By Parker KnoxSportswriter

After an impressive win overIrene on Monday night,Vermillion’s 15-16 Teenerswere poised to move to withinfive games of the Region 1Achampionship with a win overLennox Tuesday night.

But against the Lennox teamthey had defeated handily twiceduring the regular season,Vermillion’s Teeners sustainedan ugly 16-10 loss that wasn’tthat close and sank into thelosers’ bracket. That meantthat, starting Wednesday night,Vermillion would have to winWednesday night, Thursdaynight, Friday night andSaturday afternoon to take theregional title instead of needingjust five wins to get thechampionship.

The lights on four of theeight towers at the Lennoxballpark went out in thebottom of the second inning,but in reality the lights wentout for Vermillion in thebottom of the first.

Staked to an early 2-0 lead,starter Jacob Odens faced eightbatters and didn’t get any ofthem out. Reliever PeterHaught faced eight more beforethe first inning finally ended,and Lennox had a 10-2 lead.That half inning included fivehits, one scoring error to goalong with a couple mental

errors, five walks and three hitbatters.

To Haught’s credit, he gaveVermillion a chance to rally byholding Lennox scoreless in thesecond, third and fourthinnings. He escaped a bases-loaded jam in the second butstruck out the side in the thirdand faced only three batters inthe fourth.

Meanwhile, Vermillionpecked away at its eight-rundeficit, getting one in thesecond, two runs in the thirdand one in the fifth to close towithin 10-6.

Regan Bye relieved Haughtto start the bottom of the fifth.He walked the first two battershe faced and hit the third witha pitch but escaped thatimpossible situation withoutany runs scoring, thanks inlarge part to striking out thelast two Lennox batters of theinning.

Vermillion got another runin the top of the seventh andwas within 10-7.

It wasn’t because they werewhacking the ball off Lennoxhurler Derek DeVries that theTeeners were able to cut intothe big lead. DeVries and histeammates gave Vermillion tworuns on errors and another ona wild pitch. Ty Iverson andHaught did come through withRBI hits that helped the rally.

But, if it hadn’t been lostearlier, the game was lost in the

bottom of the sixth. Bye walkedfive batters and threw four wildpitches. They and a costlyinfield error opened the floodgates. Then a pair of Lennoxbatters joined the party withRBI hits. Lennox tallied sixruns to take a 16-7 lead.

What made that inning allthe more deadly was that —wouldn’t you know! — in thetop of the seventh Vermillionscored three times, two of theruns coming on Seth Heine’shome run and the other on ahit by Seth Miller. Had it notbeen for the six-run sixth byLennox, those three runswould have tied the game at10-10.

DeVries pitched the entireseven innings. He gaveVermillion only four hitsthrough the first six innings,then four more in the seventhwhen it didn’t matter. He struckout five and walked four. Thethree Vermillion pitcherswalked 13. And for all itsscoring, Lennox still stranded10 other runners on base.

Jordan Harrington had fiveRBIs for Lennox and DelaneHood two.

The loss left Vermillion’srecord at 27-17 heading intoWednesday’s losers’ bracketplay.

Teeners 15, Irene 1Justin Bendesky’s grand-

The summer swim seasonhas come and gone and theVermillion Area Swim Teamhad yet another outstandingshowing at the state meet. VASTscored a total of 910.50 pointsen route to a ninth-place finishout of 19 teams at the SouthDakota Long Course StateChampionships held in RapidCity July 27-29.

Capturing first place in theteam standings was thepowerhouse Sioux FallsSnowfox, followed by theAberdeen Swim Club and thirdwas the Pierre Swim Team.

Only 17 swimmers fromVAST attended the meet.

Providing a majority of thepoints were the VASTswimmers in the 11-12 agegroup. Three state championswere crowed in multiple eventsalong with relays.

Araceli Topete took homefive gold medals out of sevenindividual events at the meet.She also placed second in thetwo other events. Along theway, she earned National AAAAlevel times in three events - the50 meter free, 50 meterbutterfly, and the 50 meterbackstroke. She also won the100 meter freestyle and the 200meter freestyle.

Maddie Lavin grabbed twogold medals during theweekend in the 200 meterIndividual Medley and the 100meter butterfly. She touched thewall in the 100 meter butterflynearly five seconds ahead of thecompetition.

Lavin also finished second infour other events.

Madisen Martinez sweptboth the breaststroke events inthe 11-12 age group as well.Martinez clocked a nationalAAA time in the 100 meter

breaststroke on Saturdayfinishing first by 1.5 seconds.She also took home the gold inthe 50 meter breaststroke.

Topete, Lavin, and Martinezalso teamed up with 11 year oldAnna Van Holland ofVermillion in the 11-12 girls200 freestyle and 200 medleyrelays during the weekend aswell. On Saturday, they tookfirst place in the 200 freestylerelay by 3.41 seconds over theteam from Aberdeen.

