Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media, Author at Big Sioux Media Sports Network

Dell Rapids Legion Splits Two Games

June 18, 2020 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

The Dell Rapids Legion baseball team split two road games played earlier in the week. On Monday, June 15th, Dell Rapids traveled to Vermillion and fell by a score of 6-2. Dell Rapids bounced back for a big 12-0 win in Volga on Wednesday, June 17th.

Vermillion scored the first six runs by scoring a pair of runs in the bottom of the first, third, and fifth innings. Dell Rapids was able to get a couple of runs in the top of the sixth inning on an RBI groundout by Brandon Geraets and an RBI single by Jake Steineke.

Logan Stone and Noah Swartwout both had two hits in the game. Ty Wood, Steineke, and Kaeden Eastman also collected a hit.

Swartwout took the loss pitching the first four innings. He gave up five runs, three earned, on three hits with three walks and four strikeouts. Stone pitched the final two innings giving up an unearned run on three hits with a strikeout.

Dell Rapids’ offense was on fire in Volga on Wednesday. After a scoreless first inning, Dell Rapids erupted for six runs in the top of the second inning, added four more runs in the top of the fourth, and two runs in the top of the fifth inning. The game ended on the 10-run rule after the fifth inning.

Ten different players had hits in the game for Dell Rapids. Stone, Eastman, and Drew Van Regenmorter all had two hits each. Geraets, Steineke, Brady Larson, Bryce Sommerfeld, Logan Ellingson, Riley Peter, and Mason Goeken all had a hit. Peter finished with three RBIs. Ellingson had two RBIs. Eastman, Geraets, Larson, Swartwout, Van Regenmorter, and Sommerfeld all had one RBI each.

Steineke started on the mound pitching one inning giving up no hits and had three strikeouts. Larson pitched the final four innings to earn the win giving up no runs on five hits with one walk and six strikeouts.

Dell Rapids (3-2) will host Humboldt/Hartford on Friday, June 19th. There will be two games starting at 5:30 p.m. at Rickemand Field.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Dell Rapids	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	7	3
Vermillion	2	0	2	0	2	0	X	6	6	1

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Dell Rapids	0	6	0	4	2	X	X	12	13	0
Volga	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	0	5	2

Frederick Martin

June 17, 2020 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

Frederick (Fred) Martin, passed away from complications due to Renal Cell Carcinoma on May 21, 2020. He was in the VA Hospital in Tucson, Arizona.

Fred was born in Dell Rapids on May 15, 1939, to the parents of Fred and Sally Martin. He graduated from Dell Rapids High School in 1957.

Then went on to join the Navy. He met our mother, Helen, in Bainbridge, Maryland. They married and had three daughters. Dad loved the Tucson area and had resided there for over 40 years. He owned a Chevron Station in Tucson Estates for a number of years. Then became a Business Broker. Eventually retiring from the State of Arizona.

Dad was preceded in death by his parents, Fred and Sally Martin (Giacchero), our mom, Helen Howard; step-mom, Jeanne Martin;
longtime partner, Monta Phillips; daughter, Kathy Black, grandson, Latti Rose Jr.; and brother, Richard Martin.

He leaves behind his daughters, Laurie (Latti) Rose and Patty Martin; his sister, Kathy Magness and brother, Robert (Sue) Martin; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

Donations in memory of Dad may be made to the Fisher House, Tucson Arizona.

He was so grateful for all the love and care provided by the Fisher House to his Family over the last 1 – 1/2 years.

A Memorial Service will be determined at later date.

www.kahlerfh.com

BXCC Job Openings

June 17, 2020 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

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Dell Rapids 15/16s Fall to Madison Maroon

June 16, 2020 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

The Dell Rapids 15/16 Teener team played another home game on Monday, June 15th, this time hosting Madison Maroon. Madison went home the victors with a 10-5 win.

