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Here are your hosts, Jason Andera and Nate Wek We're back with game time.

Andy, we have eight teams left in all seven classes of high school football.

In South Dakota.

It's quarterfinal week.

This is where it really starts getting good because as we saw there in the open, we are one week away from the coveted semifinals.

Exactly.

Last week we got a little taste of the playoffs.

Not a ton of upsets, but there were some highlights to talk about from the 11.

Be a nine man games.

But this week all classes are on board and anything could happen.

Yeah.

And we saw, you know, even with some of the classes that did not have playoffs start this past week, we saw some games that we'll talk about to that impacted some of the seedings that we're going to see in especially 11 triple A and 11 double play.

Definitely there were some games that were pivotal for and then there were games that were pivotal for some teams, and the other teams had stuff locked up.

And we'll go through all of that too.

All right.

Well, as we do every week, we're going to go over the game changers.

This will be the last week of Game Changers, though, correct?

Yep.

After the regular season, we start talking about each and every game so we don't have to, like, have a separate section for game changers.

But let's get started.

Rowdy Bo, one of Coleman Egan, goes for 197 scrimmage yards and a touchdown against Gettysburg as they got a big win.

Beckham carnival.

The freshman keeps on producing ten carries 192 yards for touchdowns for Warner.

In the losing effort Harrisburg brought out David Doe, but he went over 200 yards rushing with a couple of touchdowns.

And then Su Valley gets a road win against Rapid City Christian due in part to why it hurt.

Yeah what a what a performance.

Eight of ten 102 yards four touchdowns.

And then oh yeah 145 on the ground as well.

they we can't we can't really talk about the game changes without Tayden Kerrigan out of Freeman 15 of 18.

Just three incompletions, six touchdowns.

You kidding me?

This team you know obviously has been making their mark on defense.

But offensively they're such a quick strike team.

And he's got so many weapons to throw to David Walter came up with another three touchdown game.

But it's Tayden Kerrigan driving that car.

And then you got Camden Kessler out of Castlewood.

Another regular here on the Game Changers every week.

You know 80 yards passing but 189 yards on the ground five touchdowns.

And then again on the defensive side he shows up again another interception All right.

Who else do we need to look at here.

Let's look at, Dylan Keirstead and well, his quarterback Tanner Vollmer both did a great job.

But Keirstead did it both on the defensive side and receiving for 92 yards and a touchdown.

Gavin close out of do over 200 yards on the ground.

Carter can ski part of the machine that ran for over 400 yards for Kimball White Lake.

He had 202 of them with three touchdowns.

And then I got to go watch Jack Kodaira of Yankton.

Yankton all over T, and he was spot on early in that game.

So since he saw him in person, is it more impressive when you see him live?

He was fun because he he spreads it out to so many different receivers.

So you don't see his receivers on this list, but he can go to anybody.

And he was a weapon early in that game.

I loved watching him and he's been a little up and down this season, but he has been up lately.

All right.

You got Thomas Levoy out of Saint Mary's 143 yards on the ground and four touchdowns.

Just some really impressive rushing performance this week Jonathan Leonardi out of Hamlin 203 yards rushing on three carries.

So okay, we know something's up with that.

I was going to ask, is that a typo?

Three carries.

I mean that is an insane average every time you're touching the ball and every time he touched it it's a touchdown.

Yeah.

He's turning the field around on each of those three carries.

So you know three carries two touchdowns there.

Look at you on the game changers.

In Metzger.

Another huge day for Jefferson.

He, threw for over 240 yards and three scores.

Another a couple of triple A people to mention one from Brandon Valley.

Ryder Mueller goes for 165 and a touchdown.

And Brody Schaefer 20 of 28 284 yards and three touchdowns.

Just another day for the senior class.

Yeah.

And one of his receivers, Jace Weber, really stepping up.

He caught seven of those for 121 and two touchdowns.

And then we got to mention Devin Rhodes the quarterback from T in Griffin.

We've been after they were down big.

They came up with a huge second half Rhodes threw for over 300 yards.

Griffin weaving sets a new school record with eight catches 265 yards and a pair of touchdowns.

A big day for T didn't wasn't enough to get the victory, but it shows that they can still throw the ball a little bit with all the injuries they've had.

They're able to make some ground.

Yeah.

And they still have a lot of they still have a really good core.

They've got it.

They've got guys that are playmakers on that team.

You know we'll talk a little bit about Te Ariel and and the Yankton thing when we get to 11 here.

