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Dakota Valley boys look to extend winning streak with another State A title
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N. SIOUX CITY, S.D. (Dakota Information Now) -The one unbeaten boys basketball workforce left in any of the state boys basketball event is definitely no stranger to an ideal season.
In spite of everything, with 50 straight wins underneath their belts the Dakota Valley Panthers are three wins away from finishing their second consecutive unbeaten season.
Zach Borg has extra.
Each workforce remembers their last lack of the season. “Sioux Valley, two years in the past within the semifinals.” Dakota Valley Senior Isaac Bruns remembers.
And each returning participant swears it gained’t occur once more. “To see the look on the seniors eyes, it damage me and it wasn’t even my final recreation.” Dakota Valley Senior Randy Rosenquist says.
At Dakota Valley they’ve made good on that promise 50 straight instances. “Generally I simply give it some thought and I simply suppose how loopy it’s! But it surely feels good!” Rosenquist says. “To get 50 wins in a row, I don’t suppose anyone is ever going to take that from them.” Dakota Valley Head Coach Jason Kleis says.
The streak really started the day after their semifinal loss in 2021 when the Panthers gained the third place recreation. That includes 4 juniors the next season of their beginning lineup, Dakota Valley ran the desk at 26-0, avenging their loss to Sioux Valley convey dwelling this system’s first state title. “We all know how one can end video games and how one can play massive groups like we did all that state event final 12 months.” Rosenquist says.
Returning just about the complete workforce has given the Panthers a stage of depth most within the state can’t match. “Our guys are keen to share the ball, transfer it, discover the open man and share the ball at completely different instances. That’s been the key sauce. We’ve seen each junk protection and none of them have labored up to now to gradual us down sufficient.” Kleis says.
They’ve confirmed it in opposition to one of many state’s most difficult schedules which included video games in opposition to prime competitors for Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, The Panthers are averaging 77 factors a recreation whereas permitting simply 53. 18 of their 23 wins have been by double figures. “You already know we don’t have a ton of strain on us. We simply go on the market and play and attempt to take the sport to the opposite workforce. Having that have and workforce leaders like that may hold our thoughts on the one recreation at a time as an alternative of the massive image.” Bruns says.
One other excellent season can come full circle this weekend as Dakota Valley returns to the positioning of their final loss, the Denny Sanford Premier Middle, for the state event. “We’re all interested by it. Nobody has actually stated something about it but however everyone knows we bought to convey it!” Rosenquist says.
Not that they’ve ever wanted additional motivation.
Zach Borg, Dakota Information Now Sports activities.
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Final Day: Almost Arkansas
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I don’t know what the Internet thinks of my travels, but the pond butterflies at Fort Crowder shooting range found my bicycle (and me) quite interesting:
A few of these scaly-wingers tagged along for a few meters, but they all headed back to the water well before I reached the exit. Too bad—I could have used their help lifting my gear over the gate.
Yesterday was Day 5, the final planned day of my ride from Lincoln, Nebraska, to Bentonville, Arkansas. My dear wife is coming to retrieve me today—we’ll spend this evening and all Friday enjoying the local trails and shops, then head back en auto Saturday. Knowing Wednesday was my last hard day in the saddle, I could give it my all.
Morning in Pittsburg was humid, and the radar showed rain west. But the sun wasn’t pounding yet, and the wind was down from yesterday, now just light and southwesterly. I think I can, I think I can…
But boy, all those woods and fields and curvy roads do make a guy hungry:
But then, just past Jane, Missouri, the one real disaster of the trip:
Plam! went my back tire! Grind grind grind went my less protected rim. I braked fast, looked under me, and saw a flat. The instantaneous deflation told me this was no simple thorn prick that my tire slime would fill, no nail or branch jab that I could plug. This was a one-inch tear in my rear tire. I don’t know if I hit some sharp metal or if the tire just gave out from some defect or the heat or the strain, but I didn’t spend a lot of time scanning for the cause. I was done riding. After 460 miles, just ten miles from terminus, not quite to the Arkansas border, I was done.
So, alas, the bicycling portion of my trip was only three states—Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. I don’t get to put any Arkansas miles on the Trek 1120, an otherwise mighty and comfy bike that experienced just one catastrophic failure. And boy, if the bike had to give up, it picked about the best place to quit that it could have, just a short hitch to my intended lodging rather than out in the rain Monday morning in Admire, Kansas, or any place else much farther from where I hoped to be.
South Dakota
Sioux Falls, South Dakota Burger King worker retires after 48 years
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (WLS) — A Burger King employee in South Dakota is retiring after 48 years.
Jane Aulner started her career with the fast food restaurant in 1976. She said the feeling of family with her coworkers is one of the reasons she never left the restaurant for nearly half a century.
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She also said she felt comfort in ggetting to know people and watching the grow.
“It warms my heart when I got somebody coming inside or come through the drive through, they go ‘Wow, you’re still here. Do you remember me?’” she said. “And they’ll tell me their name like maybe I trained them or had them when they were in college, before they moved off and got married and had their own lives. So that was, that was really fun.”
As much as Aulner’s coworkers made an impact on her, they said she has left an impression on them.
“She’s huge, she’s the cornerstone,” said manager Belvie Kennerly. “I mean, you can’t do anything without a team member like June to help keep things running for you.”
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South Dakota plans celebration for America's 250th anniversary
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The South Dakota commission planning a celebration for America’s 250th anniversary officially launches its campaign this week.
The goal is to inspire individuals to accomplish 250 miles of outdoor related activity from July 4, 2024 leading up to the nation’s 250th celebration on July 4, 2026.
Challenges and prizes have been established with a partnership between the commission, City of Deadwood, Department of Game, Fish, and Parks, the Battleship South Dakota Memorial, and the South Dakota State Fair.
Smaller prizes can also be earned by completing 80 miles in honor of 80 years since operation OVERLORD during World War II, or walking 150 miles to celebrate Deadwood’s anniversary.
The commission said additional challenges and prizes will be announced soon.
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