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Pitching Takes Over On Day OneFROM P&D STAFF REPORTS

On a day marked by closegames and dominating pitchingperformances, three American Le-gion teams stand unbeaten afterFriday’s action at the Lewis &Clark Wooden Bat Classic.

Brandon Valley, Brookings andMitchell all went 2-0 on Friday intheir respective pools. The tour-nament is being held at threesites; Yankton’s Riverside Field’s,Vermillion’s Prentis Park andCrofton, Neb.’s Baseball Park.

YanktonPost 12 splitits twogames Friday,falling toBrandon Val-ley 8-3 andlater beatingSpearfish 9-1.

The tour-nament con-tinues today(Saturday) atall threesites, begin-

ning at 10 a.m. Yankton facesOmaha Central at 10 a.m. andBlair at 7 p.m.

Championship day moves toRiverside Field on Sunday, withsemifinal games at 11 a.m. and1:15 p.m., followed by the champi-onship game at 3:30 p.m.

Yankton BracketBrandon Valley 8, Yankton 3

Brandon Valley made the mostof five hits and benefited fromfour Yankton Post 12 errors in an8-3 victory Friday morning atRiverside Field.

Cole VanderBeek drew threewalks and Luke Bauske addedtwo hits for BV, which broke opena close game with four runs in thetop of the sixth inning. Yanktonscored twice in the bottom of thesixth.

Brad Ulmer had two hits anddrove in two runs for Post 12,while Andrew Hummel also hadtwo hits. Dustin Hopper had theother RBI for Yankton. Zach Ben-jamin took the loss.

Brandon Valley 6, Blair 0Nic Peterson struck out seven

in a complete game shutout asBrandon Valley blanked Blair,Neb. 6-0 on Friday afternoon atRiverside Field.

Jacob Adams had three hitsand drove in four runs for Bran-don Valley, which broke the gameopen with a 4-run bottom of thesixth inning.

Dane Apple had two hits for

JEREMY HOECK/P&DCrofton third baseman Scott Foxhoven charges in tocatch a pop fly during Friday morning's game againstNorfolk at the Lewis & Clark Wooden Bat Classic inCrofton, Neb.

JEREMY HOECK/P&DNorfolk pitcher Michael Obermiller delivers to home plate in the seventh inning of Friday morning's game against Crofton at theLewis & Clark Wooden Bat Classic in Crofton, Neb. Obermiller struck out 14 Crofton batters in a 1-hit shutout.

ABOVE: Sam Wendte of Yankton Post 12 swings away at a pitch during Fridaymorning's game against Brandon Valley in the Lewis & Clark Wooden Bat Clas-sic at Riverside Field. (Nick Robinson/P&D)RIGHT: Vermillion's Jayce Huska lays down a perfect bunt while at the plate Fri-day morning as Vermillion faced Sioux Falls West during the opening game of the12th Annual Lewis & Clark Wooden Bat Classic held at Prentis Park in Vermillion.(David Lias/Vermillion Plain Talk)CLASSIC | PAGE 8

SUBMITTED PHOTOThe Yankton U-10 and U-12 Twins were crowned champions at the Mother’s DaySWAT Extravaganza Tournament in Sioux Falls on May 12. Members of both teamsinclude: (front, L-R) Jimmie Cunningham, Rugby Ryken, Dylan Prouty, QuentinMoser, (second row) Aidan Feser, Matthew Mors, Michael Mors, Max Raab, TrentHerrboldt, Brodey Peterson, Trevor Fitzgerald, (third row) Owen Feser, SamMooney, Peyton Mueller, Cole Sawatzke, Michael Frick, Cole Withrow, Trey King,(fourth row) Kyle Withrow, Jack Raab, Michael Drotzmann, Rex Ryken, Ethan Wis-hon, Dalton Maibaum, (back row) coach Aaron Feser, coach Jim Sawatzke, coachRyan Mors, coach Jay Fitzgerald, coach Travis Wishon and coach Mark Ryken.Not pictured is Carson Koletzky.

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) —Doc Sadler watched from afar asFred Hoiberg turned Iowa Stateinto a perennial Big 12 contender.

Sadler was so impressed thathe joined Hoiberg as soon as anopportunity presented itself.

Hoiberg announced Fridaythat he has hired Sadler, the for-mer coach at Nebraska, as an as-sistant. Sadler, who led theonce-rival Huskers from 2006-12,will fill the vacancy left when T.J.Otzelberger took a job at Wash-ington.

“When you look at the pro-gram, with Hilton Coliseum, thefans and what Hoiberg been ableto do in three years, it’s unbeliev-able,” Sadler said.

Sadler was 101-98 at Ne-braska, leading the program tothree NIT appearances beforebeing fired at its first season inthe Big Ten. He spent last seasonas the director of basketball op-erations at Kansas.

“Doc brings a wealth of expe-

rience to our staff and is re-spected in the profession. His Big12 coaching experience and ex-tensive recruiting backgroundwill help on the road and makehim a very valuable member ofour staff,” Hoiberg said.

Sadler worked as an assistantat Texas Tech, Arizona State andUTEP before taking over the Min-ers in 2004. He led UTEP to a 48-18 record and an NCAAtournament berth in 2005 beforemoving on to Nebraska.

But Sadler could never quiteget the Huskers into the NCAAtournament. In fact, Hoiberg’sfirst Iowa State team beat Ne-braska in overtime in February2011, a loss many believed was amajor reason the Huskers weresent to the NIT.

Sadler spent one seasonunder Bill Self in Lawrence afterbeing let go by the Huskers. ButSadler wanted to get back to ajob that would put him on thefloor, and Hoiberg had openings

after Oztelberger left and JeffRutter departed for a job atnearby Drake.

