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VERMILLION — The Vermillion Tan-agers scored a pair of victories in ahome wrestling triangular on Thurs-day.
Vermillion beat Crofton-Bloomfield67-6 and Wagner 54-21.
In the win over Crofton-Bloomfield,Vermilion picked up ins from JacobHusby (113), Noah Walker (138) andRegan Bye (160). Kyle Seibel (126) andBrett Bye (170) each won by technicalfall.
In the win over Wagner, Trey Hage(120), Andrew Pietrzak (126), Walker(138), Carter Kratz (145) and ReganBye (160) won by pin.
Wagner beat Crofton-Bloomfield inthe other match. No other informationwas reported.
Vermillion travels to Yankton for itsinvitational tournament on Saturday.Start time is set for 9 a.m. at the Sum-mit Center.
VERMILLION 67, CROFTON-BLOOMFIELD 6: 106 — Riley BeachV by forfeit; 113 — Jacob Husby V pin. Christian Kleinschmit 0:51; 120 —
Trey Hage V dec. Lucas Miller 7-5; 126 — Kyle Seibel V tech. fall ReeceMcFarland 4:00; 132 — Kobe Culver V by forfeit; 138 — Noah Walker Vpin. Levi Honeywell 5:12; 145 — Carter Kratz V by forfeit; 152 — JoshWesthuase V by forfeit; 160 — Regan Bye V tech. fall Quinten Moles2:00; 170 — Brett Bye V pin. Kaleb Johnson 1:19; 182 — Ethan PoppeCB by forfeit; 195 — Brandon Hertz V by forfeit; 220 — Noah Wester-gaard V by forfeit; 285 — Open
VERMILLION 54, WAGNER 21: 106 — Riley Beach V pin. PrestonNedved 1:40; 113 — Jacob Husby V dec. Ben Soukup 2-0; 120 — TreyHage V pin. Calvin McBride 3:19; 126 — Andrew Pietrzak V pin. TonyBruguier 1:58; 132 — Kyle Seibel V dec. Sineway Marshall 7-5; 138 —Noah Walker V pin. Ethan Heth 3:53; 145 — Carter Kratz V pin. LoganKafka 5:46; 152 — Josh Westhuase V by forfeit; 160 — Regan Bye Vpin. Cole Soulek 1:01; 170 — Brett Bye V by forfeit; 182 — AndrewSoukup W by forfeit; 195 — Trevor Lensing W by forfeit; 220 — JaceJohnson W dec. Noah Westergaard 5-0; 285 — Truman Ashes W by for-feit
Parkston 42, Gregory-Burke 28PARKSTON — The Parkston Trojans used five pins
to pull away from Gregory-Burke 42-28 in prepwrestling action on Thursday.
Logan Mahoney (120), Dawson Semmler (138),Lucas Bietz (152), Miles Semmler (195) and AustinBertram (220) all won by pin for Parkston. AtlasWilluweit (106) and Skye Soesbe (182) won by pin forGregory-Burke.
106 — Atlas Willuweit GB pin. Tucker Murtha 2:55; 113 — FrankEven GB by forfeit; 120 — Logan Mahoney P pin. Caleb Stukel 0:55; 126
JAMES D. CIMBUREK/P&DWagner's Trevor Lensing takes down Crofton-Bloomfield's Ethan Poppe during their 182-pound match in a wrestlingtriangular on Thursday in Vermillion. Wagner pinned Poppe to help the Red Raiders to the dual victory. Vermillionswept both teams to take the triangular.
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USD Softball Team Begins Season Today In Nashville
P&D FILE PHOTOSouth Dakota pitcher Rachel Cue sends the ball home during agame in the 2014 season. Cue and the Coyotes open the 2015 sea-son today (Friday) in the Music City Classic at Nashville, Tenn.
BY ALAN DALEVermillion Plain Talk
VERMILLION — To make the 2015softball season the most successful oneduring the University of South Dakota’stime as an NCAA Division I program, theCoyotes will have to set that tone asroad warriors.
Beginning Friday in Nashville, Ten-nessee, the USD women will try to im-prove on back-to-back 29-win seasonsthis campaign when they take the fieldagainst Ball State today (Friday) at 1:30p.m. in the first of four games at theMusic City Classic.
USD will follow that game up withcontests Saturday against Georgetownand the hosts Belmont and wrap theweekend’s action Sunday at 11 a.m. vs.Kansas City.
This weekend begins a two-monthroad odyssey as the USD women arescheduled to make trips to Florida twiceIowa, Kansas, and Texas before SummitLeague play begins. They still won’t playtheir first game at home until April 11when they host a doubleheader againstleague foes Fort Wayne.
Mix in some more trips to Ames andOmaha, along with an excursion toGrand Forks and the Coyotes will playall but 11 of their 55 scheduled games inthe warm embrace of Vermillion.
But according to eighth-year headcoach Amy Klyse and the players thiscould be the year the Coyotes take thatnext big step toward prominence.
Picked by league coaches this pre-season to finish third — beat NorthDakota State and IUPUI — in the Sum-mit, a break here and there, a quicklyadjusted new infield and a stable ofsolid arms in the bullpen could pushthem forward a bit more and maybe tothe program’s first ever NCAA Division INational Tournament appearance.
