List of 2014 inductees is announced

          The fifth annual South Dakota High School Basketball Hall of Fame induction banquet will feature 17 men and women who have helped write basketball history over the past six decades.  On March 29 the Sioux Falls Ramkota will host the inductees and several hundred guests for a program and banquet.

          The following athletes are set to accept their place along with 65 previous inductees who have set a standard of excellence and whose contributions are forever etched in the record books.  Lien Marso (Harrold); Mark Tetzlaff (Hamlin); DuWayne Gross (Sisseton); Rich Andrzejewski (Arlington); Richard “Milt” Authier (Woonsocket); Phil Miedema (Hitchcock); Willie White (Pine Ridge); Gerhardt “G.E.” Buenning (Parkston); Bart Friedrick (Mitchell); Denver Ten Broek (McIntosh); Luther Hippe (Washington); Steve Hammer (Pierpont) ; Julie (Harmacek) Bridge (Avon); Colleen Moran (Stickney); Mandy Koupal (Wagner); Kris Holwerda (Brookings); Lori (Wohleber) O’Farrell (Summit).

          In addition to these athletes, the 1985 Mitchell Kernels will be recognized as a team of excellence along with Coach Gary Munsen. Kent Hyde, a Hall of Fame athlete from Onida, will be recognized as the fourth all-time single season scoring leader in the nation with 50.4 points per game in 1953.