Sports

The 2025 competitive cheer & dance season started on Monday, August 4. After the spring tryout for sideline cheer, 13 girls attended skill building classes with Get Fit w/Jenny. Because some of the girls want to do more than one sport, choreography was held in early June so they could have the summer to work on routines along with building skills they are hoping to use this year.

The Gorilla cross country team got their season running on August 14 with the first practice. The high school team will consist of ten runners.

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Parents: Ashley Lozano & Marty Spinsby Year: Sophomore.

By Barb Bolton Walder As women’s sports take center stage in 2025—with record-breaking WNBA attendance, NCAA women’s basketball media deals reaching historic highs, and athletes like Caitlin Clark becoming household names—the seeds of that success were planted decades ago in places like Springfield, South Dakota.

The Burke Bombers faced the Freeman Blacksox in their first round of the South Dakota Amateur Baseball Association State Tournament on Sunday, August 10, 2025, falling 4-19. The Blacksox were the first to get on the board in the first when Bailey Sage singled, scoring one run.

As I am writing this, it has been another evening of keeping an eye on the sky with potential weather threats and fascinating clouds. There’s something oddly captivating about watching the weather change.

Dan Jons is the 2025 Mark Mehlhaf Comeback Player of the Year. The Burke Bomber made his second comeback to amateur baseball after suffering a complete distal bicep tendon tear in just his third game playing for the Pony Hills member in 2024.