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December Special Moments

White River’s Joe Sayler, left, tries to get around Lower Brule’s Lane Gray, center and Gavin Thigh, right, during a semi-final game at last year's South Dakota Class B Boys Basketball Tournament at Wachs Arena. Sayler recently scored his 2,000th career point. Photo by John Davis taken 3/18/2022
Dec. 1: Clark native Kim Kaufman made a hole-in-one in the first of eight rounds in Alabama during the Q-Series as part of their two-week journey to the LPGA. Top finishers will be granted LPGA Tour status for 2023.Dec. 2: Two free throws by Baylor’s Jalen Bridges with 16 seconds left gave his sixth-ranked Bears a 64-63 win over No. 14 Gonzaga in a rematch of the 2021 national championship game in Sioux Falls. A sold-out Sanford Pentagon crowd saw the Zags take a 63-46 lead on Malachi Smith’s dunk with 1:41 to go, but Baylor rallied to score the final eight points.Dec. 2: The USD volleyball team won its first-ever sets in the DI NCAA Tournament, but suffered heartbreak twice in its fourth DI national tourney in Omaha. First, the Coyotes (29-4) lost a close 3-2 first-round match to Houston: 25-14, 25-19 18-25, 23-25 and 15-11. Also in the fourth set, the Coyotes Summit League player of the year Elizabeth Juhnke seriously hurt her knee as the match had to be stopped while Juhnke had

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