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Hausauer enjoying hot start to season Bismarck driver gearing up for Governor’s Cup By MICHAEL WEBER Bismarck Tribune Through the first five weeks of the 2013 Dacotah Speedway season, no auto racer in any class was better than Chad Hausauer. The Bismarck driver sizzled MIKE McCLEARY/Tribune from the first green flag, finishing Chad Hausauer, bottom, wins a first in four Hobby Stocks feature heat in Hobby Stocks at Dacotah races and third in another while building a 20-plus point lead in the Speedway.
Mandan track’s points standings. Only the track’s schedule slowed Hausauer down. The Hobby Stocks were out of action for more than a month, finally resuming last Friday night. Hausauer placed fourth in the feature that night and now holds a 24-point lead (332-308) over 2012 champion Scott Gartner of Bismarck, and a 27-point advantage over Jeremy Engelhardt of Lincoln. Riding some serious momentum, Hausauer would have preferred not to have a lengthy break in the action, but he’s ready now to move forward and close out the season on a high note.
“When things are rolling along like that you hate to take that much time off, but that’s way the schedule was set up this year,” Hausauer said. “It felt good to get back on the track again and get in some racing. Things have been going great, so far. Hopefully I can keep it going to the end.” The 34-year-old Hausauser, who is seeking his first points championship, hopes to add to his lead this weekend at the 25th annual North Dakota Governor’s Cup. Action begins at 7 p.m., both tonight and Saturday night at Dacotah Speedway. In addition to Hobby Stocks,
the event will feature IMCA Modifieds, WISSOTA Street Stocks, Legends, Sport Compacts and Late Models. Heats and fast dashes for the Hobby Stocks, Modifieds, Streets Stocks, Legends and Sport Compacts will be held tonight, with B Mains and features scheduled for Saturday. The Late Models will have two complete shows. Hausauer enjoyed a successful 2012 Governor’s Cup, claiming the overall championship in Hobby Stocks. He placed second in the first night’s feature, and was the first to finish the next night. He also won both of his heat races. Continued on 4D
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NFL: VIKINGS TRAINING CAMP
Vikings report to camp Team stays on track with a smooth offseason By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer MANKATO, Minn. — For the Minnesota Vikings, bettering last season will be a challenge. Another seven-win improvement? That’s mathematically impossible, since they went 10-6 last year. Yes, unpredictability abounds in the NFL, but on the surface their schedule also has the potential to be more difficult with a home game moved to London. The eight opponents they face on the road finished a combined 7355 in 2012, and four of them made the playoffs. Oh, and as good as the MVP award winner Adrian Peterson is at running the ball, well, there’s no precedent in league history for consecutive 2,000-yard seasons. Plus, after sneaking up on some teams last year, the Vikings will surely be taken more seriously by their foes this fall. “You’re not just anointed because you had a good year last year,” linebacker Chad Greenway said. But so far, at least before any of the games are played to judge their progress, they’re very much on track. There were no offseason arrests or other off-the-field problems. No injuries to key players have lingered into late July or popped up right before training camp. Everyone signed their contracts on time, including first-round draft picks Sharrif Floyd, Xavier Rhodes and Cordarelle Patterson on Thursday morning in the hours before players headed to Minnesota State University to report for duty. Championships aren’t won in the summer, but they can be lost. New England, for one, had a sobering major setback, with the murder charge against now-former tight end Aaron Hernandez. Vikings coach Leslie Frazier, speaking to reporters upon his arrival at Mankato, the team’s training camp home for 48 years, promised to praise his players at the introductory meeting on Thursday evening for staying out of offseason trouble. “I don’t think you take that for Continued on 4D
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Josh Seibel of the Governors slides in safely at second base against the Vistas on Thursday at Municipal Ballpark.
