Brandon Valley baseball aiming to be first repeat champ in a decade

BRANDON — The Brandon Valley baseball team has a chance to make history this postseason, and it's a bit more than just the program's third SDHSBA Class A state championship. No team has repeated as a Class A state champion since Brookings went back-to-back in 2015 and 2016. The Lynx are the No.

2 seed in this year's tournament as they look to end that decade-long repeat drought. Brandon Valley was pretty dominant in its title defense season, going 15-3 against Class A competition and 20-6 overall. It will face No.

15 Sioux Falls Washington in a best-of-three series this weekend to advance to the state quarterfinals. "Washington's a good team," Brandon Valley head coach Jeremy VanHeel said. "They have some good wins.

We've played them. The ball bounced our way a few times when we played them that gave us some runs. We've got to go out and compete, play our game.