North Dakota
Both Coyote teams claim second at Summit Track & Field meet
ST. PAUL, MN (Dakota News Now) – The top of the Summit League Track and Field Championship standings were a mirror image on both the men’s and women’s side with North Dakota State, South Dakota and South Dakota State going first through third place in 2024.
MEN’S TEAM STANDINGS
1. NDSU (190)
2. USD (175)
3. SDSU (158)
4. St. Thomas (112)
5. UMKC (66)
6. UND (60)
7. Oral Roberts (49)
WOMEN’S TEAM STANDINGS
1. NDSU (238)
2. USD (197)
3. SDSU (131.5)
4. UND (109.5)
5. St. Thomas (71)
6. UMKC (38)
7. Omaha (23)
8. Oral Roberts (11)
Click on the video viewer for highlights from the final day of competition! Recaps from USD and SDSU courtesy their media relations departments are below.
CORRECTION-In the highlights we state that Erin Kinney won the 200 meter dash. It was in fact Sara Reifenrath who edges her 23.30 seconds to 23.78 seconds
USD RECAP
South Dakota broke three more Summit League Championship meet records Saturday at O’Shaughnessy Stadium. Redshirt-junior Sara Reifenrath captured the women’s Track Championship MVP and fifth-year senior Meredith Clark took home the women’s Field Championship MVP from the meet.
Reifenrath, the Track Championship MVP, returns to Vermillion with four gold medals from the weekend and 25 points scored. She clocked a Summit League Championship meet record and a South Dakota program record of 52.81 seconds to take gold in the 400 meters, holding off indoor champion Nell Graham of NDSU down the home stretch. Reifenrath also took gold in the open 200 meters in 23.30 seconds, just one-tenth of a second off her own meet record from 2022. She’s captured three career titles in both the 200 meters and 400 meters. She also anchored the Coyotes’ victorious 4×100-meter and 4×400-meter relays.
Clark garnered the Field Championship MVP award for the second-straight year. She totaled 22 points with a pair of gold medals in the throwing events. After winning the shot put title yesterday, Clark returned to win the discus throw today. Her best mark of 161-2 (49.13m) came on her final throw of the competition. A Coyote has won the discus two years in a row.
In her final conference meet, senior Jacy Pulse took a victory lap in the 400-meter hurdles by breaking her own Summit meet record from yesterday’s preliminary with a clocking of 57.70 seconds. She’s won the event for three-straight years. Pulse also ran on the Coyotes’ championship 4×100-meter and 4×400-meter relays.
The women’s 4×100-meter relay of senior Erin Kinney, Pulse, junior Averi Schmeichel and Reifenrath opened up the running events Saturday by setting a new Summit League Championship meet record of 44.54 seconds. USD held the previous record of 44.99 seconds from 2022. The Coyotes have won three-straight league titles in the 4×100 relay and four overall.
Kinney successfully defended her title in the open 100 meters with a time of 11.38 seconds. She was just .04 shy of yesterday’s Summit League Championships meet record set in the preliminaries. Kinney was also runner-up to Reifenrath in the 200 meters, clocking 23.78 seconds.
The quartet of Schmeichel, Pulse, fifth-year senior Madison Jochum, and Reifenrath captured South Dakota’s fourth-straight championship title in the women’s 4×400-meter relay with a clocking of 3:40.68. The time was just off last year’s championship meet record of 3:40.25.
Sophomore Mikael Grace captured his first Summit League Championship title, taking the 110-meter hurdles in a personal record time of 13.90 seconds. His time ranks fifth in USD program history. He also finished seventh in the 400-meter hurdles with a clocking of 55.61 seconds.
Freshman Jaden Guthmiller, who entered the Summit meet with the 14th-best seed time in the men’s 100 meters, heads home a Summit League champion in the event. He took the tape in a personal best 10.31 seconds. The time ranks third in USD program history. Guthmiller also clocked a personal record 21.45 seconds in the 200 meters, finishing fourth in the event.
Fifth-year senior Marshall Faurot successfully defended his Summit League title in the men’s pole vault and the Coyotes swept the top-four spots. USD swept the podium in both pole vault competitions. Faurot was the lone athlete to clear 17-3 ¾ (5.28m) to win. Redshirt-junior Tre Young finished runner-up with a clearance of 17-0 (5.18m) and junior Spencer Buley rounded out the podium with a clearance at the same height. Buley’s make of 17-0 (5.18m) was a season best. Senior Eerik Haamer took fourth in the field, also clearing 17-0 (5.18m).