They also dominated the 200medley relay on Sunday,winning the event by 6.32seconds.

In the girls 9-10 division,Olivia Granaas, Megan Muriuki,Annika

Holdhusen and Toria Andreteamed up to place 4th in thegirls 9-10 200 Freestyle Relayand 5th place in the 200 MedleyRelay. It was the first ever trip tothe state meet for Granaas andAndre.

Kyleigh Moran, AlmaTopete, Anna Hackemer, andLexie Malimanek teamed up

in the girls 13-14 divisionduring the weekend to take 5thplace in the 400 meter freestylerelay and 4th place in the 400meter medley relay.

Other great swims wereturned in all weekend by manyVAST swimmers.

Tally Allison, age eight,dropped 16.96 seconds off ofher personal best in the 8 andunder girls 200 meter freestyleon Friday night. She finishedthe event in 12th place. She alsofinished as high as seventh inthe 50 meter freestyle.

Annika Holdhusen tookseventh place in the girls 9-10100 meter backstroke. Sheshaved eight seconds off of herpersonal best during the event.

Megan Muriuki alsorepresented VAST in thedivision and placed as high asninth in the 100 meter freestyle.

Olivia Granaas took 24th inthe 50 meter backstroke andToria Andre took 22nd in the100 meter backstroke. Andrealso finished in 27th in the 50meter backstroke.

Hunter Lavin, BradyMartinez, and Yovani Topetewere the only boys that VASThad in the 9-10 division. Lavintook sixth in the 100 meterbreaststroke while Martinez14th in the 50 meterbreaststroke. Yovani Topetefinished in fourth place in fiveof his events on the weekend.

Anna Hackemer droppedtime in every event she swam

during the weekend in the girls13-14 division. She finished ashigh as 11th in the girls 13-14100 meter freestyle. KyleighMoran finished in eight place inthe same division in the 200meter freestyle. She knocked offalmost four seconds off of herpersonal best in the event.

Lexie Malimanek finishedthe weekend with a bronzemedal in the girls 13-14 400meter Individual Medley. Shealso took fifth in the 400 meterfree and fourth in the 800 meterfree. Alma Topete rounded outthis division for VAST - shegrabbed 12th place in the 50meter freestyle and 15th in the100 freestyle.

Jacob Krier representedVAST in the boys 15-16

division. Krier touched the wallin sixth place in both the 50meter and 100 meter freestylesat state and also achieved anational AA time in bothevents. Jacob also took home afourth place finish in the 200meter backstroke.

The summer season will endafter this weekend as threeVAST swimmers have qualifiedto the Central Zones SwimmingChampionships. Maddie Lavin,Madisen Martinez and AraceliTopete will represent VAST aspart of Team South Dakotaduring the championships to beheld in Pleasant Prairie,Wisconsin this weekend. Allthree swimmers will also takepart in relays for Team SouthDakota as well.

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BLUFFS BULLETINMEN’S SENIOR GOLF

FUN LEAGUETwenty-three golfers

competed on Tuesday, July 21, atthe Bluffs. Five teams competedagainst each other for the bestscore.

The team of Dick Burbach,Rex Huska and Dick Kellogghad the low score. Rex Huskamade a 45-foot birdie putt on#12 to give them a 35, oneunder par for the course.

The second-place team ofTurk Pilker, Sid Davis and LouisFostvedt shot a 37. Turk Pilkersank a 25-foot birdie putt on#14.

The third-place team of KenBevinger, Pat Boyle and FloydBoschee shot a 38.

In match play the team ofGary Prasek, Milo Gilbertson,Ray Lynn and Andrew Clemdefeated the team of MaxAnderson, Vern Holter, AlanClem and Cleland Cook.Andrew Clem made a difficult30-foot putt on #13 and a 180-yard approach shot leading to abirdie on #16 to contribute tothe two-hole win.

WEDNESDAY EVENING LADIES LEAGUE

July 25, 2012— A rainstorm inthe late afternoon did not stopWELL from completing theirrounds. After the clouds clearedand the sun returned there was abeautiful rainbow over The Bluffsgolf course.

The change in the weatherseemed to help drive down thescores tonight.

There were three birdies onthree different holes.

Peggy Donnelly birdies #5,Audrey Ticknor chipped in for abirdie on #6 and Mary Gauerbirdied #2 and had Low Gross of36. Longest putt on #1 wasJoanne (dead eye) Ustad, and Ithink she has won this prizeseveral times.

The biggest news of the nightwas that Pat Flannigan shot a 53,which was a personal best andearned her Low Net for the nightwith a 27! Pat Durkin was a closesecond for Low Net with a 30.

