Blake Durham

6 days ago | mitchellrepublic.com | Blake Durham |Nathan Swaffar

SIOUX FALLS — Trinity Bietz collected plenty of hardware at her final state high school track and field championships. The Scotland/Menno senior was named the Class A girls field MVP following her performances from the first two days of competition, including her double championship in the shot put and discus on Friday. Putting the accomplishment into perspective, Bietz was happy to finish her time with the Trappers on the top step of the podium.

1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | Landon Dierks |Blake Durham

May 3—SIOUX FALLS — A pair of Mitchell-area relays topped the podium at the 100th Howard Wood Dakota Relays on Saturday, as the Corsica-Stickney girls sprint medley and Gregory boys 4x100 relay squads emerged as the best in Class B. Behind the quartet of Paige Timmermans, Remi Nelson, Hadynn Johnson and Braylee Bordewyk, Corsica-Stickney posted a time of 4 minutes, 18.17 seconds, winning the Class B girls sprint medley relay by more than four seconds over second-place Colman-Egan.

1 month ago | mitchellrepublic.com | Landon Dierks |Blake Durham

SIOUX FALLS — A pair of Mitchell-area relays topped the podium at the 100th Howard Wood Dakota Relays on Saturday, as the Corsica-Stickney girls sprint medley and Gregory boys 4x100 relay squads emerged as the best in Class B. Behind the quartet of Paige Timmermans, Remi Nelson, Hadynn Johnson and Braylee Bordewyk, Corsica-Stickney posted a time of 4 minutes, 18.17 seconds, winning the Class B girls sprint medley relay by more than four seconds over second-place Colman-Egan.

1 month ago | mitchellrepublic.com | Blake Durham |Nathan Swaffar

PLANKINTON, S.D. — Two big performances from Jaylin Johnson at the top of Mount Vernon/Plankinton’s lineup powered the Titans to a pair of high school softball victories last week. Johnson drove in four runs and scored twice as part of a three-hit game in MVP’s 19-8 win over Chamberlain in five innings on April 14. In addition, starting pitcher Madalynn Lorang struck out 11 Cubs hitters to record the win.