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South Dakota State gives UND worst home loss since 2013

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GRAND FORKS — By the final moments of the fourth quarter Saturday, the typically noisy Alerus Center fell quiet before a loud chant from the corner visitors section broke out.

“Let’s go Rabbits,” the blue and yellow fans rang out.

Through the final three quarters, the South Dakota State faithful were the only ones with anything to cheer about.

No. 3 SDSU scored 28 points in the second quarter en route to a 38-7 win over No. 21 UND in the worst home loss in the Bubba Schweigert Era.

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The Fighting Hawks dropped a third-straight game to fall to 5-5.

UND hadn’t lost at home this bad since Montana State beat UND 63-20 in 2013, the final season of former head coach Chris Mussman.

“We’re going to find out a lot about our team and individuals on our team right now,” UND coach Bubba Schweigert said. “We already talked about it in the locker room. We have to stay together. These are hard times. If we can use sports and teach life, this stuff is worth it.

“There’s going to be hard times in all of our individual’s lives. Harder times than losing football games. It doesn’t seem like it right now because we put a lot of time and effort in to preparing for games and we want to be successful. We’re going to find out a lot of our character. Our coaches have to do it, your players have to do it. I think when you really, really care about your guys and they care about you, I think they’ll stay together.”

UND entered the matchup with the Jacks 5-0 in the Alerus this year and 16-2 at home vs. the Missouri Valley Football Conference since joining the league in 2020. The only losses were 16-10 to North Dakota State in 2021 and 49-35 to SDSU in 2022. NDSU and SDSU went on to win national titles in those respective years.

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All but forgotten by the end, UND actually got off to a decent start.

Running back Isaiah Smith, who finished with 87 yards on nine carries, scored on a 62-yard run to give the Hawks a 7-0 lead midway through the first quarter.

But the Jacks dominated from there.

UND’s quarterback Simon Romfo flips a pass over SDSU linebacker Adam Bock for a completion Saturday at the Alerus Center.

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SDSU wide receiver Griffin Wilde finished with five catches for 140 yards and three touchdowns. He caught touchdown passes of 25 and 39 yards in the second quarter.

Quarterback Mark Gronowski was comfortable in the pocket, finishing 11-for-19 for 193 yards. He wasn’t sacked.

The Jacks ran 43 times for 264 yards and picked just the right times to hit deep balls for Wilde, who frequently was able to beat UND’s last line of defense in the secondary.

“They have big formations, and when throw it deep, they kept in a lot to protect to make sure he has time,” Schweigert said. “It’s 1-on-1, so you have to hold up. They beat us in some 1-on-1 situations. Running the football sets up the entire offense.”

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UND’s offense was limited after Smith’s breakout run. Quarterback Simon Romfo finished 16-for-23 for 124 yards with one interception and was sacked three times.

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UND’s C.J. Elrichs reacts to a missed field goal in the first half Saturday at the Alerus Center.

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Romfo struggled to find time in the pocket and his longest pass of the day was 18 yards to tight end Quincy Vaughn.

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Romfo also fumbled on a scramble in the second quarter with UND already trailing 24-7. Seven plays later, the Jacks scored on Amar Johnson’s 3-yard run for a 31-7 lead.

The Hawks also missed two field goals, including a 51-yard attempt with 34 seconds to halftime.

“We just have to make plays,” Smith said.

Tom Miller

Miller has covered sports at the Grand Forks Herald since 2004 and was the state sportswriter of the year in 2019 and 2022.
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His primary beat is UND football but also reports on a variety of UND sports and local preps.

He can be reached at (701) 780-1121, tmiller@gfherald.com or on Twitter at @tommillergf.





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Duke 75-71 South Dakota State (Nov 17, 2024) Game Recap – ESPN

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BROOKINGS, S.D. — — Jadyn Donovan finished with 23 points and 15 rebounds to help No. 16 Duke hold off South Dakota State 75-71 on Sunday.

Donovan hit 11 of 17 shots from the floor and added four assists and four steals for the Blue Devils (4-1). It was the second double-double this season for the sophomore.

Ashlon Jackson totaled 17 points and four assists for Duke. Vanessa de Jesus scored 13 off the bench.

Brooklyn Meyer scored 25 points on 9-for-13 shooting to lead the Jackrabbits (3-1). Paige Meyer had 12 points and seven assists. Haleigh Timmer scored 11 on 5-for-7 shooting. Kallie Theisen grabbed 12 rebounds but did not score.

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Jackson had nine points to guide the Blue Devils to a 23-18 advantage after one quarter.

Donovan scored off a rebound to give Duke a 10-point lead with 90 seconds left before halftime. But Brooklyn Meyer had the only basket from there and South Dakota State trailed 38-30.

The Jackrabbits grabbed the lead at 47-45 after Timmer’s layup and two free throws by Meyer. Donovan answered with a dunk off a rebound and finished off a three-point play, and Reigan Richardson and Toby Fournier sank shots in the final 44 seconds to send the Blue Devils to the fourth quarter with a 54-50 lead.

Mesa Byom hit a 3-pointer with 7:38 left to play to pull South Dakota State even at 59. Donovan answered with another rebound basket and a jumper, and the Blue Devils stayed in front from there.

The Jackrabbits stayed within striking distance by hitting 8 of 16 shots from beyond the arc while Duke sank just 3 of 11.

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The Blue Devils return home to play Belmont on Thursday.

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Jackson scores 19 as South Dakota State beats Southern Miss 101-76

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BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — Jaden Jackson scored 19 points as South Dakota State beat Southern Miss 101-76 on Wednesday night.

