Class 9AA's top-ranked team, Freeman/Marion/Freeman Academy, rolled to a 61-6 win over Gayville-Volin Friday night in Gayville while Scotland/Menno posted an impressive 62-16 win over Tripp-Delmont/Armour/Andes Central/Dakota Christian in Armour. The Phoenix improve to 4-0 while the Trappers move to...

The Freeman/Marion/Freeman Academy football team can now show on paper how good it is in person. The Phoenix moved from No. 3 to No. 1 in this week's South Dakota Prep Media Poll released by 605sports late Monday afternoon, Sept. 8. Here's the top five, with the number of first-place votes in parent...

PHOENIX TREAT FANS TO 'CULTURE WIN' by Jeremy Waltner It might not be the ultimate goal of a state championship, but Friday night in Freeman was pretty fun for the Phoenix. Hosting No. 1-ranked Elkton-Lake Benton in its home opener on a cool but exquisite late-summer night, No. 3 Freeman/Marion/Free...

Scotland/Menno found a pretty good way to create some momentum and generate some enthusiasm within the program — take down a ranked team. That’s what it did against Class B No. 5 Corsica-Stickney Friday night, Aug. 29 at Johnny Woehl Field in Menno, coming back from a deficit in the first half to be...

The Freeman Flyers outlasted the first-year Parker/Marion Pheasants 2 sets to 1 to claim the Hanson Early Bird Tournament title Thursday night, Aug. 28 in Alexandria. Freeman lost the first set 23-25, won the second set 25-22 and then took care of Parker/Marion 26-24 in the third and decisive frame....

Nine months after visiting Parkston and falling one touchdown short of a win in the Class 9AA state semifinal, Freeman/Marion/Freeman Academy returned to the scene of the loss in what they described as “a business trip.” Business taken care of. Playing in the opener of a season filled with high expe...

Jake Weier has spent 16 seasons playing on Freeman’s amateur baseball team, the Blacksox, and eight of those seasons have also been spent as manager. And this season, he says, has been among the most fun of all of them. Perhaps that’s what makes last week’s brutal ending so tough to stomach. Facing ...

The Freeman/Marion/Freeman Academy Phoenix will open their final season as a cooperative as the fifth-ranked team in Class 9AA football. The South Dakota Prep Media Poll, released Monday, Aug. 18, shows the Phoenix listed in the top five behind top-ranked Elkton-Lake Benton, No. 2 Hamlin, No. 3 Park...

Freeman held a 10-5 lead and was just three outs away from securing a spot in the Class B State Amateur Baseball Tournament semifinals when the Dell Rapids Mudcats mounted a furious rally, scoring five runs in the ninth to tie the game and then adding five more in the tenth to steal a wild 15-10 win...

Burke uses “bombers” as its amateur team’s name. On Sunday afternoon, that moniker much better applied to Freeman. The Blacksox cranked out 19 runs on 20 hits, seven of which went for extra bases, in a mercy rule-shortened, 19-4 win in the first round of the Class B State Amateur Baseball Tournament...