But there's you know that's that's one where I think you know if they if they could play again we might see a little bit of a different, a little bit of something different potentially.

I think so too.

It's it's really hard to read some of those teams right now, but, great list of game changers.

Thanks all year for contributing towards the list.

And, yeah, we'll keep up with how these performances are going, but we've been to the show more in the next couple weeks.

All right.

Well, in state championship stuff continued here.

This past week.

We had the state cross-country meet from Hart Ranch and Rapid.

The state cheer and dance competition was Friday and Saturdays past week in rapid as well.

At the Summit Arena with cross-country.

Here's a quick recap to show you the winners.

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On Friday, Sioux Valley won their 20th consecutive state cheer title, which is absolutely incredible.

Yeah, Dakota Valley I believe, won in their 17th straight on the dance side of things, which is equally as incredible.

The new new Grand champion category in class AA this year.

On the coed side, Wagner won the Grand championship in the coed division this year.

So it was a big, big day for Wagner.

And then on the class Double-A side, you had Harrisburg.

That came into it.

A lot of people thought Harrisburg was going to be, you know, probably the team that won it.

But it was O'Gorman that won the state cheer title and then Brandon Valley, I mean, go watch something, go watch their routines, especially in the pom.

I mean, it is perfection.

Brandon Valley won the dance title on the class Double-A side.

So tons of great athletes, you know, cross-country, there's so many kids in that and especially with cheer and dance too.

There's a ton there's tons of kids that are involved in that now and now with the coed stuff, boys and girls that are involved in it.

I tell you what I mean.

Just a lot, you know, very different activities, right?

Very different sports.

But you can see the athleticism that's just on full display and the dedication and just congratulations to everybody who participated.

You know, it's their Super Bowl and and and we got to give out our flowers.

All right.

Well let's get into these playoff brackets here real quick.

Ginny we will talk a little bit too about all nations here to end the program just because they they're in the semifinals for, for their playoffs here this week.

But as far as the quarterfinal stuff let's start with 11 triple A Sioux Falls Jefferson's that one seed Rapid City Central gets to play them because Rapid City Central beat Stevens this past week.

So Rapid City Central gets to make the playoffs on 11.

Yeah nice win for them.

You know to get on the board to get a win against Stevens against their crosstown rivals.

But it's going to be a tough test.

Obviously playing against this Jefferson team.

And in this first round of of 888 games.

We don't normally get a ton of great games, but we've got a couple that that could be interesting.

I think the one to point to here is O'Gorman and Harris.

For James, it feels like they play each other almost every year in the playoffs.

In fact, this is the fourth time they've met in the playoffs.

In the last five years.

Yeah, I think of of the four matchups that we see here with 11 triple A, the Harrisburg women one, it's not just because it's the 4 or 5 matchup.

I just I can see it going either way.

This one could go either way.

And we saw what Harrisburg has been doing on the ground lately.

I think defensively they've got a few things to shore up, and they've got a big test this week going against the explosive O'Gorman offense.

And Chase Hermanson has been doing it all season long, picking people apart through the pass game.

So if they can move the ball through the air, I like their chances.

If Harrisburg comes up with something to put a dent in that maybe some takeaways.

I think this game could definitely go either way.

I mean, it shows they played in the regular season a one point game, right?

Exactly.

It'll be a fun one to watch everybody.

There's going to be a lot of eyes on that game for sure.

Sioux Falls, Lincolns the two are Sioux Falls, Washington is the seven Sioux Falls.

Lincoln finds their way to that number two seed.

So that was one of these things we're talking about with these important games.

And the last week of the regular season, Lincoln got that win against Harrisburg and vaults all the way up after two losses.

What, in their first three weeks or something all the way back up to number two.

They figured out a way to get things going.

So they earn a spot to play against the seven seed Sioux Falls, Washington, a team that they handled earlier in the season.

And then the three seed is Brandon.

That's the team we've been talking about.

The top two types.

You know, they get to play Roosevelt for the second week in a row.

Did a great job last week running the ball and corrected a lot of the mistakes they made against Lincoln and got things on the right track.

Yeah.

Again, this is one of one of those things.

We saw it last week two.

But back to back weeks.

Now we're seeing a team that has to regroup and then play the same team here the following week.

And we get to see that with Brandon Valley and Sioux Falls.

Roosevelt 11 Double-A.

Obviously here is that number one seed.

Any thoughts on here as they make this playoff run?

