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Here are your hosts, Jason Andera and Nate Wek All right.

Another week of game time here on SBB I'm Nate Wick joined as always by Jason Indira Gandhi.

It's always a pleasure joining you each and every week.

And it's always fun too because like you know what?

We're going to go through these headlines real quick.

But there's a special individual.

And we do talk about that set a record.

So for for us, you know, to have the opportunity to, to meet every week to talk about these things.

You know, this is something in the past, I don't think you and I maybe would have talked about.

And now we get an opportunity to talk about it and help share it.

Well, let's start right right there then.

Drake Mickelson, you know, again, on a week to week basis, we're not talking about Linux a lot.

We're not talking about his individual stats a lot.

But he has compiled numbers year after year and now is the all time leader in South Dakota history in receptions for touchdowns at 44.

Another two touchdown week for Drake last week.

And, this guy is heading to the University of Minnesota to play tight end right now.

He can play pretty much any wide receiver position.

You'll see him come out of the backfield two times.

He is an electric weapon for Lennox.

And I tell you a story a couple of years back when Porter Keenan was their number one receiver at Lennox, I talked to Sean Flanagan the next preseason said, oh, you're really going to miss you're really going to miss Porter Energy.

And he was like, yeah, you will miss him.

But we got a guy.

We got a guy coming up that's going to be pretty good, and I kind of kept tabs on it and sure enough, it was Drake Mickelson he was talking about, and he has been more than pretty good.

He is one of the best receivers we've ever seen.

You know beaten up on some pretty good names on this list.

Yeah.

You look at the list okay.

So this is a list that includes Jackson Yankee who had 43, Jack Smith who had 43.

Those are two Division one wide receivers right there.

You know then Tyler Feld camp out of Roosevelt.

You know Titans Tryon out of Harrisburg.

We know we know all about him.

And then and then we got his Abel on the list too.

Right.

So it's like there are some big time names that are on this list of some of these career touchdown receiving marks.

And the Adam Drake Mickelson now right at the top I'm right there.

And he we are wish him the best as he finishes out his high school career this year and heads on to the Big Ten next year.

All right.

Well one of the other things last week that we were excited about with as far as the top tilts, was going to be tee area going up here to take on the governors.

We kind of wondered how will t, you know, react like early on and will they stay in this game.

And I tell you what, we got to the second half there and T was not just sticking with it.

They have the lead.

And then it was almost like, you know, if you walked away from the TV for about five minutes and came back, you would have been in shock looking at the score.

But it changed really quickly once the governors, you know, started hitting a couple of big.

The governors have this this habit of really turning it on in the second half.

But there's a story behind their story.

And this is why we're going to dig in a little deeper.

T area led 1710 before Pir scored the last 28 points of the game.

But the injuries really started to add up.

We saw, you know, the two quarterback system for T wasn't going after Devin Rhodes.

You know it wasn't fully their nose guard was out of the game.

Their leading receiver on the season, Griffin Weaving, had a collarbone injury.

He was not able to play at all.

Hayden B lost their main running back and their edge rusher.

You know at the middle part of the game exited the game.

They had a lot of issues they were dealing with.

Now despite that, they were still playing great, right?

They were.

I think that's got to worry the poor governors a little bit.

But Pierce showed what they can do.

And it started with their quarterback.

You know Jaren deal.

It really turned it on.

And Carter shuffle bean you know he just outran that defensive backfield for t the big plays.

And there was even a point early on the earlier in the game to return deal.

Look like he got hurt you know and luckily it was just a very short time thing.

He was able to get back out onto the field and was a scary moment for Tebow or for Pierre.

But yeah, once, 28 unanswered points.

Right.

Is that they.

Yeah, I mean, just that's incredible.

And, definitely the best test that Pierce had this year.

And I think if these two see each other again, if te comes in with a little bit more of a full cupboard, we could have a tussle here.

But, there's still half a season left to go.

Yeah, absolutely.

Great game nonetheless.

