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NDSU gets second-straight win over Minnesota in dominating performance

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North Dakota State’s Will Britt (61) and teammates celebrate their 37-24 win over Minnesota on Saturday night at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

Plenty of Bison fans make trek to Twin Cities to enjoy game MORE INSIDE AND ONLINE
왘 Dominating performance in second quarter sets
By Marino Eccher showed up in yellow and green and he said. tone in Bison’s win over Gophers. SPORTS, D6
meccher@forumcomm.com made themselves at home in the North He predicted a 14-point NDSU win. 왘 Bison o-line opened big running lanes. SPORTS, D6
Minneapolis Dakota State tailgating lot. After three quarters, that looked like it 왘 Jeff Kolpack: Bison can’t seem to get enough

T
he last time Paula
Gimmestad saw the Bison
take on (and beat) the
Gophers here, she was a
Minnesota season ticket
holder rooting for the home team. This
round, she and her husband, Bill,
The reasoning behind the reversal
was sound: Their son Tyler now starts
on the Bison offensive line. And in
spite of past allegiances, Bill said they
brought no mixed emotions into
Saturday’s showdown.
“We want the Bison to do well,”
might be too low. For a stretch in the
fourth as the Gophers mounted a
comeback bid, it looked like it might be
flat-out wrong. But when the dust
settled, he was a botched extra point
BISON: Page A7
of big stage in Minneapolis. SPORTS, D7
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NDSU’s spirits. SPORTS, D7
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Yankees honor Maris’ ’61 season Texting while driving

Slugger’s family proves tough to enforce
on hand to celebrate
F-M officers say yet to see a citation come across
50th anniversary their desks, State’s Attorney
few tickets written Birch Burdick said.
of his 61 home runs And the prospect of more

By Denis Gorman
due to challenges paperwork has Fargo police
reluctant to write tickets for tex-
Special to The Forum By Mike Nowatzki ting while driving – although
NEW YORK – A referendum on mnowatzki@forumcomm.com officials say that will soon
the owner of Major League Base- FARGO – Talk about making a change.
ball’s single-season home run tough call: Is the driver texting? In Moorhead, where Minneso-
record and Roger Maris’ Hall of Dialing a phone number? ta’s ban has been in effect since
Fame worthiness was an overrid- Thumbing through his address Aug. 1, 2008, Lt. Tory Jacobson
ing topic of discussion on the day book? Playing “Angry Birds”? said police have issued “very
that the New York Yankees hon- Authorities say it’s a challenge few” tickets for texting while
ored a man behind one of the enforcing North Dakota’s new driving. A total of 49 citations
organization’s greatest individ- ban on texting while driving, had come through Clay County
ual years. and the numbers bear it out. District Court as of late last
“As far as the record is con- week.
In the law’s first 52 days – it
cerned, the family feels that it is Moria Matson of Fargo was
Associated Press took effect Aug. 1 – Highway
his record. That is just how we among the first drivers ticketed
Patrol troopers had issued just
feel,” Roger Maris Jr. said about New York Yankees’ Derek Jeter (2) presents Roger Maris’ bat in Clay County, although she
two tickets and five warnings
his father’s Hall of Fame to his sons, from left, Roger Jr., Kevin, Randy and Richard before the said she was actually changing
credentials in a pregame news Yankees’ baseball game against the Boston Red Sox on Saturday at statewide, said Lt. Jody Skogen,
songs on her MP3 player when a
patrol spokesman.
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A trip to the Bank

Many NDSU fans made the trek to Minneapolis to cheer on the Bison against the University of Minnesota.
Those that made it were rewarded with a 37-24 Bison win, NDSU’s second straight over the Gophers.

Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor

North Dakota State fans were numerous Saturday throughout TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis as the Bison took on the University of Minnesota.

Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor

Ariel Metz displays a retractible banner during a Bison tailgating party at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds on
Saturday in St. Paul.

Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor

Husband and wife North Dakota State athletes Jake

and Laura Januszewski man a trailer grill for the Team
Makers during a Bison tailgating party at the Minnesota
State Fairgrounds on Saturday in St. Paul.

