A look back at some of the sports happenings during the week of May 5-11:

Last year on May 6, 2023: Presentation College, which will close due to long-term financial and enrollment issues later this year, played its last athletic contest. The Saints’ baseball team lost to Mayville State in the North Star Athletic Association Tournament to close out its season 0-46. PC, a private Catholic institution founded in Aberdeen by the Presentation Sisters in 1951, started an athletic program with men’s and women’s basketball in 1995 that grew to double-figure athletic teams including football over the years. The college started in 1922 in Mitchell as Notre Dame Junior College, established by Mitchell’s Holy Family Church pastor the Right Rev. Monsignor J.M. Brady. In 1951, Brady gave sponsorship of the school to the Presentation Sisters, who focused on training women nurses to fulfill its mission of rural health care. The college began accepting male students in 1968. PC’s peak enrollment was 821 students in the fall of 2016.

10 years ago on May 7, 2014: Junior hockey player TJ Roo of the Aberdeen Wings won major North American Hockey League awards in three straight days: All-Rookie first team, the All-Central Division team and League Rookie of the Year.

20 years ago on May 8, 2004: Three Aberdeen Central girls won titles at the Elmer Hansen Sioux Falls Washington Track and Field Invitational: Amy Seyer (high jump); Tevan Wenbourne (300 hurdles); and Christina Kusler (long jump).

30 years ago on May 7, 1994: USD pole vaulter Derek Miles posted the best mark (16-9) of the season in NCAA DII by winning the event at the Howard Wood Relays in Sioux Falls.

40 years ago on May 5, 1984: A 1971 Mobridge graduate, trainer Bill Mott will have his first horse (Taylor’s Special) entered into the Kentucky Derby. At 30, Mott is one of the youngest trainers to have had a horse in the derby. His first track where Mott worked with horses was in Aberdeen. Even though Taylor’s Special (1981-2006) finished 13th in the 20-horse field, the horse would go on to a brilliant career, winning 21 of 41 races earning more than $1 million for owner Bill Lucas and Mott. Mott convinced Lucas to buy the horse.

40 years ago bonus on May 5, 1984: Spearfish graduate and University of Nebraska sophomore Jeff Loescher became the first high jumper in the 60-year history of the Howard Wood Relays in Sioux Falls to clear seven feet.

50 years ago on May 11, 1974: Aberdeen hosted two NAIA District 12 tournaments in golf (won by Black Hills State) and tennis (won by South Dakota Tech). Mike Weiss of Northern was the singles champion in tennis while he and Mike Holland were the runners-up in doubles. Weiss now advances to the national tourney in Kansas City for his district singles championship.