South Dakota finished with 13 conference champions with Clark (shot put), junior Joe Lynch (high jump) and senior Gen Hirata (pole vault) joining Saturday’s victors.
The Coyotes finished runner-up in both team races to North Dakota State. South Dakota’s men finished with 175 points to North Dakota State’s 190 points. The Coyote women finished with 197 points to the Bison’s 238 points.
Schmeichel, in addition to her gold medals in the 4×100-meter and 4×400-meter relays, made the podium in both hurdle races. She finished runner-up in the 100-meter hurdles in a personal best time of 13.30 seconds. The time is a new South Dakota program record in the event. She also placed third in the 400-meter hurdles with a personal best time of 59.10 seconds, breaking the minute barrier for the first time this weekend. Her time ranks third in USD program history.
Redshirt-sophomore Mason Sindelar had a stellar performance in the men’s 1,500-meter run, finishing runner-up in 3:45.94. The Coyotes were not seeded to score in the event with Sindelar entering the meet with the 11th-best time this spring. He finished strong down the final 200 meters with a five-second personal best. The top three athletes were all under the previous conference meet record.
On the women’s side for the 1,500 meters, fifth-year senior Ella Byers finished runner-up in a season-best time of 4:28.29. She also took seventh in the 800-meter run.
Junior Thomas Nikkel took the silver in the men’s 400 meters with a personal best time of 47.22 seconds. He also finished sixth in the 200 meters. Sophomore Mark Daley was seventh in the 200 meters and eighth in the 400 meters.
The men’s 4×100-meter relay of Guthmiller, Nikkel, fifth-year senior Ardell Inlay and Daley finished runner-up in 40.10 seconds.
Freshman Carsen Staehr added a podium finish in the men’s triple jump, taking second in 48-10 ¼ (14.89m). Junior Jayden Green was sixth and sophomore Bennett Schwenn was seventh.
Junior Anna Robinson took fourth in the 400 meters with a time of 54.73 seconds and fifth in the 200 meters in a personal best 24.26 seconds.
Fifth-year senior Madison Jochum clocked 2:11.92 to finish fourth in the women’s 800 meters.
Junior Lauren Meyer placed fifth in the women’s triple jump with a leap of 39-4 ½ (12.00m).
Junior Wyatt Pruce took sixth and sophomore Quincy Warren was seventh in the men’s discus competition. Sophomore Kinsley Ragland was seventh in the women’s discus with a personal best throw of 137-3 (41.85m).
Select Coyote athletes will advance on to the NCAA West Preliminary meet held May 22-25 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Qualifiers will be announced next week.
Summit League Championships Men’s Point Scorers
1. Mikael Grace, 110m hurdles, 13.90 seconds
1. Jaden Guthmiller, 100m, 10.31 seconds
1. Marshall Faurot, pole vault, 17-3 ¾ (5.28m)
2. Tre Young, pole vault, 17-0 (5.18m)
3. Spencer Buley, pole vault, 17-0 (5.18m)
4. Eerik Haamer, pole vault, 17-0 (5.18m)
1. Joe Lynch, high jump, 6-9 ½ (2.07m)
2. Ethan Heitman, high jump, 6-9 ½ (2.07m)
2. Mason Sindelar, 1,500m, 3:45.94
2. Thomas Nikkel, 400m, 47.22 seconds
8. Mark Daley, 400m, 49.68 seconds
2. Tristan Gray, shot put, 54-9 ¼ (16.69m)
2. Quincy Warren, hammer throw, 183-10 (56.05m)
3. Tristan Gray, hammer throw, 176-1 (53.69m)
4. Wyatt Pruce, hammer throw, 164-7 (50.18m)
2. Bennett Schwenn, long jump, 24-1 (7.34m)
3. Carsen Staehr, long jump, 23-7 ½ (7.20m)
6. Jayden Green, long jump, 23-2 ¾ (7.08m)
2. Carsen Staehr, triple jump, 48-10 ¼ (14.89m)
6. Jayden Green, triple jump, 47-8 ½ (14.54m)
7. Bennett Schwenn, triple jump, 47-7 ¾ (14.52m)
