PIERRE - The Aberdeen Cougars found a way to win a key road girls' hockey contest, which allowed the team to capture the State League Championship on Sunday afternoon.
Aberdeen entered the day in a tie for first place in the league standings with Sioux Falls. The Cougars pulled off a 3-1 win over the Oahe Capitals, while Sioux Falls fell to Brookings, ensuring the league title for the Cougars.
The state league crown is the eighth in the past nine years for the Cougars. Sioux Falls won it last year. Aberdeen has won the league title every other year since 2015.
"It's good to win the league championship. I think that is harder than the state tournament sometimes, because it's over the course of time," said Cougars coach Rob Weinmeister. "But it will give us the (number) one seed going into the state tournament. We will still need to put together three solid games regardless of who we play."
The Cougars had a hard time putting away Oahe, despite outshooting the Capitals by a 4
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