http://www.mitchellrepublic.com http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/gfx/masthead/masthead_logo.gif http://www.mitchellrepublic.com http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25497 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25497 Mitchell High School senior Eric Hieb is quick to credit his older brother with making him the golfer he is today. So when it came time for Eric to make a choice as to where to golf in college, he made the logical decision. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25498 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25498 VERMILLION �?? The Mitchell boys�?? and girls�?? track and field teams took their marks for the first time this season at Monday�??s Class A Dan Lennon Invitational at the DakotaDome in Vermillion. The best individual Kernels�?? finish came courtesy of junior Tessa Dee. Dee improved her place in all three heats of the 60-meter hurdles and finished in fourth place in the finals with a time of 9.63 seconds. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25499 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25499 A handful of Mitchell-area track and field teams will open the 2008 season today at various meets in South Dakota, and another handful will have to wait after a large meet was canceled. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25479 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25479 The weather hasn�??t exactly been on the side of the Mitchell High School track and field team this season, but that doesn�??t seem to bother the Kernels. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25480 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25480 FREMONT, Neb. �?? The Dakota Wesleyan baseball team was swept in a doubleheader Saturday at Midland Lutheran College. After splitting on Friday at Doane, the Tigers lost three out of four games on their weekend trip to Iowa. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25453 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25453 Last year, as a student at the University of Wisconsin, I was lucky enough to be chosen in a lottery that gave me the chance to purchase NCAA tournament basketball tickets. My number wasn�??t drawn for the chance to attend the first two rounds �?? which were played in Chicago �?? but several of my friends and I all were selected for the opportunity to purchase a pair of Sweet 16, Elite 8 and Final Four student tickets. It was hard not to be excited about the plans �?? seven of my best friends and I were going to road-trip to St. Louis for the Midwest Regional, and if things went well in Missouri for the second-seeded Badgers, it was on to the Final Four in Atlanta. The only problem was, the tickets were only good if the Badgers advanced that far �?? and thanks to an upset win for UNLV, Wisconsin never made it out of the second round �?? and I never made it out of Madison, Wis. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25454 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25454 The Dakota Wesleyan baseball team was one out away from a sweep of Doane College in a doubleheader Friday in Crete, Neb. But with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Doane rightfielder Dean Henson singled in two runs with a ball down the leftfield line and take a 6-5 win, spoiling the party for the Tigers. �??It puts a big downer on,�?? DWU head coach Adam Neisius said. �??The second one is always the one you remember.�?? Still, despite the ending for DWU, it wasn�??t a total downer for the Tigers, who dominated the opener, a 19-4 win. DWU erupted for five runs in the first two innings to take a commanding early lead. The Tigers scored three times in the first inning in a rally that started completely after there were two outs. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25424 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25424 The Platte-Geddes boys�?? basketball team already had to get used to a name change once this season, and now it has a new title. The Black Panthers had to get used to being Platte-Geddes, not Platte and Geddes-Dakota Christian like last year. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25425 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25425 The Dakota Wesleyan University men�??s and women�??s basketball teams just finished the 2007-08 season, and neither will officially take the court again until November. However, with the rosters both teams will bring back, it isn�??t too early to start counting down the days until the Tigers take the Corn Palace court. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25426 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25426 WASHINGTON �?? Mighty, mighty Duke let teeny, tiny Belmont play with the big boys. And, for stretches, get the better of them. No. 2-seeded Duke actually trailed in the final 15 seconds before barely avoiding the monumental upset, using every last one of Gerald Henderson�??s 21 points to edge No. 15 Belmont 71-70 in the first round of the West Regional on Thursday night. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25391 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25391 Dakota Wesleyan University basketball player Preston Broughton has been described a lot of different ways this season, including: athletic, versatile, aggressive, determined and clutch, just to name a few. All of those traits certainly served the power forward well this season, and, as a result, there�??s a new description attached to Broughton�??s name �?? All-American. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25392 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25392 The Dakota Wesleyan University softball team was coming off a tough weekend and desperately needed a boost to regain some confidence. The Tigers (5-6) got all of that and then some in a dominant doubleheader sweep of Valley City State University Wednesday afternoon at Cadwell Park. DWU took the first game, 7-3, and added a 9-3 win in the second game. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25393 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25393 This year, I worked on Christmas Day. It turns out that there has to be a newspaper, with a sports section in it, on newsstands on Dec. 26. So, as the sports editor, I battled a raging blizzard to get to Mitchell from Minneapolis on Christmas morning to make sure that the sports section was finished. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25351 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25351 Most college freshmen basketball players find out what it feels like to take their new home floor in their nice, new uniforms for the first time when the season opens in October. Not Parkston star Maggie Malloy. She got to take hers for a test drive first. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25352 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25352 KEARNEY, Neb. �?? The Dakota Wesleyan University baseball team dug itself too big of a hole in Tuesday�??s game at Nebraska-Kearney. Despite trying to crawl out over the final six innings, the Tigers were in too deep, and took a 13-7 loss. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25353 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25353 The Mitchell High School boys�?? basketball team had three players named to the academic all-state team. Seniors Jason Schmidt, Randy Kiewel and Jordan Long were named to the team, which is picked by the South Dakota Basketball Coaches�?? Association. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25354 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25354 What a week last week turned out to be. I knew coming into this job that the week of the boys�?? state high school basketball tournament was going to be crazy, but I don�??t think I was really prepared for it. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25383 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25383 Dakota Wesleyan University men�??s basketball forward Preston Broughton added one more honor to his remarkable junior season when he was named an NAIA Division II first-team All-American Wednesday. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25313 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25313 The Mitchell boys�?? basketball team had three players earn all-Eastern South Dakota Conference honors when the teams were announced Monday. Senior guard Jordan Miller and senior forward Jordan Long were among the 10 players named to the first team, and senior forward Stephen Peschong was named to honorable mention. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25314 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25314 VERMILLION �?? Shannon Daly scored 15 of her career-high 21 points in the first half and South Dakota pulled away late in the game to beat Minnesota State-Mankato 61-49 Monday in the championship game of the NCAA Division II North Central Regional women�??s basketball tournament. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25315 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25315 SALEM �?? The 21st annual 3-Class Shoot-Out basketball all-star game will be held Saturday at the McCook Central Auditorium in Salem. All three boys�?? and girls�?? classes will be represented by some of the best senior basketball players in South Dakota, and several area players were selected to participate in their respective classes. http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25316 http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=25316 Just a few minutes into Platte-Geddes�?? Class A state semifinal game against Red Cloud on Friday, junior guard Jordan Johnson had to leave the game after he fell and cut his chin open on the gym floor at the Sioux Falls Arena.