There will be plenty of football action within a 80 mile-radius of Aberdeen on Thursday night.
In addition to Aberdeen Central hosting Sioux Falls Roosevelt at 5 p.m., followed by Aberdeen Roncalli hosting Redfield at 8 p.m. in the Class 11B playoffs, there will also be playoff games in Warner, Groton, Ipswich, Tulare and Selby.
The Herreid-Selby Area Wolverines are the top-seeded team in Class 9A and will be home for as long as they keep winning up to the finals at the DakotaDome in Vermillion.
"Our kids know that we’ve done a lot of work to get here, but getting here is the first step," said Wolverines coach Clayton Randall.
Interestingly, while HSA is the only area squad that is the number one seed, the Wolverines may have a challenging road ahead of them with a potential semifinal matchup against top-rated De Smet.
"The figures don't lie," Randall said. "We're the third-ranked team in 9A, but our power points are number one."
As a result, the road to the Dome wi
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