The battle for the State Boys’ Hockey championship takes place this weekend in Brookings.
The Aberdeen Cougars are among eight teams vying for the title. The Cougars enter as the sixth seed and will play the Sioux Falls Flyers West at 9 a.m. Friday in the opening round. The two teams split during the regular season.
While Aberdeen coach Jeremey Backous said the team is excited to once again be in the state tournament, he noted it was a tough road just to get there.
“There was a lot of parity in the league this year and every game was important,” Backous said. “It was a battle every game to get to where we are.”
That journey included working to improve every day to have a shot at qualifying for the state tournament.
While the team had its struggles at times, Backous was glad to see the Cougars play better in the second half of the season and noted that wins over Sioux Falls West and East at the end of the regular season showed how that they could compete at a hi
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