2. Jaden Guthmiller, Thomas Nikkel, Ardell Inlay, Mark Daley, 4x100m relay, 40.10 seconds
4. Jaden Guthmiller, 200m, 21.45 seconds
6. Thomas Nikkel, 200m, 21.96 seconds
7. Mark Daley, 200m, 26.49 seconds
5. Derek Eidsness, decathlon, 6,629 points
6. Townsend Barton, decathlon, 6,618 points
7. Noel Spence, decathlon, 6,441 points
6. Wyatt Pruce, discus, 157-0 (47.86m)
7. Quincy Warren, discus, 155-5 (47.39m)
7. Mikael Grace, 400 hurdles, 55.61 seconds
Summit League Championships Women’s Point Scorers
1. Sara Reifenrath, 400m, 52.81 seconds
4. Anna Robinson, 400m, 54.73 seconds
1. Jacy Pulse, 400m hurdles, 57.70 seconds
3. Averi Schmeichel, 400m hurdles, 59.10 seconds
1. Erin Kinney, 100m, 11.38 seconds
1. Sara Reifenrath, 200m, 23.30 seconds
2. Erin Kinney, 200m, 23.78 seconds
5. Anna Robinson, 200m, 24.26 seconds
1. Meredith Clark, shot put, 52-0 ½ (15.86m)
1. Meredith Clark, discus, 161-2 (49.13m)
7. Kinsley Ragland, discus, 137-3 (41.85m)
1. Gen Hirata, pole vault, 14-1 ¼ (4.30m)
2. Jaidyn Garrett, pole vault, 13-4 ½ (4.08m)
3. Eliza Aitken, pole vault, 12-10 ¾ (3.93m)
7. Kailee Swart, pole vault, 12-10 ¾ (3.93m)
1. Erin Kinney, Jacy Pulse, Averi Schmeichel, Sara Reifenrath, 4x100m relay, 44.54 seconds
1. Averi Schmeichel, Jacy Pulse, Madison Jochum, Sara Reifenrath, 4x400m relay, 3:40.68
2. Averi Schmeichel, 100m hurdles, 13.30 seconds
2. Ella Byers, 1,500m, 4:28.29
2. Kenzie Campbell, hammer throw, 185-2 (56.45m)
6. Delaney Smith, hammer throw, 176-4 (53.76m)
7. Meredith Clark, hammer throw, 175-10 (53.59m)
8. Riley Griffith, hammer throw, 165-7 (50.47m)
2. Danii Anglin, high jump, 5-7 ¾ (1.72m)
3. Maddie Olson, high jump, 5-7 ¾ (1.72m)
5. Matayah YellowMule, high jump, 5-5 ¾ (1.67m)
4. Madison Jochum, 800m, 2:11.92
7. Ella Byers, 800m, 2:17.72
4. Sammy Neil, long jump, 19-3 ¼ (5.87m)
8. Matayah YellowMule, long jump, 18-7 ¼ (5.67m)
5. Lauren Meyer, triple jump, 39-4 ½ (12.00m)
8. Abbie Schmidt, 3,000m steeplechase, 11:08.43
SDSU RECAP
South Dakota State track and field finished third in both the men’s and women’s team standings after medaling in 14 different events on Saturday at the 2024 Summit League Championships.
Three Jackrabbits won the conference titles, starting with James Pierce, who won the 400-meter dash in a personal best of 47.12, now second all-time. Thailan Hallman also took fifth in 47.65 for a new PR and the sixth-fastest time in school history.
Claire Beckman was champion of the 800-meter finals, clocking a PR of 2:10.09 (now eighth all-time), and Grace Waage took bronze in 2:11.22.
Leah Hisken defended her 5k title, winning the gold in a time of 17:25.98. Jessica Lutmer (17:43.75) came seventh and Ashlyn Hillyard (17:52.50) was eighth.
Additional Jackrabbits earning a trip to the podium include Milee Young, who was runner-up in the women’s discus at the championship meet with a throw of 153-05.00.
Brielle Dixon broke her own school record in 13.37 seconds to take third place as Savannah Risseeuw finished fifth with a PR of 13.61, now third in school history.
The women’s 4×100-meter relay team of Dixon, Risseeuw, Maggie Madsen and Jaiden Boomsma ran into second place with a time of 45.90, taking the silver medal with the fourth-fastest time in school history.
Jessica Boekelheide, Emily Rystrom, Madsen and Erika Kuntz teamed up for the bronze medal in in the 4×400-meter relay with a time of 3:44.52, now fourth on the SDSU All-Time List.
Jake Werner took home two medals on the day, as he ran a 10.46 in the 100-meter dash finals for a third place finish and a 21.25 for second place in the 200-meter dash.
