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Here are your hosts, Jason Andera and Nate Wek Well can you believe it Jan.

The playoff seasons here already.

We've got 16 teams remaining in all three nine man classes and 11 B got one more week as far as the top 311 man classes.

But yeah playoff season's here.

But state soccer this past weekend as well.

We'll talk about that a little bit later in the show.

I mean it's just it's crazy how time flies.

Championship season is in the air across a lot of different sports.

We'll definitely focus on the football here.

But, there's a lot of student athletes getting ready to play for their seasons.

Absolutely.

Well, as every week we start this show off with the game changers from last week.

Let's go through that.

We've got a lot on the list this week.

Lot to talk about.

Broc Bauer makes another appearance on the list.

His quarterback, Pete Maher, found him in the end zone twice, went over 100 yards, but Beckham cancello 162 yards and four touchdowns rushing.

And, completes Warner's undefeated regular season.

They've done that for a few seasons in a row now.

Jace Charland out of canton with a big passing day.

Four touchdowns through the air.

Leicester troll of prey for, Roosevelt goes over 100 yards.

Charlie.

It was spreading the ball around.

Look at that big day for Charlie.

It.

Yeah it is six incompletions.

Almost 375 yards passing.

And then you add the four touchdowns as well.

Tremendous day from one of the more athletic families I'd say in the state.

Yeah.

And he hit his receiver Peterson several times.

We'll get to him in just a minute.

Austin.

Flora of Sturgis a big rushing and passing day for him Peyton Glenn another guy who can do it with the arm and the legs.

They had a big game between them and Saint Thomas More.

But he put up just as good a stats as the Saint Thomas More as Nick.

Well, was also on this list.

Yeah.

Just another, just a really good performance.

You know, when you're completing, you know, when you're completing almost, you know, 66% of your passes, you go over 300.

I mean, it's not easy to do, right?

Yeah.

Exactly why it hurt us.

You Valley of five touchdown day including two on the ground and three more through the air.

Chase Hermanson makes his weekly appearance on the list, going over 300 yards in the air with three touchdowns.

How about Kaden Hamrick though?

A five touchdown day for Watertown.

Watertown bouncing back in a big way with a win there.

Braden Jackson getting it done on the ground.

We see Brady Brody Schaefer every week.

But when they get help with their running game they are nearly unstoppable a big upset win for them.

Yeah.

And you know this week we're going to focus a lot more on some of the nine man teams.

And 11 be we're not going to you know get too much into it.

But what a performance by Lincoln just as a whole this past week going against Brandon Valley.

Big week for them Landon Kaiser of Platte gets almost 300 yards on the ground and four touchdowns as they secure the number two spot in Camden.

Kessler every week makes his spot on here.

Five carries 105 for yards.

Another 250 through the air and then defensively always threatening which almost put him on the list just twice every week have here's his offense and here's his defense because I think he could make the list in both offense or defense every week.

I think you're right.

Charlie Leopards goes for almost 200 yards for Corsica Stickney as they finish out their regular season.

Pete Meyer we talked about what he did through the air and on the ground.

Hooking up with Brock Bowers.

How about Grayson Metzger?

Once again?

This guy's.

He's been prolific.

He's throwing the ball at a remarkably high percentage.

Yeah, and this is one of the key pieces of why Jefferson has had such a tremendous season.

When you, you know, with that good defense, when you have this offense that can be this explosive, this is a team that's going to go very deep.

Tough combination Easton Morris, Sully Buttes.

He goes over 200 yards with four touchdowns and another one on the ground Isaac Meyers was catching a lot of those.

Chase Hermanson passes.

Rush O'Neal scores a big touchdown as they beat Lyman in the waning seconds.

Goes over 200 yards receiving yeah I mean I've never had any game even on playing Madden where I where I've caught how two receivers usually catch 200 yards.

So when you look at that type of performance, don't you think that that just kind of sums up the athleticism that is rush O'Neal.

He is really taking a lot on his shoulder.

So Bennett County finishing out with just one loss on the year.

Great season for him.

Let's keep moving with Ashland Oberlin of Beresford heading.

You said really great season but does what he normally does.

Rushes over 100 and throws for over 204.

Touchdown day for him Luke Peterson we talked about a lot of those passes from Charlie 8012 catches for three touchdowns.

Big day for him.

Benjamin has been on the list several times.

Recently has another big win for Great Plains Lutheran five touchdowns rushing another one through the air and a big day on the defensive side as well.

