On Tuesday, Sept. 12, the Blackhawks ladies traveled to Wessington Springs to take on the Spartans. The seventh grade started and split their two games with the seventh-grade group from Wessington Springs. The eighth graders played next and SCW lost both sets to the Spartan eighth graders. No results were available for the C-team and junior varsity games that night.

The varsity ladies ended the evening with a tough loss to a long-time rival in four sets with scores of 21-25, 18-25, 25-20 and 17-25.

On Saturday, Sept. 16, SCW went to Rutland to battle against the Oldham-Ramona-Rutland Raiders. The junior high won their game 2-0 and the junior varsity also won their match in two sets. The varsity girls worked hard but couldn’t get things to come together to get the win. They lost to the Raiders in four with set scores of 19-25, 25-18, 23-25 and 13-25. 

The Blackhawks are now 5-7 for the season thus far. They played Wolsey-Wessington in Forestburg on Tuesday, Sept. 19, and they play their next game on Tuesday, Sept. 26, in Woonsocket against Highmore-Harrold at 6:30 p.m. for junior varsity with varsity to follow.

…Read individual stats and see a picture of the junior varsity team in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!