Sports

To advance to the playoffs Avon had a big win Friday, October 13 over Wolsey-Wessington 22-14. The first quarter found both teams scoreless on the board. The Pirates allowed their opponent to scoreinthesecondquarterbutstoppedthetwo-point conversion attempt to end the first half down 0-6.

State 9B First Round Playoffs begin Thursday, October 19 as Avon (6-2) will host Faith (1-7) with kick off at 5:30 p.m. Come on out and let's support the Avon Pirates as they've been working hard all season and they would love to see a great crowd come out and cheer them on! Good Luck Pirates!!!!!

On October 11, four AC/DC runners participated in the Region 3 XC meet at Burke. Eilie DeHaan finish 8th with a time of 22:30.67 to qualify for the state meet. Kora Backes finished 28th with a time of 26:21.48, Renner DeHaan finished 38th with a time of 23:40.

AC/DC won the Thunder Nation Tournament on Saturday October 14. In the Pool C vs Crow Creek AC/DC won 25-12, 25-12, then they defeated Colome, 25-11, 25-16; and Lakota Tech 27-25, 25-14 AC/DC got 2 seed and a Bye in the first round of the Tournament play.

On Tuesday, October 10th AC/ DC fell to Burke in three sets on their home court.

On Thursday, October 12th the AC/DC Thunder volleyball team took on the Red Raider and fell short in three sets. No coaches report available at time of print. Wagner 25 25 25 AC/DC 20 9 18

On Friday, Oct 13, the Tripp-Delmont/ Armour/AndesCentral/Dakota Christian Varsity Boys Football team won their Andes Central Homecoming game against Miller/ Highmore/Harrold High School by a score of 44-14. No coaches report available at time of print.

Members of the 2023 middle school Thunderhawk football team are Paxton Daugherty, Daylin Kok, Ruger Loeffler, Apollo Doney, Tanner Harrington, Becket Erlandson, Tate Kaczor, Aiden Thompson, Lane Niewenhuis, Tyler Ronfeldt, Dawson Koehn, Kale Daugherty, Ashton Koster, Josh Tegethoff, Andrew...