The Black Hills Youth Football League is sponsoring a gun raffle.

Tickets for the raffle are $100 per ticket and only 150 tickets will be sold. The league is raffling 10 guns and one safe.

For each gun two tickets will be drawn, the first for the gun and the second for a chance to win a safe, which will be drawn with only 10 names in the drawing. The winner of each drawing will be put back into all drawings for another chance to win a gun or the safe.

Drawings will be during a BHYFL team practice and winners will be notified by a team parent. Winners must be 18 years old and pass a background check at Scheels to receive a gun. All proceeds benefit the BHYFL.

For more information, call 716-0275.

Former Coyote to play basketball overseas

VERMILLION - Former University of South Dakota women's basketball standout Bridget Yoerger has signed to play for a professional team in Holland.

Yoerger will play for BV Leiderdorp, the same team that another former Coyote, Jeana Hoffman, played for in 2008-09.

Yoerger, a native of Hinton, Iowa, who wrapped up her USD career in March, will leave for training camp today. The training camp begins in Belgium on Saturday.

"I am very excited," Yoerger said. "I'm ready to travel, see the world and play basketball, which is something I love to do."

Yoerger finished her USD career as the second-leading scorer in school history with 1,604 points, trailing only Mandy Koupal in that category. Yoerger also ranked in several other career categories, including third in career blocks (101), fourth all-time in rebounds (884) and sixth in career steals (176).

In her senior year at USD, Yoerger led the Coyotes in scoring (16.7 points per game), rebounding (9.7), blocks (37 for the season) and was second on the team in field-goal percentage (49.4 percent).

Eagles thankful Roth can play this fall

CHADRON, Neb. - During a light moment after the football season had ended last fall, Chadron State College defensive coordinator Todd Auer said as practice was beginning back in August he had "almost prayed" that one of his excellent outside linebackers, Aaron Bauer or Eric Roth, would be injured.

Of course, he didn't petition for a severe or painful injury. But since Bauer and Roth played the same position and neither would be happy with halftime duty, he thought it would be fine if one of them was forced to redshirt and then returned in 2009, when he anticipated the Eagles could use some more experience on defense.

It didn't take long for Auer to have his prayers, or at least his wish, fulfilled. Early in fall camp Roth tore the medial collateral ligament in his right knee and missed all the preseason workouts. Just when he was able to practice again in early September, he broke the fibula in his left leg and he was back on the sidelines.

"I tried to come back about midseason, but my leg kept hurting," Roth said. "After a while, I decided to not play and to come back this year. Now, I have to stay healthy this year so I can make the most of the opportunity."

The coach agrees and said after the defensive unit graduated nine starters from last fall, it is a luxury to have an experienced, talented player available.

Roth had bests of 10.9 seconds in the 100 meters and 22.2 in the 200 as a high school senior. Last spring, he ran the 40-yard dash in 4.45 seconds, the second fastest on the team.

Quaye named preseason All-American

VERMILLION - South Dakota's Kommonyan "Ko" Quaye has earned preseason All-America honors from College Sporting News at his defensive lineman position. Quaye earned the same recognition earlier in the summer from The Sports Network.

A native of Brooklyn Park, Minn., Quaye finished with 44 tackles during his junior year in 2008, including 7.5 for a loss. He added 2.5 sacks, an interception, a fumble recovery and a forced fumble. He was named the Great West's Defensive Player of the Week on Nov. 2, en route to earned second-team All-Great West accolades. He has played in 35 games during his Coyote career.

South Dakota starts its season in the DakotaDome against William Penn on Sept. 3 at 7 p.m.

Hermosa racer sets world speed record

Joe Amo of Hermosa set a world speed record for 1000cc motorcycles during Speed Week at the famed Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah, earlier this month.

Riding a partially streamlined Kawasaki motorcycle, Amo made a qualifying pass of 214 miles per hour on the salt, then backed up the qualifying pass with a return run average of 245 mph.

Amo's new record average of 230.711 mph eclipsed the 210 mph record set by Carl Francis of Canada in 2004. Amo's top speed at the end of his return run was 252.988 mph.

Amo, helped by wife Judi, daughter Kyaera, son Aero and friends, is preparing for another speed run at Bonneville, The World of Speed on Sept. 16-19.