By Bob Bakken
MaxPreps.com
Purdue-bound Sam Ostarello of Stanley County has been named to play in the 18th annual Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) High School All-America Game.
The contest will take place April 4 and will feature the nation’s top 20 senior girls basketball players at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Ostarello is a 6-foot-2 forward for the Buffs who recently set a school record with 1,433 career points.
Ostarello is averaging 25.6 points and 16 rebounds per game.
Boys Basketball: Lincoln seeks perfection
Sioux Falls Lincoln is off to a 17-0 start on the season and the Patriots are seeking their first state Class AA championship since 1995. If the Patriots can make the run continue, they could become the third South Dakota team in the AA ranks to be a state champion and perfect at the same time.
The last undefeated AA squad was Mitchell’s 1984-85 team that finished 23-0. Two years before that, Sioux Falls Washington went undefeated on its way to a state championship. A state title would also make Lincoln the first South Dakota school to win AA boys basketball and 11-AA state football titles in the same school year.
Boys Basketball: Jacobson hits 1,000-point mark
Viborg’s Cory Jacobson reached the 1,000-point mark for his career in a 71-40 victory over Avon on Feb. 10. Jacobson scored 31 of his team’s 71 points, as Viborg won for the 16th team in the season. Jacobson’s total included seven 3-pointers.
Boys Basketball: Governors roll past Golden Eagles
The Pierre Governors rolled past Aberdeen Central Tuesday night, 91-69. The Governors scored 32 points in the first quarter alone and had a 51-30 advantage at halftime.
Curry Kuehl scored a game-high 24 points for Pierre, with 18 of those coming in the second and third quarters. The Governors’ point total included 10 3-point baskets. They have been averaging 84 points a game in their last six contests.
Football: Archambeau, Lotzer named All-Americans
Avon’s Earv Archambeau has been named a high school All-American for South Dakota by the National Athletic Coaches Association, joining Sisseton senior quarterback Dustin Lotzer, who also earned the honor.
The national organization also named Aaron Beavers of Sioux Falls Lincoln as its South Dakota coach of the year.
Football: Coaches named to Hall of Fame
Three coaches with successful records have been named to the South Dakota Football Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame.
Vermillion’s Gary Culver, Jon Mitchell of Parkston and Virg Polak of Watertown were recently inducted into the hall as part of the annual Winter Football Clinic in Sioux Falls.
Culver has coached the Tanagers to five state Class 11-A titles in 32 years, all at Vermillion.
Mitchell’s 39-year coaching career ended in 2008 with a career record of 153-110 in stops in Minnesota, Iowa and Alaska, as well as five schools in South Dakota. He coached at Parkston for the final 21 years of his career.
Polak is the first assistant coach to be inducted into the Football Coaches Hall of Fame. He’s assisted in Watertown for 31 years, aided the Arrows to a pair of state championships and seven ESD Conference titles.
Football: Lead-Deadwood stays in 11-A
A Black Hills area school district has lost its attempt to drop a class in football.
The Lead-Deadwood school had appealed to the South Dakota High School Activities Association to allow the school to play in Class 11-B. They currently play in Class 11-A, but missed the Class 11-B level by about two students. School officials had appealed to the SDHSAA to become an 11-B school, but that appeal was dismissed by the association.