Excited to see these matchups during the regular season.

All right.

As every week we get to the game changers.

Got a lot of them this week.

And these we could do it.

We've got a lot of thank you to all of you out there who added to the list that we came up with.

But let's start with Logan.

Bergen had a Great Plains Lutheran had a big day catching three passes for 126 yards and a touchdown.

Also made a pick on defense.

Another guy we haven't heard much about, but we're going to hear a lot more about him.

He's young.

Ty Boomer for Woolsey Weddington.

He dominated through the air with a big, big day.

Yeah, over 350 yards passing, six touchdowns through the air.

Oh, and by the way, a rushing attempt two for 34 yards that also went for a touchdown.

So a seven touchdown day from Ty Booms.

We have booms Melissa.

But he threw a lot of those to Carson Walters to a quick shout out to him.

Speaking of shout outs we had a school record in Vermillion kale Cleveland nine catches 230 yards and three touchdowns.

That was big.

That's just an absolutely dominant performance.

You know almost you know, my math's not always going to be great here, but that is a massive average as far as yards per reception.

And then you add in the three touchdowns as well.

I mean that's a 33% of the time when he was catching the ball, he was fighting.

The enemy was in the end zone.

And watch out folks.

He's a sophomore.

So we're going to see more from kale.

Cleveland I'm pretty sure we talked about Jaren deal.

That was the numbers that he put up over 300 yards through the air.

Also ran the ball as he usually does.

Got one in for a touchdown Chevy Fizz at a Kimball White Lake a big day not only running the football but catching it.

And then defensively he's always dominant.

Showed that again Mitch Grant in the loss.

He finds his way on this list every single week.

Yeah.

And it's not just you know what he's what he does on the offensive side.

But again on the defensive side 11 tackles.

And this is against a poor team that has a lot of weapons that when they when they have athletes that find space, you got to take them down on that first attempt.

So to have 11 tackles and maybe not the greatest conditions of a game for a game and more on the shoulders.

Right.

Exactly.

So I you know, that's a that's a really impressive performance from Mitch Grant.

Let's run through some more of these.

Aiden Hamm it was another big day for PJ.

Give a shout out to that offensive line who blocked not only for him but for his teammates as well.

Caden hulls, out of Lenox, had a big day against Milbank.

Four touchdowns through the air.

Of course, two of those were to Drake.

Mickelson, who we talked about will mention him again.

Porter Hundley another 100 yard day for him, a night at 138 scrimmage yards and three touchdowns.

Thomas avoided it both on offense and defense.

Ran for 446 yards on four carries.

Took three to the house.

No problem for him.

Pete Meyer out of Timberlake, two rushing touchdowns, a passing touchdown and a pick six.

Getting it done all the way across the board.

Yeah it's a it's the hat trick right.

You get you get a couple different style of offensive touchdowns and then you contribute as well with a pick six on defense.

We love that.

We love to see that kind of effort on both sides of the ball.

Trey men.

And Christian was challenged by Dell Rapids.

But he came up with four touchdowns in the game that made the difference in their win.

Hudson Melby defensively for Brandon Valley.

Big day five tackles and was all over the backfield with a sack, an interception and a fumble recovery.

We talked about Drake Mickelson already, but two more touchdowns to his Hollywood career.

Ryder Mueller exploded about last week against Washington.

Another huge week for the junior 24.4 yards a carry.

Are you kidding me?

Like just a tremendous way of showing that you know exactly what to do when you get the ball at your hands.

It's just incredible.

And, you know, credit to Brandon Valley because they do have this tendency where they know how to run the football.

They've become known for that the last few years, and it just seems like it kind of is continuing.

It is, no Niagara and out of Vermillion.

We talked about kale.

Cleveland.

Well, somebody had to throw it to him.

He threw for almost 300 yards and tied a school record with five touchdowns in the game.

Big shout out to the senior quarterback Jason Porth.

He was on last week.

He's on again and again just filling up that stat sheet.