Grayson Radcliff of Avon goes for almost 200 yards and a couple of touchdowns.

Maddox rowsey through all those passes pretty much all of his yards came to rush O'Neal but threw for 294 yards.

Yeah, just a tremendous performance.

Then he got Cade Risky out of Garretson 31 to rush at times.

He goes over 203 touchdowns as well.

And then Brody Shafer we got to talk about this guy.

What a performance.

He had 239 yards four touchdowns.

Also had a touchdown on the ground against probably one of the better defenses in the 11 triple A taking out Brandon Valley.

Yeah exactly.

It was a it was a tremendous it was a tremendous day for Brody Schaefer and a really, really good statement win for Sioux Falls Lincoln that's crawling back into this thing with 11 triple AA.

Yeah.

They have a chance to be as high as a number two seed after next week.

We'll talk more about that in the top tilts.

How about Isaac Smith out of Sturgis.

Shout out 51 yard field goal.

We love field goals right now.

We do love field goals.

You know our field goals weren't quite maybe 51 yards.

You know earlier in the year when we made attempts, you know, give or take a yard or two, throw it with time.

Yeah, exactly.

If practice makes perfect.

But yeah, 51 yards.

We love seeing kids contribute with field goal kicking in South Dakota.

Yeah.

Another big offensive week for Sioux Falls Christian a record setting performance.

They threw for more yards as a team than they have in school history.

Cooper stranded 344 yards through the air.

Mason Snyder six catches for those four touchdowns.

Huge day for the Chargers.

And right between them.

Broden Stevenson once again with a 200 yard rushing day and five total touchdowns here.

We got Cooper two earlier on the list this week don't we JJ Cooper made a maiden appearance and we gave it to him because he had a big day receiving but also ran a touchdown.

And like he likes to line up in the Wildcat.

So a couple of different touchdowns a couple different ways for the big tight end.

Yeah he's a guy.

You know we haven't seen as you mentioned on this list that much this year.

But he is such a unique talent and such an added specimen to that pure offense.

So to see him kind of utilize in a couple different ways here, it just kind of shows an example of how peer likes to use them up in he is.

He could put up a lot more numbers.

But they have a lot of different weapons to go to.

So big day for him.

And then we got to mention Noah Wilde once again, 18 to 26, 243 yards and three touchdowns.

He has had a phenomenal junior season.

And that performance helped him you know beat Rapid City Christian a team that they were right in the thick of it with the second half.

But his performance helped Saint Thomas more over the edge.

All right.

We'll talk about Saint Thomas More here in a little bit.

As long as well as some of the other 11 teams as the playoff slate is ready to go for that real quick.

You know, you know, we got to mention soccer, right?

We were both had the opportunity to be in Watertown this past Saturday for the state soccer championships.

We got to see Sioux Falls Lincoln win their fourth consecutive title in boys soccer.

You got Harrisburg girls five in a row.

James Valley Christian went back to back, so they were champions again.

But we got a new champion as well.

It was a shootout at the end with Dakota Valley, Sioux Falls Christian, Dakota Valley first ever girls soccer title.

Out of those four games, we had to end in shootouts.

I mean, that just tells you how evenly the playing field was.

But the rivalries that we saw, especially that Dakota Valley, Sioux Falls, Christian rivalry, a lot of respect between those two teams and and they've played.

So even throughout the game, there's a lot of really good matchups, a lot of great individual performances.

But what a showcase for South Dakota soccer.

Yeah, really, really good weekend weather.

Little chilly little windy.

You got to I can say it a little bit.

It's the same 20 mile an hour winds in my face for about 12 hours.

But it was all worth it.

It was all worth it.

All right.

Well, and then as we mentioned this week, you know, the playoffs are getting started for all three nine man classes.

Class 11 B. Let's get into it with 11 B. Yeah.

So just to kind of an overview, you know we've talked about Elk Point Jefferson Saint Thomas More.

You got Clark Little Lake in there.

Just one point separating those three teams as far as the seed points.

Right.

So you had all three of those teams end up undefeated on the season.

Chris Clark, will Lake did a great job of securing that win against duel last week.

But it was interesting.

Clark will like played nine games this year.

They scheduled an extra game because there was an an odd situation where a team needed a game, so it may have come back.

I haven't done the actual math, but they may have come back to hurt them a little bit because it lowered their average seed points enough.

But either way, those are your top three seeds in this.

And and really, it looks just like our rankings in most classes.

You can't say that, a lot of them, the seed points are a little bit different than the rankings.

