A look back at some of the sports happenings during the week of June 30-July 6:

Last year on July 1, 2023: Two Yankton golfers playing in the same foursome made back-to-back holes-in-one at Fox Run Golf Course in Yankton. Ward Youngblom (9-iron) and Kyler Johnson (7-hybrid) each aced the par-3, 141-yard Hole No. 4. The PGA lists the odds of two golfers in the same foursome making a hole-in-one on the same hole as 17 million-to-1.

10 years ago on July 6, 2014: The Pierre Junior Shooters won the National Daisy BB Gun Championship in Arkansas, while the Spink County team of Doland finished second. Pierre’s Cassandra Ryckman was the overall national champion.

20 years ago on July 5, 2004: The winningest boys’ basketball in state history has resigned, for now, as the coach at Custer due to health reasons. Britton and NSU graduate Larry Luitjens was diagnosed with cancer in 2002 and had a near-fatal bicycle accident in 2003. Luitjens (1942-2023) had 616 wins, but would return to coaching and end with 748 wins, 13 state championship game appearances with seven state titles.

30 years ago on June 30, 1994: One day after being taken in the first round of the NBA Draft by the Indiana Pacers, Eric Piatkowski of Rapid City was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers.

40 years ago on June 30, 1984: Sioux Falls Valley National Bank slipped past top-ranked Aberdeen Wendy’s-Coke 8-7 in a Class A amateur baseball showdown. Steve Mikkelsen led the winners at the plate with four hits, three runs scored and two RBIs. For Aberdeen (16-2), Curt Fredrickson had a two-run homer and Bob Beattie, Don Cassels and Bill Gayton each singled twice. Aberdeen trailed 8-6 in the ninth inning with runners on second and third with no outs. However, three consecutive flyouts to left field
netted only one run. Valley National manager Jim Meader said he was glad that Fredrickson (he was
on deck when SF got the final out in the ninth) didn’t get a chance to win the game. “Curt is the kind of hitter you never want to see in a game-winning situation,” Meader said.

50 years ago on June 30, 1974: Powerlifter Rick Crain of Rapid City set a world record squat of 539.5 pounds in the 148-pound class at a meet in England.