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It’s been 20 years since the 2003 High School Baseball season was moved back until the end of May due to extreme weather conditions. The extreme Latest Spring weather conditions in 2023 are quite similar to the South Dakota Spring weather of 2003 and 2013.  In 2013 David Kemp created an essay recalling the experiences of the Organizers of South Dakota Baseball in 2003, one of the first years of statewide High School Baseball in South Dakota.  That experience has several comparisons that might apply to what will transpired in the coming two months of the 2023 South Dakota High School baseball season.  Click here to read and relive that spring!

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2020-2021 HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL NOTES:

January 26, 2021:  Connor Libis of Dell Rapids St. Mary’s scored 35 points vs. Duebrook Area.  Connor has 2,450 Points Scored, Career.  

January 23, 2021:  Matthew Mors of Yankton scored 13 points vs. Sturgis.  Mors has 2,428 Points Scored, Career.  Mors is 5th All-time Points Scored, Career. 

January 23, 2021:  Connor Libis of Dell Rapids St. Mary’s scored 24 points vs. Elkton/Lake Benton.  Connor has 2,415 Points Scored, Career. Libis is 5th All-time Points Scored, Career.  

January 22, 2021:  Connor Libis of Dell Rapids St. Mary’s scored 21 points vs. Estelline/Hendricks.  Connor has 2,391 Points Scored, Career.  Libis is 7th, All-time Points Scored, Career. 

January 19, 2021:  Connor Libis of Dell Rapids St. Mary’s scored 17 points vs. Colman-Egan.  Connor has 2,370 Points Scored, Career.  Libis is 8th All-time Points Scored, Career.  

January 19, 2021: Matthew Mors scored 21 points vs. Brookings.  Mors has 2,415 Points Scored, Career:  Mors is 5th All-time Points Scored, Career.  

January 16, 2021:  Connor Libis of Dell Rapid St. Mary’s scored 23 points vs. Oldham/Ramona/Rutland.  Libis has 2,353 Points Scored, Career.  Libis is 8th  All time, Points Scored, Career.  

January 16, 2021:  Matthew Mors scored 31 points vs. Aberdeen Central.  Matthew has 2,394 Points Scored, Career.  

January 12, 2021:  Connor Libis of Dell Rapid St. Mary’s scored 32 points vs. Elkton/Lake Benton.  Libis has 2,330 Points Scored, Career.  Libis 9th All-time, Points Scored, Career.  

January 11, 2021:  Matthew Mors of Yankton scored 20 points vs. Sioux Falls Washington.  Mors has 2,363 Points Scored, Career.  Mors is 7th All-time Points Scored, Career. 

Jerry Wingen of Canova had 2,333 Points Scored, Career.

January 8, 2021:  Matthew Mors of Yankton scored 29 points vs. Sioux Falls Lincoln.  Mors has 2,343 Points Scored, Career.  Mors is 7th All-time, Point Scored, Career.  LaMoine Torgerson of Forrestburg had 2,381 Points Scored, Career, 6th All-time.  

January 8, 2021:  Connor Libis scored 27 points vs. Estelline/Hendricks.  Connor has 2,298 Points Scored, Career.  Libis is 10th on the All-time, Overall Points Scored, Career list.  Libis became the All-time Dell Rapids St. Mary’s Points Scored, Career leader with 2,298 Points Scored, Career.  He passed Colby Fitzgerald who has 2,294 Points Scored, Career. 

January 7, 2021: Brayden Pankonen of Dell Rapids made 11 Three Pointers, Game vs. Canton.  

January 6, 2021:  Matthew Mors of Yankton scored 28 points vs. Sioux City East.  Matthew currently has 2,314 Points Scored, Career.   

January 2, 2021:  Connor Libis of Dell Rapids St. Mary’s scored 43 points vs. White River.  Connor currently has 2271 Points Scored, Career.  He is currently 10th on the All-time Overall Scoring List.  Colby Fitzgerald is 9th on the All-time Overall Scoring List with 2,294 Points Scored, Career.  Fitzgerald is the All-time leading scorer in St. Mary’s history, and currently serves as the St. Mary’s head boys basketball coach.  8th on the All-time list is Terry Dupris of Cheyenne-Eagle Butte with 2,323 Points Scored, Career.  7th on the All-time list is Dale Hall of Ravina with 2,325 Points Scored, Career.  

December 31: Connor Libis of Dell Rapids St. Mary’s scored 20 points vs. Chester.  Connor currently has 2,228 Points Scored, Career.  His currently 13th on the All-time Overall Scoring List.  Connor is 11th All-time on the Class B Career Scoring list.  

