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FULL HIGHLIGHTS: No. 3 Montana powers past South Dakota
MISSOULA — Protection led the best way as soon as once more for the No. 3 Montana Grizzlies as UM topped South Dakota 24-7 on Saturday afternoon at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
Montana held the South Dakota offense to simply 209 yards whole within the sport and used 5 sacks to repeatedly pin the Coyotes deep in their very own territory. Patrick O’Connell led the best way with 11 whole tackles, two for loss, and 1.5 sacks. Marcus Welnel, Tyler Flink and Braxton Hill all obtained in on sacks as did Henry Nuce who had half a sack.
The Grizzlies held South Dakota to simply 3 for 15 on third down. The Coyotes by no means give up, nevertheless, and broke by way of and scored the primary factors in opposition to Montana this season when Travis Theis scored on a 25-yard landing run with 6:27 left within the sport.
USD was unable to mount a full comeback regardless of hanging within the sport, and Hill’s sack pressured a security with 51 seconds left within the contest to successfully seal the sport for the Griz.
UM quarterback Lucas Johnson accounted for 3 touchdowns, working for the sport’s first two scores earlier than discovering Junior Bergen on a 12-yard landing connection within the third quarter. Johnson completed the sport 22 for 28 for 180 yards and likewise rushed for 75 yards within the sport. Bergen led the best way in receiving with six catches for 35 yards and the rating whereas Cole Grossman added a pair of catches for 64 yards.
The Grizzlies improved to 2-0 with the win whereas the Coyotes dropped to 0-2.
For full highlights from Saturday’s sport, try the video above.
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#4 South Dakota shuts out Murray State in big road win
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) –
GPAC FOOTBALL
#2 Northwestern- 17 Concordia- 29 FINAL
#8 Dordt- 38 Doane- 3 FINAL
Mount Marty- 36 Briar Cliff- 21 FINAL
NSIC FOOTBALL
Wayne State- 27 Minot State-21 FINAL
FCS FOOTBALL
USD- 59 Murray State-0 FINAL
NE HIGHSCHOOL SOFTBALL
Wayne-10 Ponca-0 FINAL
Wayne- 3 Boone Central- 4 FINAL
Wayne- 5 Pierce- 4 FINAL
USHL
Sioux City-3 Fargo-2 FINAL/SO
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Zimmer: UNI's bye week adjustments had no chance of slowing down South Dakota State
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Northern Iowa coach Mark Farley has been in charge of the Panthers since 2001. He’s taken them to 13 FCS playoff tournaments and seven conference championships in that time, and entering Saturday’s tilt with No. 1 defending national champion South Dakota State, one Farley state that felt particularly relevant was this one: In home games coming off of a bye week, Farley’s teams were 10-0. Overall, 17-5 after a bye.
Some stats are more coincidental or incidental than they are cause for concern, but there have been times throughout the SDSU/UNI rivalry that Farley, to his credit, has come up with a schematic wrinkle or two that have thrown the Jacks for a loop and contributed to an SDSU defeat.
Perhaps Panther fans felt good about their team’s chances, too. A crowd of 12,611 was on hand — the biggest UNI-Dome crowd since 2017.
Most of them were gone by the start of the fourth quarter though, as Farley had no answers for the Rabbits in Saturday’s Missouri Valley Football Conference opener for both teams.
SDSU players said they were prepared for something unexpected — a schematic adjustment here, a personnel change there — but it never really came. No, the Panthers decided to just be the same team that came in 2-2 with a pair of wins over non-scholarship Pioneer League teams and a pair of losses to FBS teams.
As it turned out, maybe they should’ve tried some sleight of hand.
“We were kind of relieved to see they wanted to be who they were this year,” said linebacker Adam Bock. “They stuck with what they’ve been doing. We’re always prepared for something but it’s nice to have a mindset of (what to expect) going into a game and then have that come to fruition.”
The Jackrabbits pounded the Panthers 41-3, and they punished them as much physically as they did on the scoreboard.
UNI (2-3) managed just 66 rushing yards in the game (they came in averaging 202) and committed four turnovers. They also thought about going for it on a first-half fourth down, called a timeout to think about it, decided to punt and saw the Jacks block the punt and return it for a back-breaking touchdown.
