Lower Brule stops Tigers

Ipswich dropped a non-conference but inter-regional boys' high school basketball encounter to the Lower Brule Sioux by a final 54-43 verdict last Thursday in the Tiger Den. The boys' victory would indeed cap a sweep of the girls/boys twinbill by the visiting Sioux.

Josh McQuarie got Ipswich on the scoreboard first, but the Sioux countered with a trey. McQuarie would total 12 first-quarter points on the way to an 18-point scoring evening. His last basket of the quarter produced a 15-15 deadlock, but LB rattled off five quick points to go up 20-15 after a quarter. Ipswich answered that challenge...