The Sully Buttes Chargers will begin the season tonight traveling to face the Ipswich Tigers starting the journey to get back to the state tournament for the second straight year.
Sully Buttes did finish in eighth place, but had made the state tournament for the first time since the 2018 season a year after the Chargers would win it all for the second straight year. The Chargers would finish the 2022-23 season at 20-6 and had only three losses before the state tournament. However, the Chargers would lose Lydia Hill, Allyson Wittler, Caitlin Birney and Calleigh Chicoine to graduation. Stevie Wittler, Addison Chicoine and Natalie Miles will be this year’s three seniors.
Ipswich went 6-16 last season starting and ending the season losing the Sully Buttes Chargers. Ipswich lost 56-19 on December 6 and then fell in the quarterfinals of the Region 6B tournament 54-36. The Tigers did lose four seniors to graduation after last season.
DT Meyer will be in Ipswich tonight for the first game of the season. Tipoff of the varsity game will be around 7:30 on Country 95.3, pierrecountry.com and on YouTube at Country 95.3 Sports.