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North Dakota State fans Kirk Schuck, left, and Tony Staiger, both from Moorhead, share a laugh Saturday with Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
Minnesota fans Jim Topp and Tara Anderson from Maple Grove, Minn. The foursome have been friends after meeting in
North Dakota State students Karen Bope, left, and
2009 at WE Fest.
Trisha McDonald walk past a booster bus during a Bison
tailgating party Saturday at the Minnesota State
Fairgrounds in St. Paul.
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BISON: Minnesota State Fairgrounds turned into sea of green and yellow
From Page A1 than a hint of hyberbole.
His friend Colin
away from nailing the final Marcusen offered a more
margin on the nose in a 37- measured assessment.
24 NDSU victory that sent “We know they’re both
visiting fans into a spirited good teams,” he said. “It’s
celebration. going to be a good game.”
The Gimmestads and Mike Hanson of Hanson
their entourage – both sides Brothers Construction in
of the family, a trailer, a Fargo brought the whole
tent, and a very busy grill – company down for the
were among the thousands game. He came in with high
of Bison backers who made hopes but figured the Bison
the trip here to catch were in for a slugfest.
NDSU’s first-ever visit to “I think it’s going to be a
TCF Bank Stadium. Fans tough game, but they can do
devoured their allotment of it,” he said. “It’s fun to come
about 2,200 visitor’s tickets down here, see a bigger
and snatched up plenty venue, and stick it to our
more via online brokers neighbors a little bit,” he
and other venues. said.
Getting in was a little About an hour after the
trickier than it was in 2007, tailgating lot opened, he
when the Bison knocked was busy grilling a few
around the Gophers in the savory slabs of ribs – and
cavernous Metrodome. The attracting new friends in
Bank, which opened in 2009, the process.
has about 13,000 fewer seats. “We started with 10
But that hardly seemed to people, but I think we’re
slow the NDSU faithful, picking up more as the day
who accounted for perhaps goes on,” he said.
half the crowd by kickoff. Perhaps the most
The Bison drew a wave of formidable tailgating David Samson / The Forum
cheers when they took the machine on the premises
field for warm-ups, and a
North Dakota State fans celebrate a touchdown against Minnesota on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium in
came courtesy of West
few unmistakable “Let’s go Central Inc. The Willmar, Minneapolis.
Bison!” chants broke out. Minn.-based agricultural
In the hours before the chemical wholesaler Michael Amundson of
game, many of those fans showed up with an entire RBC Wealth Management,
and fanatics set up camp at semitrailer outfitted as a which threw an equally
the Minnesota State mobile bar and grill. lively party in the other half
Fairgrounds, turning the “We mostly have it at of the lot, said it was an
area set aside for Bison Bison games,” said Tim opportunity to give the
tailgating into a yellow and Erickson, a company company and its clients a
green tent city. They representative who was taste of NDSU home
brought with them all the manning the truck. “A lot of football flavor on the road.
familiar comforts of a home customers come to these “What a great event to
Fargodome tailgate: the events. We’re here to have here down in
flags, the grills, the beer, accommodate them and Minneapolis,” he said. “I
and the confidence that enjoy the game.” think the Bison are
they’d come away with a The action wasn’t limited showing that they can
win. to the fairgrounds. Two compete at this level.”
“Bison by six,” predicted groups of NDSU fans At Sally’s Saloon a few
Craig Roth, a season ticket rented out the parking lot of blocks south of the game, at
holder of about 30 years. He Valu Liquors near the least one group of fans
came down from Fargo with stadium and threw private crossed party lines to
his wife and a group of pregame parties. mingle in mixed company,
friends. He’s a Moorhead Larry Persons, a Bison as Tara Anderson and her
boyfriend Jim Topp – both David Samson / The Forum
State alumnus, but “their Team Makers booster who
football’s no fun,” he said. hosted a group of fans on Gopher fans from Maple North Dakota State University fans along with Minnesota Gophers fans make their
Roth, who was here for one side of the lot, said he Grove – shared a drink with way to TCF Bank Stadium on Saturday in Minneapolis.
the last win, savored the was looking forward to Bison stalwart Tony Staiger
chance for a repeat seeing the Bison pick up and a group of his friends
performance in NDSU’s where they left off – and from Fargo.
first trip to open-air TCF. avenge a missed The two groups met at

Keeping care close to home.

