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• SDSU was No. 1 in both men's and women's sports. NDSU was second in women's sports and tied for third in men's sports.
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More statehood anniversary committees established
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Eight more South Dakota communities have established committees to help celebrate the state's 125th anniversary of statehood.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard says the new local committees are in Harrisburg, Ipswich, Tabor, Frederick, Lake Norden, Stickney, Geddes and Lawrence County. They're planning various events leading up to the Nov. 2 anniversary.
• President Benjamin Harrison on Nov. 2, 1889, signed the papers for admission to the Union for both South Dakota and North Dakota. North Dakota became the 39th state and South Dakota the 40th.
• Daugaard says 17 South Dakota towns, cities and groups have now become official statehood celebration communities.
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75 years on, Little League still swings big bat
MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press
• WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) -- Dick Hauser was an accidental Little Leaguer.
• Sitting on the front porch of his Williamsport home 75 years ago, the 12-year-old was approached by a man who asked, "Can you play ball?" His name was Carl Stotz, and he was starting a youth baseball league that would supply bats, balls and uniforms -- unimaginable luxuries in Depression-era Pennsylvania.
• After watching Hauser shag flies and field grounders, Stotz invited him to join.
• "When you're presented the opportunity to swing a real bat instead of a stick, and play with a real ball instead of something round that had tape on it, it was awesome," Hauser, now 87, reminisced as he watched his great-grandson -- a fourth-generation ballplayer -- take the field not far from Little League's birthplace.
• Little League began with three teams and Stotz's big dream: to teach boys the fundamentals of baseball along with values like teamwork and sportsmanship.
• Today it's a global enterprise with 2.1 million baseball players and a long-running TV contract for its signature event, the 10-day Little League World Series, played each August in front of 40,000 fans at South Williamsport's Lamade Stadium and watched by millions more on ABC and ESPN.
• Little League is marking its 75th anniversary with a new PBS documentary, a partnership with Major League Baseball and a website that's collecting players' (Continued on page 20)
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