McKENZY PETERSON
Marissa Weber recorded 14 kills, 12 aces, nine blocks and eight digs to lead Sanborn Central/Woonsocket in victory over Corsica/Stickney 3-1 in volleyball action Monday night at Forestburg.
Set scores were 23-25, 25-19, 25-16 and 25-19.
Tayla Weber added 13 assists for the Blackhawks.
Rachel Milligan had 24 assists and 12 digs for the Jaguars. Brianna Kuyper added 21 digs and four aces, while Hope Menning chipped in eight kills.
The WWSSC Blackhawks traveled south Friday night to take on Corsica/Stickney and came away with a big 36-28 win in Stickney and a guaranteed trip to the playoffs next week.
C/S struck first, taking the lead on their first drive, with a 22-yard run by Austin Tilton, but the Jaguars couldn’t convert on the two-point try. The Hawks were quick to answer with a 13-yard run by Joe Davis into the end zone. The conversion was successful with a pass, Davis to Brady Tiede, putting the Hawks up 8-6.
A Landon Ochsner interception returned the ball to the Blackhawks, but a subsequent interception by Corsica/Stickney’s Brian Joachim was taken down the field for a pick-six on a 96-yard run. The conversion again failed and the score stood at 8-12 at the end of one quarter.
The second quarter started out slow. With about two minutes to go in the half, Austin Messmer scored on a 10-yard run. That was followed up by Davis running in the two points to give the Blackhawks back the lead, 16-12.
On the ensuing kickoff, CS’s Eli Van Roekel made a 76-yard return for the score. The Jaguars were finally allowed a two-point conversion with a Van Roekel pass to Joachim.
The Hawks would not be discouraged and methodically put together an end of the half drive, finishing with a one-yard quarterback sneak by Davis and giving the lead back to black with two seconds left. The conversion failed sending the Hawks into halftime with a two-point lead, 22-20.
The third quarter proved to be a slow one, considering the pace of the first half, with the only score coming from Corsica/Stickney. Mason VanVuuren ran it in from 11 yards out. A Joachim run sealed the two points.
The Blackhawks struck back early in the fourth quarter with a three-yard scoring run by Jevon Hohn, tying the score at 28.
C/S made a drive down the field late in the fourth, all the way to the five-yard line, with second down and one to go. The Hawks made a strong defensive stand, rejecting another Jaguar score.
With the score still tied up and two minutes to go, the Hawks were forced to punt from their own 15 yard line. The Jaguars fumbled and WWSSC came up with the ball for one more chance to score. On the next play, Ochsner took the ball down the field 57 yards for the TD. Messmer ran in the two-points to take the lead, 36-28.
Corsica/Stickney got the ball back with enough time left to score, but were only allowed a couple first downs and instead gave up a couple sacks. C/S turned it over on downs, giving the Blackhawks the chance to run out the clock and secure the win.
Messmer led the Hawks as the workhorse with 145 yards on 25 carries and one touchdown. Ochsner had three big carries for 67 yards and a touchdown and Davis went 65 yards on 6-of-9 through the air. Cole Wormstadt made two big catches for a total of 41 yards.
The Blackhawks racked up 286 yards of total offense.
Jarid Bechen led the defense with 12 tackles and Messmer helped out with 11.
Corsica Stickney totaled 217 yards on offense and fell to 4-3 on the season.
The Blackhawks are now 5-2 and will host Wolsey-Wessington (7-0) Thursday night in Woonsocket at 7 p.m.
The former mayor of Forestburg turned 90 on Oct. 7 and was the guest of honor at a celebration Sunday, Oct. 6 at the 4-H Building in Forestburg. Rolland Roe Petesch or “Ike”, as we all know him, spent the day getting reacquainted with family and many friends from near and far who came to let this unique man know how much he meant to them.
Ike was born on a farm near Letcher in 1923 but moved with his family at the age of five into a house in Forestburg that he would occupy for the next 83 years. Throughout his life, that town would become not only his home but his family in every sense of the word.
“IKE” PETESCH turned 90 years young recently and celebrated with an open house celebration at the 4-H building in his town of Forestburg.
Everyone in Sanborn County knew Ike as the guy who ran the pool hall in Forestburg. He opened his first pool hall business in June of 1945 in the vacated Burrill family store which was on Main Street in Forestburg. That building burned, so in 1953, Ike built a new building on the southeast corner of the block where Doren’s Bar is today.
For those who grew up in and around Forestburg, Ike’s Pool Hall was the hub of all social activities for the 28 years that he owned it. People of all ages enjoyed the card games, hamburgers and hot dogs, beverages and general camaraderie that was its trademark. The establishment was open from eight in the morning until midnight seven days a week with Ike working all of those hours, so there was no time for a wife and family. He did do a lot of “kid-sitting” for patrons who trusted him to watch their kids when they needed to go somewhere. When business got hectic and he was cooking, Ike trusted the kids to get what they wanted and make their own change. He also freely made loans to those who asked and said he was only “burned” once.
Ike served as treasurer of the Forestburg Development Corporation that built the Forestburg gym in the early ‘60s and sponsored many dances as fundraisers for the cause. “That gym,” he said, “was a great thing for the town and showed the dedication and determination of the Forestburg community,” which he believes still lives within its patrons. Ike also served as the appointed mayor of Forestburg for 20 years and maintained the well system with meticulous accuracy.
Perhaps Ike’s greatest legacy to the history of Forestburg was the inauguration of softball and baseball teams, which he organized, managed and coached for 25 years. He said coaching is tough, especially when working with many ages and both genders and that “you gotta use different psychology on all of them.” Ike was definitely the man for the job as he played the game himself well enough to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011. Ike especially remembers being picked top player of the Forestburg team by Daily Republic editor Les Helgeland in 1941.
When a man lives to be 90 years old, you know he has a lot of wisdom to pass on to the younger generation, and this is what Ike would like to share: “Take part in what’s going on around you, don’t loan money, and learn to deal with all kinds of people.” He also feels it is very important to “…get right with the Lord,”, which he did a few weeks ago when he was baptized and became a member of the Catholic Church.
Ike has come a long way from the little boy who picked rocks with his brother off the race track at Ruskin Park for a stipend of two ice cream cones, and carried golf bags at said park for 25 cents a round. He is now the guy people call at all hours to give them the name of a forgotten baseball player or a community member and come to spend the afternoon with at Prairie View Care Center because Ike’s memory is as iconic as he is.
Someone recently told Ike that there would have been no baseball in the town of Forestburg if it hadn’t been for him. But it seems that baseball isn’t the only good thing that did happen there, thanks to Ike.