“Beautiful day, perfect opportunity from 2006, WE Fest a few years ago
football weather – couldn’t when a potential game- and made it a point to meet
be better,” he said. winning Bison field goal up here to take in the
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No Metrodome, no problem. North Dakota State wins 37-24 SUNDAY
on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium for its second straight September 25, 2011

victory against the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers.

BANK HEIST  For more on the game, see Pages D6-7. D
INSIDE

DRAGONS
PICK UP
FIRST OT
VICTORY IN
HISTORY

A defensive stop
in overtime
secures the first
OT win in
Minnesota State
Moorhead
football history
Saturday, as the
Dragons defeat
Minnesota-
Crookston in
MSUM’s
homecoming
game. For more
on the game,
see D5.

ALSO
 St. Thomas
looked every bit
like the third-
ranked team in
NCAA Division III
football in a win
at Concordia. D8
 For the first
time since 1981,
the Minnesota
Vikings are home
underdogs
to the Detroit
Lions. The two
teams meet at
Mall of America Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
Field at noon North Dakota State tight end Matt Veldman
today. D3
celebrates the win Saturday in Minneapolis.
D6 Sunday, September 25, 2011 BISON FOOTBALL The Forum

NOTEBOOK NORTH DAKOTA STATE 37, MINNESOTA 24 SUMMARY

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Marcus Williams’ interception return for a touchdown in the fourth quarter secures victory. North Dakota State 37,

Offensive Minnesota 24
NDSU
M
0
7
28
7
3 6–37
3 7–24

linemen First quarter

UM: Donnell Kirkwood 4 run (Chris Hawthorne
kick), 8:39.
Drive: 13 plays, 68 yards, 6:21.

are stars Key plays: Quarterback MarQueis Gray avoids

sack and hits Da’Jon McKnight for 16 yards on
third-and-9 to the Gopher 49. Duane Bennett
picks up six yards on third-and-4 to the 33.

Saturday UM 7, NDSU 0.

Second quarter
NDSU: Brock Jensen 1 run (Ryan Jastram
kick), 14:57.

McNorton, Jensen Drive: 11 plays, 65 yards, 8:42.

Key plays: Illegal hands to the face penalty on
Gophers on third-and-15 gives Bison first down,
enjoy big rushing with the quarterback Jensen being sacked on
the play. Jensen hits running back D.J. McNorton

thanks to the line on middle screen for 17 yards to the 39. Offsides
penalty on third-and-4, gives Bison first down to
the 17.
By Jeff Kolpack UM 7, NDSU 7.
jkolpack@forumcomm.com
NDSU: Sam Ojuri 3 run (Jastram kick), 7:30.
MINNEAPOLIS – North Dakota Drive: 8 plays, 83 yards, 3:47.
State running back D.J. McNorton Key plays: Jensen hits Warren Holloway for 15
averaged 7.1 yards per carry and yards to the Bison 37. Jensen hits Ryan Smith
quarterback Brock Jensen 6.2. It was over the middle for 28 more. Jensen scrambled
for eight yards on third-and-7 and personal foul
a good night for the Bison offensive
penalty puts ball to the 12.
line in a 37-21 win over the Universi- NDSU 14, UM 7.
ty of Minnesota on Saturday night.
“We had a great night,” said left UM: Kirkwood 20 run (Hawthorne kick), 2:11.
tackle Billy Turner. Drive: 10 plays, 95 yards, 5:19.
“We came out and Key plays: Duane Bennett gains 23 yards on
first play. Bennett gets 13 more on second-and-5
pounded the ball and I
to the Bison 41.
don’t think they were NDSU 14, UM 14.
ready for it to be hon-
est.” NDSU: McNorton 2 run (Jastram kick), :24.
The Bison did not Drive: 5 plays, 71 yards, 1:47.
give up a quarterback Key plays: McNorton busts out for 58 yards on
second-and-10 to the Gopher 13.
Turner sack, which led direct-
David Samson / The Forum NDSU 21, UM 14.
ly to Jensen’s highly
efficient 16 of 21 passing for 197 North Dakota State’s Brock Jensen fires a pass against the University of Minnesota on NDSU: Marcus Williams 52 interception return
yards. Jensen helped the cause, (Jastram kick), :00.
Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
escaping a couple of tough situa- Key plays: On last play of half, Colten Heagle
tions in the backfield but in all, he intercepts Gray pass and returns it to near

