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Tuesday, 6.18.13 ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net SPORTS DEPARTMENT: [email protected] 7 PRESS DAKOTAN sports BY JEREMY HOECK [email protected] VERMILLION — Dylan Fis- chbach has checked off yet an- other prestigious highlight on his athletic resume. Fischbach, a graduate this spring from Vermillion High School who lost his right leg after a bout with cancer before his third birthday, was one of 12 players selected for the 2013 USA Men’s Under-23 Wheelchair Bas- ketball Team on Saturday. Fischbach, 18, originally thought he was going to get cut from the team, he said, based on his shooting performance in scrimmages during a 5-day train- ing camp last week in Birming- ham, Ala. Instead, he was informed of the good news. “When they brought me in to their little cottage, they started off with everything I didn’t do well,” he said Monday. “It got me really nervous. But our coach looked at me and said, ‘Let me put you out of your misery, you’re going to Turkey.’ “It was a big feeling of relief.” Fischbach, the second- youngest player on the team, will leave in late August for the Inter- national Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) U23 World Championships, set for Sept. 5-15 in Adana, Turkey. The roster was selected after two rounds of tryouts. The first, held in May at the Olympic Train- ing Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., narrowed the list from 40 players down to 18. Last week in Alabama, that number was trimmed to 12 — the remaining six will serve as alternates. To have Fischbach join an older team makes his selection even more impressive, according to his father, Bruce, who will serve as the team’s athletic trainer. “It’s essentially a college team,” Bruce said Monday. “He’s going against kids that are going to be college seniors. You go into something like that expecting to see talented players, but I was blown away. “It more than exceeded what I expected.” Though he is rather young for the team, Dylan Fischbach is no stranger to high-level competi- tion. He led Team USA to a gold medal at the Australian Youth Paralympic Games in 2009. He later won two national champi- onships with the Nebraska Red Dawgs, followed by a second- place finish earlier this year. At the Alabama training camp, however, Dylan was faced with in- ternational rules: a 24-second shot clock and an 8-second back- court rule, not to mention accel- erated play. “It’s definitely a quicker pace than the high school game, the defense has quicker hands and everyone is bigger,” he said. “It’s something we’ll adjust to.” The players also had to adjust to 3-a-day practices on Wednes- day, Thursday, Friday and Satur- day, Bruce said. At the training camp, Dylan was also faced with international rules: a 24-second shot clock and an 8-second back- court rule, not to mention accel- erated play. Speed wasn’t the only notice- The Yankton Phitens won the U-11 girls’ division at the Yankton Invitational soccer tournament, which con- cluded on Sunday. Team members include (front) Jaiden Boomsma, Payton Wolfgram, Ava Manning, Madi- son Schroeder, (middle) Madison Wuebben, Morgan Strahl, Kylie Bochman, Molly Vornhagen, Lexi Rust, coach Warren Brenner, (back) coach Laurie Brenner and coach Jane Bochman. Not pictured are Lilliana Dannenbring, Sadie Fedders, Emma Christensen and coach Lisa Wolfgram. The Yankton Lakers went 3-1 to win the Bob Deery Classic VFW Teener baseball tournament, which concluded on Sat- urday. Team members include: (front) Jordan Payor, Hunter Cameron, Justin Leader, (middle) Jordan Kathol Micheal Heine, Chase Vogt Drew Wenande, coach Zach Johnson, (back) coach Alex Mueller, Nate Stephenson, Nathan Hein, Kade Larson and Tyler Strahl. Baseball: Lakers First At Deery Classic Iverson Enjoys Life On The Road As NBA Draft Looms Fischbach Named To USA Team BY JEREMY HOECK [email protected] Colton Iverson is putting to- gether quite the geographic foot- print. The 23-year-old Yankton native has been criss-crossing the coun- try to meet with teams in advance of the NBA Draft on June 27 in Brooklyn, N.Y. “It’s very enjoy- able, especially when you think about the payoff you could get,” Iverson said Mon- day evening from the airport in Portland, Ore., fol- lowing a workout with the Trail Blazers. “I’m loving every minute of it, traveling around the country, working out in different facilities where so many superstars have played at.” Iverson has already worked out for Boston, Chicago, Cleve- land, Dallas, Denver, Houston, In- diana, Los Angeles (Lakers and Clippers), Memphis, Philadelphia, Portland, Oklahoma City and Utah. Following Monday’s stop in Portland, Iverson has meetings scheduled for