What a night of "AA" girls basketball from around the state of South Dakota! Congrats to the Knights, Warriors, Kernels and Cobblers for all punching their ticket to the state tournament in Brookings on March 10-12th. In District one it was the Knights taking control late and beating the Riders 66-55 to earn a trip to state. The surprise of the night was the Bobcats from Brookings upsetting the Watertown Arrows on their home court 55-47 to earn a region game on Saturday.
In District two it was the Washington Warriors earning a trip back to state to defend last year's championship as they won going way 62-32 over the Yankton Gazelles. The Warriors will be the #1 seed at the tournament. Yankton will host the Brookings Bobcats on Saturday. It was the Brandon Valley Lynxs putting an end to the Lincoln Patriots season 45-32. The Lynxs will play at Roosevelt this Saturday, March 5th for a right to go to the state tournament.
In District three it was Mitchell earning a trip to state by beating Aberdeen Central 63-51 and Huron ended the Pierre Lady Govs season 71-34. Aberdeen will host Spearfish on Saturday and Huron will travel to RC Stevens for the right to go to state.
In District four RC Central beat RC Stevens 58-47 and Spearfish edges Sturgis 39-35 to end their season. Again Stevens host the Huron Tigers and Aberdeen Central host Spearfish on Saturday for the right to go to state.
It was a fun night of basketball! Congrats to the teams, players and coaches that made the tournament! Let's do this all over again on Friday night to get the "AA" boys to state. Listen to 99.1 with Brad Peterson covering the District Two Championship game between the Lincoln Patriots and the Brandon Valley Lynxs. Thanks for reading my blog, comments and feedback welcome.
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