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Sports editor Roger Merriam weighs in on a noticeable issue involving Watertown athletics: "We need to support the coaches and quit worrying about individuals but rather the team — no matter who the coach of that team is."
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Special shoutout to student sections from Aberdeen Roncalli and Vermillion for the fun back-and-forth this afternoon. All in good fun and a blast to watch.
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Alex Gauer of Watertown
@AlexGauer6
, the Castlewood Ravens player who was a pickup player for the Brookings Cubs in the state Class A amateur baseball tourney, batted .571 (8-for-14) over two weekends and won the Class A batting title for the tourney. Congrats to Alex.
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Not the same Arrows! Down 19-0. Kickoff return Adam DeJong, punt return Garrett Determan, TD pass from Brandon Florey to Jake Werner, TD run by Brett Fossum, TD pass from Florey to Blake Holden and another TD pass from Florey to Werner. Arrows lead 40-19.
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Watertown boys headed back to state with 31-28 win over Lincoln. First time since 2015.
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2017 Watertown High School graduate Spencer Waege
@Arrow_Football
is still chasing his NFL dream. The San Francisco 49ers signed Waege to their practice squad on Tuesday. Go Spencer!
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No. 4 Arrows take the third set 25-17 to sweep No. 5 Huron.
@WtnArrowsVB
are your official Eastern South Dakota Conference champions.
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Six(!) area standouts were named to the Class B All-State boys basketball team. Clark-Willow Lake's Jacob Prouty earned first team honors
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Wonky internet, so we'll have something online whenever we can. Plenty of goodies coming your way. In the meantime, here's this.
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Castlewood High School senior Regan Benike and freshman Alayna Benike talk about the best and worst parts of being on the basketball team with a sibling. The two are in Aberdeen for the Class B girls state basketball tournament.
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Zach Wevik has been named the new head coach of the Watertown High School boys basketball team, according to a press release. Wevik went 32-12 in two years as Bon Homme's head coach
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And the De Smet Bulldogs are the Class B state girls basketball champions, knocking off Ethan 49-39
#SDHoops19
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If you see Clark-Willow Lake head boys basketball coach Jerome Nesheim, give him a high 5. He just collected his 500th career coaching win on Saturday. He's spent 25 years coaching the girls and now the boys for Clark and Clark-Willow Lake.
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Also in the victory, junior Sophie Tietz broke the
@WtnArrowsVB
school record for blocks in a season. She now has 138 on the season.
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Jacob Prouty and Ntai Stevens of Clark-Willow Lake and Trevor Hanson of Sioux Valley earned all-tournament honors with stellar play at state this weekend
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Congratulations to Sophie Tietz! She was named the state's Prep Female Athlete of the Year. Tietz is only the third Arrow athlete in 46 years to receive the award.
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He did it. Watertown sophomore Jake Olson wins state Class AA individual boys golf championship by three shots. Arrows finish third. Visit for updated details throughout the night.
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Fun fact: the LCC is home to each of the last two Class B girls state champions and is guaranteed a champion in B boys this year.
#KnowledgeIsPower
#sdpreps
#SDHoops19
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Watertown High School's boys golf team
@arrowgolf_
won its first state title since 1971 on Tuesday with senior Jake Olson winning his second state title. A welcome home for the team will be held during Watertown's home volleyball match tonight at 7 p.m.
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Drew Norberg closes out his Watertown basketball career with 26 points. He's a really good player. Reese Stark added 13, Devon Lewis 8 and Cole Holden 6. Those four and Mack Johnson and Evan Hamre each played their final high school basketball games in SoDak 16 loss.
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Watertown has claimed the Class AA state gymnastics championship. Deuel repeats at Class A champions.
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Clark-Willow Lake finishes it off this time, 49-41 over De Smet. Tip of the cap to both teams for a great game.
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Final: No. 5 Watertown 46, Rapid City Stevens 13. Arrows improve to 3-0 on the season.
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Before we turn the calendar to 2019, sports writer Nathan Giese broke open the vault to pick his favorite photos taken from the 2018 year.
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Eighth-grader Kaden Rylance and Watertown High School’s boys golf team each recorded second-place finishes.
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Four members of the league champion
@WtnsArrowsVB
were named to the All-ESD volleyball team.
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Former Watertown High School standout Adam DeJong
@Arrow_Football
has been named to the All-Great Plains Athletic Conference football team.
