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Top-seeded Montana State to host No. 4 South Dakota in FCS semifinals next week
BOZEMAN — Top-seeded Montana State will host No. 4 seed South Dakota of the Missouri Valley Football Conference next week for a berth in the FCS national championship game.
The Coyotes beat UC Davis 35-21 in a quarterfinal game Saturday in Vermillion, S.D., to earn their first-ever semifinal berth. MSU earned a trip to the semis with a 52-19 win over Idaho on Friday in Bozeman.
The Big Sky-champion Bobcats (14-0) and MVFC-winning Coyotes (11-2) will meet next Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Bozeman, with the victor advancing to the championship on Monday, Jan. 6, at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas.
South Dakota, under ninth-year coach Bob Nielson, had six takeaways on defense against No. 5-seed UC Davis, including five interceptions of Aggies quarterback Miles Hastings. Offensively, USD QB Aidan Bouman countered two interceptions with three touchdown throws.
Running back Travis Theis had a pair of rushing TDs, and tight end J.J. Gilbreath caught both of Bouman’s touchdown passes.
UC Davis lost star running back Lan Larison to injury in the first half.
It will be just the third all-time meeting between MSU and South Dakota. The Bobcats hosted USD in 2008, a 37-18 victory, and welcomed the Coyotes to Bozeman again in 2009, a 31-24 MSU win in overtime.
The other semifinal game next week will pit No. 3 seed South Dakota State (12-2) at No. 2 North Dakota State (12-2) in a renewal of the Dakota Marker rivalry.
SDSU, the two-time reigning national champion, trounced No. 6 seed Incarnate Word 55-14 in the quarters earlier Saturday, while NDSU handled No. 7 seed Mercer 31-7.
A multi-rotor drone and its fixed-wing, one-way attack counterpart that flanked a wall-sized American flag inside a northern Sioux Falls warehouse Friday weren’t the main attraction.
Rather, Pentagon officials and South Dakota dignitaries gathered for an invite-only ceremony at MMS Product, Inc. to get a look at a newly developed military advancement that will give South Dakota a front-row seat to the U.S. military’s race to drone warfare dominance.
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A cease and desist order and a national abortion-access organization told to stop advertising in South Dakota are testing both free speech and consumer protection laws.
Attorney General Marty Jackley this week issued notice to Mayday Health directing the nonprofit to halt a statewide gas station ad campaign launched earlier this month, spotlighting South Dakota’s near-total abortion ban, First Amendment protections and the reach of the Deceptive Trade Practices regulations.
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