Carson Noecker tallied his second silver medal of the championship meet after running a 14:15.41 in the 5k. Josh Becker (14:40.89) was fifth and Will Lohr (14:43.89) came eighth.
Tristen Hanna leaped his way onto the podium for the triple jump with a mark of 48-08.00.
Ethan Fischer was runner-up in the discus, taking silver with a mark of 172-06.00, while Caiden Fredrick was third with a 169-08.00. Ryan Hackbart (153-07.00, PR) also scored for SDSU, taking eighth place.
SDSU then clocked the sixth-fastest men’s 4×100-meter relay time (40.58) in school history enroute to a bronze medal courtesy of Evan Henderson, Werner, Carter Toews and Drew Olson.
The 4×400-meter relay team of Sam Castle, Hallman, Kudra Nzibariza and Pierce clocked the eighth-fastest time in school history (3:12.99) to take silver.
In other results, Carter Johnson finished sixth in the 110-meter hurdle finals with a new PR of 14.47, now ninth on the SDSU All-Time List, as Jeremiah Donahoe ran a 55.54 for sixth in the 400-meter hurdle finals.
Daniel Burkhalter and Brandon Kampsen finished back-to-back in the 800-meter finals, clocking a 1:55.30 for seventh and 1:56.58 for eighth place, respectively. Burkhalter also scored for the Jackrabbits in the 1500-meter run with a fourth-place finish in 3:46.89
Matt Katz and Ryan Karajanis finished back-to-back in the men’s pole vault, taking seventh (15-06.25) and eighth (15-00.25), respectively.
Boomsma ran a time of 11.93 for a fifth place finish in the 100-meter dash finals as Rich-Ann Archer took seventh in 12.08.
In the finals of the 400-meter dash, Kuntz ran a 57.05 for seventh place as Boekelheide took eighth with a PR of 57.46.
Risseeuw crossed the finish line in a time of 1:04.24 for eighth place in the 400-meter hurdle finals while Nicole Greyer clocked a 4:33.77 in the 1500-meter run for a fifth place finish.
The SDSU men finish third in the team standings with 158 points as North Dakota State took first with 190 points and South Dakota was second with 175 points.
On the women’s side, SDSU came third with 131.5 points while North Dakota State won with 238 points and South Dakota came second with 197 points.
UP NEXT: Should SDSU have any qualifiers, the NCAA West Regional Prelims will take place May 22-25 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Gov.-elect Armstrong’s inaugural ball set Jan. 18; will benefit nonprofits • North Dakota Monitor
U.S. Rep. Kelly Armstrong, North Dakota’s governor elect, will host an inaugural ball Jan. 18 at the Bismarck Event Center.
The event will help support the North Dakota FFA Foundation and the Great Plains Food Bank. Attendees can donate money or non-perishable goods, like canned foods, boxed meals and toiletries.
It’s free to the public, but guests must RSVP at armstronginauguralball.com. Dress is black-tie optional.
The event’s lead sponsor is oil and gas company Devon Energy.
Armstrong wins, keeps Republican streak of North Dakota governors alive
The ball is organized by the Governor’s Heritage Foundation. According to the organization’s website, its mission is to “create awareness, advocacy, and raise funds for statewide charitable efforts who improve the everyday lives of North Dakotans” and to “honor and celebrate the efforts of the executive branch of the State of North Dakota.”
The organization was formed this fall and is in the process of obtaining nonprofit status, Jacy Schafer, Armstrong’s campaign manager, said in an email.
“We welcome all North Dakotans to come together to celebrate our great state stepping into a new era of leadership with Governor-Elect Kelly Armstrong and Lieutenant Governor-Elect Michelle Strinden at the helm,” Gretchen Stenehjem, vice chair of the Governor’s Heritage Foundation, said in a statement announcing the ball.
Armstrong takes office Dec. 15.
JAMESTOWN, N.D. — Desiree van Oosting’s first week after being elected to the North Dakota Legislature included a whirlwind look at one of the state’s most important industries: agriculture.
The voters of North Dakota’s District 36 on Nov. 5 elected Van Oosting to represent them in the state Senate. Van Oosting, a Republican from New Salem, grew up on a farm, as did her husband. So while she knew the importance of agriculture to North Dakota, she hadn’t seen some facets of the modern industry up close.
Van Oosting was among a group of new and experienced legislators to take a tour through central North Dakota agriculture on Nov. 8.
