph Emerson-Hubbard A H H A Wynot Tourn. Allen Viborg-Hurley Hartington Lynch West Boyd Wisner-Pilger Inv. Ponca Inv. Wynot H H A H A Wisner Ponca 10/4 10/6 10/9 10/11 10/13 10/16 10/18 10/22-26 Winside H Wisner-Pilger Inv. Wisner Bloomfield A Wausa A Hartington Tourn. Hartington Osmond H Niobrara-Verdigre H Lewis & Clark Conf. TBD 9/28 10/5 10/12 10/19 Elgin Pub.-PJ Neligh-Oakdale Bloomfield Creighton Verdigre A Niobrara Niobrara Niobrara-Verdigre Cougars Volleyball 8/30 9/4 Wynot Lady Blue Devils Volleyball 8/30 9/4 9/6 9/11 9/13 9/20 9/22 9/24-25 Boyd County A O Neill St. Mary s A Allen Verdigre Plainview A 9/11 OUR CLASSIFIEDS WORK FOR YOU! CALL THE P&D AT (605) 665-7811 9/20 9/24 9/25 9/27 Creighton/Osmond Osmond Elgin Public-Pope John/ Stuart Elgin O Neill St. Mary s/Santee Santee Ewing H Santee H N-V Tourn. Niobrara Clearwater-Orchard/Wausa Orchard 10/2 10/4 10/9 Winside H (TBD) Stuart/N. Central O Neill Clearwater-Orchard/Stuart Orchard 10/11 Elgin Pub.-Pope John A 10/15-16 Knox Co. Tourn. Crofton 10/18 Wynot A 10/22-26 Niobrara Valley Conf. TBD/West Boyd/O Neill
Map
