MITCHELL — Wagner’s Nick Dion and Mitchell’sMary Krause earned top honros in the Mitchell Invita-tional cross country meet on Saturday at Mitchell’sCadwell Park.

Dion finished the 5,000-meter race in 18:40.0, 36seconds faster than Plankinton’s Nick Lawson.Lyman’s Jaylen Uthe finished third.

Krause led a 1-2 finish for Mitchell, clocking a16:24.3 over the 4,000-meter course. Berkley Rietveldfinished second in 16:37.0, with Hanson’s Emily Han-son third in 16:45.2.

BOYS’ DIVISIONTOP 15: 1. Nick Dion, Wagner 18:40.0; 2. Nick Lawson, Plankinton 19:26.3; 3. Jaylen Uthe,

Lyman 19:28.6; 4. Davis Carson, Chamberlain 19:29.3; 5. Trey Persson, Hanson 19:39.7; 6. TrevorHoliday, Wagner 19:50.5; 7. Mason Breitling, Miller 19:57.0; 8. Devin Rihanek, Palinton 20:02.3;9. Brant Blaha, Avon 20:04.0; 10. Justin Krell, Plankinton 20:14.4; 11. Cole Sargent, Miller 20:29.1;12. Jacob Schweitzer, Bridgewater-Emery 20:37.7; 13. Kyle Glanzer, Mitchell Christian 20:47.5;14. Carter Langbhen, Wolsey-Wessington 20:56.4; 15. Beau Keeter, Miller 21:30.7

GIRLS’ DIVISIONTOP 15: 1. Mary Krause, Mitchell 16:24.3; 2. Berkley Rietveld, Mitchell 16:37.0; 3. Emily Han-

son, Hanson 16:45.2; 4. Sara Herman, Lyman 16:50.5; 5. Savannah Schmidt, Plankinton 16:51.2;6. Quinn Lulf, Lyman 16:54.9; 7. Reganne Engebretsen, Platte-Geddes 17:43.0; 8. Becca Glanzer,Mitchell Christian 17:43.8; 9. Anna Byers, Chamberlain 18:23.8; 10. Ashley Rabinson, WolseyWessington 18:31.2; 11. Maddie Tyrell, Chamberlain 18:32.1; 12. Khiree Held, Mitchell Christian18:37.2; 13. Kelsey Barnett, Wagner 18:54.0; 14. Tiffany Swanson, Chamberlain 18:56.7; 15. Bri-anne Bertsch, Miller 19:52.6

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SPORTS DEPARTMENT: sports@yankton.net8 PRESS DAKOTANsports

Tigers Tame Yankton In Season Opener

JAMES D. CIMBUREK/P&DSouth Dakota’s Brittlyn Dillow, facing, congratulatesteammate Danielle Anderson after Anderson scoredUSD’s first goal in a 4-4 draw against North Dakota onSunday at the USD Soccer Field.

Coyotes Rally ToTie North DakotaBY JILANNE DOOMsports@yankton.net

VERMILLION — Counting down the final secondsof regulation at the University of South Dakota SoccerComplex on Sunday afternoon, the Coyotes were trail-ing by one to visiting University of North Dakota intheir first home game of the 2012 season. But witheight seconds remaining in the second half, junior for-ward Jenny Teslow scored a goal to tie the match atfour and send the game to overtime.

After two periods of exciting overtime play, neitherteam could grab a goal, ending the match in a 4-4 tie.

“We definitely wanted to win which unfortunatelydidn't happen but I'm really happy we came back,”Teslow said. “We started out a little rough but weweren't going to give up. And we came back andscored.”

North Dakota (1-2-1) opened up strong with twogoals in the first twelve minutes but USD's Danielle An-derson scored the Coyotes' first goal with an assistfrom sophomore Brittlyn Dillow to put her team on thescoreboard. Another goal from UND's Sheri Stapf latein the half put the black and green up 3-1 at halftime.