later this week with Phoenix, Minnesota and San Anto- nio. A first team All-Mountain West Conference player last season as a senior at Colorado State, Iver- son is projected by a number of websites to be selected in next week’s draft. The mock draft on DraftEx- press.com, updated last week, has Iverson being taken by the Dallas Mavericks in the second round with the 44th pick. In the most recent mock draft on NBADraft.net, Iverson is listed as going to the Minnesota Timber- wolves in the second round with the 52nd pick. Still, Iverson is not taking any- thing for granted, he said Mon- day. “The workouts are going well, and we’re getting good feedback,” he said. “Obviously you’re never guaranteed anything in this process, you just have to go out and give it your all.” The Press & Dakotan will have more on Iverson’s journey to the NBA next week. You can follow Jeremy Hoeck on Twitter at twitter.com/ jhoeck Iverson JAMES D. CIMBUREK/P&D Yankton Black Sox pitcher Mason Townsend sends the ball home during the opening game of the team's doubleheader with Tabor on Monday at Yankton's Riverside Field. P HITENS WIN T ITLE A T Y ANKTON I NV . P&D FILE PHOTO Vermillion’s Dylan Fischbach is pictured during a Nebraska Red Dawgs wheelchair exhibition in January during halftime of a University of South Dakota men’s basketball game. Fischbach was chosen to play for the 2013 USA Men’s U23 Wheelchair Basketball Team. Vermillion Wheelchair Standout One Of 12 Players Chosen, Will Play In Turkey FISCHBACH | PAGE 8 L AKERS WIN B OB D EERY C LASSIC OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — It’s one down and three to go for Oregon State. The No. 3 national seed Beavers stayed alive at the College World Series on Monday, beating Louisville 11-4 after a seven-run fourth inning broke open the game. Oregon State won national champi- onships the last two times it played in Omaha, in 2006 and ‘07, and coach Pat Casey’s first title team did it the hard way. The Beavers (51-12) face the same challenge as that 2006 team, having to win four straight after losing their CWS opener to reach the best-of-three finals. Next up is Indiana or Mississippi State on Wednesday. Casey said he’s careful not to compare this year’s team to the 2006 squad, though the situation makes it seem un- avoidable. “They’re all different clubs, they’re dif- ferent personnel,” Casey said. “I think they’ve got a pretty good understanding of what it is they have to do. We talk about things that this team needs to do, and they usually respond.” The Pac-12 champion Beavers won conference series against Oregon and fel- low CWS participant UCLA after losing the first games of series. In a super regional, they bounced back from a Game 1 loss to beat Kansas State. Oregon State enjoyed a stress-free af- ternoon against the Cardinals (51-14), who committed four errors against the Beavers and 13 in their last six games. Ben Wetzler (10-1) allowed three runs in 6 1-3 innings while Louisville starter Jeff Thompson (11-2) lasted 3 2-3 innings, with three of the seven runs against him un- earned. Oregon State scored the most runs al- lowed by Louisville this season. It was the highest-scoring game at the CWS in the three years it’s been played at TD Ameri- trade Park. “It takes a little edge off the players if they can get a win in Omaha,” Casey said. “No one on this club has ever won a game here. So I think it was good to see them relax a little bit.” Andy Peterson went 3 for 4 and Max Gordon had two hits and two RBIs out of the No. 9 hole for the Beavers. The Cards were 1-2 in their only other Omaha appearance, in 2007. “We came here with the expectation to win the whole thing, and that’s why it hurts,” Cards coach Dan McDonnell said. “I told the guys one day we will win a na- tional championship at Louisville. The ‘07 team got us on the map and we’ve been in regionals six of the last seven years. This team made a strong statement. I challenged them to leave their mark on Louisville baseball, and they did.” The Cardinals ranked a respectable 76th out of 296 Division I teams in fielding after the regular season, but they com- mitted two or more errors in five of their last six games. No. 3 Oregon State Sends Louisville Packing With 11-4 CWS Win The Yankton Lakers went 3-1 to win the Bob Deery Classic VFW Teener base- ball tournament, which concluded on Sat- urday at Riverside Field. Yankton and Blair each went 3-1, with the Lakers earning the title by virtue of their Friday night victory over the Slug- gers. Vermillion and Mitchell each went 2-2 on the weekend. Sioux Falls Central was 0-4. LAKERS 4, VERMILLION 0: Tyler Strahl ahd two hits, a RBI and a run scored, and Jordan Kathol had two hits and a run scored as Yankton won the final