December 30:  Matthew Mors of Yankton scored 25 points vs. Campbell County, Wyoming.  Mors has 2,286 Points Scored, Career.

December 29:  Matthew Mors of Yankton scored 31 points against Thunder Basin, Wyoming. Mors has 2,261 Points Scored, Career.

December 28: Connor Libis of Dell Rapids St. Mary’s scored 26 points vs. Chester.  Connor currently has 2,208, Points Scored, Career.  He is currently 14th on the All-time Overall Scoring List. 

Matthew Mors of Yankton scored 48 points against Spearfish.  Mors’ 48 points ties him for 5th, all-time Class AA, Most Points, Individual, Game.  Ron Hern of Rapid City Central scored 48 points in 1976.

December 23:  Matthew Mors scored 14 points on December 22 vs. Sioux Falls O’Gorman.  He has 2,230 Points Scored, Career.  Mors is the All-time Class AA Points Scored, Career leader.  He is currently 13th on the All-time, Overall Scoring List.

December 22:  Connor Libis of Dell Rapid St. Mary’s scored 41 points in his first two games.  Libis has 2,182 Points Scored, Career. Connor is 13th on the All-time Class B Scoring List.  He is 16th on the All-time, Overall Scoring List.  

2020-2021 HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL NOTES:

February 23, 2023: Olivia Kieffer of Corsica-Stickney scored 20 points vs. Lead-Deadwood.  Olivia has 2,365 Point Scored, Career. Olivia’s 2,365 Points Scored , Career is Eleventh, All-Time in South Dakota Girls Basketball history. 

February 20, 2023: Avery Broughton of Corsica-Stickney scored 20 points vs. Avon.  Avery has 2,204 Points Scored, Career.

February 14, 2023: Avery Broughton of Corsica-Stickney scored 27 points vs. Tripp-Delmont/Armour.  Avery has 2,184 Points Scored, Career. 

February 14, 2023: Olivia Kieffer of Rapid City Christian scored 6 points vs. Spearfish.  Olivia has 2,345 Points Scored, Career.  Alex Kneeland of Summit has 2,347 Points Scored, Career, 11th All-Time. 

February 13, 2023: Olivia Kieffer of Rapid City Christian scored 27 points vs. Lakota Tech.  Olivia has 2,339 Points Scored, Career. 

February 11, 2023: Avery Broughton of Corsica-Stickney scored 22 points vs. Burke.  Avery has 2,157 Points Scored, Career. 

February 10, 2023:  Avery Broughton of Corsica-Stickney scored 10 points vs. Mt. Vernon/Plankinton.  Avery has 2,135 Point Scored, Career. 

 

February 16, 2023: Malik Longie of the Flandreau Indian School scored 56 points vs. Oldham-Ramona/Rutland.  Malik’s 56 Point Scored, Game ties him with Terry Slattery of Dell Rapids St. Mary’s, 1955, and Andy Smith of Tiospaya Topa, 2001 for Eleventh Place on the All-Time, Class B Points Scored, Game list.

January 28, 2023: Malik Longie of the Flandreau Indian School scored 53 points vs. Takini.  Malik’s 53 Points Scored, Game ties him with Milt Sorensen of Wakonda, 1952; Cliff Anderson, Bristol, 1974; and Jiggs Biegler of Timber Lake on the All-Time, Class B Points Scored Game list. 

February 14, 2023: Joe Sayler of White River has 2,437 Points Scored, Career. Sayler is currently in 8th place on the All-time Points Scored, Career list.  Milt Sorenson of Wakonda is in 7th place  with 2,480 Points Scored, Career. 

January 22, 2021:  Brooklyn Kusler of Aberdeen Central scored 41 points vs. Harrisburg.  

The Winner Warriors were defeated by West Central, 53-43 on December 18, 2020.  The Warriors’ consecutive wins streak ended at 49.  The forty-nine consecutive wins is second all-time in Class A Girls Basketball history.  Miller won 73 consecutive games from 1990-1993.  Rapid City St. Thomas More won 48 consecutive games from 2015-2018.

FOOTBALL DURING THE SPANISH FLU OF 1918-1920

In  1925 Will Robinson of the South Dakota Historical Society published an essay, ” Sports In South Dakota”.  Robinson presented a list of “Best Claimants” to the State High School Football Championship”. Robinson stated that there were no games played in 1918m due to the Spanish Flu Epidemic.   

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The process to create South Dakota High School All Decades Teams has begun.

The Researchers on the career of Amanda Clement are participating in a Society For American Baseball Research project to highlight Women in Baseball.  Be sure to check out the enhanced content.

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Baseball History researchers Terry Bohn, Phil Dixon, and David Kemp are developing extensive content on the performance of African American Basketball players in the Upper Midwest. 

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