A look back at some of the sports happenings during the week of Aug. 4-10:
Last year on Aug. 4, 2023: The defending national champion SDSU football team opened fall camp this week. It is the first time in 35 years that John Stiegelmeier wasn’t on the field coaching. John Stiegelmeier retired in January as the winningest football coach in SDSU history. He was 199-112 in his 26 seasons (22 winning seasons) as head coach. In total, he spent 38 seasons and 419 games (264 wins) on the SDSU sidelines as a student assistant, assistant or head coach. After retiring, Stiegelmeier was given the title of SDSU Head Coach Emeritus and Special Assistant to new SDSU coach and long-time assistant and former player, Jimmy Rogers.
10 years ago on Aug. 9, 2014: Sawyer Hansen singled in the 12th inning to score Kyle VanVoorst with the winning walk-off run in the Redfield Pheasants’ 6-5 win over Chamberlain in the State Amateur Tourney in Mitchell. Redfield scored twice in the ninth inning to sen
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