BLUFFS JUNIOR TOURNEYThe Bluffs Junior Tourney,

sponsored by Hy-Vee and TheBluffs Golf Course.7-8 Girls

Keely Huska – 1st (19)Kensie Mulheron – 2nd (23)Emily Kahy – 3rd (25)

7-8 BoysWillis Robertson – 1st (20)Ben Burbach – 2nd (23)Bodhi Brady – 3rd (27)

9-10 GirlsAlex Carr – 1st (29)Lilly Johnson – 2nd (31)Kelly Mulheron – 3rd (34)

9-10 BoysNoah Gilbertson – 1st (28)Liam Mechling – 2nd (31)Cael Mockler – 3rd (34)

11-12 GirlsAnneliese Taggart – 1st (35)Kara Mulheron – 2nd (36)Taylor Tarr – 3rd (44)

11-12 BoysDevin Anderson – 1st (37)Deryk Joy – 2nd (43)Ryan Howe – 3rd (47)

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VAST takes 9th in state

By Parker KnoxSportswriter

The baseball season continuesinto the state Class “A” amateurtournament this weekend for theVermillion Red Sox, who emergedfrom the Southeast RegionalTournament as one of three teamsqualifying for the postseason.

The Red Sox will play the RapidCity A’s at 7:30 p.m. Saturday atYankton’s Riverside Field in the firstround of the state classic. At 5 p.m.that day the Pierre Rattlers will takeon the Brandon Valley Merchants.

The tourney begins at YanktonFriday with a doubleheader thatmatches the Renner Monarchsagainst the Sioux Falls Saints,followed by Castlewood vs.Mitchell. The weekend’s fourwinners advance to the next roundin Mitchell next weekend.

Vermillion clinched its statetourney berth with an 11-1trouncing of the Yankton Tapperslast Wednesday, ending the gameprematurely with a four-runbottom of the seventh that invokedthe 10-run mercy rule.

Meanwhile, Red Sox hurlerNate Olsen kept the Tappers incheck all night. Yankton didn’t havea hit off Olsen until Jared Millerlaunched a home run over theright-field wall in the fifth inning.The Tappers loaded the bases withtwo out in that inning in anattempt to cut even more into a 5-1

Vermillion lead, but JasonLivermont’s line drive was caughtjust above ground level by second-baseman A.J. Staiert to end therally.

Yankton was no threat after thatas the Red Sox scored two in thefifth on RBI doubles by CodyAughton and Dan Hansen.

The game-ending outburst inthe seventh was ignited by ReeseSteckler’s single. Following aninfield error, Aughton’s buntbasehit was played into a costlytwo-base error. Hansen’s doubleand Robin Chute’s single finished itoff.

Miller had Yankton’s only twohits off Olsen. Tapper starter TreyKrier surrendered the first sevenSox runs to take the loss.

Earlier in the tournament theRed Sox had lsot to the RennerMonarchs, 15-2, in another seven-inning affair. Jay Merrigan had twoof Vermillion’s seven hits. A grand-slam homer by Jason Nyhus wasone of Renner’s 14 hits.

Meanwhile, the Vermillion GreySox saw their season end in theDistrict 7B tourney as the AkronRebels topped the Grey Sox, 15-1,in a contest to determine thedistrict’s final state “B” tourneyparticipant. Blaze Hanson pitchedthe seven-inning complete game,allowing only five hits whilefanning three. Four Grey Soxhurlers allowed 16 walks. TylerJohnson had the lone RBI forVermillion.

(From left) Olivia Granaas, Annika Holdhusen, Megan Muriuki, and Toria Andre. The four girls from VASTswam in the 9-10 200 meter freestyle and 200 meter medley relays at the State Meet in Rapid City. They fin-ished in fourth freestyle relay and 5th in the medley relay.

Heading into its second yearin the Summit League, and afully-fledged member of NCAADivision I, the University ofSouth Dakota men’s basketballprogram unveiled its 2012-13schedule Friday as announcedby head coach Dave Boots. Theslate features 12 home games inthe DakotaDome, a verychallenging non-conferenceslate including road games atGonzaga, Iowa and KansasState, as well as a difficultSummit League slate.

“Our non-conferenceschedule will be verychallenging and should prepareus well for the Summit League,”Boots said. “We look forward toour second year in the leagueand our schedule is probably thetoughest it has been throughoutthe whole transition process. Itshould be very exciting to playwith the likes of Iowa, Gonzagaand Kansas State, along with thealways difficult Summit Leagueschedule.”

The season opens at theGlobal Sports Showcase inLaramie, Wyo., where theCoyotes will face SouthernUniversity, along with hostWyoming and North CarolinaCentral Nov. 14-16. From there,the Coyotes travel to Spokane,Wash., for a Nov. 18 matchupwith perennial NCAATournament participantGonzaga.

15-16 Teeners lose to Lennox, 16-10 Red Sox go to stateClass ‘A’ tournament

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Coyote Men’s Basketballannounces challenging

2012-13 schedule