A look back at some of the sports happenings during the week of Nov. 9-15, 2025:
Last year on Nov. 13, 2024: Former Harrisburg standout and NSU junior Abby Meister of Sioux Falls was named the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference volleyball Libero of the year.
10 years ago on Nov. 11, 2015: Ipswich cross-country coach Todd Thorson was named the South Dakota Cross Country Coach of the Year by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
20 years ago on Nov. 12, 2005: Dan O’Keefe scored from the two-yard line with 1:22 to play as Roncalli won the State 11B title with a 20-14 win over St. Thomas More. It was the first state football title for the Cavaliers, coached by Terry Dosch.
30 years ago on Nov. 10, 1995: Sioux Falls bowler Gerald Armitage, 70, rolled his first 700 series in 35 years of bowling.
40 years ago on Nov. 9, 1985: With less than four minutes to play, Mike Busch hit Jeff Tiefenthaler with an eight-yard touchdown pass that provided SDSU with the winning points in its 28-21 win over St. Cloud. It was the 14th SDSU football game in a row (from 1984-85) that Tiefenthaler had caught a TD pass, a national record as the streak ended the following week.
50 years ago on Nov. 14, 1975: The Bonesteel girls’ basketball team defeated Colome 44-1. Carrie Harter made a free throw for Colome midway in the first quarter.
50 years ago bonus on Nov. 15, 1975: Douglas boys’ basketball coach Fred Zoss led the state sportswriters on a wild goose chase. In his pre-season basketball questionnaire, he listed 6-foot-7 transfer Goose Perkins as perhaps the best center in the state. That left writers and fans eager to give the Goose a gander, but the Goose was cooked when writers later found out he was a made-up joke.