The group started off with a behind-the-scenes look at Cavendish Farms, a potato processing plant, before going to the Gayne Gasal farm and feedlot. Lunchtime included a look at North Dakota’s ag economic contribution, and an outlook panel featuring Howard Olson, the senior vice president of government and public affairs for AgCountry Farm Credit Services, along with ag producers Justin Sherlock, of Dazey, Ed Kessel, of Dickinson, and Warren Zenker, of Gackle. After lunch came a walking tour of Dakota Spirit ethanol plant and a bus tour of Green Bison Soy Processing.
For Van Oosting, it was an eye-opening day.
Jenny Schlecht / Agweek
“I haven’t seen any of these places. This is my first tour of the soybean plant, the ethanol plant and Cavendish farms,” she said.
At Cavendish Farms, the group donned hard hats and hair nets to see what happens as potatoes are brought in, washed and processed into a variety of products, including french fries, hash browns and more. At the Gasal farm, they heard about what happens on a corn and soybean farm and walked through a 3,000-head feedlot. And the tours of the ethanol and soybean crush plants gave a better idea at how the state’s biggest crops get turned into feedstocks for fuels, along with other products.
Each stop included opportunities for participants — which also included representatives from ag groups in the state — to ask questions. Topics discussed included the Renewable Fuels Standard, labor and transportation.
“Everything is just so interconnected,” Van Oosting said.
Jenny Schlecht / Agweek
Nowhere was that connection more apparent than at the Gasal farm, where Gayne Gasal, Blayke Gasal and Josh Daulton answered questions and showed everyone around the feedlot. The family has been in the Jamestown area for generations and on the current farm since 1949. Gayne Gasal boasted that the farm no longer is in the farm program, being able to operate without crop insurance or other government programs and payments. The farm grows corn and soybeans, which can be sold at the nearby plants.
The farm is also located near Cavendish Farms, which has put the feedlot sector in a unique position to use byproducts from the processing plants as feeds. The feedlot feeds waste products from Cavendish, along with dried distiller’s grain from Dakota Spirit and waste products of the soybean crush process from Green Bison.
Jenny Schlecht / Agweek
“French fries make good cattle feed,” Gayne Gasal said.
“The feed costs are the key to the operation,” Daulton said.
And all of the manure from the feedlot gets spread back on the fields, where more crops are grown.
The feedlot purchases calves around 500 pounds and feeds them to finish, shipping them to a Tyson plant in Dakota City, Nebraska. Having a beef packing plant closer would certainly be helpful for transportation costs, the Gasals and Daulton said. The size of finished cattle means the cost per head to truck to Nebraska gets steep.
“Trucking would be significantly better,” Daulton said.
Infrastructure was a big takeaway for Van Oosting.
“What I’m hearing today is the importance of roads and infrastructure for these businesses that bring in a lot of product to the soybean plant, the potatoes to Cavendish farms,” she said. “Learning a lot, especially as a freshman.”
Over lunchtime, the group heard from Matt Perdue, government relations director for North Dakota Farmers Union, about what ag means to North Dakota, including that the industry supports 110,480 jobs in the state. While researchers at North Dakota State University who completed a study on
ag’s economic contribution to North Dakota
, wouldn’t say that ag is the “largest driver of employment in the state,” Perdue said, “that is probably a fair assumption.”
Jenny Schlecht / Agweek
While the industry’s success means a lot to the state, there have been struggles in recent years. Olson, Sherlock, Zenker and Kessel discussed low grain prices and high input costs. Olson stressed that things aren’t as bad as the 1980s, when high interest rates and low prices were devastating to many family farms. But the problems are very real.
“We’ve got commodity prices that have dropped considerably the last two years, input costs have come down a little bit, but they still remain very high, and we find many of our farmers are in a net-loss situation this year where they’re losing money,” Olson said. “When you have those kinds of losses, they’re burning through their working capital. They’re burning through their cash. Now they have to figure out, how am I going to rebuild that working capital?”
While Sherlock said he might lose $300,000 this year — money that he says he “tucked away” over past years of better prices and high government payments — he said there are important things in North Dakota that make the future of agriculture look positive.
“Because of the Bank of North Dakota and some of the groundwork laid in the past” he said he can afford advancements like drain tiling that should make his land more productive in the future.
He and Kessel also talked about the importance of having value-added opportunities in the state, like the North Dakota State Mill’s white wheat program and ethanol and soybean plants. Domestic demand is vital, Sherlock said, pointing out that during the
trade war in 2018-19
, “50% of the revenue on my farm had nowhere to go.”