This one kind of went to chalk.

So it feels like a a really fair field in here.

All right.

And some of the best matchups that we're going to see here through 11 B here the first week.

What do you like.

Well let's talk about Mobridge Pollock and Clark Willow Lake.

They played to a 2624 match back in early October.

Since then actually Max Jackson, he he has a knee injury.

He's trying to play through it.

You can't make it worse.

So he's playing on he's not 100%, but that's a weapon that Mobridge Pollock has back in the lineup for them.

Going against a team like Clark with the league, I think they've got confidence knowing that they can play with that team.

So you don't usually look at those, you know, 314 matchups as being key integral games.

But that one really could be.

And I would keep my eye on that game just in case.

And then McCook Central's Chamberlain, you know, you get the eight nine matchup.

Yeah.

And you know McCook central Montrose had such a tough slate of games through the first few weeks of the season.

And they didn't look bad at all through some of those games.

They were sticking with opponents.

You know, some of the some of the big hitters of of this class.

So it's a team that has experienced, you know, I don't want to say battle tested, but they kind of are as far as some of that.

And I think some of that earlier regular season experience that they had, we'll see how it benefits them here.

But but then you got Chamberlain on the other side to Chamberlain, a really good team, especially when it comes to running the football.

Exactly.

They love to run the football they beat.

You know City Christian back early in the season.

They gave some other good games to teams.

So I think you're eight nine.

Matchup is always feels like it's going to be a game.

This one really, really has to feel like it's going to be a great matchup.

All right.

Any surprises as far as matchups that we got to look for an 11 beat.

Well we talked about Rapid City Christian lost the first game of the year.

We kind of forgot about them in the rankings.

Then they reeled off six wins in a row.

And then they challenged Saint Thomas More in the last week of the season.

So now we got to look at Rapid City Christian a little differently.

Like these guys.

These guys can play.

We've seen Peyton Glenn spread the ball around his teammates.

They've proven they can pass and run the ball.

So for them to get a seven seed, I mean, I don't want to look ahead, but they could be playing Saint Thomas More in the quarterfinals next week if both teams find a way to advance past this first round, that could be a surprise.

That I'm not sure Saint Thomas More wants to see that early in the playoffs.

Yeah, absolutely.

It should be.

It should be an interesting week.

There could be some surprises.

We'll just kind of have to wait and see.

As we do with all of these classes.

Nine double A Parkeston obviously the the top seed in this class you know and you just kind of look through it.

You know you got Hamlin that's here to Hamlin has looked really really good since that first game of the regular season.

Right.

You know they have a hiccup against Castle out the gate.

And then Hamlin's just rattled off wins ever since then.

So you got Hamlin as the two you know.

But as far as like the key matchups with nine A what are you looking for?

Well, again, we've got an interesting field here because we kind of expected Parkeston to do this at the beginning of the year.

And sometimes expectations are the hardest things to do.

They went out and they answered the call and they were able to go out and, put an undefeated season together.

So that was huge for them.

But there's a lot of these one loss.

I know we talked about Hamlin.

You know, they haven't lost since that first game.

Bowden Stevenson is really settled into quarterback play.

And there's a lot of other teams to look for.

Britton.

Hecla only one loss on the season.

And they've beaten some pretty good teams down the stretch here as well.

And Platte Geddes earning that three seed with a young team.

But Landon Kiser has come in and really made them a contender maybe a year early.

So I really like some of these one loss teams to keep an eye on.

But really on the overview, I think it's maybe more open than people think.

What do you think of having, you know, Viborg Bottom?

What do you think of that matchup?

Yeah.

Two teams.

It's been a lot of time in the top five this year.

Right.

And Barnum didn't really come through the way that they wanted to after their good start.

Had a couple hiccups at the big win over Garretson and then struggled for a few weeks.

But feel like they can play with a team like Vibra Curley.

So both teams are going to be ready to run the ball, and they've got a lot of different guys who can carry the ball for them.

So I'm looking forward to a game where the most physical team is probably going to find a way to get a victory here.

Then you got Sioux Falls Lutheran going against they summit.

Neither of these teams have played a common opponent.

No comment upon.

Yeah, it's hard to tell.

Right.

So what are we going to get with this?

It's hard to tell because Sioux Falls Lutheran, you know, really had a couple of impressive games.

You know, getting wins against S-Line and Barnum, making it look like, you know, maybe they're a team to watch out for.

But then on the other hand, you know, Web Summit had an impressive couple of weeks ago, got a win over Great Plains Lutheran, only has a loss or two on the season.