The SDSU offense, meanwhile, rolled up 390 yards behind quarterback Mark Gronowski’s best game of the season, and they hardly broke a sweat doing it, thanks in large part to the defense giving them short fields and never letting the Panthers get anything going in the way of momentum.
This was a rout in every sense, and that it came against a quality conference foe, on the road, only speaks to how good the Jacks are, even as they still seem to be finding their footing in a bid for a third straight national championship.
“Playing in this building I was kind of expecting a dogfight,” said Gronowski, who went 16-of-22 for 223 yards and three touchdown passes. “We knew we had to start fast to try to take the air out of the stadium quick.”
It didn’t happen right away. The Jacks (4-1) went 3-and-out on their opening series and led just 7-0 after a quarter. It was 10-0 in the second when Farley mulled over a 4th down conversion attempt, and the hesitation opened the door for the biggest play of the game.
“We had a gameplan (for a blocked punt) all week,” said Noah Thompson, a sophomore safety from Brandon who scooped up the blocked kick and ran it in 50 yards for his first career touchdown to make it 17-0. “We had a ’23’ call where Cullen (McShane) and I are coming from both sides. Brody Gormley blew up the shield and Cullen dove in and blocked it and I just picked it up and took it to the house. When they were second-guessing themselves there we knew we had ’em. We were already playing well and that kind of killed ’em right there.”
Only moments later a strip-sack by Jarod DePriest gave the Jacks a short field and Chase Mason’s touchdown run made it 24-0. It was pretty much over at that point, but the SDSU defense did not let up, extending their streak of consecutive games without allowing a touchdown to three. Since their 24-3 win over Division II Augustana the Jacks have sandwiched wins of 41-0 and 41-3 around their bye week.
“We spent a lot of time together during the bye week, whether it was outside of football, hanging out with each other, but on the field, too,” said Gronowski, whose team has won 31 in a row against FCS teams. “We were out there for 30 minutes after every practice getting routs and talking through some different things and even having meetings with the receivers to get everyone on the same page, and it seemed like we were today.”
Matt Zimmer is a Sioux Falls native and longtime sports writer. He graduated from Washington High School where he played football, legion baseball and developed his lifelong love of the Minnesota Twins and Vikings. After graduating from St. Cloud State University, he returned to Sioux Falls, and began a long career in amateur baseball and sports reporting. Email Matt at mzimmer@siouxfallslive.com.
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Winning young artists get their designs on ‘I voted’ stickers • South Dakota Searchlight
Instead of a standard, mass-printed “I voted” sticker as a reward for participating in the Nov. 5 general election, roughly 8,000 voters can sport hand-drawn stickers designed by South Dakota children.
The South Dakota Secretary of State’s Office launched a sticker contest this year to encourage more students and schools to participate in election education. The custom stickers will be available to voters in Stanley, Custer, Lawrence and Meade counties, where the children who designed the winning stickers reside.
Between the June primary election, post-election audits, validating ballot measure signatures and preparing for the general election, Secretary of State Monae Johnson said the design contest was a way to lighten the season for her office.
“There was so much going on, we decided we need to squeak this one fun thing out,” Johnson said.
The design contest is part of a national campaign to educate children and their families about elections. Some contests, such as Michigan’s, are garnering nationwide attention for winning designs.
Johnson hopes South Dakota’s contest will continue and grow with the 2026 elections, after her office received 200 design submissions this year. State officeholders judged the submissions, which were open to elementary, middle and high schoolers.
Johnson is also continuing the Gladys Pyle Award, which Johnson launched last year to encourage South Dakota high school students to register to vote. Each school that registers at least 90% of their age-eligible students receives the award.
Pyle was the first female secretary of state in South Dakota, first female elected to the South Dakota Legislature and one of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate nationwide. She gave her life to education and politics, Johnson said, adding that she was an “incredible” and “amazing” inspiration.
The award was presented to Stanley County and T.F Riggs high schools this year, which each reported 18 new registrations. Johnson also recognized universities that held a voter registration drive for students, including Dakota Wesleyan and South Dakota State, which had 28 and 74 new registrations or updates, respectively.
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