Madison pushed across a run on back-to-back hits, one a double and one a single, in the top of the first inning. Dell Rapids took the lead in the bottom of the second inning by a score of 2-1 after three straight hits by Aiden Boechler, Dylan Mathis, and CJ Smith. Madison regained the lead in the top of the third inning after plating two runs to lead 3-2. Brayden Pankonen singled and later scored in the bottom of the third inning to tie the game 3-3. Madison, however, would go ahead for good in the top of the fourth inning after scoring five times to lead 8-3. Dell Rapids did get two more runs in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI triple by Landon Ruesink, who then scored later in the inning. Madison put the game out of reach in the top of the seventh with two more runs.

Boechler finished the game with two hits. Pankonen, Ruesink, Mathis, Smith, and Matthew Goeken all had one hit in the game.

Dell Rapids (3-2) will host Salem on Wednesday, June 17th, at 7:00 p.m.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Madison Maroon	1	0	2	5	0	0	2	10	13	1
Dell Rapids	0	2	1	0	0	2	0	5	7	4

PBR Remains Unbeaten in League Play

June 15, 2020 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

Dell Rapids PBR gave up five runs in the bottom of the first inning to Flandreau, but outscored Flandreau 9-1 the rest of the game for a 9-6 win on Sunday, June 14th in Flandreau.

Flandreau’s first four batters scored in the bottom of the first inning after a two singles, a walk, and a grand slam home run. Flandreau added one more run on an error for a 5-0 lead. PBR scored two runs in the top of the second as Beau Behrend and Teigen Lindner scored in the inning. PBR pulled within a run at 5-4 in the top of 3rd after Carter Gullickson scored on an error, and Matt Gillogly scored on a sacrifice fly by Behrend. Flandreau pushed the lead to 6-4 in the bottom of the sixth inning on a PBR error, but PBR took the lead with three runs in the top of the seventh on an RBI single by Gullickson, RBI sacrifice fly by Gillogly, and RBI single by Aaron Hansen. Two more runs came across for PBR in the top of the ninth on a two-run triple by Gillogly.

Gillogly finished with three hits and four RBI in the game for PBR. Riley Hoffman, Gullickson, and Hansen all had two hits each. Lindner, Jake Rechtenbaugh, and Keegan Miller also had hits. Gullickson, Hansen, Behrend, and Rechtenbaugh all had an RBI as well.

Tanner Olmstead pitched the first five innings giving up six runs, four earned, on six hits with six walks and seven strikeouts. Gillogly picked up the win in relief pitching four innings giving up just one hit and two walks while striking out five batters.

PBR (4-1, 3-0) will host Madison on Thursday, June 18th at 7:30 p.m.

Dell Rapids School District Preparing for Different Fall Scenarios

June 14, 2020 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

Dr. Summer Schultz, the Dell Rapids School District Superintendent, along with a “Return to Learn” committee and her administrative team are helping make plans for three different scenarios to the starts of the 2020-2021 school year.

“We’re planning three different re-entries. We’re classifying different categories of our school day, say operations, staff, attendance, calendar, busing, food service, cafeteria. We’re creating different levels for each of those categories. We know that even if we were fortunate enough to start school at a real low restrictive category, we call that a level one, meaning it’s as back to normal as we can get for any child who can. We also know that in a moment’s time, or with a quick exposure burst in our community with community spread, we could have to go from a level one of less restrictive to a level three of virtual depending on just how our community moves through this transition time. So we are creating options for all three levels,” said Dr. Schultz.

She mentioned that the plan right now is to hopefully bring kids to the school in a normal setting. However, she mentioned there are some guidelines that will have to be followed from the Center of Disease Control (CDC).

The level two portion is a hybrid of level one and three. Staff is going to be embedding a virtual component of learning for this coming fall.

“We also know that in every classroom, we have to embed a virtual component, because either we will have those medically fragile students who need to be at home and receive their instruction, or worst-case scenario is we have another virtual instruction for everyone, and we need to plan for some where in between all of that, knowing we could switch back and forth. So we have been doing some research on what that looks like, some devices that maybe can help kids who are receiving instructions at home be more part of a classroom setting. We’ve done a lot of work, and this committee will try to kind of fine tune that, bring it all in, and help me communicate it to the public once we get a little farther down the road,” said Schultz.