So that's one where I think we could have some surprises.

I mean, either way, really, it feels like it could be a surprise.

But that's what I'm really looking forward to watching.

And then a quick shout out to the lead Deadwood a year ago don't win a game.

And this year here they're sitting four and four.

Yeah I got to give a lot of shout shout outs to some of those teams who, you know struggled last year.

Lead Deadwood went from 0 to 4.

Northwestern.

Northwestern went from 0 to 3 wins.

Baltic went from zero to several wins on the season and we'll talk about it later.

But old team Ramona goes from no wins to six wins, right?

Just some shout outs in general to some of these programs that have really turned it around.

All right.

How about class 9AI mean, you got Timberlake.

You know, they had that big win against Sully Buttes a few weeks ago.

They're that number one seed now.

Turned out giving them the number one seed.

Who would have thought that they were playing an overtime game.

That turned out the winner would be winning it all.

And and this is a class all year rankings wise.

We've had Freeman just kind of locked in is that number one seed.

But it's Timberlake who gets that number one seed.

And you know congratulations to them.

They love to throw the ball.

And you know they've played in some tough games this year but gotten the W's each and every time.

Yeah.

Then you got Timberlake.

How about them?

You know, get mentioned on Sunday Night Football with, Tucker Kraft with green Bay going against the Cowboys and gave a shout out to Timberlake Elementary.

Yeah.

And so here you are.

You're Timberlake.

You get mentioned on Sunday Night Football.

You are the number one seed.

You get mentioned on the game tonight.

Like how how much better does it get than that.

Right?

A win on a win on Friday night I think would be would make it a little bit better for Timberlake I think so.

And you know there is some potential there for an unprecedented upset because they've got they don't have your normal 16 seed.

They've got Elkton like Benton a team that has really played well, you know, Saint Mary's and some other really good teams.

I've never seen a team on upset watch quite like that for a one versus 16 game.

So that's definitely one to watch.

You know and we've talked about nine A throughout the year just because of you know you look at some of the talent you know Bennett County there are five seed.

We talked about Russell Neal and just the year that they've had with one loss.

You've got Sully Buttes that you know threw the seed points was the number one team for quite a few weeks.

We got everybody you know a lot of talking heads look like us.

We're talking about Castlewood.

We're talking about Freeman week to week.

There is so much here in class nine A that it's going to set up, I think to be a really fun few weeks.

And, and I think a lot of 98 fans maybe wanted to see what looked like the two best teams in the rankings.

At least, you know, Castlewood and Freeman have a chance to play in the dome.

Well, that's probably not going to happen.

We've got them as two and three seeds.

So they're going to collide in the semifinals.

So whatever one of those teams finds their way to the dome it will be earned that's for sure.

So this one doesn't line up.

You know how we had these other classes that were lined up perfectly with the rankings?

This is one of those.

It doesn't line up, but it's still going to take an effort to to get those wins, to get your pay your way to the dome.

Yeah.

we.

Yeah.

He got Freeman as the two.

You've got Castle.

What is the three?

And then you got Howard in there.

Two is the seven on that side of the bracket.

I exactly.

That's how the bracket is crazy.

Just some big time teams there with Howard and it's seven.

I mean, if we if we get chalk in the first round the road games next week can you believe it.

These road teams are going to be, you know, Bennett County, Centerville, Howard Kimball, White Lake or Falcon.

One of those teams is going to find a way.

It's you're going to have some heavy blue blood monsters looking for some road victories next week.

But we'll get we'll get into that more next week.

But this week we got a great game between Lyman and Bennett County.

They just played last week.

So six days later they are slated to go again.

And last week, Bennett County won at 2821 on a game winning touchdown from Maddox Risi to Rush O'Neal.

I'm looking for that one to be a barnburner.

So for to do that, I mean, we've seen that in the NFL and we've seen that in other instances, 2 or 3 of the last week, the regular season, you go into the first week of the playoffs usually, you know, some coaches don't like that.

Well, you know, and some fans don't like that either because it makes them uncomfortable.

If you're on the winning side on one week, you know what's going to happen the next week.

It's just a unique spot.

So like if for both of those teams, what do you what do you do to have success?

I don't think you can change too much to be honest.

These teams know what they are at this point.

They know each other.

You know you don't have a ton of time to put a whole new game plan in.

You're pretty much you might have a trick player two that you throw in.

There's a wrinkle, but these teams know what they're going to get, and you know they're very evenly matched.

