In Thursday's league outing, the Sioux Valley Cossacks (Volga, SD) basketball squad felled the visiting Flandreau Fliers (Flandreau, SD), by a margin of 44-35.

The Cossacks (14-0) will now prepare for their outing against DeSmet (DeSmet, SD). The Bulldogs go into the non-league outing with a 12-3 record. In their last outing, DeSmet thwarted Elkton/Lake Benton (Elkton, SD), 65-24, in a non-league outing.

The Fliers now own a 9-6 record. They play next when they host Elkton/Lake Benton for a A Region 2 outing on Saturday, February 3. Flandreau will clash with a Elks squad coming off a 65-24 non-league loss to DeSmet (DeSmet, SD). The Elks record now stands at 5-9.