Second act
usually had time to throw. midfield. He fumbles while trying to lateral and
Williams picks it up and goes untouched to end
The Bison, on the other hand, zone.
sacked Gophers quarterbacks five NDSU 28, UM 14.
times.
“Those boys put in a lot of work,” Third quarter
McNorton said of his offensive line. NDSU: FG Jastram 49, 6:25.
Drive: 12 plays, 55 yards, 8:35.
“Coming in, we knew we could get Key plays: On third and 8, Jensen hooks up
body on body, and that left the run- with Smith for eight yards. Jensen hits tight end
ning back one-on-one with a corner-
back or a safety. If we don’t beat 28-point second quarter sets tone in Garrett Bruhn for 13 yards to the 39. On third
and 6, Jensen finds tight end Matt Veldman for
them, then it’s our fault.” 23 yards to the Gopher 34. Drive stalls on
The win moved the Football Cham-
pionship Subdivision Bison’s record
NDSU’s second straight win at Minnesota motion penalty.
NDSU 31, UM 14.

to 5-3 vs. Football Bowl Subdivision By Eric Peterson
teams. epeterson@forumcomm.com
Gophers coach says MINNEAPOLIS – North
Dakota State’s Metrodome
culture has to change magic transferred to TCF
The Gophers left TCF Bank Stadi-
Bank Stadium.
um with a dubious thought: a 1-3
With 28 points in the second
record against what is regarded as a
quarter, the Bison powered
soft nonconference schedule by Big
their way to a 37-24 victory
Ten Conference standards.
against the Minnesota
“We’ve been through a lot as a
Gophers in nonconference
team, and I’m heartbroken now,”
college football Saturday
said senior safety Kim Royston. “We
night.
have to get this thing turned around.
“Our guys had a whole lot of
We’re 1-3 right now and the schedule
confidence coming in,” Bison
is not going to get any easier.”
head coach Craig Bohl said.
Head coach Jerry Kill, in his first
“We didn’t play perfectly, but
season, said his staff is trying to
we certainly played well
change the culture of a team that did
enough to win.”
not play with enough discipline, he
The Bison (3-0) have won
said. Minnesota had eight penalties
their last two meetings
for 57 yards, but most were costly
against the Gophers (1-3).
infractions like a first-quarter per-
NDSU also earned a 27-21 vic-
sonal foul after Jensen was sacked
tory in 2007 against Minneso-
on third down.
ta, a game that was played
“It’s not going to happen
inside the Metrodome.
overnight,” Kill said. “We have to
The game was played out-
push through it. The challenge we
doors this time, but the out-
have is sooner or later someone’s got
come was the same.
to step up and be a leader. Right now,
“I think they are trying, but
the coaches are doing a lot of that.”
we just need to try a little
Bison make it count harder,” Gophers head coach
when in scoring distance Jerry Kill said of his players.
NDSU has been efficient with red Bison sophomore corner-
zone offense this year, a term used back Marcus Williams iced
the victory with a 40-yard
whenever a team gets inside the
interception for a touchdown
opponent’s 20-yard line. The Bison
scored the first three times they had with 2 minutes, 36 seconds to
the ball in the first half and are now play in the fourth quarter.
10 of 11 in the red zone over the first Williams stepped in front of
three games. a pass from Gophers fresh-
inside the pilon. point, and that score set the UM: FG Hawthorne 36, 1:12.
“I read his eyes the whole scene for the Heagle-to- Drive: 10 plays, 53 yards, 5:13.
Key plays: Quarterback Max Shortell hits
way. I wasn’t going down,” Williams interception return
Marcus Jones for 23 yards to the 46. Shortell
said Williams, from Hopkins, on the last play of the half.
Minn. “Everybody knew it Like Jensen, McNorton had
finds Macolm Moulton for 14 yards to the 21.
Sack by Coulter Boyer and Kyle Emanuel forces
was going to be a big game. a strong first half, rushing for field goal.
We just wanted to be ready for 81 yards on seven attempts in NDSU 31, UM 17.
it.” the first two quarters. North
Williams also had a momen- Dakota State’s three scoring
