The Viborg-Hurley boys were ranked No. 1 in the South Dakota Prep Media Poll for most of the season, and on Thursday night against Freeman, they showed why. Playing in the first round of the State B Basketball Tournament in Aberdeen March 20, the third-seeded Cougars turned a 33-28 halftime lead int...

The Freeman High School boys are playing for a championship — a consolation championship, that is. And one day after sitting out because of illness, freshman David Walter — the team's leading scorer — will play. The Flyers will face Wall in the fifth/sixth-place game at 1:45 p.m. Saturday after defe...

Fifty years after they won the whole thing and a quarter century since the last time they qualified, the Freeman High School boys are going back to the State ‘B’ Basketball Tournament. The 10th-seeded Flyers emphatically punched their ticket Tuesday night, March 11 with a 72-60 upset win over defend...

It may not have been the state tournament Marion/Freeman was hoping for, but the Rebels did return from Rapid City with some hardware — an eighth-place medal for Freeman freshman Easton Tschetter, his second in as many seasons. Competing at the Summit Arena at the Monument Feb. 27, 28 and March 1, T...

Losses to Avon, Gavyille-Volin put blemish on otherwise solid season, but head coach Jenny Peters says the Flyers rose to this year’s challenge If they were looking ahead — which coaches preach against — then the Freeman High School girls were all season long looking up at two favorites, not only in...

Scotland/Menno wins seven of final nine, including Region 5A battle against Bon Homme; Schlimgen says the standard has now been set Head coach Todd Schlimgen had said it repeatedly over the course of the past three-plus months: For the new Scotland/Menno girls basketball team, this will be, is, and ...

Young Freeman Academy/Marion team finishes season 3-16 JEREMY WALTNER  -  PUBLISHER The 2024-25 basketball campaign started well enough for the Freeman Academy/Marion girls. The Bearcats breezed past Parker for a 41-11 win on the opening night of the season Dec. 5 and then blew away Colome 37-6 two ...

The Freeman Academy/Marion boys fell behind 12-0 and never recovered in the opening round of the Region 4B Tournament, dropping a 68-47 game to Irene-Wakonda in Irene Monday night, Feb. 3. The Eagles, the No. 8 seed, improved to 9-12 and will face top-seed Viborg-Hurley in the second round. The Bear...

Three-day state tournament begins Thursday in Rapid City Three minutes and 45 seconds. That’s how long Easton Tschetter was on the mat during last week’s Region 2B Wrestling Tournament in Salem, and in that time, he recorded three pins and a championship in what can only be described as total domina...

A wrestler Easton Tschetter hadn’t seen before — Britton-Hecla junior Bryce Hawkinson — muscled his way to a 7-2 decision over the Freeman freshman in the 144 lb. seventh-place match late Saturday morning, March 1 — the final day of the three-day State Wrestling Tournament in Rapid City. This is the...