With all of the planning for the different scenarios for the start of the new school, Dr. Schultz at this time didn’t anticipate any major changes to the 2020-2021 school calendar that has already been approved. However, she did mention that if circumstances change as they did in the spring, the calendar could also change.

Dell Rapids 15/16s Win Two of Three During Weekend Games

June 14, 2020 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

The Dell Rapids 15/16 Teener team played three games in less than 24 hours at Rickeman Field in Dell Rapids. The boys hosted Chancellor during the evening on Friday, June 12th, and then hosted Vermillion for two games during the afternoon on Saturday, June 13th.

Dell Rapids scored in every inning to earn a 13-3 win on the 10-run rule in five innings. Dell Rapids scored five runs on hits by Landon Ruesink, Dylan Mathis, CJ Smith, Will Jaton, and Joe Rechtenbaugh in the bottom of the first inning for a 5-0 lead. Dell Rapids added another run on hits by Aiden Boechler and Caleb Kittelson in the second inning. Another run came across in the third inning on a hit by Braden Fersdahl to give Dell Rapids a 7-0 lead. Chancellor scored three runs in the top of the fourth, but Dell Rapids answered with a run in the bottom of the inning as Kittelson collected his second hit of the game. Dell Rapids then scored five times on seven walks in the bottom of the fifth inning to end the game and collect the win.

On another great day for baseball, Dell Rapids split a double-header with Vermillion on Saturday afternoon. The first game was back and forth and saw Vermillion score seven runs in the top of the seventh inning to get a 14-11 come-from-behind win.

Vermillion scored a run in the top of the first, but Dell Rapids answered in the bottom of the inning with two runs for 2-1 lead. Vermillion added four runs in the top of the third and one more in the top of the fourth for a 6-2 lead. Dell Rapids got the offense going as they scored a run in the bottom of the fourth and seven in the bottom of the fifth to take a 10-6 lead. Both teams scored a run in the sixth inning as Dell Rapids led 11-7 heading into the seventh inning. Vermillion then scored seven times and held Dell Rapids in the bottom of the inning for the win.

Brayden Pankonen had three hits in the game. Kittelson and Ruesink each had two hits. Boechler, Mathis, Smith, and Brady Larson all had a hit in the game as well.

Dell Rapids did not let the setback linger between games. They bounced back in the second game with a big 11-0 win on the 10-run rule in five innings to earn the split against Vermillion.

Dell Rapids scored five runs in the first, two in the second, and four more in the third inning for the victory.

Pankonen and Ruesink each had two more hits, Boechler picked up two hits, and Kittelson, Mathis, Jaton, Smith, and Larson all had a hit in the second game.

Dell Rapids (3-1) will host Madison Maroon on Monday, June 15th at Rickeman Field at 7:00 p.m.

PBR Opens Cornbelt Season with Two Wins

June 12, 2020 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

Photo taken and used with permission by Tammy Chamley, Dells City Journal

The Cornbelt League amateur baseball season got underway on Sunday, June 7th for this year. Dell Rapids PBR played two league games during the week and won both of them to start the league season at 2-0.

On Sunday, June 7th, PBR hosted the Canova Gang at Rickeman Field. PBR scored the first six runs and went on to get the win 6-1.

Aaron Hansen got the scoring started in the bottom of the third with a one-out, two-run triple. Weston Hanson followed with an RBI single to give PBR a 3-0 lead. PBR got another run in the bottom of the fourth on a Canova error to push the lead to 4-0. Matt Gillogly added a two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth for a 6-0 lead. Canova scored their run on a bases-loaded walk in top of the eight inning.

Gillogly had three hits and two RBI. Riley Hoffman also had three hits. Tanner Solberg finished with two hits. A. Hansen had a hit with two RBI, and W. Hanson had a hit with an RBI. Hoffman pitched the first seven innings to earn the win. He gave up no runs on four hits with one walk and four strikeouts. Tanner Olmstead pitched an inning giving up an unearned run on three walks and a strikeout. Brett Mogen pitched the final inning striking out two batters.

PBR continued league play on Thursday, June 11th as they hosted the Colman A’s. A three-run first inning is all PBR needed for a 3-0 victory to move to 2-0 in league play.

