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involved in recruiting, scouting, academic development and travel for the NAIA team. During her tenure, five Hillcats guards earned All-Sooner Athletic Conference recognition.
• Love helped coach the Hillcats back to the NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Tournament quarterfinals. He was responsible for recruiting, scouting and the on the court development of post players.
• Officials say a search for their replacements will begin immediately.
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Black Hills fires scorch 6,000 acres in SD, Wyo.
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Smokejumpers trained to parachute into fires jumped into a wildfire in the Black Hills of South Dakota for the first time on Tuesday as communities around the area canceled holiday fireworks displays.
• The crew of smokejumpers was summoned to battle the blaze officials are calling the Parker Peak Fire, located northeast of Edgemont. The wildfire is one of several that have ravaged 6,000 acres in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming.
• Firefighters there were trying to keep their minds off the fatal crash of an Air Force air tanker Sunday that had been part of the effort.
• Fall River County emergency management manager Frank Maynard said the jumpers were brought in Tuesday because the area can be inaccessible.
• "There are virtually no roads. It's not straight up and down, but it's real close. Getting motorized vehicles in there is virtually impossible. Everything is going to pretty much be handwork in that whole area," he said of the fire that is nearly 800 (Continued on page 20)
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