After playing their way through the loser’s bracket all the way to the state title game the last three seasons, the Lady Lynx softball season came to a close a few games shy this year. The girls end their year just above the .500 mark at 14-13.
The Lady Lynx competitive dance team delivered their highest-scoring performances of the season in front of their home crowd Tuesday, with a third-place finish at the Brandon Valley Invitational Oct. 2.
The cross country record books had yet another rewrite following Saturday’s Eastern South Dakota Conference Championshipa with a variety of name change, the result of a variety of record-setting performances.
Call it déjà vu if you will. Brandon Valley’s 2018 girls’ soccer season came to a close Saturday in the same fashion as it did in 2017: in a shootout against O’Gorman. And for the second year, the shootout went the way of the Knights.
Scott Carroll was confident the Lynx boys had the talent to be in the top six mix of last week’s AA state tournament. And for the first day of the two-day affair, led by senior captain Jackson Faber, Brandon Valley was right there.
For the fourth consecutive year, Brandon Valley owns the Eastern South Dakota Conference football title. After a shaky first-half, the Lynx took control of Friday’s 34-7 road win over the Watertown Arrows.
It doesn’t get any easier in the post-season, and the Lynx boys learned that as they defeated Huron 4-2 in the opening round of the playoffs Oct. 2 and battled to a quarterfinals shootout Saturday that went the way of the Spearfish Spartans.