The Arlington Cardinals and Colman-Egan Hawks earned a spot in the SoDak 16 while Deubrook Area saw its season come to an end in Thursday’s area girls basketball action.
The Flandreau Fliers are going back to the SoDak 16 as they used an aggressive defensive effort and a run midway through the third quarter to defeat the Sioux Valley Cossacks 46-30 in the Region 2A Tournament on Thursday night.
Five area athletes have advanced to the semifinals of the SDHSAA Individual State Wrestling Tournament, which began at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center Thursday morning.
The Brookings Rangers PeeWee A team captured a state championship while tournaments kicked off at several levels in this week’s Ranger Roundup.
At the beginning of the season, head coach Matt Hanson wasn’t sure what to expect from his team. The Brookings Bobcats were in a youth movement, turning to a stable of sophomores who had shown promise but needed to adjust at the varsity level.
The growth of girls wrestling in South Dakota has continued this season and in few areas has that been more apparent than in the Brookings Bobcats wrestling program.
The Brookings Elks Lodge #1490 held the yearly Elks Hoop Shoot Contest at Sioux Valley High School in Volga on Dec. 10.
After three years of serving the Brookings community, the Cash Money Youth Skills Camp will not be put on this summer.
Ninety figure skaters will compete in 114 events this weekend at the Prairie Polar Blast Competition at the Larson Ice Center.
Area girls basketball teams began region playoffs on Tuesday night and five teams advanced. Flandreau, Arlington, Iroquois/Lake Preston, Deubrook Area and Colman-Egan all advanced to the semifinals and are a game away from the SoDak 16.
Before Sioux Valley opened its playoff run against Great Plains Lutheran on Tuesday night, Cossacks head coach Jamie Granum had a good feeling about Isabelle Bloker.
11 area wrestlers qualified for this year’s SDHSAA Class A State Wrestling meet as the Brookings Bobcats had eight wrestlers qualify and the Flandreau Fliers had three wrestlers qualify at the Region 1A Wrestling Tournament at Tea Area High School on Saturday afternoon.
The Sioux Valley Cossacks will send three wrestlers to this year’s SDHSAA Class B State Wrestling Tournament after Tate Steffensen, Dubhlainn Vermeulen and Owen Vandeweerd qualified at the Region 1B Wrestling Tournament at Gettysburg High School on Saturday afternoon.
The Brookings Rangers won two of their three games over the weekend, picking up wins over Mitchell and Aberdeen but suffering their first loss of the season against Sioux Falls East.
Seven area wrestlers have qualified for this year’s SDHSAA Girls State Wrestling Tournament, which will take place this Thursday through Saturday at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center in Sioux Falls.
The Estelline/Hendricks gymnastics team won its second straight State championship on Feb. 10 in Pierre as the Redhawks came in first place in Class A.
The Sioux Valley Cossacks finished the regular season with a win as they used a dominating performance over the final three quarters to defeat the Garretson Blue Dragons 58-35 in the opening game of a doubleheader at the Cossack Center in Volga on Thursday night.
Sioux Valley center Alec Squires scored his 1,000th career point and the Cossacks used an aggressive gameplan to defeat the Garretson Blue Dragons 97-45 in their regular-season finale at the Cossack Center in Volga on Thursday night.
The Brookings Bobcats smothered Aberdeen Central on defense and used a series of clutch plays in the second half to defeat the Golden Eagles 48-38 at Bob Jostad Gymnasium on Friday night.
Elkton-Lake Benton and Deubrook Area split a basketball doubleheader with the the Dolphins winning the boys game 55-41 and the Elks winning the girls game 49-26.