The Coyotes (0-2-1) came back quickly after thebreak though, as sophomore Lauren Bennett and Tes-low each grabbed goals to tie the game up at threeapiece. Another UND goal by senior Noah Mithrushlater in the second half almost secured them the winbut Teslow's second goal with eight seconds remain-ing sent the game to extra minutes.

“I honestly don't think anything can compare tothat feeling,” Teslow said of her late goal. “It wasprobably the best feeling ever so I was really happy.”

Although the Coyotes came out more aggressivethan their opponents, neither team could pick up an-other to end the sudden death overtime. The tie isthe first for both teams this season.

“I think we were just thinking we came back thisfar and we're not going to give up now just becausewe tied it,” Teslow said. “So when we started theovertime, we went out even harder because the gameis not over. You have to play until the end eventhough we didn't get the win.”

USD will have another chance to grab a win ontheir home field this Tuesday, September 4 againstCreighton at 4 p.m.

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JEREMY HOECK/P&D

Yankton's Mikala Hora, 11, tries to drop in a kill over the Huron doubleblock of Halee Allerdings, 6, and Katelyn Allerdings during their ESD vol-leyball match Saturday afternoon at the Summit Center.

RUCKER SCORES 2 TDS, THROWS FOR 1 AS BUCKS TAKE OPENER

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Yankton quarterback Michael Rucker surveys the field during Yankton’s 27-21 victory against the Pierre Governors on Saturday. Rucker rushed for two touchdownsas well as throwing for another in the victory.

Bucks Hold Off Governors

JEREMY HOECK/P&DYankton’s Derek Brenner, right, pushes the ball up field in front of SiouxFall Lincoln defender Bradley Bierschbach during the first half of theirboys’ club soccer game Saturday afternoon at Lewis & Clark Soccer Park.

The Yankton Buckscontinued their strongstart to the soccer season,playing top-ranked SiouxFalls Lincoln to a 1-1 drawin boys’ varsity soccer ac-tion on Saturday at Lewis& Clark Soccer Complex.

Lincoln led 1-0 off aTanner Hoffman goal inthe 13th minute, but theBucks scored midwaythrough the second halfon an indirect penalty kickby Derek Brenner.

Landon Breen stoppedfour shots in goal, and thedefensive efforts of CaseySkillingstad, ConnorChambers, John Dannen-bring, Alex Wieseler andZander Savage helpedkeep the Patriots at bay.

Yankton, which re-mains unbeaten at 2-0-1,travels to face Rapid CityCentral on Saturday, Sept.1.

Lincoln beat Yankton 1-0 in the JV contest.

Bucks Play No. 1 Pats To Draw

BY EMILY NIEBRUGGEsports@yankton.net

The Huron Tigers swept the YanktonGazelles Saturday afternoon for the volley-ball season opener, winning three straightgames 25-23, 25-22, 25-17.

Both teams found themselves workingwith young, new players to begin the sea-son. With all new players except for one,Huron was quick to take the lead in the firstset as they scored the first five points ofthe game and kept the lead the entire set.

Yankton head coach Leasa Woodwardsaid she was anticipating a tough day, butis expecting the season to improve.

“We have a very inexperienced team,”she said. “We had moments of brillianceand then we got into giving up five and sixpoints in a row before we got ourselves outagain. We served well, and beyond that wehave a lot of work to do.”

The Gazelles were able to tighten thegap during the first set, trailing 22-18 beforeHuron scored the last points of the game.

Huron’s Katelyn Allerdings and HalleeAllerdings each put up eight kills, whileTaylor Kobert contributed 19 digs to theTigers’ overall victory. Eliza Smith and Kel-ley McCarty each served four aces, withKatelyn Allerdings adding five blocks andMcCarty three blocks.

Shelly Buddenhagen, Huron Head Coachsaid the team’s strategy was, “Just to playand take care of our side of the net.”

Buddenhagen also said dealing with newplayers forced them to focus on the work

they have been doing for the last fewweeks.