game of the tournament. Jordan Payer also had two hits. Michael Heine and Hunter Cameron each had a hit and a run scored. Justin Leader added a hit and a RBI in the victory. Cameron picked up the win. MITCHELL BLACK 12, LAKERS 1: Michael Heine and Tyler Strahl each had two hits for Yankton. Jordan Payer had a hit and a run scored. Chase Vogt added a hit and a RBI. Nate Stephenson took the loss. LAKERS 9, BLAIR 1: Nate Stephenson had two hits, two runs scored and a RBI as Yankton started the tournament 2-0 on Friday. Also for Yankton, Jordan Kathol and Michael Heine each had a hit and two runs scored. Drew Wenande had a hit and a run scored. Chase Vogt and Hunter Cameron each scored runs. Nathan Hein added a hit. Kathol picked up the win. LAKERS 11, S.F. CENTRAL 4: Chase Vogt had two hits, two RBI and two runs scored, and Kade Larson had a hit, two RBI and a run scored to lead Yankton to an opening victory. Hunter Cameron had a hit, a RBI and a run scored. Nathan Heine had a hit and two runs scored. Jordan Payer also scored twice. Nate Stephenson had a hit and a run scored in the win. Nathan Hein picked up the victory. Amateur Wynot 6, Avon 2 AVON — Lee Heimes and Scott Heine each had three hits as Wynot downed Avon 6-2 in South Central League amateur baseball action on Sunday. Heimes’ three hits included a home run, a double and two RBI. Heine had a double and a RBI with his three hits. Matt Hames added two hits and a RBI in the win. For Avon, Jeff Tolsma had three hits, Jesse Hajek had two hits and a RBI, and Dan Bures homered. Scott Morrison pitched the first seven innings, striking out five for the win. Joe Sees took the loss. WYNOT.......................................................................... 6 11 0 AVON............................................................................... 2 9 3 Scott Morrison, Lee Heimes (8) and Steve Heimes; Joe Sees and Dan Bures Freeman 12, Menno 6 MENNO — The Freeman Black Sox drew 10 walks and got five RBI from Lee Scherschligt in a 12-6 victory over Menno in South Central League amateur action Sunday night. Austin Smidt picked up the win in relief for Freeman (2- 5). Ben Fischer doubled twice, singled and drove in two BASEBALL | PAGE 8
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Tuesday, 6.18.13ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net
SPORTS DEPARTMENT: [email protected] 7PRESS DAKOTANsports
BY JEREMY [email protected]
VERMILLION — Dylan Fis-chbach has checked off yet an-other prestigious highlight on hisathletic resume.
Fischbach, a graduate thisspring from Vermillion HighSchool who lost his right leg aftera bout with cancer before histhird birthday, was one of 12players selected for the 2013 USAMen’s Under-23 Wheelchair Bas-ketball Team on Saturday.
Fischbach, 18, originallythought he was going to get cutfrom the team, he said, based onhis shooting performance inscrimmages during a 5-day train-ing camp last week in Birming-ham, Ala. Instead, he wasinformed of the good news.
“When they brought me in totheir little cottage, they startedoff with everything I didn’t dowell,” he said Monday. “It got mereally nervous. But our coachlooked at me and said, ‘Let meput you out of your misery,you’re going to Turkey.’
“It was a big feeling of relief.”Fischbach, the second-
youngest player on the team, willleave in late August for the Inter-national Wheelchair BasketballFederation (IWBF) U23 WorldChampionships, set for Sept. 5-15in Adana, Turkey.
The roster was selected aftertwo rounds of tryouts. The first,held in May at the Olympic Train-ing Center in Colorado Springs,Colo., narrowed the list from 40players down to 18. Last week inAlabama, that number wastrimmed to 12 — the remainingsix will serve as alternates.
To have Fischbach join anolder team makes his selectioneven more impressive, accordingto his father, Bruce, who willserve as the team’s athletictrainer.
“It’s essentially a collegeteam,” Bruce said Monday. “He’sgoing against kids that are goingto be college seniors. You go intosomething like that expecting tosee talented players, but I wasblown away.
“It more than exceeded what Iexpected.”
Though he is rather young forthe team, Dylan Fischbach is nostranger to high-level competi-tion. He led Team USA to a goldmedal at the Australian YouthParalympic Games in 2009. Helater won two national champi-onships with the Nebraska RedDawgs, followed by a second-place finish earlier this year.
At the Alabama training camp,however, Dylan was faced with in-ternational rules: a 24-secondshot clock and an 8-second back-court rule, not to mention accel-erated play.
“It’s definitely a quicker pacethan the high school game, thedefense has quicker hands andeveryone is bigger,” he said. “It’ssomething we’ll adjust to.”