Jackson had 10 rebounds for the Jackrabbits (4-1). Oscar Cluff scored 16 points while shooting 7 of 7 from the field and added nine rebounds. Kalen Garry shot 3 for 8 (1 for 5 from 3-point range) and 7 of 7 from the free-throw line to finish with 14 points.

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The Golden Eagles (2-2) were led by Neftali Alvarez, who posted 13 points. Christian Watson added 12 points and two steals for Southern Miss. Denijay Harris also had 11 points and 12 rebounds.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.




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Title defenses highlight South Dakota state volleyball tournament storylines

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SIOUX FALLS — As the curtain rises on the 2024 South Dakota high school volleyball state tournaments, all three class champions from 2023 return to defend their titles.

Harrisburg puts a lengthy win streak on the line while looking for three championships in a row in Class AA; Sioux Falls Christian attempts to extend its Class A reign of dominance; and Chester hopes to become the first Class B repeat champion other than stalwarts Warner and Northwestern since 2002.

Here’s what to keep an eye on Thursday through Saturday at the Premier Center:

Chargers aim for eight straight as No. 8

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For a decade and a half, Sioux Falls Christian has been the team to beat in Class A volleyball, winning 12 of the past 14 state titles and seven in a row entering this weekend.

But while most of those championships came from a favorable seed position, if the Chargers are to collect an unprecedented eighth consecutive title, they’ll have to do it as the No. 8 seed in the bracket. First up for Sioux Falls Christian is No. 1 seed Miller, which has just one loss on the season (to Class B No. 2 Warner), in the opening match of the tournament. Should the Chargers knock off the Rustlers, a meeting with rival and No. 4 seed Dakota Valley or No. 5 Mount Vernon/Plankinton would await in the semifinals.

This season, SFC is 25-12, with those 12 losses the most in any single season during their 15-year run of dominance. The Chargers lost just 14 total over the previous four seasons. But the record can be quite misleading. Seven of those 12 losses this season came to out-of-state foes, and an eighth came to Class AA No. 1 Harrisburg.

Class A 3-seed Dell Rapids split a pair of matches with the Chargers this season, and 4-seed Dakota Valley knocked them off twice, but no one else in the tournament field has seen SFC this season.

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Harrisburg’s Josalyn Samuels sets the ball in a high school volleyball match between the Harrisburg Tigers and the Mitchell Kernels on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024, in Mitchell.

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Harrisburg goes for back-to-back unbeaten seasons

To find the last time Harrisburg was on the losing end of a volleyball match, one must go back to Oct. 4, 2022.

Since then, the Tigers have stacked up 75 consecutive match wins and now stand three wins away from back-to-back perfect seasons. En route to a 28-0 record so far this season, Harrisburg has only dropped five total sets, sweeping 23 opponents, and has yet to be taken the distance in a best-of-five sets match. Of those five set losses, only one came against a Class AA foe, as Sioux Falls Washington, the No. 3 tournament seed, nabbed on Sept. 24.

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Of the other contenders, look to the winner No. 4 O’Gorman and No. 5 Watertown, which should be a hard-fought match and will likely have the winner carrying a “nothing to lose” feeling against the Tigers in the semifinals. O’Gorman has only lost once in the last six weeks, that being a 3-0 loss to Harrisburg on Oct. 29.

In the bottom of the bracket, Jefferson and Washington are the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds and seem likely to face each other. A sleeper to watch is No. 6 Sioux Falls Roosevelt, which is 19-9, and went five sets with the Warriors twice already this season, both won by Washington. Both lower seeds in that bracket have been trending strong, with eight-straight wins for No. 7 Brandon Valley and seven in a row for Roosevelt.

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Chester’s Lily Van Hal sets the ball to a teammate in a Class B SoDak 16 volleyball match on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Canistota.

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Chester looks to defend title against deep field of contenders

Since 2003, no two consecutive seasons have passed without either Warner (eight titles in that span) or Northwestern (nine titles) winning a Class B championship, but Chester is looking to change that.

The Flyers took down Warner in a five-set thriller during last season’s championship match and enter this year’s tournament as the No. 1 seed. At 29-2, Chester’s lone losses this season came at the Pentagon Invitational tournament to a pair of Iowa programs. For the third year in a row, Chester enters the state tournament without a loss to another Class B team and the last such outcome was a 2022 state championship loss to Warner. 

But even as the favorite, a championship repeat doesn’t figure to be a cakewalk. Six of the eight Class B teams in the field are back from 2023. No. 2 Warner surely wants to avenge its loss in last year’s title matchup, and No. 3 Hitchcock-Tulare also hails from the powerhouse Region 1B. Lower seeds Burke, Gayville-Volin, Colman-Egan and Castlewood are all among the experienced state tournament programs looking to make a run.

But the Flyers are loaded, have a lot of big-match experience at the state tournament and a veteran coach in Jean O’Hara. For all of the skill and ability, Chester still has only two seniors on the roster and the Flyers appear to be in position to go back-to-back.

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Landon Dierks

Dierks covers prep and collegiate athletics across the Mitchell Republic’s coverage region area. His focus areas include: Mitchell High School football and boys basketball; area high school football, volleyball, basketball, baseball and track and field; and South Dakota State football. He is also at the forefront of the Mitchell Republic’s podcasting efforts. Dierks is a Mitchell native who graduated from South Dakota State University with his bachelor’s degree in journalism in May 2020. He joined the Mitchell Republic sports staff in August 2021. He can be reached at ldierks@mitchellrepublic.com and found on Twitter at @LDierksy.





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