So it could go either way.

All right well let's go to nine.

Be here real quick as well.

So nine B you got Wall in Saint Mary's.

Let's go through this scenario as far as the top seed because they're having a tiebreaker after tiebreakers.

So yeah you had three teams tied undefeated.

Of course they don't go by record.

They go by seed points.

So it comes down to seed points.

It's pretty hard to tie on that one.

But of course Wall and Saint Mary's exactly tied on that one.

So then you go did they play each other head to head.

No.

They didn't play each other.

So then you go to the actual record, you know, instead of seed points.

That was exactly the same.

Most wins.

That's exactly the same few as losses.

That's exactly the same.

No common opponents to compare to.

So you go to the last tiebreaker before the coin flip, and you go by the average of the tying teams opponents there and their seed point averages.

And wall just barely outdoes Saint Mary's so well.

And that's a big advantage because you have wall, you've got Warner, you got Saint Mary's on three different corners of the state.

So having home home field advantage is a big deal.

And if you're confused at all the different ones, I suggest just hitting rewind and write them down right now.

Or just go look at the SD essay by the handbook.

Look up tiebreaker.

Yeah.

All right.

So best matchup that you got for this one.

Do Brook at Harriet Selby.

Yeah.

You know both are four and four teams.

We don't really know what we're going to get.

But we we if we feel like it should be a really good matchup.

Yeah.

Do Brook you know a couple of years ago was in an upper class.

They moved down to nine B. I think they are much more suited to to playing against these nine B teams.

Harriet Selby been ranked throughout the year.

They're four and four but probably play a little better than that.

So I think that's a great matchup at eight nine.

I also like Kadok or R and or hammer or Money.

Right.

When we talked about them, they won six straight after losing their first two and have a tougher season last year, but they only have 14 players on their varsity roster.

And one of those guys got hurt.

So that's amazing what they've done with that team this year.

Yeah, it's the team by itself of just fielding a team is a story in itself.

You add in the wins and it's just how are they doing it?

How are they doing it?

And you know, they have to be one of the close knit locker rooms, you know, to have this type of success.

You know everybody just trusting one another.

When you have that few players, you got to have full trust in the guy next year over here, the guy next to you over there, and you just got to come together and they've done it.

And it's a great sign because these school districts of course, have been, you know, going back and forth about buildings and trying to figure out and trying to get on the same page.

Well, the football team take a page from the football team, they're on the same page.

They're doing things right.

And, just that's a good story.

But they have a tough game against mediocre, so that's another one to watch.

Well, then we mentioned as well, you know, we talked about Warner a little bit.

And you know throughout the game changes a little bit.

You know here's Warner eight no season.

And they're the three seed.

You know they've they've kind of been you know they've been a very successful program here these last few years.

They've had a lot of wins over the over the past 3 or 4 years.

You know what do they need to do here to kind of go, you know this time different through this playoff run.

Yeah.

And this is a young team that they probably weren't.

You know had the same type of goals that they have in some of these senior leading teams that they've had.

So they've got a sophomore running back leading the way.

Only a couple seniors on this squad.

So they just need to protect the ball and do what they've done.

But they're already overachieving some expectations.

But coming into the year, we looked at their schedule and said, yeah, they have a chance to go undefeated.

Saint Mary's has a chance to go undefeated while has a chance to go undefeated.

And of course, that's how it played out.

But it's going to be tough, for Warner once we get deeper into the playoffs.

All right.

Any other things with nine B we need to look at?

I just think it's this is as good as advertised.

This nine B class is just much deeper than it was last year.

I think another team maybe on upset alert is Coleman Eagan.

They've got to watch.

They've had some injuries.

And they've been good all year.

But but it's going to be tough for them coming out and seeing what they can do in the first round of these playoffs.

Otherwise a lot of these first round playoff games just end up, just like you think they're going to end up.

And there's a lot of young teams that are just trying to find a way to make things happen.

But Coleman, Eagan and Gettysburg maybe one to watch.

All right.

Real quick with all nations, Todd County, Winnebago.

They're the two top seeds on the nine eight side of things.

You got Lakota tech.

That's the four, Cheyenne, Eagle Butte.

They're the five Mafia Luta.

They are the three little wound is the six.

And there are some tie breaker stuff in there too.

Was sort through some of that.

But yeah.

So you mean your two teams with the bye is really A9A or Todd County Winnebago.

And then on the nine B side you got Dupree, Tarquini and White River as the two teams that get the byes on the nine B side.