Benjamin Prall out of Great Plains Lutheran had a big day with, five for nine passing 153 yards and a couple of touchdowns.

Also ran for over 100 yards.

And how about Brody Schaefer?

You know, this guy went up against Omaha school and, got another win for Sioux Falls.

The Sioux Falls Metro getting some wins against those Omaha teams.

Yeah.

You know Brody Schaefer we talked about him throughout, you know, the last few weeks about, you know, there's some times where maybe he just looks like he's trying to do a little bit too much.

But this is a game where he just shows like the versatility that he can produce at the quarterback position.

Just a very special player, very special athlete, another 200 yard rushing game for the quarterback and Carter shuffle.

Bean had a huge day and he was the difference to me in that game for sure.

Every time he caught the ball, he was a threat to take it to the house.

Yeah, and he's been that guy, right?

He's been that that deep threat, player.

You know, everybody likes to talk about, you know, two will occur and you know what he is as an athlete and a specimen of that offense.

But shuffle by him has been just absolutely tremendous this season.

Big day for him.

Big day.

Bennett.

Sue.

They're out of Britain.

Hecla ran for 130 yards.

He also had 12.5 tackles a tackle for loss, fumble recovery forced fumble.

Like every single defensive stat he was in on in their win over Rob Wabi Summit.

A good quality win for them.

Yeah, that's I mean just a we like we like again we like seeing these types of defensive performances.

But to see to see guys that are not just getting sacks but also forcing fumbles, getting a fumble recovery, it's that it shows off that football IQ.

Does, Henry Hoff, another veteran of this list almost every week, makes an appearance.

Did it through the air with his arm, did it on the ground just like he usually does a total of four touchdowns.

He had a hand in Tanner Vollmer had a huge week running for 233 yards.

Head coach Lex had the shot.

Told me that was our most complete game of the year.

Yeah, this is a wall team.

We've talked about them in the past two weeks a little bit.

You know, walls had to figure some things out a little bit this year compared to where they were a year ago, where they were just absolutely running the table over everybody.

And, you know, Vollmer is a special player.

And for him to to do what he did, not just, you know, making, you know, taking it when it's there in the pass game, but then also showing off that athleticism on the ground.

I mean that is such a dangerous weapon to have if you're wall and okay, it's the most complete game they've had.

Right.

We're getting to that point of the season where you want start playing your best football.

It's a good sign for wall.

It's a great sign as they beat a ranked Philipp team.

DeVante Wilson didn't need many carries and ran a couple of touchdowns in for Jefferson.

Good sign for their running game.

Even though they did play Rapid City Central, a team that people have been piling up on.

It's still good for their running game to see somebody like that.

Absolutely.

So yeah, there's a list.

I mean, we went through a lot.

It's a lot of names again this week.

Shout out.

So thank you again to everybody that sends those in week by week.

It we like highlighting kids on the show.

So it's it's good to be able to do that.

It's also pretty crazy that here we sit and next week we are hitting the championship season.

When it comes to the fall sports for South Dakota, we've got the double AA and a boys golf tournaments.

We've got the A and double AA girls tennis tournaments that are starting next week.

So you know SGP will have full coverage of that here.

As we get into next week.

We'll talk a lot about a few of those results next week on game time.

As well.

But hard to believe.

Now we're starting the stretch.

It's that time of year.

I mean, the weather is changing just a little bit and with all the rain and stuff, it's been, you know, hard to tell that it's already the end of the season.

But that's where we're at.

And then now from week in, week out for the next one month and a half, we're going to have, a lot of championships to report on.

All right.

Well, one sport we wanted to take some time to talk about this week is volleyball.

You know, we're last week we did some midterm grades and things like that on the football side of things.

And you know just looking at where we're at with volleyball right now I mean there's a lot of there's a lot to dissect at this point of the season.

And we will come in, right before the championships, the tournament and talk about volleyball.

