Queen City Mail from Spearfish, South Dakota • Page 13

Wednesday, Nov. 17, 1982, Queen City Mafl, Page 1J Schlekeway named athletic director rooB I i fr li a BSC left nino 11 iJ and screen committee will be appointed to begin the task of finding a suitable applicant. Mixed emotions By Joe Case Gene Schlekeway says he's leaving the coaching profession with mixed feelings. "I still enjoy coaching and its hard to give up something you've had fun doing for 2t years but I'm looking forward to trying something different," says Schlekeway who has coached at Black Hills State the past IS years. "One thing that I won't miss is all the traveling that I had to do on recruiting trips.

I have problems with my back and long trips aren't very much fun," says Schlekeway who began his coaching career at Amhearst High School in 1955 and then spent the next 12 years at Britton and Watertown high schools before coming to Black Hills State. Schlekeway says that if time permits, he would be willing to continue coaching as an assistant "That would be up to the new football coach and it also would depend on whether I have any teaching assignments," he says. Although BHSC won just two football games this season, Schlekeway feels the program is headed in the right direction. "We're starting to put more money into football now and this should help build up the program," he explains. 1 i QfiU Dr.

J. Gilbert Hause, president of Black Hills State College, announced on Piday, Nov. 12 that Dr. William Jordan, athletic director, and Gene Schlekeway, head football coach, have resigned their respective positions effective on Jan. 1, 19(3.

Hause explained that Jordan's and Schlekeway's resignations would not terminate their employment at the college. Their employment classifications, however, would be changed. Beginning with the spring semester, Jordan will assume his administrative assignment as chairman of the physical education division with teaching responsibilities. This is a position be has held in conjunction with his duties as athletic director since 1967. Schlekeway will become athletic director ni also assume the responsibilities as the college's housing director.

The housing position has been vacant since Dr. William Hauck resigned earlier this fall in order to begin postdoctoral studies at the University of South Dakota. The changes in )ob responsibilities will be accomplished by "ad-minstrative appointment," the prest-dent emphasized. The South Dakota Board of Regents will be informed of these changes of assignment at their next regularly scheduled meeting. to a peak of fourteen teams-including women's athletics-competing in ten sports by 1982.

Regarding the singular assignment as chairman of the physical education division and the appointment of Schlekeway as athletic director, Jordan accepted the challenge. "I look forward to devoting all my administrative time to the development of the physical education division. I am pleased that they have chosen Coach Schlekeway as my replacement-our relationship goes back over 30 years. I'm looking forward to working with him," says Jordan. Schlekeway will rely on over 25 years of coaching and teaching experience to prepare him for his new duties as athletic director and housing director.

"I look forward to assuming those administrative responsibilites he said. "I have enjoyed my working relationship with Bill Jordan during these past 16 years. I plan to continue the concept of a well-rounded athletic program similar to that established by Dr. Jordan," explained the soon to be athletic director. According to college officials, the process of finding a replacement for Schlekeway's position as football coach will begin in the near future.

A search Bill Jordan Reflecting on his past 16 years as athletic Director, Jordan said he was pleased with the success of the overall athletic program at BHSC. It had grown under his direction from an all male sports program consisting of five teams competing in five sports in 1967 op ii Making the trip to Minot will be: (118) Dan Overman, Junior, Casper, (126) Glen Cole, freshman, Douglas, a transfer from the University of Wyoming; (126) Lee Dennis, freshman. Philip; (134) KeUy Heuther, sophomore, Rapid City; (134) Rod Rilling, freshman. Onida; (142) Dennis Rilling, freshman, Onida; (150) Mike Seppala, senior, Newcastle, (150) Doug Tobin, freshman, Groton; (158) Bryan Coggeshall, sophomore. Midwest, (158) Dale DeVries, freshman.

