The road to the DakotaDome is down to its final two weeks, and South Dakota‘s high school football playoffs have already delivered one of the biggest surprises of the postseason.
Kimball/White Lake, the No. 8 seed in Class 9A, stunned top-seeded Timber Lake 38-0 in the quarterfinals Thursday, Oct. 29, ending the Panthers’ championship hopes and shaking up one of the state’s seven playoff brackets.
The upset was especially surprising considering Timber Lake had opened the playoffs with a 48-0 victory over Elkton-Lake Benton. Kimball/White Lake now finds itself just one victory away from the state championship game.
Elsewhere, most of the top seeds survived.
Sioux Falls Jefferson, Pierre, Sioux Falls Christian, Elk Point-Jefferson, Parkston and Wall all advanced to their respective state semifinals. Each remains two victories away from a championship.
The quarterfinals also produced some nail-biters. Winner edged…
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