“For the first day, I’m very pleased,” shesaid. “In all three sets we jumped out to apretty good lead and Yankton found waysto come back on us. I thought our team dida good job of working with that and wewere able to make it to the finish line.”

Although Huron was able to take advan-tage of their early leads in each set, theGazelles put up a fight with seniors MikalaHora contributing 11 kills, and KelseyFitzgerald adding seven kills.

After falling behind Huron 18-8 in thesecond set, Yankton called a timeout andcame back with one ace and two kills fromBrooke Wuebben to help bring the score to22-17, Huron still in the lead. Hora con-tributed three blocks, while Paige Thiemanserved one ace during the set. Thiemanwould serve five aces and 17 assists for thematch.

Buddengahen said her team was awareof Hora and Fitzgerald, but the late substi-tutions by Huron late in each set gave themthe chance to stop Yankton’s momentum.

“Besides Hora and Fitzgerald for Yank-ton, Katelyn Allerdings is going to surprisea lot of people this year,” she said. “She’sour best well-kept secret so far and she re-ally helped us throughout each game.”

Yankton was able to take the first threepoints of the third set, but Huron cameback winning the last game 25-17.

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BROOKINGS — TheYankton Gazelles girls’ ten-nis team posted a 2-3 com-bined record inback-to-back events inBrookings on Friday andSaturday.

In the Brookings Jam-boree on Saturday, Yanktonbeat Huron 5-4 and lost toAberdeen Roncalli 9-0. Yank-ton opened the weekend bybeating Marshall, Minn., 6-3,and losing to Aberdeen Cen-tral (9-0) and Brookings (5-4) on Friday.

Sarah Rockne (flight 1),Sarah Santos (flight 2) andTaylor Rothenberger (flight4) each went 3-2 in singlesplay. Kim Cap and AnnaKokesh had one singles wineach. Jaclyn Arens went 4-3in JV singles.

In doubles, Rockne andRothenberger teamed up fortwo wins. Santos and Kait-lyn Frank had one victory.

Yankton, 3-5, returns to

the road on Friday, travelingto Mitchell to face the Ker-nels and another EasternSouth Dakota Conferencerival, Pierre. Start time is 2p.m.

ABERDEEN RONCALLI 9, YANKTON 0SINGLES: Morgan Gunderson R def. Sarah

Rockne 8-2; Kaylyn Deiter R def. Sarah Santos 8-3;Tage Hanson R def. Alexa Bryan 8-0; Erica CarrelsR def. Taylor Rothenberger 8-0; Gaby Imbery R def.Kim Cap 8-3; Katie Torrence R def. Anna Kokesh 8-1

DOUBLES: Gunderson-Deiter R def. Rockne-Rothenberger 8-2; Hanson-Carrels R def. Bryan-Cap 8-1; Imbery-Erin Dudley R def. Santos-KaitlynFrank 8-5

JV: Jaclyn Arens Y def. Mikayla Titus 6-4YANKTON 5, HURON 4

SINGLES: Sarah Rockne Y def. Erin Isackson8-4; Sarah Santos Y def. Michelle Johnson 8-6;Sierra Goergen H def. Alexa Bryan 8-1; TaylorRothenberger Y def. Claire Hoogland 8-1; Kim CapY def. Alison Fenske 8-3; Cassie Hedblom H def.Anna Kokesh 8-0

DOUBLES: Rockne-Rothenberger Y def. John-son-Goergen 9-7; Isackson-Hoogland H def. Bryan-Cap 8-6; Fenske-Hedblom H def. Santos-KaitlynFrank 8-4

JV: Jaclyn Arens Y def. Tabatha Harmdierks 6-3; Bailey Harvey H def. Arens 6-4

YANKTON 6, MARSHALL 3SINGLES: Sarah Rockne Y def. Julia Hartmann

8-5; Sarah Santos Y def. Jenna Gannott 8-6; AnjaBaumgarn M def. Alexa Bryan 8-6; Taylor Rothen-berger Y def. Rachel Landmark 8-3; Kim Cap Y def.Melise Baumgarn 8-4; Anna Kokesh Y def. Chris-

Yankton Wins Two On Brookings Trip

Yankton senior Sarah Santos charges to net to play ashort shot during her No. 2 singles match against Huron’sMichelle Johnson at the Jim Holwerda Jamboree inBrookings on Saturday.

