A look back at some of the sports happenings during the week of Oct. 15-21:
Last year on Oct. 15, 2022: Chad Becker of Aberdeen won the WISSOTA Late Model national championship this season with 3,220 points. Becker competed in 40 feature races with 32 top five finishes and 14 wins. Becker, who was the track champ at Watertown this season, was second in the nation last season. This is Becker’s third Late Model national title (2019 and 2012).
10 years ago on Oct. 18, 2013: Rapid City Central senior Shane O’Connell rode Bad Romance to a score of 71 at 6:35 p.m. in the Bareback division of the South Dakota Rodeo Association Finals at the James Kjerstad Event Center. He was a little late for his football game at 7 p.m. a few blocks away at Rapid City’s O’Harra Stadium, but the linebacker made one of the key plays of the game when he intercepted a pass in the third quarter that he returned to the RCS’s two-yard line. That led to the eventual game-winning touchdown in Centralâ
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