Fourth quarter
UM: Lair 20 pass from Shortell (Hawthorne
tum-shifting play near the drives in the first half cov- kick), 9:05.
end of the second quarter. ered 65, 83 and 71 yards. Drive: 10 plays, 46 yards, 5:41.
The Bison capped the first “We put in a lot of work and Key plays: Gray picks up eight yards on third-
half with a stunning intercep- this is how it paid off,” and-8 to the 36. Bennett gets three yards on third-
and-two. Touchdown comes on fourth down.
tion return for a touchdown. McNorton said.
NDSU 31, UM 24.
Sophomore safety Colten Hea- The Bison had 207 yards in
gle intercepted a MarQueis the first two quarters on 24 NDSU: Williams 40 interception return (kick
Gray at the Bison 18-yard line. plays and didn’t commit a failed), 2:36.
Heagle was at midfield when turnover for the half or the Key plays: Williams steps in front of receiver
he fumbled trying to the later- game. NDSU finished with 336 and returns Shortell pass down right side.
NDSU 37, UM 24.
al the ball. Williams picked up total yards, including 197
the loose ball off one bounce passing. Team statistics
and then took it the final 52 “We knew we couldn’t be NDSU MINN
yards for a touchdown. one-dimensional,” Bohl said. First downs 17 18
That gave the Bison a 28-14 “We knew we had to spread Rushes-yards 28-139 41-168
Yards passing 197 124
halftime lead. the field out and throw the
Passes 16-21-0 9-20-2
North Dakota State scored football.”
Total yards 336 292
on all three of its possessions The teams exchanged field
Punts-avg. 1-31 1-48
in the first half. The Bison goals in the third quarter and Fumbles-lost 1-0 0-0
scored on the first and last touchdowns in the fourth Sacked-yards lost 5-21 0-0
play of the second quarter. quarter. NDSU’s first punt Penalties-yards 6-52 8-57
Possession time 31:21 28:39
NDSU sophomore quarter- came early in the fourth quar-
back Brock Jensen had a ter. Individual statistics
nearly flawless first 30 min- “It comes down to what we North Dakota State
utes, completing 6 of 8 passes do,” Gophers senior safety Rushing No. Yds. Long TD
for 82 yards. He also scored on Kim Royston said. “Whatever D.J. McNorton 13 92 58 1
a 1-yard touchdown run on Brock Jensen 6 37 11 1
they got, we gave it to them. …
the first play of the second Sam Ojuri 8 12 8 1
We have to take accountabili- Team totals 28 139 58 3
quarter. ty for everything that goes on Receiving No. Yds. Long TD
The Bison grabbed a 21-14 out there. Bottom line, we Warren Holloway 5 34 15 0
lead with 24 seconds remain- have to get better.” Ryan Smith 4 74 31 0
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All three scores on Saturday night man quarterback Max Short- ior running back D.J. McNor- Matt Veldman 2 31 23 0
Readers can reach Forum reporter Garrett Bruhn 2 22 13 0
were touchdowns that led to a 28-14 ell and then weaved his way ton broke off tackle for a 2- Eric Peterson at (701) 241-5513. Team totals 16 197 31 0
Bison halftime lead. The only red through Gophers en route to yard touchdown run. The Peterson’s blog can be found Passing Comp Att Yds. Int. TD
zone blip was a missed 35-yard field the end zone, diving just Bison never trailed from that at peterson.areavoices.com Brock Jensen 16 21 197 0 0
goal in the fourth quarter with 2:58 Team totals 16 21 197 0 0
Tackles (solo-assisted-total)
remaining that kept the Gophers
Heagle 5-2-7, Pike 3-4-7, Emanuel 2-5-7, Boyer 5-
within a touchdown. 1-6, Evans 3-1-4, Juckem 2-2-4, Perry 2-1-3, Jirik
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Safety Colten Heagle was the only 1-2, Williams 1-1-2, Dudzik 1-0-1, Ollman 1-0-1,
Bison player to leave the game via Wahlo 1-0-1, Lang 1-0-1, Boyd 0-1-1, Olson 0-1-1,
injury. He said he was knocked out Hagen 0-1-1.
while making a tackle, but said he Sacks: Emanuel 1, Boyer 2.5, Perry 1, Stoczyns-
felt fine after the game. “I’ll be fine, ki .5.
Interceptions: Heagle 1, Williams 1.
no dizziness or anything,” he said. …
It left the Bison with two backup Minnesota
