Dickinson State Basketball Recruit

The men’s basketball program at Dickinson State has announced it’s 2008 recruiting class and one of the incoming players is from northeast Montana.  Plentywood High’s Andrew Rickett signed his letter of intent to play for coach Ty Orton starting next season.  A 6-1 shooting guard, Rickett averaged 19 points and 4 and a half rebounds and 4 assists a game for the Wildcats.  He was named to the Class B All-State team as a senior and last year as a junior he was the MVP of the state tournament as Plentywood finished second to Huntley Project.  Orton says he’s very excited to have a player like Rickett joining his program. 

Sioux Fall

How’s this for a recipe for disaster. Put Boston College and the University of North Dakota Sioux in a hockey arena at the Frozen Four, set the timer for 60 minutes and watch the pucks fly into the North Dakota net. For the third year in a row, BC has beaten North Dakota in the Frozen Four semifinal. Tonight (Thursday) at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Boston College coasted to a 6-1 victory. The Sioux were held scoreless until the 18:46 mark of the third period when Jake Marto notched their only goal of the game.

North Dakota ends their season at 28-11-4. Boston College will take on either Michigan or Notre Dame who are currently in overtime.

Eagle 93 Sports – Tuesday April 8

The Memphis Tigers had a nine point lead on Kansas with 2 minutes left to play in regulation last night at the NCAA men’s basketball championship.  Seemed like it might be party time on Beale Street, but the Jayhawks had other thoughts.  They battled back and Mario Chambers hit a three with under 3 seconds to play to force the OT.  Kansas dominated in the overtime period to win the school’s third NCAA National Championship 75-68.  Tonight, the women take the court as Stanford and Tennesee battle it out in Tampa. 

Speaking of college basketball, freshman Eric Gordon of Indiana is going to end his college career and enter the NBA draft.  Gordon’s father says the 6-4 guard intends to sign with an agent which would officially end his college eligibility.  At a news conference, the younger Gordon says he’s making the move to compete at the highest level, not for the fame or the money.  He’s been projected by some as a top-10 pick in the June NBA Draft. 

The Montana Class B All-State boys and girls basketball teams have been announced.  The Plentywood Wildcats landed two players on the boys list.  Both are seniors, Zach McCoy and Andrew Rickett.  No girls from our area made the honors list. 

The Sidney Eagles softball team is on the road this afternoon.  The Eagles are heading south to Glendive to take on the Red Devils in both varsity and junior varsity games at 4 and 5:30pm.  Friday the girls head to Laurel for two more Eastern A conference games, one against the Locomotives and another against Billings Central. 

The Eagles Track teams are heading to Billings Friday after school.  The Billings Invitational will be held all day Saturday. 

The Sidney Chamber’s Sports & Rec Committee is bringing a fun show to Eastern Montana later this month. The Harlem Ambassadors will take on the Sunrise City Slammers Tuesday April 15th at the Sidney High School Gym at 7pm.  The Ambassadors promise that this won’t be your grandfather’s basketball show! Advance tickets are available at the Sidney Chamber Office or at Super Pumper in Sidney.  The Chamber is using this game as a fundraiser to help finance bringing more high school tournaments to Sidney and Richland County. 

American League  

12:05PM

Baltimore (5-1) at Texas (3-3)

Detroit (0-6) at Boston (3-4) 

2:10PM

New York Yankees (4-3) at Kansas City (4-2) 

5:07PM

Oakland (3-4) at Toronto (4-2) 

5:10PM

Seattle (2-5) at Tampa Bay (3-3) 

8:05PM

Cleveland (3-4) at Los Angeles Angels (5-3) 

National League 

11:10AM

Philadelphia (3-4) at New York Mets (2-3) 

6:05PM

Cincinnati (4-3) at Milwaukee (5-1)

Saint Louis (5-2) at Houston (3-5) 

6:35PM

Atlanta (3-4) at Colorado (2-5) 

7:40PM

Los Angeles Dodgers (4-3) at Arizona (5-2) 

8:15PM

San Diego (5-3) at San Francisco (1-6) 

 

Jayhawks Horoscope

I wish I had found this before the game, but it’s still interesting.  Apparently the stars aligned for the Kansas Jayhawks tonight.  Monica at AstrologyMundo says she predicted last week that KU would win tonight’s NCAA Championship.

I’m just reporting what she says.  You decide if you believe her.

Dave

What’s up with this Rock Chalk Jayhawk stuff?

If you watched the Jayhawks beat Memphis tonight you might have wondered where did they come up with this “Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk” cheer.

The answer goes back to 1866…the KU Science Club was returning to campus at Lawrence after a trip to Wichita. To pass the time, the advisor suggested they devise a cheer. Now this is 4 years before there was a Jayhawks football team and basketball hadn’t been invented yet, so what they were going to cheer, I’m not sure. But they came up with “Rah, Rah, Jayhawk KU” repeated three times. It caught on and later the English professor suggested they replace “Rah, Rah” with “Rock Chalk” because it rhymed with Jayhawk and it brought up images of the limestone bluffs the school was built on that were called “Chalk Rock”.

That’s the short version, there’s a little more to the story if you click on the link above. It will open another window to a website maintained by some big time KU Jayhawks fans.

Rock, Chalk, Jayhawks Champs!

The Memphis Tigers had a nine point lead on Kansas with 2 minutes left to play in regulation.  Seemed like it might be party time on Beale Street, but the Jayhawks had other thoughts.  They battled back and Mario Chambers hit a three with under 3 seconds to play to force the OT.  Kansas dominated in the overtime period to win the school’s third NCAA National Championship 75-68.

Final Four Prediction Update

About 5:15pm today I was listening to Rocky Erickson’s sportscast on Eagle 93 and he made his championship prediction.  I wasn’t in a position to post anything at the time and I just remembered that I had said to myself that I should include Rocky’s pick on the Eagle 93 Sports Blog.  So now that the game is almost over, I’m doing just that.  I also forgot what score Rocky predicted, but I distinctly remember he picked Kansas over Memphis and he claims to have picked Kansas from the start of the tournament.  Rocky is a pretty honest guy so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.

I’m sure if Rocky is right he’ll be talking about it in the morning.  You can hear him at 10:41am & 5:15pm daily on Eagle 93.

PS:  Hey Rocky, I blogged about you just like you asked.  What are you going to do for me in return????

New Coach

Dawson Community College has a new head coach for their newest sports offering. John Marble has been selected to build the new volleyball program at the Glendive school.

He comes to Eastern Montana with a wide variety of coaching experience gained over the last decade or so. Marble’s coached youth club teams in Idaho, Montana and Washington as well as having been involved in the NCAA Division I program University of Idaho where he was an assistant and helped lead the Lady Vandals to their first ever conference title. He also has served as a skills camp coach at Washington State University.

Marble is a 1997 graduate of the University of Idaho where he earned a BS in Civil Engineering and a minor in History. DCC is planning on drawing on his engineering education and experience in their expanding Engineering Technology program.