A trio of Brandon Valley wrestlers landed on the 2018 All-ESD Conference roster. Brothers Isaac and Creighton Klinkhammer and eighth-grader Damion Schunke represent the Lynx on the elite squad.
While Friday’s 51-40 victory over the Mitchell Kernels may not have been Brandon Valley’s prettiest performance of the season, the effort was good enough to punch their return ticket to the state AA’s later this month.
The Splitrock Ladies bowled Feb. 13 with the following results: High team game and series, JSA Engineers/Land Surveyors, 926 and 2,660. High individual game, Cheryl Lyngen, 191; High individual series, Ann Behrend, 539.
The Yankton girls’ basketball team may have out-rebounded the Lady Lynx 2 to 1 (36-18) Saturday, but Brandon Valley’s pressure defense got the best of the Gazelles by forcing 20 turnovers in the 52-41 road win.
Free throws and 3-pointers seem to be just the meat-and-potatoes the Lynx are eating up these days, and they had a buffet of both in back-to-back weekend wins.
The Brandon Valley wrestling squad wrapped up an exciting season with six state medalists and one state champion at the 2018 South Dakota Class A State Wrestling Tournament over the weekend.
The future paints a bright picture for girls’ basketball at Brandon Valley. And the proof is in the success of the seventh-grade Lady Lynx hoops program.