TROY MARONEY/BROOKINGS REGISTER

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FROM P&D STAFF REPORTS

PIERRE — Yankton took advantageof four Pierre turnovers, includingthree in Governor territory, to opentheir 2012 campaign with a 27-21 vic-tory on Friday night at Hollister Field.

In the season and Eastern SouthDakota Conference (ESD) opener foreach team there were plenty of mis-cues and mistakes committed to keepthe coaching staffs and players on bothteams busy in the coming weeks.

Although they held a 27-7 advan-tage midway through the second quar-ter, the Bucks were outscored 14-0after that point and struggled to findany consistent offensive rhythmthroughout the contest.

The key of the game was definitelyPierre’s four turnovers, the first threeof which led to Yankton touchdowns.

After the first three possessions ofthe game resulted in punts, Pierre tookover for their second time on offenseand immediately lost a fumble whichBuck defender Dustin Hopper recov-ered deep in Governor territory.

Senior running back EvanSchroeder took a handoff from fellowsenior Michael Rucker and dashed 18yards on the very next play to put theBucks on the board. A successful LaneSawatzke PAT made it 7-0 Bucks, a leadwhich Yankton would never surrender.

On the very next possession, Gover-nor quarterback Alex Grey miscommu-nicated with his receiver and Yanktondefender Sam Wendte grabbed an in-terception on a pass that was nowherenear any Pierre players.

Finding themselves with excellentfield possession once again, the Bucksmarched 30 yards in three plays beforeRucker dove in on a 1-yard quarterbackkeeper to push the Bucks advantage to13-0. Another Sawatzke extra pointstretched the lead to 14-0.

Pierre was finally able to eliminatethe mistakes on their following posses-sion and put together a 10 play, 71-yarddrive that culminated in a 26-yardstrike from Grey to Austin Christopher-son to close the gap back to 14-7.

Yankton answered immediatelyhowever as Schroeder returned the fol-

lowing kickoff 53 yards to set up aneventual Rucker to Chris Brown 25-yard touchdown pass. A missed PATmade it 20-7, Yankton.

Pierre once again turned the ballover deep in their own territory on afumble during their next possessionand the Bucks once again capitalized,their third touchdown off of a Pierreturnover in the first half. This time itwas Rucker finding a hole and sprinting23 yards for the score. Another LaneSawatzke extra point gave Yankton a27-7 advantage.

After turning the ball over on threeof their past four possessions, Pierre fi-nally was able to sustain a drive thatsaw senior Austin Wagner score on an8-yard run to cut the deficit to 27-14with just over three minutes remainingin the second quarter.

That would mark the end of thefast-paced, high-scoring segment ofgame however, as second-half play be-came a stalemate.

Pierre had outgained Yankton 190-153 in first half yardage, but that meantlittle as Yankton often found them-

selves with a short field due to Gover-nor turnovers. That lack of ball controlwould come back to haunt Pierre onemore time early in the second half.

The Governors received the open-ing kickoff of the third quarter needingto establish a drive and mainly holdonto the ball, as they had been suc-cessful on offense up to that pointwhen they were not turning the ballover.

Pierre put together a solid openingdrive to start the second half, march-ing into Yankton territory, but onceagain the Governors put the ball on theground and Bucks junior J.J. Hejna wasthere to recover for Yankton.

The Bucks were able to gain someyardage and chew up some time ontheir following possessions but neverreally threatened to score againthroughout the remainder of the game.

Pierre saw Grey throw a touchdownstrike to Shay Reinke from 15 yards outwith nine minutes left in the game, butYankton’s defense held on from there.

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Dion, Krause Win At Mitchell