But we want to give it a little extra punch in the middle of the season just to get people interested, because there's a lot of great storylines happening right now across the state in volleyball.

So we're going to highlight a few of those.

All right.

Let's start with class Double-A.

We got Harrisburg.

Harrisburg as a team.

We've seen a lot talked a lot about the last few years.

But what do we like about Harrisburg to start this season.

This is a this is a dynasty in every sense of the word.

They have just been rolling.

They they've lost two sets so far this year in state.

But they really challenged themselves.

And this is what they've done the last couple of years.

Now they'll go out of state.

They're a nationally ranked team and they will challenge themselves.

Well, they found a challenge.

They went to the Durango Classic in Las Vegas in the middle of September.

They lost to three nationally ranked teams in Corner Canyon, I. Aloni and Cathedral Catholic.

Those were teams that were ranked right at or right near where they were nationally.

They played well against those teams, but they didn't get a W against one of those top, top teams.

Yeah.

That's just, you know, I think back to when you when you see South Dakota teams playing against these nationally ranked things, I think back to like, you know, the Rosemont Roughriders or Fred Tibbetts, right.

When that happened in the very early 2000.

So to be able to you know, we now we fast forward to 2026 and we're still seeing that kind of thing with some of the best programs that we've ever had, some of the best, some of these really dominant dynasties.

It's a good test to see where South Dakota ranks and to be able to see how Harrisburg, you know, stands tall against some of these teams.

Obviously, you look at some of the commitments and stuff that they have on their roster of some of these girls that are going to play college volleyball.

You know, it kind of makes sense, but there's just so much talent and the fact that they're able to reload consistently and they have new players stepping up.

I don't know if we've seen a program like start to start.

And right now their star setter, Jocelyn Samuels is just a junior.

She feels like she's been setting the team forever.

But you know, she has.

She's been doing it for a long time, but she's a Nebraska commit.

So basically following that same path and Bergen Riley, pioneered, you know, not so long ago when she was doing it for O'Gorman, heading to Nebraska.

So it's great to see her, but Julie Massey, link Bergen, Steph lead the team in kills this year.

But they really spread out on that front line.

And they get to every ball in the back row.

So this is this is a team with not very many weaknesses.

When you get a setter that can get you in system every single time that the ball comes over the net.

Absolutely.

All right.

They got Sioux Falls Lincoln.

You know that number two spot right now in class AA.

What do you like about Lincoln?

Yeah, they're only lost this year was to Harrisburg and they've beaten a couple of good teams.

And this is a team coming on strong.

Carmilla Lincoln Field Ella Smith Evelyn Kearney all leading in.

They're attacking again.

You've got one of the best setters in the class too with Mallory Schneider.

You know, All-State potential setter for them.

So she makes things go.

Has a lot of different options to pass to.

You know.

And one thing we're going to see here, when we're going through some of these top teams in all the classes, a lot of them have a really good etc.

A setter can do a lot for your team.

That's that's very true.

This next team, though, the Brandon Valley links there have been really efficient this year as an attacking team.

I love what they do again with their all state setter, Logan McGuire.

But they get to so many balls.

They got one of the top Libras in the state in Maya van Western.

And I think they've got the pieces to be able to compete.

It's going to be hard for anybody to match up with a Harrisburg, but I think all these teams just want to make it as far as they possibly can.

I think Brandon Valley is right there and they're in position to to make a deep run.

Mean you got Watertown at that number four spot and Watertown, you know, they might have one of the best defensive specialists in the state, I think.

Andy Olson yeah, he is one of the best defensive specialists.

And, you know, that means a lot in high school volleyball when you get extra chances because you've got the defense that's getting you in position, getting to every ball on the court, not letting a ball hit the court.

So love that.

They've only lost one game in the class this year, and their other losses have come either out of state or out of class.

They've lost to a couple in class B teams.

Really good class B teams.

But that's how you challenge yourself.

Yeah, Let's talk about O'Gorman real quick.

Yeah.