Where Are They At?Last season the Coyotes finished 29-
22 overall, 9-8 in Summit League action,while only going 4-5 on its paltry homeschedule. They ultimately went 1-2 inthe league tournament in Fargo, drop-ping two straight after an opening winagainst South Dakota State.
USD was denied a 30th win when itsaw the season end with an 11-8 loss tothe host and eventual champion NorthDakota State Bison.
Now, the Coyotes expect more fromthemselves in year four as a Summitmember after three years and a com-bined 33-27 record.
“Through the eight years we havetransitioned from Division II to Division Iit’s really hard to label (where they areat),” Klyse said. “We have two different
categories. As a program overall, as astaff we are great in working well to-gether and that filters down to the kids.I think we are at a place where we cancompete for a conference championshipand that’s a great place to be.
“We have gotten to the point whereon any given day we can beat any teamwe can play. If we are on our ‘A’ game wecan beat any team we play that’s on ourschedule.”
The Coyotes are seeing that ideologybear fruit especially after a fall ball winover the Cornhuskers.
“It’s not anymore that we think wecan, we have gone out and actually havedone it,” Klyse said. “Our thoughtprocess is that it’s expecting to happenall the time. We obviously have to showup and work hard every day. We believewhen we wake up and go to play theseTop 25 teams we can compete withthem. Consistently beating those teamsand winning our conference champi-onship would be great and is certainlysomething we can do.”
Klyse knows that to take the nextstep the Coyotes will have to replace es-sentially their entire infield, but thenewer players are showing their mettle.
Daly is also happy with the play ofthe new infielders backing up the ladies
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Coyotes Crush WIU 75-61HARRISBURG — The Yank-
ton Bucks stretched its currentwin streak to a season-bestfour games, beating Harrisburg67-61 in Eastern South DakotaConference action on Thurs-day.
Brady Hale led Yanktonwith 20 points and eight re-bounds. Austin Johnson netted17 points. Matt Fitzgerald had11 points. Bradey Sorensonscored 10 points off the bench.Tanner Frick added five assists.
For Harrisburg, Cody Eideled the way with 18 points.
Yankton takes a 12-4 record,11-2 in the ESD, into a rematchwith Aberdeen Central on Feb.14 in Aberdeen. The Golden Ea-gles handed Yankton its lastsetback, a 34-27 decision onJan. 24.
Harrisburg, 1-11 and 1-10,travels to Brookings tonight(Friday).
Harrisburg downed Yankton69-63 in the JV game. For Yank-ton, Syd Boots led YHS with 14points. Jared Rafferty had 13points. Keenan LaCroix andJordan Payer had 12 pointseach for the Bucks.
Yankton won the sopho-more game 46-41, led by 15points from Payer. Trevor Raf-ferty added seven points in thewin.
Harrisburg took both fresh-men games. In the ‘A’ game, a56-32 setback, Ben Jurrens had16 points and Kellen Franzenhad six points for Yankton. Inthe ‘B’ game, a 69-60 setback,Andy LaBarge scored 17points, Brady Dangler had 11point and Cole Brummer had10 points for Yankton.
Lewis & Clark Conf.Winnebago 83, Bloomfield 60
WINSIDE, Neb. — Winnebagodowned Bloomfield 83-60 in the quarter-finals of the Lewis & Clark Conferenceboys’ basketball Tournament on Thursdayin Winside, Nebraska.
No statistics were available for Win-nebago (17-1), which draws the winnerbetween Hartington-Newcastle and Lau-rel-Concord-Coleridge in the semifinalson Saturday in Allen.
JAMES D. CIMBUREK/P&DSouth Dakota's Brandon Bos takes Western Illinois' Remy Roberts-Burnett off the dribble during their Summit League men's basketballgame on Thursday at the DakotaDome in Vermillion.
BY JEREMY HOECKjeremy.hoeck@yankton.net
VERMILLION — One of themany rallying cries for theUniversity of South Dakotamen’s basketball team thisseason?
Some-thing headcoach CraigSmith callsNBA: ‘Nextbest action.’
Fivedays after a1-pointhome loss,the Coyotesbounced back in a big wayThursday night, cruising pastWestern Illinois 75-61 in Sum-mit League action at theDakotaDome.
With a game looming atfirst-place North DakotaState, the Coyotes (11-13, 5-5)certainly didn’t want fourstraight losses on theirbacks.
“It’s nice to have somemomentum going into Satur-day’s game, that’ll be a toughgame,” senior Brandon Bossaid.
Up one at halftime againstthe Leathernecks (8-13, 3-7),USD was considerably moreaggressive in the second half.The hosts out-scored WIU 24-10 in the paint after halftime.
“We knew we had to comeout with a lot of energy, butwe knew they would comeback with a run,” said juniorTre Burnette, who scored 19points and grabbed seven re-bounds.
The early stages of eachhalf were dominated by theCoyotes. They started thefirst half 14-2 and then scoredthe first 14 points of the sec-ond half.
Everyone in the Dakota-Dome knew what USD had todo: Avoid giving it up. SeniorTyler Larson even joked laterthat it’s well known USD has
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