TUESDAY SPORTS, JUNE 24, 2025
AMATEUR BASEBALL
Parkston Rays 13, Lesterville 4 – Monday
Mt. Vernon vs. Alexandria – Tuesday
Mitchell Aces vs. Winner/Colome – Tuesday
Parkston Rays vs. Dimock/Emery – Thursday
Mitchell Aces vs. Parkston Mudcats – Thursday
Platte vs. Winner/Colome – Thursday
MITCHELL KERNELS
— Mitchell Black 14-and-under baseball (10-9 on the season) will be at Renner on Wednesday for a doubleheader.
— Mitchell Gold 16-and-under baseball (11-5 on the season) swept Watertown in a doubleheader on Monday 15-8 and 13-4 in five innings. Ian Weber went 4-for-4 with three RBI’s in Game 1. Mitchell Gold hosts Renner for a 4 p.m. doubleheader on Wednesday at Drake Field.
— Mitchell 18-and-under baseball (3-4 on the season) heads to its next tournament July 4-6, in Jamestown, North Dakota.
— Mitchell will host a Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) football camp on Wednesday, June 25th from 9 am to 3 pm at Joe Quintal Field. Camp is for players entering grades 5-8 this fall and the cost is $20.
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE
— South Dakota State’s Rod DeHaven has been named the Summit League Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Coach of the Year, the conference announced Monday. DeHaven led the Jackrabbits’ men’s outdoor team to a conference title in May, capping a sweep of the cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field titles for SDSU. This is DeHaven’s first Coach of the Year honor for the outdoor season.
SOUTH DAKOTA
— USD’s Tre Young was named the Summit League Men’s Field Athlete of the Year after winning a conference title in the pole vault at 18 feet, ½ inches. Young advanced to the NCAA Championships where he finished 18th in the nation.
— USD’s Berkeley Engelland finished fourth in the 800-meters finals on Friday night at the U20 Nationals in Eugene, Oregon. The Mt. Vernon native finished in 2 minutes, 9.48 seconds, which is 1.5 second better than her winning Summit League time in the 800-meters.
MINNESOTA TWINS
— Cal Raleigh hit his major league-leading 32nd home run on Monday, one of four by the Seattle Mariners in their 11-2 win over the Minnesota Twins. Raleigh hit a two-run shot in the ninth inning off reliever Joey Wentz. Julio Rodríguez and Luke Raley homered as part of a six-run third inning for Seattle. Brooks Lee, Trevor Larnach and Carlos Correa each had two hits for Minnesota. Larnach and Correa hit back-to-back homers in the sixth inning for the Twins, who have lost 14 of its last 17. Bailey Ober ended up going seven innings, but allowing seven runs with six of them in the third inning. Game two of the four game series is tonight at 6:40 pm.
NBA
— Oklahoma City’s 103-91 victory over Indiana in Game 7 was the most-watched NBA Finals game in six years. Sunday night’s game averaged 16.5 million on ABC and ESPN+. The audience peaked at 19.2 million during the second half. It is the first time since Toronto won Game 6 against Golden State in 2019 that the finals have had an audience over 16 million.
— The Indiana Pacers have confirmed that point guard Tyrese Haliburton sustained a torn right Achilles tendon in Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night. He’ll likely miss the 2025-26 season, though the team did not announce a timeline for return. An MRI confirmed the injury. Haliburton, who played through a calf strain in the NBA Finals before tearing his Achillies late in the 1st quarter.
— Boston point guard Jrue Holiday has been traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for Anfernee Simons and two second-round picks. Holiday was traded by Milwaukee to Portland in September 2023 when the Bucks acquired Damian Lillard. Holiday was then dealt days later to the Celtics, eventually winning his second career title last June. Simons averaged 19 points last season after a career-best 22 points per game in 2023-24.
— Washington Wizards guard Khris Middleton has picked up his $33 million player option for the 2025-26 season. A three-time All-Star with Milwaukee, Middleton was traded to the Wizards at the deadline last season. Middleton, heading into his 14th season, has been hampered by injuries in recent years and spent last season recovering from offseason surgery on both ankles. He appeared in just 37 games and averaged 22 minutes per game.
MLB
— The Arizona Diamondbacks are one small step from securing up to $500 million to help with renovations to the team’s downtown stadium, Chase Field. The Arizona House of Representatives voted to approve a House Bill on Monday. It would recapture sales taxes from the stadium and other adjacent buildings over the next 30 years and reinvest them into infrastructure at Chase Field, which has been home to the Diamondbacks since 1998. The only remaining hurdle is for Gov. Katie Hobbs to sign the legislation, and she’s been publicly supportive of the bill.