They play Sioux Falls Christian coming up on in October 3rd.

That's going to be a great challenge for them.

They were at four.

They moved down to five.

But they're they're still in the mix is one of those teams I think.

Speaking of teams in the mix, I think Washington is another one that's not in the top five right now.

But I've watched them and they have a lot of places to attack too.

They're just really young.

So this is a team as they mature and even as the season goes on, they're going to get better and better.

So another team to watch Aberdeen Central also Rapid City Stevens both receiving votes as well in class Double-A.

Those are two really good teams to watch as well.

And it's a it's an open class once we get to, you know the state tournament.

I think any of these teams can beat anybody up.

So if you can get there you got a chance to help.

All right.

Class AA Sioux Falls Christian very familiar team when it comes to biology.

It is, but it's been a couple years since they've, you know, really flex their muscle there that long string of championships back to back where they just closed the book on the rest of the class.

Well this is a year.

They're back to that number one spot.

They went two and three spot a lot lately.

But they look really strong this year.

And I like what they have in the middle of the field.

The middles and Jayla Overman has stepped up as a one of the top middle hitters in the class, for sure.

And that helps them so much.

And then the schedule that they put together, they'll go out and play Northwest Iowa teams.

They will find their way into, you know, classics.

They got the Dec 12 classic coming up later in October.

I really like the challenge that they give themselves.

So you'll see a few losses on there, but you can see why they're the number one team in the right.

And they've.

And Sioux Falls Christian is notorious for doing that right about, you know, going out of state, you know, playing some of these top teams from Iowa and things like that.

And so sometimes when they get to the state tournament, you'll see them even through some of their powerhouse years.

They come in at like the three or the four seed.

But you know, like, you know, Darcy Watson are obviously one heck of a volleyball coach, one of the smartest volleyball coaches that we have in the state.

So for her, you know, you always know that her a team that she puts together is going to have a chance.

They definitely have a chance this year.

And they they've beaten everybody they've come up to against in the class.

And one of those teams is Dell Rapids I mean Dell Rapids.

They've been so good over the last few years.

Speaking of producing Division One town.

Right.

You know, they've produced centers and they produce other hitters.

But now with Madeline Henry, you know, she is by far the best weapon, I think, in class A this year.

So anytime she's swinging that right arm, you've got a chance to win a game.

Yeah.

I have always made the joke that her right arm should be on the FBI's most wanted list because of just how lethal it can be, and is to see it live to is something different, right?

Like, you can watch it on a stream and it's like, who?

Where the ball going?

You know, it kind of almost goes out of pixel a little bit.

You know, TVs can't keep up with just the blades, balls.

Like if you get in slow motion, she's displaying those balls and she puts them across the net.

Big week coming up for Elvis, though.

They got Lennox and Dakota Valley, a couple of top five teams here.

We'll see how they answer that test.

They did get a nice win last weekend over Clark Willow Lake.

That was huge for them.

To beat another ranked team and just to get confidence as they move forward.

Yeah.

Okay.

So you mentioned that, you know the Rapids has Dakota Valley.

What do we like about this Dakota Valley team at the Three Spot.

The good Valley is really reconstructed.

Their team.

It feels like almost every year.

And they they continually are one of those top teams in the state they're a contender.

They've just got players all over the court.

You can rotate several players.

They go deep on their bench and they're always in it.

It doesn't matter what type of team that you're gonna play against.

And then you got Clark Lake.

You got Shelby Beckerman, who's a sophomore.

She made second team all state last year as a freshman.

Yeah.

So I mean, so there's some young talent here too with this Clark Little League team.

I think there's some colleges looking at Shelby right now saying, you know, there's some potential there.

We like our we like your potential.

But she's going to keep them in it.

But it's hard as a team.

They don't maybe aren't as deep as some of these top class eight teams.

They weren't able to hang with Dell Rapids.

But you just look at the top end potential.

They've got it.

Then you got Saint Thomas More.

Three losses on the year so far.