safeties because of the injury this Rushing No. Yds. Long TD
week to Danny Eaves, and Bohl said Duane Bennett 13 74 23 0
the Bison put more pressure on their Donnell Kirkwood 10 70 30 2
cornerbacks in situations. … Strong MarQueis Gray 13 23 13 0
David Cobb 1 3 3 0
safety John Pike, who started in Max Shortell 4 -2 5 0
place of Eaves, didn’t take long to get Team totals 41 168 30 2
into the action. The senior tied his Receiving No. Yds. Long TD
career high in tackles just a minute DaJon McKnight 3 39 17 0
into the second quarter with four Eric Lair 2 41 21 1
and finished the game with seven Marcus Jones 2 31 26 0
Duane Bennett 1 9 9 0
stops. … Receiver Warren Holloway Malcolm Moulton 1 4 4 0
had five receptions and moved ahead Team totals 9 124 26 1
of Marques Johnson for fourth place Passing Comp Att Yds. Int. TD
on the school all-time receptions list. MarQueis Gray 5 12 53 1 0
…Jastram’s 49-yard field goal in the Max Shortell 4 8 71 1 1
third quarter, his first attempt of the Team totals 9 20 124 2 1
Tackles (solo-assisted-total)
year, moved him to 6 of 11 for his Royston 4-7-11, Tinsley 2-6-8, Henderson 4-2-6,
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Another Bison party in the Twin Cities
Minneapolis
I
t was four years ago
when North Dakota
State quarterback
Steve Walker gathered
about 20,000 of his friends
and threw a party at the
Metrodome. Why the
quarterback as the master
of ceremonies? Because he
runs the show.
On Saturday night, a
newbie of sorts was
handed the MC job. It was a
new venue, an outdoor
jewel, Brock Jensen
handed out over 15,000
invites to his Bison friends
and he took along
cornerback Marcus
Williams as his Best Man.
Two sophomores. Two
players who have never
played better and they did
it this time in front of
48,802 fans at TCF Bank
Stadium.
These big city
celebrations don’t get old
for North Dakota State. Too
bad the next one won’t be
until the current set of
junior high kids or
elementary lads grow up.
Somewhere in the Twin
Cities on Saturday, there
was a fifth-grade kid
playing football who will be
passed up by the Gophers
in 2019. It’s just a staple
with this game.
It was NDSU 37,
Minnesota 24 and you can
take it two ways: the
Gophers have a long way to
go to get up to Big Ten
standards, which they do,
or the Bison can’t get
enough of the Minneapolis
big stage.
They can’t.
“I’ve never had this
feeling before,” said
offensive tackle Billy
Turner, one of the several
Bison with homegrown
North Dakota State quarterback Brock Jensen scrambles away from Bohl said.
Minnesota’s Anthony Jacobs during their game on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium in
Minneapolis.
Four things we’re talking about after North Dakota State’s 37-24 win against
Minnesota on Saturday:
Super sophomores
Quarterback Brock Jensen and cornerback Marcus Williams never looked bet-
ter.
No Super Bowl
The players left a football field in Minneapolis feeling like they did in 2007, but
one difference: There’s a league season ahead of them.
Super drives
NDSU had two scoring drives that took at least 8 minutes, 32 seconds. That’s
more than one quarter if you’re scoring at home.
Super play
The interception return by the combination of Colten Heagle and Marcus
Williams put the Gophers in a big hole.
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motivation. “I was passed
up. The feeling I have is the
feeling everybody else from
Minnesota has.”
For the third straight
Bison-Gopher game, the
visitors were the better
team and here’s a prime
example from Saturday
night: It took until the first
play of the fourth quarter
before the Gopher defense
stopped the Bison.
NDSU had three long
touchdown drives that ate
up a couple of days and a
field goal – it was 31-17
heading into the final 15
minutes.
The balance was still in
doubt until Williams
cranked out his second big
play – a 40-yard
interception return with
2:36 remaining. It turns out
the basketball player from
Hopkins is a pretty good
football player.
“It was emotional being
from here,” Williams said.