Bismarck ruins the Vistas’ chance of claiming top seed in state By STEVE THOMAS Bismarck Tribune Bismarck Governors coach Mike Skytland didn’t ask Shane Wolf to change water to wine on Thursday. It just seemed that way. Skytland handed Wolf the ball in the sixth inning and asked him to preserve a 6-5 lead against Minot, a team that had put up 11 runs against Bismarck the night before. Minot, which entered the game in second place in the statewide standings, presented a formidable challenge. Wolf, a 19-year-old right-hander, was equal to
the task. He blanked the Vistas the rest of the way to garner his first save of the season. “I really have to tip my hat to ( Wolf ). He was aggressive, he threw strikes and we played well behind him,” Skytland said. Wolf (2-0) said the save gave him a great deal of satisfaction. “I know a couple of guys on their squad and they’re tough outs, that’s for sure,” he said. Wolf stranded five runners in his four-inning stint, two in the sixth and three in the ninth. Facing the middle of the Minot batting order, Wolf
retired the first two batters in the top of the ninth on six pitches. Then it got sticky. Wolf hit cleanup man Hunter Oothoudt with a pitch. The next man, Brock Krueger, reached first base when Trent Bohan threw wide on a ground ball to shortstop. Wolf walked Grant Larson on a 3-and-2 pitch, bringing Skytland to the mound. “He asked me how my arm felt,” Wolf said. “I said it felt fine, and he reminded the guys ‘Just one last out.’” Wolf complied. Center fielder Josh Seibel picked off Brady Lampert’s hanging liner and the Governors
improved to 28-16, 9-7 statewide. Bismarck led most of the way. Bohan and Jake Brucker sandwiched singles around Kole Bauer’s triple to give Bismarck a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Brandon Gieszler singled in a run in the second to make it 3-0. Minot’s Austin Berntson socked an RBI double to open Minot’s scoring in the top of the third. Jared Spooner beat out an infield hit to plate a run in the bottom half to make it 4-1, Governors. Bohan’s single, a walk to Brucker, a passed ball and
two wild pitches gave Bismarck its final two runs, one unearned, in the home fourth. Minot, held to two hits through five innings, came alive in the fifth. The Vistas rapped three hits to go with two walks, a hit batter and two wild pitches. The rally produced four runs to make it a 6-5 game. With the bases loaded, Oothoudt was hit by a pitch, Brock Krueger singled and Grant Larson walked to produce three runs. The fourth scored on a wild pitch. That’s the way it stayed. Wolf and Jacob Holmen, Continued on 4D
Jamestown sweeps doubleheader against Mandan Teams to meet next week in the state tournament By SCOTT THROLSON Bismarck Tribune The next time the Mandan Chiefs and Jamestown Post 14 square off, there will be a lot more on the line. With both teams locked into their seeding for next week’s state tournament, and an openinground matchup between the clubs assured, they took to the Mandan Memorial Ballpark field for a pair
of regular-season non-counters. Jamestown swept the games, giving Post 14 a satisfying end to its regular season. The Chiefs, meanwhile, hope to take some lessons from this one and apply them the next time around. Post 14 used an eight-run inning to break open a close game in the opener, winning 13-3 in five innings. Mandan had a chance to flip the script in the nightcap, putting up a five-run first inning to take an early lead. But Post 14 tied it up with four runs in the fifth and went on to win 6-5 in nine innings. “I know the guys were excited to play a couple of games before state
and hopefully use this as momentum,” Jamestown coach Shane Schoeneberg said. “It’s going to be good to see them again,” Mandan coach Ryne Jungling said. “I sure hope the result can be better, and I think there‘s reason to think it can be. Parker (Harm) pitched a great game for us. We just gave them four runs in their four-run inning. That was just bad baseball on our part.” After dropping the opener, Mandan jumped out to a big lead in the second game. Trever Leingang and Jerry Carlson had RBI singles and Todd Rennich drove in a pair with a two-out single to cen-
ter. A third run came in on that play as the Jamestown center fielder overran the ball, making it 5-0 Chiefs. Mandan had a chance to pad the lead in the second. Jared Walters reached on an infield single, Zach Scott bunted for a single and Harm reached on an error to load the bases. But Jamestown starter Landon We i s e r g o t o u t o f t h e j a m unscathed with a pair of strikeouts and a fly ball. “That second game came down to the second inning,” Jungling said. “Bases loaded with nobody Continued on 4D
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“(Our role is) to win games and to be the best representatives of this team and organization and representatives for this city that we can possibly be.”
What baseball player appeared in Paul Simon’s video “Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard?”
Patriots QB Tom Brady on the job going forward from the murder charge against former tight end Aaron Hernandez.
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