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Dawson Schmidt hits 3-pointer with 4.5 seconds left to give Arrows 64-62 win over Rapid City Central.
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"Thank you, Anita"
29 years after taking a job she wasn't sure she was ready for, Arlington's Anita Boeck retires as the second-winningest volleyball coach in state history.
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Clark-Willow Lake returns all 5 starters from last year's 19-3 team, move to Class B and are ranked No. 2 in the preseason poll. The Cyclones have high expectations
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Rynn Osthus and Kristen Poppen of De Smet and Emily Kranz of Waverly-South Shore named to all-tournament team.
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Castlewood's Alayna Benike, Abbey Strait and Regan Benike named to all tournament team
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Clark native and former
@SDState
standout
@skylerflatten
is headed to Italy to begin his professional basketball career.
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Clark-Willow Lake gets another crack at a title while De Smet's young guns lead them into this weekend's Class B state tournament.
#sdpreps
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Big announcement. Hamlin senior throws standout Gracelyn Leiseth to continue her career at the University of Florida.
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Did You Know Our Quarterback Used to be a Golfer? After three years on Watertown High School's boys golf team
@arrowgolf_
, senior Drew Norberg settling in as the starting quarterback for the Arrow football team.
@Arrow_Football
.
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Arrow boys overcome 16-point third quarter deficit, beat Pierre 59-58 on Drew Norberg's 3 at the buzzer.
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Watertown High School senior Cooper Mack won with a throw of 64 feet, 9.75 inches — which would be the seventh best throw win SD history.
It is also currently the best throw in the country by a high school thrower.
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Junior Sophie Tietz breaks
@WtnArrowsVB
record for blocks in a single season.
#SDVolleyball18
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Kade Rumpza's 26-yard field goal and Adam DeJong's interception nail down Watertown's 17-10 win over Sioux Falls Lincoln.
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Congratulations to
#CastlewoodSD
senior Regan Benike, center, who was awarded the Class B Spirit of Su Award! The award is given to an outstanding senior in categories such as leadership, athletic ability and character. Way to go, Regan!
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Watertown's Drew Norberg
@WHSArrowBB
, Sioux Valley's Hayden Ruesink and De Smet's
@BasketballSmet
Kalen Garry, Rett Osthus and Kennadi Buchholz chosen to play in SDBCA-Sanford Pentagon All-Star Basketball Games on April 15.
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Sioux Valley's Max Nielson and Hamlin's Connor Bawdon each earned Class A All-State boys basketball honors.
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State championship game column from sports writer
@NathanGiese
: "I root for good stories and good people. However that game finished on Saturday, I couldn’t lose. And everyone involved with the game walked out winners."
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Jacob Prouty and Micah Burke headline the Class B All-State boys basketball team after leading Clark-Willow Lake to the state title.
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Senior Garrett Determan: "We look from last year to where we are now and the sky is the limit for us.”
@Arrow_Football
improves to 2-0 for first time since 2010 with 34-13 win over Rapid City Central.
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The Public Opinion Presents: Can't Touch This, starring Tucker Wookey (zoom in on catcher's hands for dramatic effect)
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Public Opinion sports writer Roger Merriam urges last-minute basketball subs everywhere to quit passing and chuck the basketball toward the hoop.
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A small gesture can go a long way. Estelline's basketball teams wore t-shirts to show their support of Waverly-South Shore teacher/coach/father Ryon Gross last night in their doubleheader
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It's time to celebrate. For the first time ever, Watertown
@Post17Baseball
has two state championship teams (ages 13-18) in the same season. The Watertown Black Sox and Grey Sox won state 14-and-under and 13-and-under titles on Sunday.
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Mariah Gloe and Sophie Tietz represent Watertown on the all-tournament team.
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.
@WtnArrowsVB
eclipses several milestones by knocking off Sioux Falls O'Gorman to finish third in the state volleyball tournament.
#SDVolleyball18
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Josh Weisbrod becomes the second Clark-Willow Lake wrestler to win a title, defeating Kaleb Crownove 5-4 at 138 pounds.
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Alayna Benike outscored ELB for the game and had a 30-point, 10-rebound, 10-steal triple-double in Castlewood's win.
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It's All About the Bulldogs: De Smet's girls (No. 5 in Class B) join top-ranked De Smet boys
@BasketballSmet
in this week's South Dakota Prep Media Basketball Poll.