You know, what do you like about this Saint Thomas Moore team and what they've brought to the table?

They're trying to schedule a little bit up, too.

And the last few years, they've scheduled tougher and tougher.

And it's really I think it's helped them overall.

Love their middle hitter late in share has you know it was an honorable mention of a state player last year and another team that can can block on on the front row.

But they can also feed the middle offensively as well.

I mean, you got Lenox that's receiving votes Wagner.

We briefly mentioned them with Stacy Schnabel the head coach there.

You know they're a team that always seems to sort of be in the mix come state tournament time.

You know so there's even Hamlin, you know, Hamlin, another team receiving votes in class.

It's going to make for a great state tournament again.

And I think a lot of these teams in the rankings and then that receiving votes are going to find their way to the state tournament.

All right.

Class B we've seen Chester just be an absolute monster in this class the last three years.

This year Chester you know obviously lost quite a few seniors a year ago.

Yeah.

But they've been pretty good.

They've been number one most of the season up until they played Warner at the Sanford Pentagon over the weekend and lost.

But another great challenge for them.

But they're doing it.

I mean, this this team with JC Wolfe, she's really doing a great job of, you know, getting the the big points, the big kills on offense.

They get Coleman Eagan coming up on October 5th.

So I think that's a game where that could give them that boost to know that, hey, yeah, we're ready for a title run again.

But Warner is the team that took over that number one spot.

And, JC Jang, their outside hitter, has really developed them to one of the best in the state.

Yeah, Warner is just we've seen them just be so good.

You know, if we look at Warner we look at Chester, we look at northwestern for so many years.

It was northwestern and it was Northwestern and Warner that we're kind of going back then you kind of had, you know, Chester over here that had the one title.

They were runner up quite a few times.

And now Chester's went on this run the last three years.

But you got northwestern that's getting you know, getting has been getting better the last 2 or 3 years as well to get back to where you know, they've been you got Warner.

That is back to being you know looking where it is.

It's going to be fantastic to be crazy this year.

And then you throw in the wild cards of Coleman Eagan who hasn't lost yet this year.

As I said, they they take on Chester later next week.

And then Bennett County another team with the with the O'Neills with the O'Neill's.

Reagan O'Neill.

Pierson, O'Neill.

They they keep you in almost every game too.

They just have to find a way to to stay in system longer and feed those to the front row players and they, they can play with any of these teams in class B gave overall one another team in class B they've been to the state tournament now the last few years, a team that's definitely been on the rise as well.

Yeah you know what do you like about Gabriel Valin.

My action is there.

Outside hitter last year I love what they did with some of those seniors and made that state tournament push.

But this year to be able to keep that going I think that says, hey, we're a program.

We're not just a one year wonder.

So I think gave a and has their sights set on making it back to state.

And then we talked about northwestern with Nora Groff.

You know what she what she is which what her programs have been over the years, you know, another, you know, very solid year for northwestern.

You know, they're receiving votes right now.

Harding County, another team that always just finds themselves in the spot where they win a lot of games.

Yeah.

And we saw that at the state tournament last year as well.

But Kamri Paden is one of their leaders on that team.

I'm looking forward to them making a push to that's going to make a really I think class B is going to be the most fun out of all three classes.

I think class Double-A, we can have some upsets, but we kind of know that Harrisburg seems like the best team.

And in class A, we've got our our normal suspects at the top of that list, too.

I, we think it's going to be one of those teams, but we could see a lot of surprises too.

So there's a lot of drama and storylines in all three of these classes.

A lot you have to happen with volleyball between now and mid-November, that's for sure.

All right, well, we do this every week.

It's the top tilts on the football side of things.

Well, obviously we'll talk a little bit more about volleyball and some of the weeks weeks ahead as well to kind of just keep people updated on that.

But the top tilts for football this week.

Let's start with the 11 triple A matchup.

You got Harrisburg going to Brandon Valley.

Yes this we've seen Jefferson beat both of these two teams.