While
cattle prices
have been a bright spot in the ag market, Zenker, who has a cow-calf and feeder operation, compared equipment costs as an illustration that it’s still tough to make a profit. In the mid-’90s, he bought a new baler for $14,000. That was when a 500-pound calf brought about 40 cents per pound. Now, with like-sized calves bringing well over $3 per pound, his new baler cost $70,000.
“That 500-pound calf is not going to pay for that baler,” Zenker said.
A big talking point in the state in recent legislative sessions has been about expanding animal agriculture in North Dakota, which lags nearby states in livestock numbers. Zenker said lack of end processing remains an obstacle, with freight charges lingering around $60 per head, but he’s not sure whether communities in North Dakota would accept the changes that come with a processing plant. Sherlock suggested that a government entity should take the lead on looking into factors keeping animal agriculture in the state from growing.
In closing remarks to legislators, Kessel said lawmakers should keep regulations friendly to agriculture. Zenker agreed and said property tax relief also is important. Sherlock said things like working toward helping ensure affordable daycare are important.
“We’ve got to keep our small communities livable,” he said.
After the tours were finished, Olson said it is important to “help (legislators) get a better understanding of production agriculture, what we’ve got going on, the uphill battles that our farmers always face.” Showing them the importance of what value-added agriculture means for producers and the state is vital, he said.
“We’re so dependent on our export markets, whether it’s foreign exports or even just export out of the state. If we can be processing that product here and send it out in components, or feed it in the livestock and send it out as meat instead of meal, that’s just so much better for our agriculture,” he said.
GRAND FORKS — Three area teams landed a pair of players on the North Dakota all-state 9-man football team, which was released Monday by the North Dakota High School Coaches Association.
North Border, Cavalier and Four Winds all saw two players named to the all-state team, leading area squads.
North Border’s picks included quarterback Grant Cosley on the first-team offense and second-team pick Brody Berg.
Cosley, a senior, threw for more than 1,000 yards and rushed for more than 1,000 yards during the regular season.
Berg finished the regular season with 50 carries for 499 yards and five touchdowns.
Cavalier’s selections included Kayden Rose on the first-team defense and second-team choice Logan Werner.
Werner, a 5-foot-8 and 160-pound senior, ran for more than 1,500 yards and 20 rushing touchdowns. He also had 15 catches for 132 yards, while passing for 507 yards and eight touchdowns. Defensively, he had 51 tackles and two interceptions as a third-year starter.
Rose, a 6-foot-1 and 215-pound senior, was the offensive guard for a team that averaged more than 250 yards per game. Defensively, he had 56 tackles, 19.0 tackles for loss and 8.0 sacks. He was named the Region 4 Defensive Player of the Year.
Four Winds landed second-team picks Francis Belille and Kashton Keja Jr.
Keja, a 5-foot-9 and 190-pound senior, ran for 895 yards and threw for 755. He had 24 combined touchdowns. Defensively, he had 70 tackles and 9.0 tackles for loss.
Belille, a 6-foot-3 and 290-pound junior, led the line of scrimmage for Four Winds, which hosted a playoff game for the first time in school history.
Noah Clooten / Devils Lake Journal
North Prairie’s Brett Tastad, a North Dakota State commit, was also a first-team offensive choice.
Tastad, a 6-foot-5, 270-pound senior, was a three-year starting guard and blocked for an offense that gained more than 2,800 yards rushing. Tastad, who was a second-team pick last year, had 8.0 tackles for loss this year.
Griggs-Midkota’s Levi Kautzman was a first-team defensive pick.
Kautzman, a 6-foot-1, 220-pound senior, had 54 tackles, 13.0 tackles for loss and 8.0 sacks. The three-time all-region player was the Region 2 Defensive Player of the Year.
May-Port-C-G’s Bohdi Peterson and Nelson County’s Axel Anderson rounded out the area selections as second-team choices.
Peterson, a 6-foot-2, 220-pound defensive end, had 30 tackles, 13.0 tackles for loss and 10.0 sacks. He holds the school records for sacks in a season and career.
Westhope-Newburg-Glenburn’s Walker Braaten, a North Dakota State commitment, was named the division’s Senior Athlete of the Year, while New Rockford-Sheyenne-Maddock’s Elliott Belquist, the dad of UND All-American wide receiver Bo Belquist, was named Coach of the Year.
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