Yeah I mean the last couple of weeks playing Brookings and Douglas, they you know they tried to get sharp.

But you don't get to play full games against teams like that.

So you know they're they're set up pretty well to play Mitchell.

But Mitchell's been a pesky team here.

So they're going to have to play a full game here and see what they can do, to get a win.

But they're the heavy favorites in this class.

And I think the big surprise here is t area falls all the way down to that four spot.

And they're going to go against Sturgis Brown you know T area.

And Yankton you know have that head that clash in Yankton.

You know there's a lot of a lot of people looking at t area you know as that.

Yeah.

At that two seed that you know that number two team in this class.

But Yankton looks so good on Tuesday I, I thought this is going to be a great game but t area is more banged up than than I think.

And that's not an excuse.

Yankton played really well and they got a lot of people involved.

Like we said Jack Dera finding some different weapons.

They actually had two freshmen, have, a hand in touchdown.

So they're getting some of these younger guys really gelling.

And that's why they were up and down early in the season, late in the year.

These guys are really contributing.

So, to me, Yankton has really made the right push at the right time.

T area is still trying to get fully healthy.

And, you know, they they welcome Sturgis on their field.

And Sturgis is definitely no pushover.

Sturgis won five straight Austin Flores all iron have been producing big time on the offensive side for Sturgis.

They're going to present a problem, this Thursday against t area.

And then you got Yankton.

As we mentioned is the two seed.

They're going to go against Huron.

When these two teams met up earlier in the year, the game was like deadlocked midway through the third quarter.

So seven.

So this is not your you know I'm looking at this on paper and I'm like yeah it's A27 matchup.

But the first meeting I don't know if this is as close as what we typically see with the two.

So yeah Yankton coming off a really important win against T that was huge here on also coming off of a really important winter in their season.

So they didn't kind of fall out of the race.

Totally.

So yeah.

But back on September 18th there was Will Sager who had 122 yards receiving against here on and was the difference in that game.

But that could have went either way.

There's only a couple plays separating those two teams.

Since then, you know, Huron's been on a downfall and Yankton has been a going to beat up.

But it's the playoffs.

Anything could happen, right?

One game.

Right?

You got to.

You got to show up for the one game that you got in hand.

Then you got Watertown Spearfish.

That three six matchup that'll be taking place from Watertown was a big win for Watertown last week against O'Gorman.

And a lot of people were surprised by that.

But O'Gorman was locked in.

And of course their game against 11 teams didn't affect their seeding.

So they were playing with a little different motivation than Watertown.

Watertown and trying to get that win to get a three seed.

And they achieved that with a fourth quarter comeback.

Tyson Miller ended up getting a touchdown late in that game, and that secured them the number three seed.

That's huge because I think they you know they've seen Spearfish this year.

They beat them early in the season.

I feel like they would much rather have them coming across the state than worrying about if they're going to be a 4 or 5 seed, if they would have lost that game.

I mean, they got Sioux Falls Christian, they're the one seed in 11, a Sioux Falls Christian defensively has been just you know, there's a lot of words you could use to describe it, but they've just been so dialed in.

They just play with such a good unison.

They trust each other so well on defense, which sometimes is hard to do at the high school level.

Right?

It's just like they can also read their minds a little bit of what the guy next year is going to do, which obviously helps.

They're going to take on Milbank right away.

Yeah.

And Sioux Falls Christian has been throwing the ball a little bit better.

You know they spent a lot of the season not throwing it as much.

Now the last couple weeks Cooper Strain is really starting to to connect with some of his receivers.

Yeah.

Heavy favorites against Milbank in that game.

Glen Campbell Rapids.

Canton the Rapids you know they met up earlier this year.

You know canton you know has had obviously they've had a few hiccups.

You know they you know against like winter and and things like that.

But you know this is a matchup too.

It has been a great season for a very young team that had kind of had to figure out some of their positions throughout the season in some different areas.

But what do you like about this 4 or 5 matchup?

Yeah, this canton team, as you said, they've really gotten some confidence.

I think that confidence started when they beat the Rapids back on September 11th, and they did that with special teams and field position and making some big defensive plays.

But offensively, Aidan Shrimp's really been running this, team, very well.

And then I love what Kevin Strand is doing on the defensive side.

And they do a lot of big things.

Dill Rapids, on the other hand, got a big win last week against West Central.

Again.

West central was locked into that two seed.

So playing with different motivations.

