Aberdeen Central is poised for a run at a second straight state volleyball tournament appearance.
But the ninth-seeded Golden Eagles will need to get through eighth-seeded Spearfish in Thursday night’s Class AA SoDak 16 contest to do it.
Central, which dropped its final three matches of the season (including a five-set thriller to third-ranked Sioux Falls Jefferson), comes into the match at 12-8 overall. Spearfish is 23-9, a mark that includes a 19-match win streak before the Spartans closed out the season with a 3-4 record down the stretch.
Thursday’s contest is also a rematch of a September meeting between the two squads, one that Spearfish won 3-1 back on Sept. 13.
“We went out there and lost in September,” said Central coach Jackie Bindenagel. “We just didn’t get anything to go our way. We try to find a silver lining in everything, and we’ve talked about it. This is a second chance to go out there and redeem ourselves. You don’t often get second chances,
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