A look back at some of the sports happenings during the week of May 25-31, 2025:

Last year on May 24, 2024: Trevor Heinz of Ipswich won the Class B state championship in the long jump with a school-record leap. The senior recorded a jump of 22 feet, 6 and 3/4-inches. Heinz finished second in the event the year before.

10 years ago on May 25, 2015: Aberdeen Central won the all-sports award for both boys and girls in the 88-year-old Eastern South Dakota Conference for the first time. The Central boys had won the award — based on how each school’s team in each sport finishes in the conference race — only one time before, during the 1986-87 school year. The Aberdeen Central girls have won the award in 1996, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2013 and now again in 2015.

20 years ago on May 26, 2005: Sioux Falls Roosevelt has hired 28-year-old USD grad Chris Clark as its new girls’ basketball coach. He will replace legendary Fred Tibbetts, who led the Rough Riders to six state titles in 11 seasons, including a 111-game winning streak from 1997-2001.

30 years ago on May 25, 1995: A Mitchell bowler three days ago threw 27 strikes in a row after switching balls. Marty Barington finished the 10th frame of his first game in the series with three strikes for a 205 after making the switch. He then went on to finish his night with 24 straight strikes for back-to-back 300 games. Barington now has four career perfect games.

40 years ago on May 26, 1985: Nebraska senior Mori Emmons of Sioux Falls Lincoln ended her softball career by helping the Cornhuskers finish second in the championship of the College World Series. UCLA defeated Nebraska 2-1. Emmons finished 12-3 and allowed just five walks for the season. She was 35-8 in her final two seasons.

50 years ago on May 31, 1975: Table tennis player Mark Pratt of Sisseton has qualified for the National Wheelchair Games June 13-15 in Champaign (IL).