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Huron boys' basketball coach Tim Buddenhagen watches the action during a recent Huron and Aberdeen Central game at Golden Eagles Arena. Buddenhagen is recovering from a series of heart attacks. (American News Photo by John Davis / January 17, 2013) |
“I’m thinking three heart attacks,” said Buddenhagen. “One in the emergency room at Huron. One in the airplane on the way to Sioux Falls, and one once I got to Sioux Falls.”
That happened on Nov. 30.
“We had morning practice and I don’t know if I had one at practice, but it was pretty close. I was in the locker room for two or three minutes. Then it subsided. I came back out and finished practice and went to the doctor,” said Buddenhagen who had a stent inserted into a blood vessel as a result of the attacks.
Buddenhagen, 49, had completed the Chicago Marathon on Oct. 7, so he was in good condition at the time of his attacks.
“I didn’t eat a lot of red meat, but I’m eating more chicken, turkey and fish,” he said. “My cholesterol was good. It’s genetics, and when you’re dealt that hand, you just have to take care of yourself the best you can. I’m on the mend.”
The Tigers are currently 6-3 overall and 3-3 in Eastern South Dakota Conference play. Huron hosts Sioux Falls Lincoln in a non-conference game Friday.
Sports writer Deb Smith
Webster heading to 9-man
There will be a new look on the gridiron in Webster this fall.
The Bearcats will be transitioning from Class 11B down to Class 9AA starting this season.
Webster Athletic Director Bill Sawinsky said he thought the school would be close to the cutoff mark for enrollment and ended up on the low side.
“We’re getting smaller,” Sawinsky said. “If our numbers stay the same, we could stay nine-man for probably about 6 to 8 years.”
Sawinsky said there could come a time when Webster will return to the 11-man ranks, but not for a while.
“If our numbers stay true, in eight years we will be coming back up,” he said. “We’ll have to wait and see what the numbers do.”
In the meantime, the Bearcats will be preparing to face a whole new set of opponents in football, and perhaps even a few old ones.
“We don’t know yet what’s going to happen schedule-wise,” Sawinsky said, “but we could be renewing a couple of rivalries, too.”
Former 11-man Northeast Conference foes such as Hamlin and Clark-Willow Lake also compete in the nine-man ranks and could once again be on Webster’s schedule.
The Bearcats were once a dominant team in Class 11B, winning state championships in 2000 and 2003 to go along with another in 1983.
