Football Game Preview: Lower Brule Sioux vs. Pine Ridge Thorpes

The Lower Brule Sioux will challenge the Pine Ridge Thorpes on Thursday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.

Lower Brule got their first taste of in-conference action on Thursday and they started things off strong. They breezed past Cheyenne-Eagle Butte/Tiospaye Topa to the tune of 56-6. The victory continues a trend for the Sioux in their matchups with Cheyenne-Eagle Butte/Tiospaye Topa: they've now won three in a row.

Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Pine Ridge). They blew past St. Francis Indian 59-12 on Thursday.

Lower Brule's win bumped their record up to 2-3. As for Pine Ridge, the victory was their first at home , bumping their record up to 2-3.