The Custer Wildcats are headed away from home for the first time to take on the Sioux Valley Cossacks at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Custer is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of South Dakota's top teams: Lakota Tech, who was ranked fifth at the time (Custer was ranked third). Custer claimed a resounding 56-23 win over Lakota Tech. The matchup marked the Wildcats' most dominant victory of the season so far.
Meanwhile, Sioux Valley was able to grind out a solid win over Colman-Egan on Saturday, taking the game 64-57. That's two games straight that the Cossacks have won by exactly seven points.
Custer's victory bumped their record up to 4-1. As for Sioux Valley, they now have a winning record of 2-1.
Custer suffered a grim 73-49 defeat to Sioux Valley when the teams last played back in December of 2016. Can Custer avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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