But they still got a really confident boosting win against a good West Central team.

So I love that.

You know Hayden Hansen can throw the ball around.

But the the Jackson people Jace Brandie combination running the football gives them an opportunity to win each and every week there and then West Central versus Dakota Valley think West Central is going to come in with a little more confidence.

But they're coming off of a loss.

So they got to be ready.

They got to be ready.

This is playoff time.

Anything could happen.

But again I think they're the favorites in this one.

All right.

Then we got Lenox.

Madison just played last week again.

Just played last week in Lenox.

Shut down Madison 46.

Nothing.

And we've seen Lenox like flex a little bit in October, especially late October over the last few seasons.

And they really passed that test last week.

And if they can keep that up, they really want to not let Madison get it back into this game.

They handled Henry, you know it very well.

Yeah.

I think Flanagan's going to have that squad pretty focused this time of year.

I think you're right.

Class 11 B. All right.

So we saw the first round of the playoffs now with 11 B in the three nine man classes.

Let's start first with just 11 B. What stood out to you from the round of 16.

Well there were some big highlights here.

And one of those was Saint Thomas More.

Now two weeks in a row going into the fourth quarter with the game in question against teams, you know, they're the undefeated team and one of the top seeds and, you know, haven't been playing fully.

And again injuries definitely come into play.

Here they are without rush Turner.

They're D1 linemen.

They've had a few other banged up situations.

And then last week playing with Mount Vernon blanketing that concern some people.

So we'll see how they respond if they can get healthier as we get into this week.

But another everyone that popped off the page for me is Sue Valley, and they've been playing against some really good competition this year, not quite getting those wins for them to go on the road against Rapid City Christian and grind one out 4137.

That was huge for them.

I mean, this is a 210 matchup on paper, but this will be interesting to watch closer to a coin flip than people think.

And they they usually play each other over the last couple of years.

They haven't played yet this year.

But Wyatt Hart, a dual threat quarterback going against, you know, while the other dual threat quarterback, we've got some really good quarterbacks here, going at it.

So that's one to look for.

Let's talk about McCook central Montrose.

I thought they were going to have a maybe a tough game with Chamberlain.

They played really well.

And this is a team again, that has to concern Elk Point Jefferson a little bit in this quarterfinal matchup.

APJ won 2813 back in week two.

But you know this is not again the seed to throw the seeds out.

This is going to be a little closer than people think you had.

If you go look at the three losses that McCook Central Montrose has, they were two good teams really good team.

So and they're playing and they're playing really well, especially defensively.

Parker Randall will open doing some big time things.

I think he PJ has been really good on defense this year led by Caleb Hurts with six.

Had six sacks on the year.

So again I think a few scorers is going to, you know, really decide this game because these defense are really good.

And you had Clark Lake.

They had a big win against Mobridge Pollock Wagner a close game to an out again going out against the hot springs.

But so now you're going to get Clark Lake versus Wagner this next week.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What do you like about this I mean, no mutual opponents to point to Clark.

Well Lake is is played in a lot of close games this year.

Nick for one possession games this season.

Wagner on the other hand, you know had that touchdown late in the game to beat Hot Springs Carlos Gointo had a big day.

Both offensively and defensively to get them there.

But you don't think high power again this is going to be a really I think the low scoring game, it's going to come down to a few key big plays on offense to see who who can capture this one.

Yeah.

So just kind of looking through this with 11 be like you can see it's starting to get fun.

It's starting to get really interesting.

Yeah we're already there.

Some of these that we wait till the semis before they get really good.

But even duel against winter seems average.

Basically the same amount on offense, basically the same amount on defense.

This is one where a couple big plays here and there could could way this game.

But you've got some real talent in that game too, you know.

Absolutely.

Let's go to the nine man's and nine double A Parkeston.

You know tremendous team as you know obviously undefeated just a very dominant performance over Hill City.

Yeah.

Parks and Hamlin both getting huge wins here in the first round.

Plat getters was came in.

Is that three seed.

They sealed it late with a touchdown to win over Hanson.

So a little more concerning.

You know you want to you want to get those dominant wins in the first round.

Pike get is was not able to do that even though Kaiser came up big with four touchdowns.

But I want to talk about some of these other teams.

Sioux Falls Lutheran gets a road win over Webb, a summit that was huge for them.

And they they did it convincingly.

34 16 so, you know, looking at Sioux Falls Lutheran, it was a team that, you know, we maybe mentioned them really early in the season on the show, mentioned of early, and then they got that win over and we started to kind of talk about them again.

