Spearfish Boys Hold Off Surging Scoopers, Get Win
Terry Anderson, KBHB Radio SportsFebruary 10, 2021Sports
Photo by Tim PottsScooper forward Owen Cass drives into the paint, guarded closely by Spearfish guard Seth Hamilton.
STURGIS, S.D. The Spearfish Spartan boys basketball team completed a season sweep of the Sturgis Scoopers on Tuesday night, winning a tight game at West Gymnasium, 52-46.
The Spartans previously defeated the Scoopers on Jan. 19 in Spearfish, 69-41. Their second meeting went down to the final minute.
Spearfish guard Teysean Eaglestaff and forward Tony Serrano both drained three-pointers to open up the game for the Spartans, who jumped out to a quick 6-0 lead early in the first. The Scoopers tightened up defensively and got buckets from Owen Cass, Konner Berndt and Dysen Peterson to close the gap, but Spearfish took an 11-7 lead in to the second quarter.
Spearfish Girls and Boys Pick Up Victories Over Sturgis
January 20, 2021Sports
STURGIS, S.D. / SPEARFISH, S.D. The Spearfish girls faced the Lady Scoopers at West Gymnasium on Tuesday night, overcoming a first half deficit to beat Sturgis, 46-33. The Scooper boys traveled to Spearfish to take on the Spartans on their home court and lost, 69-41.
The Scooper girls came out hot in the first quarter, with junior Lexi Long leading the way with seven points. Long was perfect from the free throw line, making five of five shots. The Scoopers led 13-9 after one.
Sturgis could only manage five points in the second quarter but still led the Spartans at the half, 18-17. Spearfish outscored Sturgis 15-8 in the third quarter and led 32-26 headed into the fourth. The Scoopers scored seven points in the final stanza to 14 from the Spartans, who ran away with a 46-33 win.
Journal Staff
Olivia Kieffer scored more points than all of Lyman on Friday, tallying 41 as the Rapid City Christian girls basketball team crushed the Raiders 85-28 at Hart Ranch.
Kieffer, a sophomore, notched her 1,000th career point as well and picked up nine assists, nine steals and seven rebounds for the Lady Comets. Alexa Ham added 18 points, Savannah Armendariz earned 10 points and Morgan Swarthout collected seven assists.
RC Christian (1-1) plays St. Thomas More on the road Jan. 2.
WALL 61, HARDING COUNTY 45:Â Ava Dinger scored 20 points as the Lady Eagles topped the Ranchers at home Saturday afternoon.
Dinger went 8 of 15 shooting for Wall (3-0), while Lilly Wagner added 10 points and Paige Kjerstad hauled in 10 rebounds.
Richard Anderson
Journal staff
As the founder of Sacred Hoops, a state-wide youth AAU youth basketball program, Allan Bertram has been pretty busy the past few years.
He added to that workload this past summer when he took over the Rapid City Central girlsâ basketball program.
Despite some ups and downs because of the coronavirus pandemic, Bertram said it has been an exciting time since taking over, especially with how hard the team has worked since his hiring in June.
The goal now is to get the Central girls back to state prominence.
âOur girls have worked extensively throughout the off-season,â he said Wednesday during practice at Naasz Gymnasium. âWe werenât able to have practice that first week because of the COVID guidelines, but our kids, because of the time they spent in the gym in the offseason, have really improved their skillset. I think that helped because they were a little more ready than they normally would have been.â