A look back at some of the sports happenings during the week of Aug. 4-10:

Last year on Aug. 4, 2023: The defending national champion SDSU football team opened fall camp this week. It is the first time in 35 years that John Stiegelmeier wasn’t on the field coaching. John Stiegelmeier retired in January as the winningest football coach in SDSU history. He was 199-112 in his 26 seasons (22 winning seasons) as head coach. In total, he spent 38 seasons and 419 games (264 wins) on the SDSU sidelines as a student assistant, assistant or head coach. After retiring, Stiegelmeier was given the title of SDSU Head Coach Emeritus and Special Assistant to new SDSU coach and long-time assistant and former player, Jimmy Rogers.

10 years ago on Aug. 9, 2014: Sawyer Hansen singled in the 12th inning to score Kyle VanVoorst with the winning walk-off run in the Redfield Pheasants’ 6-5 win over Chamberlain in the State Amateur Tourney in Mitchell. Redfield scored twice in the ninth inning to send the game into extra innings: Nate Binger tripled and scored on a wild pitch and Drew Dickhaut’s RBI double tied the game.

20 years ago on Aug. 8, 2004: Sioux Falls East overcame a 3-0 deficit to the Aberdeen Smittys to win the State A American Legion baseball title. Josh Rohrich had four hits for the winners while teammate Chris Kessinger allowed only four hits and struck out 11. Earlier in the day, Doug Metz pitched the Smittys to a 5-0 win against Watertown. Metz pitched the first three innings of the championship game in which he staked Aberdeen to a 3-0 lead. However, Metz then had to be pulled from the mound because he ran out of innings. The game was played in front of an overflowing, boisterous and partisan Fossum Field crowd in Aberdeen.

30 years ago on Aug. 4, 1994: Aberdeen Central boys’ track coach John Huth is the new president of the South Dakota High School Coaches Association.

40 years ago on Aug. 9, 1984: Rapid City native Randy Lewis defeated Kosei Akaishi of Japan to win the Olympic Gold medal in wrestling at 136.5 pounds in Los Angeles. In his last three years at Rapid City Stevens (1975-77), Lewis won three state titles, going 89-0 with 83 pins, including 45 in a row.

50 years ago on Aug. 10, 1974: Tom Backer of Fargo was competing in a national motorcycle racing event, the Black Hills Motor Classic in Sturgis. He slide into a post going about 65 mph, was tossed in the air and hit three vehicles near the track, the last of which that he landed was against his own van. His mom was coming out of the van and one of his boots broke her nose as he tumbled into her arms. Backer’s only injury, reported the Rapid City Journal in a story that was published across the nation, was a dislocated shoulder.