Camp Verdi, Ariz. (177) Delmar Walt, sophomore, Sturgis; and (hwt) Charlie Womack, freshman, Cocoa Beach, Fla. Lettermen Harold Kaiser. 158-pound Junior, and Kelly Hill, 177-pound senior, are both currently sidelined with knee injuries and will not be available the first semester says Hughes. test Yellow Jackets BH wrestlers to The 1962-63 college wrestling season gets underway for Black Hills State this week when the Yellow Jackets compete in both the Cowboy Open at Laramie, and the Minot State Tournament in North Dakota.

Coach Bill Hughes will take two veteran wrestlers to the University of Wyoming's high-powered Cowboy Open Friday and Saturday. The remainder of the team will wrestle in the Minot State Tournament Saturday. Jackets first home action of the season will be the Black Hills State Invitational, Dec. 18. Andy Cazier, 167-pound Junior from Casper, and Mark Kulmus, 190-pound sophomore from Rawlings, will compete at Laramie says Hughes.

Rushmore By Joe Cue Coach Jim Sutherland will test his Black Hills State College men's basketball team against stiff competition Friday and Saturday when the Jackets officially open their season in the Rushmore Classic at the Civic Center in Rapid City. Black Hills meets the University of South Dakota Coyotes at 7 p.m. Friday with South Dakota Tech playing Denver University at 8:45 m. Consolation and championship games will be at 7 and 1:45 p.m. Saturday.

While little is known about the personnel of the USD and Denvei University, both obviously will bring in strong teams. fiDoug Martin, highly-successful coach at Mount Mary College in Yankton -here he earned NA1A District 12. Vxch of the Year honors, has taken over tht USD job this aaaaon. "Doug has brought in some new players that I'm not familiar says Sutherland, "but one thing I do know, USD will be a well-coached team." Sutherland says former BH standout Tom Fedro will probably start at guard for Denver University. South Dakota Tech, while still a young team with just one senior and one Junior on the 15-man roster, is much unproved.

Tech returns four starters from last season including talented sophomores Jeff Pfalzgraf, 6-5 forward, and Chuck Leet, 6-10 center, who give the Rockers a strong inside game. Another returning starter, 6-3 junior guard Steve Wilcox of Lead, provides Tech with an outside scoring threat. Wilcox tossed in three baskets from three-point range r- ti.ft T'" Gene Schlekeway Hause added, These changes in administrative duties are being made in an attempt to equalize the responsibilities in the areas affected. It will allow for a greater emphasis on a quality educational experience for students academically as well as athletically." Classic to during last Saturday's Tech alumni game. Veteran 6-2 senior forward Steve Malone also is back.

Coach Jim Kampen's Hardrockers lost playmaker John Magbuhat by graduation but 5-11 freshman Marshall Runge of Parker has filled the point guard vacancy with outstanding preseason play. Sutherland will probably go with the same lineup that started against the alumni last Saturday: Dave Hohenthal, 6-1 senior, at the point guard; Dave Nord, 6-4 junior, and Brad Buche, 6-5 senior, at the wings; Jeff Olstad, 6-4 junior, at the high post; and Doug Olivier, 6-5 sophomore, at the low post Scott Frederick, 6-7 senior who missed the alumni game with a bad ankle, is expected to be back in action this weekend at the low post Following the Rushmore Classic, BHSC will play at Dickinson State Nov. Next home game is Dec. Chadron State. 1 against Wis ever alumni Jackets captured a 103-93 win over the alumni last week.

Stingers got of to a sizzling start, taking a 6-2 advantage in the first minute and 14 seconds of the game. By halfUme, the varsity had built a 5844 lead. Kim Templeton, BHSC's all-time leading scorer, then led a second-half comeback by the alumni who outscored the varsity 59-45 over the final 20 minutes. Templeton dropped in 15 pqints in the first five minutes of the second half on an assortment of smooth drives to the basket and deadly long-range shooting. He finished the game with 34 points including a pair of three-point shots.

outscore the visitors 15 to I in the third period and 21 to 13 in the final quarter. Hot 44 percent shooting and superior rebounding helped Spearfish pick up the win, the Spartan's first since Oct. 12 when they beat Douglas. Junior guard Stacy Anderson tossed in 16 points to pace the SHS scoring; Libby Hauck added 10 points; and Maggie Tetreault added seven points and 11 rebounds. Hot Springs' All-Black Hills Conference player Leslie DeHeer paced the Bison with 23 points and 10 rebounds.

