Friday's stuff

A bit of a surprise that several parents are out to get Dawn Seiler, the girls basketball coach at Aberdeen Central. 400 plus wins isn't good enough these days. She apparently made some parents mad at how she treated their daughters. My question is this. Basketball ended 3 months ago. Why is this coming out now? Coach Seiler isn't the first coach to usher a naughty word in practice or the huddle, and she won't be the last. After all, this isn't a perfect world! And if the Aberdeen school district has a backbone, coach Seiler will be there again next year coaching and her girls will be winning more basketball games. And perhaps coach Seiler can also work on being a kinder gentler coach without giving up the things she beleives in. Or maybe a 2 game suspension might be in order. It's happened to head coaches in the past in other schools. At least once anyway as I recall.

Koester Memorial tournament baseball this weekend. Pierre native Dan Thelan coaches Huron, one of the 3 other teams in the tournament. Dan told me last week when we played in Huron that high school baseball isn't hurting Legion Baseball, but it is not helping it either. He told me to tell people in Pierre that Pierre does it right! No high school baseball in the spring and numbers do not seem to be a problem. Huron only has 11 players. That 3 or 4 less than they had for high school ball this spring. Aberdeen, Brookings, Mitchell, Yankton, Watertown. They all have high school baseball, and they all have less numbers out for Legion ball than they did in the spring. Coaches Gulseth, Hirschoff, Noden, Bernatow and Beste didn't give me an answer any different that Dan did about the subject either. Heck, Dickinson has won the last two North Dakota high school championships and are last year's state Legion champions in N.D. They have less numbers playing for the Legion than they did for the high school team according to their coach.

And what about that 2 hour game the Twins played yesterday. Glad I didn't have a ticket to the game. I might have thought I didn't get my money's worth. Unlike the College World Series. Most of those games are going well beyond 3 hours.

And keep an eye out on the golf course for 11 year old Cody Kuehl. Cody has won the first 4 tournaments on the SDGA junior tour this summer. He won in Pierre yesterday again. So did Miles Schock and Hallie Getz.

This and That

I am new to the blogging world. I'm not a big fan of sports forum's on the internet. My beef? People can say and post almost anything and there is very little accountability. Ask coach Becker. One South Dakota Sports Forum page had someone post that he was going to Sturgis to be the next boys basketball coach. Problem was, he never applied for the job and never intended to apply. He told me if Duke came calling, he might consider leaving, but they haven't and He is still the Governors head boys basketball coach today. Oh well.

We have a big junior golf tournament in Pierre today. Over 100 kids entered. It's part of the SDGA junior tour. Two Pierre kids, Cody Kuehl and Miles Schock lead or share the lead in the points standings of their age divison and their region. There are some other area golfers doing well also. I have a listing in a story in today's My Daily News. Also, Hillsview Golf Course, our municipal golf course here in Pierre, is closed today to public tee times. Guess there is another tournament scheduled to tee off after the juniors get done.

Today is also a rare day in baseball in Pierre. There is not a game scheduled at Hyde Stadium!!! So the outfield and infield grass can rest before the Rattlers amatuer's get back on it tomorrow night and then of course the Koester Legion tournament over the weekend. And speaking of tournaments, the men's City League slow pitch softball tournament is this weekend down at the Oahe Softball Complex. Busy sports weekend.

Wow'ed by Post 8

I guess WOW is a good term to use on how Post 8 turned things around Tuesday night. After Saturday's losses to Dickinson in which nothing went right, everything fell into place last night in the Mitchell sweep. Kyle Cichos was as dominate a pitcher against a good hitting team as I have seen in a while. Reminded me of Michael Gardner's no hitter two years ago against Rapid City Post 320. Jason Livermont is hitting and playing defense at shortstop that is leading by example and I think Ryan Yackley, Adam Deneke and Scott Cichos will fit right in. Coach Sullivan certainly pulled the right strings last night. And Nolan Merrill is playing as good a center field as any one. He is playing like he has played there all his life. Maybe he has so far!!!

But judging by last night's scores, there is no guarantee Pierre will get to the state tournament. Not yet anyway. Out west, Post 320 after putting a 20 plus spot on the board against Yankton on Sunday loses twice to Sturgis at home! And Post 22 splits with Spearfish! Win on the 15 run rule in the first game and then lose 4-3 in the second game. And it was the Post 22 varsity both games. None of this, Split Squad (oh excuse me, Expos) first game and varsity the second. It was the Post 22 varsity both games. Pierre, Spearfish, Sturgis, Post 320. Only 2 will get to go to the state tournament. Maybe it is a good thing Post 22 is hosting the state tournament and are already in!

Brett Favre saga

The saga of Brett Favre continued last night on HBO of all places on Joe Buck Live. (By the way Joe, don't give up your Sunday job, especially if your going to have comedians who claim to fame is being on the Howard Stern Show) If you didn't see it, Favre bascially said if his shoulder is ok, he will play for the Vikings but won't know yet for a few weeks.

I am a Bears fan, so at least twice a year, Brett Favre was the bad guy. He is a good guy really, but unless he is the qb of the Bears, on the field, he is the enemy. I missed that last year since he played for the Jets. So if the shoulder is fine and he does play, the best sight of Favre for me will be on his back after getting sacked by Brian Urhlacher on a blitz. If the shoulder doesn't come around, I look forward to his Hall of Fame saga. You know, he really is pretty good.

By the way, Post 8 baseball coach Bob Sullivan will have 3 new players in uniform tonight. The coach is promoting Ryan Yackley, Adam Deneke and Scott Cichos to the Post 8 varsity from the "A" Teeners / Split Squad. The beauty of that, is that they can play for both the varsity and the split squad, when and where needed. And right now, the Post 8 varsity needs to get some pitching depth. All 3 can help do that, hopefully. I'll be on the air on RIVER 92.7 for game 1 at 5:30 p.m.

Post 8 Legion Baseball

It was a tough weekend for Post 8's Legion baseball team. It's been awhile since they have been beaten on the 10 run rule, let alone 3 times in the last 4 games. Granted, Dickinson is a good team and hit the ball well. They really strutted their stuff on the field (in other words, they know they are pretty good). Frenzel is not a bad player but I think he'd better go to Arizona and play for a year or two. He could increase his stock and get drafted higher than 1440th something. But tomorrow is a new day and Pierre gets to play Mitchell. Should be a good test and Kyle Cichos will be on the mound in one of the games. Good pitcher, good hitting team. Might be worth coming to Hyde to see. And coach Sullivan is making some moves on the roster along with getting a new kid in that moved here from Montana. We will see how everything plays out .

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