SUGAR CITY – The Sugar-Salem Diggers are headed back to the state volleyball tournament after a three year absence after knocking off South Fremont 3-0 in the 4A District 6 tournament final Wednesday night.

It’s the first state tournament berth since 2021 when the Diggers rolled through the season 39-0 to win the state title.

Recent history belonged to South Fremont, which had won the last two district tournament titles and beat Sugar-Salem twice at last year’s tournament to end the Diggers’ season.

That carried over into this season when the Cougars beat Sugar-Salem 3-2 back in September.

But it was a different story this week.

The Diggers’ beat South Fremont to end the regular season and earn the top seed in the district tournament and then they beat the Cougars again on Monday in t

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