And here, you know, they yeah, they're sitting here with a 4 or 5 record, but they're a team that scares you a little bit.

They do I don't.

Yeah.

And I think Britton exactly knows full well what they're going to get into.

Because Britton hasn't played quite as tough a schedule as Sioux Falls Lutheran.

I think this Britton team is really good.

I think it's going to be really hard for Sioux Falls Lutheran to do that again against them.

But, you know, they're going to have to be ready for a team that can throw it and run it in.

Sioux Falls Lutheran.

Great Plains Lutheran also had a big win over lead Deadwood and then Garretson, a 13 oh shutout over Baltic as well.

So it kind of sets the stage.

Now for the quarterfinals.

What do you like with the quarterfinals?

Well we've got Barnham and Parkeston going.

These are rivals.

They've played each other you know a ton.

But really it's been Parkeston owning this rivalry lately especially the last couple of years.

And Mason it coming off 100 yard rushing game.

This this looks good for parks.

And we talked about the Sioux Falls Lutheran Britton Hecla game.

I think that has a chance to be close.

I do like Britton Hecla in this one and then GPL at Hamlin.

These are two teams that know each other well.

They didn't play the regular season this year.

But but you know, geographically very close to each other.

And they played every year since 22.

And really Hamlin has gotten the best of it.

So it's going to be it's going to be work cut out for Great Plains absolutely.

A lot of a lot of things to work on.

But I think for a lot of teams in the playoffs and you know Platt Gettys staring at Garrett's in there.

It's it'll be interesting to see how Platt gets comes out this year.

They got to be ready because Garrison's good class.

Nine a let's look at that one real quick.

Well in the first round we saw Timberlake.

You know we talked about them as maybe been one of those one seeds that actually had to worry a little bit now.

And they took care of business.

So let's give them a shout out.

Timberlake beats Elkton Lake Benton 48 to nothing.

That was huge for them.

And then Kimball white Lake Falcon.

We thought this could go away.

And Kimball White Lake ran the ball really well 400 yards on the ground as a team.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, yeah, they're starting to they're starting to hit their stride.

And we'll talk more about Kimball White Lake.

But I think this is a team that's played a lot of those nine eight heavy schedule.

And that's gotten them ready for what could be a nice little run here.

But it's going to be interesting against Timberlake.

Timberlake.

But, don't count them out.

And then you got Sully Buttes.

You know interesting year for them because by seed points they were the one seed there.

You know coming down the stretch.

You know.

And then, you know, you talk about injuries a little bit too.

You know, they're a team too that's a little banged up.

Was able to find a win here last week.

Yeah.

The last couple of weeks they've had to switch offensive lineman to running back.

They've done that a couple of times here in the last few years.

He's done great.

But it didn't turn out all your other depth on the field.

And you know they're getting huge contributions from Barber and Moore and they've got some talent.

They just don't have the depth right now.

And it came kind of beat them last week as Stickney pushed them to the fourth quarter before Sally Buttes finally got the win.

But, don't count out Bennett County either.

That's the team that put up, you know, big time performance last week against Lyman.

And he just two weeks ago, they had a nail biter with them.

So they look like they're trajectory is going in the right direction.

I mean you got your frame in your Howard, your Castlewood, you know, very impressive shutout performances from those schools in that first round that sets up the quarterfinals.

Right.

So looking at the quarterfinals, you got Kimball White Lake that just coming off of a four buck rushing performance here.

And they're going to go to Timberlake for this one.

Yeah.

And like I said they've played a tough much tougher schedule this year.

But Timberlake really proved some people wrong including me.

Like I thought there'd be a much closer game.

So that's going to be a dangerous one.

Bennett County and Sully building very similar teams, both eight and one this year, both played against Lyman.

Similarly, this year they kind of both do it offensively.

And it's just that that one could be a really good really good matchup this week.

And then you got Howard at Freeman as well.

It's a rematch rematch of back early in the season when Freeman took it to him.

And we kind of realize, you know, Freeman may be in a different category.

But Howard made that run last year to the dome on the road.

Let's see if they can do that again.

And then Centerville.

Castlewood don't count out, Centerville in this one.

The tornadoes have a lot of firepower offensively, but they're going against, you know, a historic season in Camden County.

This has been so good.

Yeah.

I was you know, when we were going through the game changes, I was going to ask you, what's the season total now for interceptions.