The win hiked Spearfish's conference record to 4-7 while Hot Springs' mark fell to 5-1. Bison had beaten Spearfish earlier in the season. Spartans' scheduled game with Belle Fourche here last week was reschedul Sports Tom Olson added 17 points for the "old timers" and John Wilkinson and Tom Nicholson added nine and eight points. Buche, who had 20 points, 13 rebounds, four steals nnd five assists, and Olstad, with 16 points, 16 rebounds (11 offensive) and four steals, lead the varsity. Olivier also turned in an impressive performance with 16 points and seven rebounds; Nord added 14 points; and Hohenthal had eight points and six assists.

"I was pleased with our play in the first half but I was real disappointed that we didn't put the alumni away in the second half," says Sutherland. "We Just didn't execute after we got that 24-point lead," says the coach. "The varsity has a good team. They are really tough on the boards," says Templeton. Ranny Duncan and Don Youni serv- alumni coaches with Art a BHSC graduate and former mayor of Spearfish, assisting as honorary coach.

Womea save easy game Coach Jan Strausberger's BHSC varsity women's team turned in an impressive 60-3 victory over their alumnae. Varsity grabbed an early 20-4 advantage and were never challenged by the alumnae coached by Beth Bentley. Carta Stauch, 5-11 senior center, topped the varsity with 22 points and Kathleen Kegel, 5-10 sophomore who shot well from the outside, added 16. Rhonda Kjerstad, 5-10 senior forward, tossed in 15 points. Freshmen Marc la Orwick, 5-9, Newell, and Kayla Rayhill, 5-7, Martin, hit eight and seven points.

Sonja Locken scored 14 points for the alumnae and Kerry Bell had eight. ed for last night. Spartans will play Lead here Friday in the final home game and then close the regular season at Douglas next Tuesday. The Section 8 Tournament will be at Belle Fourche, Nov. 29-30.

Lead currently has a 1-11 league record while Douglas Is 3-9. JV Iris lose Spartan junior varsity dropped a close 39-35 game to Hot Springs after making a big rally that brought them back from a 24-11 halftime deficit. Paula Greenfield scored nine points and grabbed 12 missed shots for Spearfish. Trish Gannon added seven rebounds. Spartans will participate in the Section 8 sophomore tournament at Belle Fourche Saturday.

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prior to the Jacket basketball game with the University of South Dakota at Rapid City Friday. All alumni and other friends of the college are invited to attend the social hour which will be held at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. Last Saturday, the Alumni -Association sponsored a pre-game meal at the Holiday Inn for members of the Stinger men's and women's varsity and alumni basketball teams. ings have Lead playing Sturgis at 11 a.m. and Spearfish meeting Belle at 1 p.m.

Tournament consolation is set for 6 p.m. with the championship to go at 7:30 p.m. Coach Tom Freece has brought up five freshman girls for the tournament. They include: Vonda Delanoyde, Kristy Duncan, Teresa Hickenbotham, Lori Mins and Amity Sprague. Hot Spt.np io ft 4 SpwMi II 18 33 J4 Speitan Kami Stacy Amteson iittb, Hauck 10 Man tetteault Shauna Mo 6 Si'on I nee ihtidt 6 Den.ie Hemey 4 Michelle Woill 4 fnir Caum 1 BhC ytandinp fthioufh Mondari Beile loutche 11-0 Newell 104 $tutts 8S Culler 8 6 Hot Stump 5 8.

Soewtisli 4 7 Douiln 3 9 Uio 1 1 1 Utt tntkt Kvn Cult 52 Itii 42 Bell (om cue 52. NwlliO Stu'4l Douim36 SpaifishS4 Hot Swings 47. Hot Spnnis 69 Int Spearfish Spartan girls break losing streak i WITl I i. I in in "nun ml By Joe Case A 16-day rest worked wonders for the Spearfish Spartan girls basketball team which played Its best all-around game of the season In beating Hot Springs 54-47 here last Friday. The win broke a five-game Spearfish losing streak.