NFL
— Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter, the second overall pick in April’s NFL draft, signed a four-year, $46 million contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday. The deal includes a $30 million signing bonus. Hunter had been one of three unsigned first-round picks. Under the NFL’s slotting system, Hunter is expected to get $840,000 in base salary as a rookie, with his contract rising to nearly $3 million in Year 2, $5 million in his third season and $7 million in his fourth.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
— The Pac-12 agreed a media-rights deal with CBS on Monday that sets up the network to broadcast a minimum of four football and men’s basketball games per season on its main network and provide a cable and streaming presence for the reconfigured conference from 2026-31. Financial details of the new deal were not disclosed. An inability to secure a media deal is what nearly cratered the league in 2023, with all but Oregon State and Washington State departing for the Big 12, ACC and Big Ten.
OLYMPICS
— France’s court of auditors provided the first official estimate of public spending tied to the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics, with the global public expenditure estimated at $6.8 billion. The spending includes $3.2 billion for the event organization and 3.6 billion for infrastructure investments.
MLB
— Dominican prosecutors requested on Monday that suspended Tampa Bay Rays player Wander Franco, who faces charges of sexual abuse involving a girl who was 14 years old at the time of the alleged crimes, be sentenced to five years in prison. The prosecutors said in court there is sufficient evidence to prove Franco had a relationship with the minor for four months and that he transferred large sums of money to the minor’s mother to consent to the illegal relationship. During raids on the house of the minor’s mother, prosecutors say they found $68,000 and $35,000 that they allege was delivered by Franco.
— The Oakland Athletics have officially broken ground on their $1.75 billion ballpark project in Las Vegas. At a Monday morning ceremony on the Las Vegas Strip, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, local officials, and former A’s legends were on hand for the event. The 33,000-seat stadium, set to be the league’s smallest, is expected to open for the 2028 season. The stadium will be built on the former Tropicana resort site, with up to $380 million in public funding supporting the project. The A’s are currently playing in a Triple-A stadium in West Sacramento after leaving Oakland last year.
— San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. is suing Big League Advance in an attempt to void the future earnings contract he signed as a 17-year-old minor leaguer that could cost him about $34 million. The lawsuit accuses Big League Advance of using predatory tactics to lure him into an “investment deal” that was actually an illegal loan. The suit alleges Big League Advance misrepresented itself to Tatis, hiding its unlicensed status and pushing him into loan terms banned by California’s consumer protection laws.
— Ronald Acuña Jr. homered, while Spencer Schwellenbach pitched seven innings as the Atlanta Braves defeated the New York Mets 3-2 in the opener of a four-game series. New York has dropped nine of 10, including a three-game sweep in Atlanta last week.
— Elly De La Cruz homered, tripled and drove in three runs as the Cincinnati Reds defeated the New York Yankees 6-1. Gavin Lux also went deep for the Reds, who have won 11 of 16. Aaron Judge accounted for the only Yankees’ run with his 28th homer.
— Nick Gonzales went 5 for 5 with two RBIs and Isiah Kiner-Falefa tripled home the go-ahead run in the sixth inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat Milwaukee 5-4 to snap the Brewers’ four-game winning streak.
— Alec Burleson and Brendan Donovan each hit two-run homers in the fifth inning as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 8-2. Lars Nootbaar and Nolan Gorman also homered as the Cardinals hit a season-best four home runs.
— James Wood had a three-run homer among his three hits, drove in four and scored three times for the Washington Nationals, who beat the San Diego Padres 10-6.
— Baltimore’s Trevor Rogers allowed three hits in a career-high eight innings, while Jackson Holliday hit a three-run homer and drove in the game’s first four runs as the Orioles beat the Texas Rangers 6-0 with the game temperature reaching 100 degrees.
— Zach Neto hit a leadoff homer and rookie Christian Moore had a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in a four-run eighth inning that gave the Los Angeles Angels a 9-5 win over the Boston Red Sox 9-5.
— Pavin Smith homered twice and drove in four runs as Arizona beat the Chicago White Sox 10-0 in a game that saw the Diamondbacks lose Eugenio Suárez and Josh Naylor to injuries. Suárez left after he was hit on the right hand in the first inning on a pitch from Shane Smith. The team announced he had a right-hand contusion and X-rays were negative. Naylor, who hit a two-run double in the first for a 2-0 lead, appeared to injure his shoulder on a swing in the second and left in the fourth after grounding out. He is day to day with right shoulder discomfort.