This edition of Lots O’ Stuff should be extra good because it took a long time to finish. Started it on Sunday and finally finished it tonight.
South Dakota State won the first Football Championship Subdivision title and there were several Jackson County Central connections in Frisco, Tex. on Sunday.
The top-seeded Jackrabbits pulled away from North Dakota State to win 45-21. SDSU finished the season with a 14-1 record, winning 14 in a row after a season-opening 7-3 loss at FBS Iowa.
Rudy Voss is a quarterback on the Jackrabbits’ roster.
Voss saw playing time in that Week 1 loss to the Hawkeyes in Iowa City and in Week 3 (a 45-17 home win over Butler.) He ran for a touchdown in the win over the Bulldogs.
An injured back then kept him out of game action until SDSU’s 39-18 semifinal win over Montana State in Brookings where he was 1-for-2 passing for three yards.
The Voss family with the championship trophy after Sunday’s win:
Haley Tvinnereim is a captain for the SDSU cheer team. Haley is a junior at SDSU. She was also a captain last year.
The cheerleaders had their picture taken with Coach John Stiegelmeier. Haley is third from the left in the back row (not counting Jack):
Another JCC grad was in Texas as Molly Boyum was covering the game as social media specialist Midco Sports.
She tweeted her view early in the day:
Molly was praised for her work on game day by Midco’s Jay Elsen:
There are two other players from Big South Conference schools on the SDSU roster. Reece Winkelman of Marshall is a senior defensive end and Waseca’s Saiveon Williamson is a senior linebacker.
Meanwhile for the Bison, Fairmont grad Hudson Artz is a freshman safety and Marshall graduate Bryce Lance is a freshman wide receiver.
Augustana went 1-3 at the NWCA National Duals in Louisville this past weekend.
On Friday, the Vikings lost twice, falling to No. 1 Central Oklahoma 22-12 and No. 14 Gannon 27-12. On Saturday Augustana defeated No. 18 Mercyhurst 22-18 before falling to No. 16 Colorado Mesa 20-19.
Three Martin County West graduates were in the lineup for the Vikings. Jaxson Rohman was 3-1, Connor Simmonds 2-2 and Miles Fitzgerald 1-3.
One of Simmonds’ wins was a 16-1 technical fall in the Colorado Mesa dual:
Also, former Windom/Mountain Lake Cobra Kade Sammons was 1-2 for the Vikings.
Jackson County Central graduate Kie Anderson returned to the lineup for the Concordia College wrestling team, losing his match in a dual vs. Northern State in Aberdeen. Anderson had not wrestled since the Jimmie Open in Jamestown in early November.
The Division II No. 21 Wolves topped the Division III No. 29 Cobbers 29-13.
Martin County West grad Katie Lange went 3-0 at 143 pounds for the Augsburg University women’s wrestling team at the National Wrestling Coaches Association NCAA Women's National Duals in Louisville.
On Friday she won by a 10-0 technical fall in the Auggies’ 30-10 win over Limestone and then the third-ranked Lange used a dramatic late rally in a 6-2 victory over No. 2-ranked Alara Boyd of McKendree, avenging a 2-1 loss to Boyd in the semifinals of the Midlands Championships on Dec. 30. McKendree won the dual 24-23 on criteria.
On Saturday Lange won by forfeit in Augsburg’s 27-18 win over Adrian College. She did not wrestle in a win over Gannon by the same 27-18 score. Lange is now 20-6 on the year with seven pins and nine technical falls.
Martin County West graduate Alyssa Williamson, a 5-foot-6 senior guard for the Hamline women’s basketball team, had eight points and a season-high 11 rebounds and five assists for the Pipers in a 63-59 loss to Augsburg Saturday. That came after eight points, four rebounds and three assists in a 69-60 win over St. Mary’s.
Hamline is 9-2 overall and 6-2 in the Saint Benedict, trailing 7-2 Bethel. The Pipers are at Macalaster tonight (Wednesday).
New York Rangers defenseman K'Andre Miller, the son of Fairmont High School graduate Amy Sokoloski, had a goal and an assist in New York’s 4-3 shootout win over the Minnesota Wild Tuesday at Madison Square Garden.
Miller has scored a point in four straight games.
In the first of those four games he was the No. 1 Star with a goal and an assist in a 5-3 win over Carolina.
The Rangers sent out this tweet about Miller tonight:
New York is in third place in the Metropolitan Division with 53 points with a record of 23-12-7.