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Congrats to
#WatertownSD
's Pierre Lear, one of four athletes named 2019 Track and Field All-Americans by the
#SouthDakota
High School Cross Country and Track and Field Coaches Association.
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Fannin nails 2 FTs with 4.2 seconds left to give Watertown a 50-48 win over Marshall.
@WTN_ARROWS_GBB
is officially in the win column.
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Watertown's Drew Norberg and Jaida Young have been named to the 2021-22 All-Eastern South Dakota Conference boys
@WHSArrowBB
and girls basketball
@WTN_ARROWS_GBB
teams, respectively.
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Morris struck out 7, allowed just 3 hits. Dawson Schmidt drove in two runs and doubled. Watertown wen 20-4 in the month of July on its way to the state title.
State Champions!!!! Awesome complete-game pitching performance by Mason Morris in the title game!!!
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Watertown's Cade Cummings and Megan Fannin were named to the All-ESD teams
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Watertown High School graduate Pierre Lear helps South Dakota State win the Summit League indoor track title. Lear won the men's 60-meter hurdles in a school-record clocking of 7.98 seconds.
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Cooper Heiser hits walk-off single in bottom of seventh to give Watertown Junior Legion the Region 1A title.
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.
@WTN_ARROWS_GBB
junior Megan Fannin recently announced her verbal commitment to play college ball at USF.
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No Holden 'em Bach.
@ArrowsHoops
gets big games from senior duo while 1999 state championship team is honored at halftime.
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Let's update this: over the last two years, the Lake Central Conference has produced 3 state champions, two state runner-ups and 21 All-State selections in the seven-team conference acting primarily as each teams' secondary conference.
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Fun fact: the LCC is home to each of the last two Class B girls state champions and is guaranteed a champion in B boys this year.
#KnowledgeIsPower
#sdpreps
#SDHoops19
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Five Watertown Arrows
@Arrow_Football
— Ben Althoff, Cole Holden, Paden Johnson, Collin Dingsor and Hunter Wientjes — have been named to the All-Eastern South Dakota Conference football team.
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The Althoff family has left a lasting mark on the Watertown High School wrestling program
@ArrowActivities
for years and senior Ben Althoff is doing what he can to continue the tradition. He's also a standout in football and baseball.
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#SiouxFallsSD
linebacker Brody Grantham of Hayti and Southwest Minnesota offensive lineman Zach Stratmoen of Dawson (Minn.) each were named to the 2018 All-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference football team on Thursday.
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No one said it'd be easy.
@WtnArrowsVB
overlasts Huron in 5-set thriller in first round to return to the semifinals.
#SDVolleyball18
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Sioux Valley boys basketball coach Bill Vincent among South Dakota's national Coach of the Year finalists.
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De Smet
@BasketballSmet
girls basketball standout Kennadi Buchholz leads the Public Opinion's list of top high school performers for the week of Feb. 21-27.
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History favors Sioux Falls Washington, but
@Arrow_Football
isn't ready to call it a season.
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Guess who's back?
@WtnArrowsVB
fends off feisty Harrisburg squad to make its return to the state volleyball tournament.
#sdpreps
#SDVolleyball18
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South Dakota Golf Association Honors: Watertown's Jake Olson named Junior Golfer of the Year and Watertown golfers Eric Stevens, Josh Hanson and Scott Olson combine to win SDGA's Three-Person Challenge.
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Former Castlewood High School standout Alayna Benike to transfer from Nebraska-Kearney to Northern State for women's basketball.
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Congrats to
#ClarkWillowLakeSD
junior wrestler Caleb Orris, who captured the 182-pound national championship at the Rocky Mountain National Wrestling Tournament in
#DenverCO
!
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Here's the video of Hamlin's Gracelyn Leiseth shattering her own all-time state record in the girls' shot put on Saturday during the final day of the state high school track and field meet.
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No doubt about it: Castlewood finishes quest to state title, downing Hanson 47-41
#SDHoops18
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Clark-Willow Lake senior Caleb Orris isn't a huge fan of the attention being undefeated gives him, but he's doesn't run from it. It's one of the many sacrifices he's made to become 'the best".
#sdpreps
#SDWrestling19
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Watertown's Pierre Lear set to compete in track & field at SDSU.
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Watertown's Blake Holden earns Class 11AAA All-State honors. Nick Geffre and Adam DeJong received honorable mention.
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It's been 20-plus years since a
@WtnArrowsVB
team has had this many wins in a season.
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