The players also had to adjustto 3-a-day practices on Wednes-day, Thursday, Friday and Satur-day, Bruce said. At the trainingcamp, Dylan was also faced withinternational rules: a 24-secondshot clock and an 8-second back-court rule, not to mention accel-erated play.
Speed wasn’t the only notice-
The Yankton Phitens won the U-11 girls’ division at the Yankton Invitational soccer tournament, which con-cluded on Sunday. Team members include (front) Jaiden Boomsma, Payton Wolfgram, Ava Manning, Madi-son Schroeder, (middle) Madison Wuebben, Morgan Strahl, Kylie Bochman, Molly Vornhagen, Lexi Rust,coach Warren Brenner, (back) coach Laurie Brenner and coach Jane Bochman. Not pictured are LillianaDannenbring, Sadie Fedders, Emma Christensen and coach Lisa Wolfgram.
The Yankton Lakers went 3-1 to win the Bob Deery Classic VFW Teener baseball tournament, which concluded on Sat-urday. Team members include: (front) Jordan Payor, Hunter Cameron, Justin Leader, (middle) Jordan Kathol MichealHeine, Chase Vogt Drew Wenande, coach Zach Johnson, (back) coach Alex Mueller, Nate Stephenson, Nathan Hein,Kade Larson and Tyler Strahl.
Baseball: Lakers First At Deery Classic
Iverson EnjoysLife On The
Road As NBADraft Looms
Fischbach Named To USA Team
BY JEREMY [email protected]
Colton Iverson is putting to-gether quite the geographic foot-print.
The 23-year-old Yankton nativehas been criss-crossing the coun-try to meet withteams in advanceof the NBA Drafton June 27 inBrooklyn, N.Y.
“It’s very enjoy-able, especiallywhen you thinkabout the payoffyou could get,”Iverson said Mon-day evening fromthe airport in Portland, Ore., fol-lowing a workout with the TrailBlazers.
“I’m loving every minute of it,traveling around the country,working out in different facilitieswhere so many superstars haveplayed at.”
Iverson has already workedout for Boston, Chicago, Cleve-land, Dallas, Denver, Houston, In-diana, Los Angeles (Lakers andClippers), Memphis, Philadelphia,Portland, Oklahoma City andUtah.
Following Monday’s stop inPortland, Iverson has meetingsscheduled for later this week withPhoenix, Minnesota and San Anto-nio.
A first team All-Mountain WestConference player last season asa senior at Colorado State, Iver-son is projected by a number ofwebsites to be selected in nextweek’s draft.
The mock draft on DraftEx-press.com, updated last week,has Iverson being taken by theDallas Mavericks in the secondround with the 44th pick.
In the most recent mock drafton NBADraft.net, Iverson is listedas going to the Minnesota Timber-wolves in the second round withthe 52nd pick.
Still, Iverson is not taking any-thing for granted, he said Mon-day.
“The workouts are going well,and we’re getting good feedback,”he said. “Obviously you’re neverguaranteed anything in thisprocess, you just have to go outand give it your all.”
The Press & Dakotan will havemore on Iverson’s journey to theNBA next week.
You can follow Jeremy Hoeckon Twitter at twitter.com/jhoeck
Iverson
JAMES D. CIMBUREK/P&DYankton Black Sox pitcher Mason Townsend sends the ball home during the openinggame of the team's doubleheader with Tabor on Monday at Yankton's Riverside Field.
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P&D FILE PHOTOVermillion’s Dylan Fischbach is pictured during a Nebraska Red Dawgs wheelchair exhibition in January duringhalftime of a University of South Dakota men’s basketball game. Fischbach was chosen to play for the 2013USA Men’s U23 Wheelchair Basketball Team.
Vermillion Wheelchair Standout One Of12 Players Chosen, Will Play In Turkey
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LAKERSWINBOBDEERYCLASSIC
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — It’s one downand three to go for Oregon State.
The No. 3 national seed Beaversstayed alive at the College World Serieson Monday, beating Louisville 11-4 after aseven-run fourth inning broke open thegame.
Oregon State won national champi-onships the last two times it played inOmaha, in 2006 and ‘07, and coach PatCasey’s first title team did it the hard way.
The Beavers (51-12) face the samechallenge as that 2006 team, having towin four straight after losing their CWSopener to reach the best-of-three finals.Next up is Indiana or Mississippi State onWednesday.
Casey said he’s careful not to compare
this year’s team to the 2006 squad,though the situation makes it seem un-avoidable.
“They’re all different clubs, they’re dif-ferent personnel,” Casey said. “I thinkthey’ve got a pretty good understandingof what it is they have to do. We talkabout things that this team needs to do,and they usually respond.”
