They say practice makes perfect, but three straight seasons of practice as Class AA state champion runner-up couldn’t help the Lady Lynx softball team take the state title from Sioux Falls O’Gorman Saturday.
Although landing an 11th place team finish at the girls’ state tennis tournament “may not look glamorous,” Brandon Valley head coach Adam Rothenberger said the team played its best tennis of the year.
Chad Garrow was drenched Friday night. First by a steady rain that fell throughout the second half of the game. And second, when his players doused him with a cooler of water in celebration of the Brandon Valley football coach’s 100th victory.
Aberdeen Central once again swept both team titles Saturday in the Eastern South Dakota Conference Cross Country Championships at Cattail Crossing Golf Course in Watertown.
A pair of ESD Conference road matches proved to be unkind territory for the Lady Lynx volleyball team last week. Brandon Valley lost to 3-0 to Yankton Oct. 3 and fell 3-1 to Pierre on Saturday.