“I’m excited for Doc. He did agreat job here. All the playersloved him, respected him andcertainly he added a great addi-tional set of eyes and mindset toour staff. He will definitely bemissed,” Kansas coach Bill Selfsaid.

Sadler’s experience undoubt-edly made him a strong candi-date for a number of assistantcoaching positions. But Sadlersaid Hoiberg’s early success anddeep ties to the Iowa State com-munity swayed HIM toward theCyclones.

Sadler said he isn’t necessar-ily going to replace Otzelberger.He’s instead prepared to fill anyrole Hoiberg has in mind.

“To work for a guy who is socommitted to the community andthat university; you know he’sgoing to be there,” Sadler said.

Iowa State Hires Sadler As Men’s Assistant

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The scoreboard hasbeen hung and most of the red cloth seats havebeen anchored at the new arena that will bethe home for Nebraska basketball.

With construction 85 percent to 90 percentcomplete, the project manager said Friday thatPinnacle Bank Arena is on schedule to be readyfor the university’s August graduation cere-mony.

The $179 million arena, with a seating ca-pacity of about 15,500, sits on the northwestside of downtown Lincoln looking like a big sil-ver space saucer just a few blocks west of Me-morial Stadium.

Nebraska already has sold every ticket forthe 2013-14 men’s basketball season, and amedia tour revealed a steep seating configura-tion that could make for an intimidating home-court advantage.

“It’s right on top of the court, so it’ll be agreat building for basketball,” said John Hin-shaw, project manager for Minneapolis-basedM.A. Mortenson Co.

About half of the seats are in the lowerbowl, with a portion of them retractable tomake room for convention space or othersporting events. The floor is equipped for iceequipment, meaning the arena could be usedfor ice hockey if Nebraska chooses to add thesport someday.

The main entrance was specifically de-signed to offer a view of the State Capitol risingto the southeast. There also is an outdoor deckthat will be open during warm weather.

A total of 36 suites ring the arena, eachequipped with three rows of four seats, a drinkrail, wet bar, cook top and television. Therealso are 20 mini suites with seating for four.The seats in the arena are 20 inches wide. Un-like the old Devaney Sports Center, which hadbench seats in the upper levels, every seat hasa back at the new arena.

Hinshaw said the Panasonic high-definitioncenter-hung scoreboard will be one of thefinest in college sports and better than most inNBA arenas. The four-sided scoreboard is 161/2 feet tall and 22 feet wide and is topped byanother full video board that is 6 feet tall and22 feet wide.

There were no obstacles in constructionother than a problem with improperly bentrebar that caused a delay of about a month inlate 2011. The project still will be completedabout a month sooner than first projected.

Mortenson Co. also built the Sprint Centerin Kansas City, Mo., Coors Field in Denver andthe Target Center and Target Field in Min-neapolis. The company also won the contractto build the Minnesota Vikings’ new stadium indowntown Minneapolis.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — TheNCAA postponed the two gamesscheduled at the Women’s CollegeWorld Series on Friday night be-cause of severe weather. Plans tomake up the games were not imme-diately announced.

Tennessee had been scheduledto play Washington, with top-seeded Oklahoma facing rivalTexas on Friday night in winner’sbracket games. The original planscalled for four elimination games tobe played Saturday, which also willplay into the rescheduling plan.

The teams involved were stay-ing away from Hall of Fame Stadiumand sought shelter in a downtownparking garage near their hotels.Washington team spokeswomanAlyssa Olveda said six of the eightteams gathered in the same hoteltunnel and parking garage down-town to ride out the storm.

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Construction Almost Done On NU Arena

MITCHELL — The YanktonLakers won both of their gamesFriday at a VFW Teener baseballtournament in Mitchell.

LAKERS 5, MITCHELL 0:Hunter Cameron had a strongouting on the mound and pickedup the win for Yankton. He alsohad a hit and drove in a run tohelp his own cause.

Nathan Hein also had a hitand an RBI, while Nate Stephen-son, Michael Heine and TylerStrahl all had one hit and a runscored.

LAKERS 4, HURON 2: Heinewent 2-3 with two runs scoredand an RBI as Yankton beatHuron on Friday. Strahl had a hit,run scored and a walk, whileStephenson got the win.

Yankton returns to Mitchellon Sunday.

Reds 1-1 In MitchellMITCHELL — The Yankton

Reds split their two VFW Teenerbaseball games Friday at a tour-nament in Mitchell.

PARKSTON 10, REDS 3:Carter Peterson and Caid Kolet-zky combined to allow zeroearned runs on the mound forYankton, which lost the 5-inninggame.

Kellen Franzen was 1-2 in theloss with two RBI, while Peter-son was 2-2 with a run scored.Trey Bakke and Jack Schoen-felder both scored a run.

YANKTON 12, HARRISBURG11: Koletzky drove home Bakkewith the game-winning run asthe Reds beat Harrisburg on Fri-day.

Jackson Somsen was 3-3 withtwo RBI and two runs, whileBakke was 3-4 with three RBI.Miles Carda went 2-3 with twoRBI and Peterson was 2-3 withthree runs scored. Somsenpitched three innings and

struck out five, while Carda gotthe win in relief.

Yankton will play Rennertoday (Saturday) at 11 a.m. andwill face Brandon Valley on Sun-day at 6:15 p.m.

AmateursAvon 19, Menno 9

AVON — Logan Tycz hadthree hits and drove in fourruns while Dan Bures also hadfour RBI as Avon routed Menno19-9 in South Central Leagueamateur action from Thursdaynight.

Tycz also stole four bases,while Joey Cuka added threehits and three RBI for the Bards.Joe Sees was the winningpitcher, striking out four in fiveinnings.

For the Mad Frogs, Doug Hall

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Baseball: Lakers 2-0 At Mitchell Tourney