INGLEWOOD – There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Friday (May 3) evening’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing to $306 million.

There was one ticket sold with five numbers, but missing the Mega number in South Dakota, lottery officials announced.

The ticket is worth $1 million.

The numbers drawn Friday were 6, 13, 15, 53, 56 and the Mega number was 11.

The Mega Millions game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.

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OMAHA — The Jackrabbits are Summit League softball champions again, clinching the conference regular season title on the same day they suffered their first loss in league play.

The Jacks dropped the opener 2-0, their first Summit League loss of the season, but fought back for a 6-4 win in the nightcap that moved them to 14-1 in the conference and secured the title. The Jacks had won 17 in a row entering the day, and 46 straight regular season conference games.

The Jacks will be the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament, which they will host in Brookings next weekend.

SDSU ace pitcher Tori Kniesche took a rare loss in the opener, getting outdueled by Omaha’s Kameryn Meyer, but they rallied from down 4-2 to win in the second game, getting a two-run double from Emma Osmundson to tie the score and a two-run triple from Mia Jarecki to take the lead and the win.

Akayla Barnard (5-2) worked 3 1/3 scoreless innings in relief of Shannon Lasey to earn the win for the Jacks.

Jarecki and Osmundson each had two hits and Alli Boyle had two RBI.

Matt Zimmer is a Sioux Falls native and longtime sports writer. He graduated from Washington High School where he played football, legion baseball and developed his lifelong love of the Minnesota Twins and Vikings. After graduating from St. Cloud State University, he returned to Sioux Falls, and began a long career in amateur baseball and sports reporting. Email Matt at mzimmer@siouxfallslive.com.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) memoir has not been released, but inaccuracies in the text are already emerging.

Noem’s spokesperson said “two small errors” have been brought to the Republican governor’s attention. The book is titled “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.”

The Dakota Scout reported Thursday that Noem’s book said she met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un while she was serving in Congress on the House Armed Services Committee.

“Though my tenure on the House Armed Services Committee, I had the chance to travel to many countries to meet with world leaders,” she reportedly wrote in the forthcoming book. “I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. I’m sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants (I’d been a children’s pastor, after all).”

The Dakota Scout spoke with congressional staffers and North Korea analysts who explained why such a meeting was all but impossible. Although Noem visited China in 2014 as part of the committee, there is no record of Kim leaving North Korea until 2018, when Noem was campaigning for governor.

An analyst noted to the outlet that not even former President Obama had met Kim, and former President Trump met Kim in summer 2018.

In an emailed statement to The Hill, Noem’s spokesperson Ian Fury said Kim “was included in a list of world leaders and shouldn’t have been.”

Noem also wrote about a “weird” conversation she had with former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who Noem said called her and offered to be a mentor in summer 2021.

According to an excerpt of the book obtained by Politico, Noem writes that Haley said she had “heard quite a bit” about her, but Noem said she felt threatened by the call.

Noem said Haley made it clear that there was only room for one Republican woman to be in the spotlight. The South Dakota governor has been rumored to be on Trump’s vice-presidential short-list, though another story in her book — about killing her dog — has not helped her prospects.

Politico reported that a Haley spokesperson said the two women spoke, but in 2020, not 2021. Fury confirmed the 2020 timing of the conversation in his statement.

Fury said the errors have “been communicated to the ghostwriter and editor” and “the book has not been released yet, and all future editions will be corrected.”

“The media will, of course, try and make these tiny issues huge,” Fury said in a statement, going on to list dubious claims made by President Biden about his own life.

Last week, Noem made national headlines after excerpts of the book were reported where she detailed shooting her 14-month-old dog, Cricket, after he misbehaved during a hunting trip.

Noem doubled down on her actions, despite receiving sharp criticism from across the political spectrum.