The Pac-12 champion Beavers wonconference series against Oregon and fel-low CWS participant UCLA after losing thefirst games of series. In a super regional,they bounced back from a Game 1 loss tobeat Kansas State.
Oregon State enjoyed a stress-free af-ternoon against the Cardinals (51-14), whocommitted four errors against the Beavers
and 13 in their last six games.Ben Wetzler (10-1) allowed three runs
in 6 1-3 innings while Louisville starter JeffThompson (11-2) lasted 3 2-3 innings, withthree of the seven runs against him un-earned.
Oregon State scored the most runs al-lowed by Louisville this season. It was thehighest-scoring game at the CWS in thethree years it’s been played at TD Ameri-trade Park.
“It takes a little edge off the players ifthey can get a win in Omaha,” Casey said.“No one on this club has ever won agame here. So I think it was good to seethem relax a little bit.”
Andy Peterson went 3 for 4 and MaxGordon had two hits and two RBIs out of
the No. 9 hole for the Beavers.The Cards were 1-2 in their only other
Omaha appearance, in 2007.“We came here with the expectation to
win the whole thing, and that’s why ithurts,” Cards coach Dan McDonnell said.“I told the guys one day we will win a na-tional championship at Louisville. The ‘07team got us on the map and we’ve beenin regionals six of the last seven years.This team made a strong statement. Ichallenged them to leave their mark onLouisville baseball, and they did.”
The Cardinals ranked a respectable76th out of 296 Division I teams in fieldingafter the regular season, but they com-mitted two or more errors in five of theirlast six games.
No. 3 Oregon State Sends Louisville Packing With 11-4 CWS Win
The Yankton Lakers went 3-1 to winthe Bob Deery Classic VFW Teener base-ball tournament, which concluded on Sat-urday at Riverside Field.
Yankton and Blair each went 3-1, withthe Lakers earning the title by virtue oftheir Friday night victory over the Slug-gers.
Vermillion and Mitchell each went 2-2on the weekend. Sioux Falls Central was0-4.
LAKERS 4, VERMILLION 0: TylerStrahl ahd two hits, a RBI and a runscored, and Jordan Kathol had two hitsand a run scored as Yankton won the finalgame of the tournament.
Jordan Payer also had two hits.Michael Heine and Hunter Cameron eachhad a hit and a run scored. Justin Leaderadded a hit and a RBI in the victory.
Cameron picked up the win.MITCHELL BLACK 12, LAKERS 1:
Michael Heine and Tyler Strahl each hadtwo hits for Yankton. Jordan Payer had ahit and a run scored. Chase Vogt added a
hit and a RBI.Nate Stephenson took the loss.LAKERS 9, BLAIR 1: Nate Stephenson
had two hits, two runs scored and a RBIas Yankton started the tournament 2-0 onFriday.
Also for Yankton, Jordan Kathol andMichael Heine each had a hit and tworuns scored. Drew Wenande had a hit anda run scored. Chase Vogt and HunterCameron each scored runs. Nathan Heinadded a hit.
Kathol picked up the win.LAKERS 11, S.F. CENTRAL 4: Chase
Vogt had two hits, two RBI and two runsscored, and Kade Larson had a hit, twoRBI and a run scored to lead Yankton toan opening victory.
Hunter Cameron had a hit, a RBI and arun scored. Nathan Heine had a hit andtwo runs scored. Jordan Payer alsoscored twice. Nate Stephenson had a hitand a run scored in the win.
Nathan Hein picked up the victory.
AmateurWynot 6, Avon 2
AVON — Lee Heimes and Scott Heine each had threehits as Wynot downed Avon 6-2 in South Central Leagueamateur baseball action on Sunday.
Heimes’ three hits included a home run, a double andtwo RBI. Heine had a double and a RBI with his three hits.Matt Hames added two hits and a RBI in the win.
For Avon, Jeff Tolsma had three hits, Jesse Hajek hadtwo hits and a RBI, and Dan Bures homered.
Scott Morrison pitched the first seven innings, strikingout five for the win. Joe Sees took the loss.WYNOT..........................................................................6 11 0AVON...............................................................................2 9 3
Scott Morrison, Lee Heimes (8) and Steve Heimes; Joe Sees and DanBures
Freeman 12, Menno 6MENNO — The Freeman Black Sox drew 10 walks and
got five RBI from Lee Scherschligt in a 12-6 victory overMenno in South Central League amateur action Sundaynight.
Austin Smidt picked up the win in relief for Freeman (2-5).
Ben Fischer doubled twice, singled and drove in two
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