And each of these teams their only loss has come to Jefferson.

So this will be a great match.

Everybody is talking about Jefferson and Brandon Bailey right now, but not as many teams talking about Harrisburg.

But I love what Harrisburg has done.

Bryson Esser has been a monster, not only carrying the football when they need a big first down or a big goal line rush, but defensively, he has been an absolute stud this year.

And then Jonah Young is really emerged as a quarterback.

It'll be interesting to see how they hold up against one of the best defenses in Brandon Valley.

All right then you got 11 Double-A.

You got Huron that's traveling to pier.

You know pier coming off a very interesting win a week ago where it was very tight.

And then they were able to kind of blow the doors off of it late.

You know, box score is all that, you know, a whole different discussion.

But now we got Huron that's going to pier this week.

Yeah.

They want to reestablish their dominance in the class.

And then here on coming off a week where Aberdeen Central gave them some issues.

So they got some questions that they want to answer.

And I don't think they're going to be looking as close at the scoreboard as much as they're going to be looking at what our team is doing, right and wrong.

And I think that's what here and needs to do at this point.

Then you got 11 here.

You got Lenox going to West Central.

Love this because I've had West Central number two in the class all year.

And everybody else has Lenox there.

And I just I just know that this West Central team is for real.

They've got a lot of weapons, but I'm not sleeping on Lenox, that's for sure.

This is a team that is traditionally gets better as the year goes on.

They're getting great.

Quarterback player Kaden Halls, and they're able to run the ball a little bit more consistently over the last few weeks.

This is going to be an electric matchup.

If there's one thing we've learned about Lenox last few years, it's, never count them out, never sleep on them because they can always they always seem to surprise you.

And they just as good they are.

They're just a very well-coached football team.

Exactly.

Kimball.

White Lake at Platt.

Gettys.

We've talked about Platt getting here the last few weeks.

What do you like about this matchup?

Like, I think, you know, the one loss that they had this year early against Sully Buttes, they felt like that wasn't the real team that they put together.

And then last week really flexed against Burnham.

So they want to say okay, the next big test is have Platt get his.

How are we going to do against those guys.

Because they have been monsters so far in.

But this is a chance for Kimball White Lake to really assert themselves, to see if they can play with a top team and nine man football.

You just mentioned Barnum.

They're going to Parkeston this week.

Barnum a couple weeks in a row now.

They were right up there and now they've got knocked off their pedestal.

We'll see if they have the gumption to get back in and play against one of the best teams in nine.

Well, the best team in I mean you got Garretson going to Viborg Hurley.

So vibin Hurley you know they're kind of hanging out around being ranked.

And Garretson really close to being ranked I think the winner of this game is going to be in the top 5 in 9, which gives them a lot of confidence for an area at Hitchcock to layer.

And this is one where it's got two layers coming off of a loss, but they want to show what they can do against a good quality team in an area in Falcon Area, you know, came into the preseason with a lot of fanfare of being a top five team, but lost a couple close games.

They want to reestablish themselves.

And then Coleman again at Avon.

Another one in 9BA lot of issues like where do these four and five comes rank who is but Avon's remember of only lost to basically two of the best teams in nine man football.

So this is a chance for Avon to really, you know, show what they can do and say, hey, we are a contender.

Yeah, lots of great matchups.

Again, this week.

We got a lot of it's been a lot of things to just pay attention to.

You know I'm excited to see how here on you know how are they going to react against pier.

How are going to look this week.

You know, especially in that first quarter and or the first half, you know, bottom how are they going to react especially early in that game against Parkeston.

Can they hang in there.

You know if if if there's a big play that goes against them, can they hang in there a lot of points that they did.

They played parks.

And so it's kind of a mental hurdle here.

Exactly.

So just a lot to pay attention to that.

You mentioned obviously, Lenox at West Central, we're going to have our eyes.

It's not going to.

All right.

Well Janae another week of game time here on SDB.

We'll see everybody next week.