It's kind of expected, you know white River at least I did.

You know, coming back with such a young team from last year that made it to the dome.

But Dupree Tarquini took a huge step up this year.

New additions and Dupree joined Tarquini who was already in there.

But so those two teams have byes.

And then we talked about Todd County and Winnebago or projected as being really good teams and they came through.

But I think some of these other teams have a chance to really, you know, make their season special by getting a win in this first round of playoffs.

I think Lakota tech would mean a lot for them.

Same with Johnny Butte, same with little wounds, same with Mike pluta.

And then in the nine b side, Walthall and Marty and Zina and Laura Brule.

I mean, these are these are big games for these schools to to get on the board and have a chance to play in the semifinals and the championships for all nations are actually the same night as the semifinals for the other seven classes of high school football.

So there's a ton of action that's taking place on Friday, November 6th here in South Dakota.

It's going to be busy night.

We'll have you covered.

All right.

As always, we end with the top tilts.

Janae.

We're going to include some of the 11 triple A and A into this.

But let's start with Harrisburg.

At Lincoln.

You mentioned it earlier that there's a lot going on with Lincoln.

They have a chance at that two seed.

What do you like here with Harrisburg at Lincoln?

How big of a game is this is big because you know you take out the Omaha games or the or games against other classes.

Right now you've got O'Gorman to finish their regular season because they have a double A game this week against Watertown.

So they're five and three.

They're five one team.

And then you've got Lincoln, Harrisburg also in there at that five win spot Brandon Valley and at that five win spot.

So a lot could happen here because Lincoln lost in the regular season to O'Gorman.

If they lose they could fall all the way down to five.

But if they win they've got the tiebreaker against Brandon Valley and go all the way up to number two.

Harrisburg.

Maybe the stakes not quite as big.

They'll either be a three seed or they could get bumped down with a loss to maybe a four seed.

So they'll be a 3 or 4 where?

Lincoln.

It's a big deal.

It's either 2 or 5.

All right.

Yeah that's a just one game has that you know, is the difference between maybe having home games throughout the playoffs and the other one as being like, we're going to be road dogs here the rest of the way.

So that's yeah, it's definitely a big game for Linc, especially for Lincoln Harrisburg too.

But it's huge for Lincoln.

All right.

Then you get Rapid City Stevens Rapid City Central.

This is a big game because whoever wins goes to the postseason.

Yeah.

And you just they do so much traveling.

It's just great to see them play that crosstown rivalry.

And the winner gets to advance to the playoffs the loser going home.

But that's always a big game.

Spearfish at Sturgis tied for record right now correct.

And then you know the winner will likely get the number five spot of this game.

Yeah.

And if you win that you're going to be in one of those 4 or 5 matchups that are usually much more competitive than falling down a spot where you're going to have to play a little tougher.

And again, this is another one that always these teams played against each other to end the season.

It's always been a great rivalry.

When you got Yankton versus T area, what's going to happen here?

This is going to be this is this is a fantastic game to end the season tied in the record again.

And that two seed is still on the line for these two teams.

They go by seed points in this class.

So it is a little bit dependent on who else they've played outside of their round robin part of their schedule.

But I think Yankton, you know, could make a real statement late in the season by getting a win over a banged up t area team, Lennox at Madison on 11 a what do you like here?

Well, this one Lennox is currently tied for number three.

So they need a win just here the three spot.

Otherwise if they go to four you're looking at a semifinal matchup against Sioux Falls Christian.

You know nobody wants to be in that position.

So Lennox is going to have all their cards on the table against Madison.

And then you got West Central at Dell Rapids.

Another just geographical great matchup.

These two teams and Dell Rapids sitting at that five right now.

They would love to move up if possible.

And West Central could lock in the number two seed.

And then the last spot in the 11 A that's up for grabs.

It's between Vermillion and Dakota Valley.

And they just happen to be facing right at the end of the.

How about that.

They are tied for that eighth spot tied in seed points.

And they play each other.

So literally the it's a playoff game for these two teams.

It is.

And we've talked about Vermillion how dangerous they look down the stretch.

But Dakota Valley they've got some weapons as well.

They would love to extend their season.

So a lot to play for in this one.

All right.

Playoff season is upon us.

And then again it'll get we'll have a lot more information with 11 triple A and 11 triple A 1111 a next week and quarters next week.

And it's going to be a lot of fun.

So thanks Janae.

Another fun week here on game time.

We'll see you next week.

All right.