And it's five correct.

Yeah.

He's up to five interceptions.

Leads the team in tackles.

Leads the team in rushing.

Leads the team in passing 24 rushing touchdowns this year.

Yeah he's been as good as advertised.

So that'll be that'll be difficult for the tornadoes.

All right.

And then you look at the nine B side.

You had wal.

You have Avon you know Hitchcock Tulare.

And then also you know those are the three shutouts that we saw in nine B throughout the first round.

But you know the top six seeds just for the most part.

Even the ones that weren't shutouts I mean it was it was pretty dominant.

Yeah.

They came in and did their job.

The one team were old hammer money.

Rutland had you know, they were so thin.

We talked about the already had an extra injury.

So Kadok, really found a way to take it to them with the 300 yard rushing performance.

So, yeah, that kind of went fairly chalk ish like we thought it might, but it sets up in the quarterfinals.

What could be a couple of good games.

Yeah.

You got wall here.

He had Selby area, Avon Hitchcock Hilaire Saint Mary's good Oak area and then Warner Coleman again.

Yeah.

So wall with four straight shutouts or four in their last five games.

Defense is really starting to come alive.

That's going to be an issue for the Wolverines.

Hitchcock, Tulare.

Avon could be one of the best games of the week.

He ran for 337 yards per game.

Avon has run for 350 yards per game.

I think we're going to see some grounding, some around ground pound in this one.

And then could Doka Saint Mary's, Cahokia with that nice win last week.

But Saint Mary's is a different animal in this one.

And Coleman Egan Warner Coleman again played a little better than I thought they were going to last week.

They got a great performance over Gettysburg.

They take on Warner who's been really good defensively.

Let's talk about some of those guys Noah Baker, Berg, Gage, canoe B Parker Wood, Alex Mickelson, Alex Max sacks on the year.

And to go with this kicking prowess.

So I think this Warner team is going to have to lean on that defense to find a way to get past Coleman again.

Yeah I love it when you got guys picking up sacks that are also your kicker.

Yeah, yeah.

And a teacher because he taught you how to kick.

Welcome to night man football.

This is great South Dakota style.

All right then of course we mentioned it earlier in the show.

All nations they're in their semifinals this week.

Their championships will be in the Dakota Dome in Vermillion on Friday November 6th.

SDB will be televising streaming those games.

But let's those kind of look where we're at here with all nations.

We got a big matchup.

You know some big matchups this week.

You got Lakota tech at Todd County.

Mark palooza going against Winnebago.

So just with nine a right there I mean, those are those are two matchups right there.

You know, Winnebago looked really, really good for the most part.

This year would have been good.

They they didn't have a problem with McCarthy alluded the first time around back, just less than a month ago.

And then Lakota tech, Todd County, this is a little different where Lakota tech started out.

Oh, and three and lost early on to Todd County, but really have come back strong.

I this could be a different look the second time they play.

Although Todd County has been perfect, they have been the undefeated team.

They're the number one seed in this one.

But I think this has a potential to be a really good matchup.

We mentioned it when Lakota Tech had that first win.

We're like, yeah, it's great.

They got their first win.

But they I think they got their sights set on something a little bigger this year.

And yeah, they really started rattling off, you know, winning six straight since picking up, you know, six straight, you know picking since they started the year on three.

So it's been a really good season for Lakota Tech then Eric Swiftwater great coach there.

Bob Cordell Elliot County is another great guy.

That's been really good too.

So it'll be fantastic.

I mean, on the other side, you've got Wall Hill versus Dupree Keeney and then Zina at White River.

Yeah.

Last week in the, first round of the playoffs, Walnut Hill and Zina both got road wins and pretty convincing.

One for, well, two tsp.

Zina had to win late against Lower Brule to get that win.

So you know they're coming in against what have really been the the really but elite teams in nine B this year.

And that's Dupree Tarquini who's undefeated white River with just the one loss.

So I think those two teams seem like the favorites here.

But we saw what can happen last week.

We could see some upsets and if you're a road team and you just picked up a road win that builds confidence 2 or 3, you know you'd never know exactly.

You never know.

So we look forward to it again.

We're going to see what those All Nations Championship matchups are next week.

We'll be excited.

We'll preview that along with all of the quarterfinal results in the other seven classes, and we'll highlight the semifinal matchups.

Another week of game time.

We did it.

Stay with us a couple more weeks coming up.

All right.

We'll see you next week here on SBB.