Solberg drove a triple to center field scoring Hoffman. Gillogly followed that with his second home run of the week. Gillogly hit a two-run home run to right field to give PBR the 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning.

Mogen pitched a complete-game gem giving up just four hits while striking out 17 Colman A’s batters.

Gillogly, W. Hanson, Beau Behrend, and Nate McKee all had two hits in the game. Hoffman and Solberg both finished with a hit.

PBR (3-0) will travel to Flandreau on Sunday, June 14th. First pitch is scheduled for 5:00 p.m.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Canova	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	3
Dell Rapids	0	0	3	1	0	2	0	0	X	6	10	2

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Colman	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
Dell Rapids	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	3	10	1

Dell Rapids Legion Adds Another Road Win

June 11, 2020 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

The Dell Rapids Legion baseball team took to the road for the second game in a row on Wednesday, June 10th. They traveled to Beresford for the second game of a double-header after the 15/16 teener game.

Beresford scored first in the bottom of the first inning on a Dell Rapids error for an early 1-0 lead. Dell Rapids tied the game in the top of the second on an RBI single by Logan Ellingson scoring Kaeden Eastman. Dell Rapids took the lead for good in the top of the third inning. Logan Stone hit an RBI single scoring Landon Ruesink. Stone later scored on an RBI groundout by Noah Swartwout. Drew Van Regenmorter added an RBI single scoring Brandon Geraets for a 4-1 lead. Beresford cut the lead to one in the bottom of the fourth inning after scoring two runs to make the score 4-3. The score remained 4-3 until the top of the seventh. Dell Rapids added three more runs on an RBI walk to Swartwout, an RBI walk to Ty Wood, and Eastman scoring on an wild pitch. Dell Rapids held Beresford scoreless in the seventh for the 7-3 victory.

Logan Stone finished with two hits, two runs scored, and an RBI. Geraets also had two hits and two runs scored. Ellingson also collected two hits and an RBI. Van Regenmorter and Wood both had a hit and RBI. Jake Steineke also had a hit.

Stone also pitched five innings in a great game on the mound to earn the win. He gave up three runs, two earned, on four hits with one walk and three strikeouts. Steineke pitched the final two innings giving up just one hit and striking out three.

Dell Rapids (2-1) travels to Vermillion on Monday, June 15th for their next game.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Dell Rapids	0	1	3	0	0	0	3	7	9	2
Beresford	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	5	2

15/16 Teeners Open Season with Road Win

June 11, 2020 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

Having to wait an extra day to start their season due to a weather cancellation, the Dell Rapids 15/16 teener team played their first game of the season on the road in Beresford on Wednesday, June 10th. Dell Rapids wasted no time scoring runs on their way to an 11-6 victory.

Dell Rapids scored a run in each of the first two innings and then scored four times in the top of the third innings for an early 6-0 lead. Beresford got on the board in the bottom of the third, but was limited to just one run as Dell Rapids lead 6-1 after three innings of play. Dell Rapids added two more runs after CJ Smith and Joe Rechtenbaugh scored in the top of the fourth inning. Beresford made a rally in the bottom of the inning scoring four times to pull within three at 8-5. Dell Rapids would again add two more runs in the top of the fifth inning to push the lead back to five at 10-5. Each team added another run in the sixth inning as Dell Rapids held on for the win.

Brayden Pankonen finished the game with three hits and two runs scored. CJ Smith finished with two hits. Caleb Kittleson had a double. Landon Ruesink, Aiden Boechler, and Dylan Mathis all had hits in the game as well.

Ruesink pitched the first 2 1/3 innings giving up one unearned run on no hits with four walks and six strikeouts. Smith pitched one inning giving up four runs, all earned, on two hits with two walks and a strikeout. Pankonen pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up no runs on one hit while striking out two. Brady Larson pitched the final two innings giving up an earned run on one hit with one walk and two strikeouts.

Dell Rapids (1-0) will host Chancellor on Friday at 7:00 p.m. and then host Vermillion in two games on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. All three games will be at Rickeman Field.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Dell Rapids	1	1	4	2	2	1	0	11	7	1
Beresford	0	0	1	4	0	1	0	6	5	3

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