"We used the 10-day layoff to try to develop more aggressive play and it paid off," says Coach Duane Tordoff. "We didn't even work on our set offense during the layoff, we just worked on driving hard to the basket and playing tough aggressive defense," says the coach. A secorwtfialf rally pushed the Spartan girls past Hot Springs after the Bison had grabbed a 25-18 halftime edge. Spearfish bounced back to Joe Case on Jeff Olstad (40) of the BHSC varsity goes high in the air to defense a shot by the alumni's Tom Nicholson during action in Saturday night's game which the varsity won 103-93. (Photo by Dee Welsch).

ormer Spearfish Spartan athlete Doug Young helped his South Dukota State University men's rodeo team dominate the recent Dickinson Stale Rodeo by capturing second place in the calf roping event. Young held the all-time SHS rushing record in football until this season when Mark Hamill set a new mark. Varsity made 42 of 83 two-point shot attempts for a hot 51 percent. Although the alumni lost 103-93, the "old timers" had some bright moments in addition to the three-point shots. Templeton poured in 34 points, high-leaping Billy Staten made a super block of a shot and Chris LeDuc excited the fans when he dropped a beautiful pass off behind him to Tim Smith trailing on a fast break.

Mike Wright, well-known for his coaching in the Belle Fourche and Spearfish area, Is having a super season with his Todd County girls basketball team. Todd County now has a 13-2 season record after taking recent victories over both Rapid City Central and Stevens. Myles Kennedy, manager of the First National Bank who recently moved to Spearfish from Rapid City, served as alumni coach at Saturday's Tech-alumni basketball game. In a pre-game talk, Kennedy told his troops, "to be honest with you, I don't know a thing about coaching basketball." You can tell that by your starting lineup," Interupted Val Prolow, a player Kennedy had failed to place among the starting five. Kennedy, who served as president of the Hardrock Club i Tech's atheltic booster club) last year, showed up for the Rocker alumni game dressed in a bright yellow and green tBH's colors) sport coat.

After watching the BHSC men's basketball team play their alumni, I came away with several impressions. First of all, Jeff Olstad, 6-4 junior college transfer, is going to help the team much more than I expected. The rugged Olstad gets excellent position under the basket and he teamed with veteran Brad Buche to help the varsity to a big 56 to 44 rebounding advantage over the alumni. Black HiUs out rebounded its opponents in most games last season and the addition of Olstad and 6-7, 210-pound Scott Frederick, who sat out the alumni game with a bad ankle, plus the vastly improved play of 6-5 sophomore Doug Olivier will make the Stingers an even stronger rebounding team this season. Jackets' bench will also be much deeper with 6-5 Pat Devine eligible in late December) and 6-5 Boyd Thorson in reserve up front and Matt Heck and Mike Graham available for back-up duty at guard.

Fans saw the new three-point shot, for baskets made outside 21 feet, during the alumni game. Varsity made just one of six of the long-range shots while the alumni was successful on three of eight attempts. Buche hit the only varsity three-pointer but Kim Templeton dropped in two for the alumni and Scott Graslie hit the other. As a reporter of school news as well as sports, I usually know just about everything that is happening in the schools. During last week's school board meeting, however, 1 got a surprise when Superintendent Dan M( Michael announced the name of a person receiving a letter of commendation and that person turned out to be me.

It also was announced that Thursday will be "Joe Case Day" In the public schools. I don't know exactly what is going to happen Thursday but I promise to give you a full report in next week's column. I've received several awards during my career, including runner-up in Mud Butte's "Man of the Year" competition in 1975, but this honor means more to me than any of the others. Thanks to Dan McMichael, the school board, principals and others for giving me this recognition. Vaughn Heckel, coach of the Spearfish seventh grade boys basketball team, has a problem.

Last year, the seventh grade team was provided with 16 bright new uniforms but when practice began this month Heckel found himself with 35 players. Attrition and the sharing of jerseys is expected to solve the problem which Heckel says is a lot better than nobody coming out for the team..