“People thinking I was not
good enough to play here.”
That wasn’t the case with percentage this season and Holloway.
Jensen. People thought he
was good enough to play
most anywhere after
leading his high school
team to an unbeaten state
championship in
Wisconsin. His debut last
season was inconsistent
and injury riddled, perhaps games of the 2004 season.
one being the cause of the
other.
NDSU coaches wanted a
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BISON FOOTBALL
North Dakota State’s Marcus Williams dives for a touchdown on an interception to seal the win over Minnesota
on Saturday.
higher completion attempt to Warren
they’re getting it. Jensen He finished 16 of 21 for
came within one 197 yards and no turnovers. plays in the first half for was at the Metrodome in
completion of tying Walker Walker was 20 of 25 for 191 207 yards, a model of
for a team record for most and no turnovers in ‘07.
consecutive completions. Flawless.
Walker, naturally, has the Execution.
mark at 16 in a row over “He was outstanding,”
the course of the first three said NDSU head coach
Craig Bohl. “He got us in
Jensen hit his first six and out of the right checks green and yellow
attempts against the and delivered the ball right celebration. The NDSU
Gophers to bring his streak on time. When they were
to 15, but it ended on an covered, he took off and
Aggressive play
pays off at TCF
By Eric Peterson
epeterson@forumcomm.com
MINNEAPOLIS – When
Colten Heagle intercepted a
pass from Minnesota quar-
terback MarQueis Gray on
the final play of the first
half, North Dakota State
head coach Craig Bohl did-
n’t want Heagle to be con-
servative.
Bohl’s instructions: try to
score.
That aggressive mindset
led to an interception
return for a touchdown that
all told covered 82 yards
and stunned the home
crowd Saturday night at
TCF Bank Stadium.
“That’s something that
we talk about a lot,” Bohl
said. “We didn’t come into
the game to play conserva-
tive. We came into the game
to win.”
The unorthodox intercep-
tion return for a touchdown
was a critical play in
NDSU’s 37-24 victory
against the Gophers in non-
conference college football.
“We had rehearsed if you
David Samson / The Forum intercept a ball at the end of
the half, don’t go down,”
By the time Heagle was
about to go down near mid-
field, he tried to lateral the
ball to teammate Marcus
Williams. The ball hit the
ground, but Williams
scooped it up off one
bounce and raced the final
52 yards to the end zone on
what was the final play of
the first half.
“It’s disappointing, a big
swing of momentum,”
Gophers head coach Jerry
Kill said. “We have to be
smarter in that situation.”
The score gave the Bison
a 28-14 halftime lead and
also sapped the Gophers’
spirit.
“It was depleted,”
Gophers senior safety Kim
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ran. He’s really maturing “It was the same feeling
as a football player.” at the end,” said running
NDSU had 24 offensive back D.J. McNorton, who
‘07 as a redshirt freshman
efficiency no matter who in his jersey and jeans.
the opponent is. They were “But I wasn’t really a part
6 of 9 on third down of it. To play in this was
conversions. great.”
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Sunday morning quarterback
Steve Walker is the all-time leading
passer at NDSU and was 30-6 as the
team’s starting QB from 2004-07. He
lives in Fargo. Check here each week
for his take on the team’s game.
Bison play complete game
How ’bout them Bison! Saturdays game at TCF Bank
Stadium was the definition of “Team Win.” The offense
looked confident and moved the ball at will both through
the air and on the ground. Ryan Smith had some big-time
catches, most notably a post route off play-action, and a
quick out route that he nearly took to the house. Off of
play-action, Brock Jensen found Ryan Smith right over the
linebacker and before the safety and the pass was
snagged for a huge play, and a big momemtum swing.
The defense contained both Gophers QBs and made the
Big Ten Gophers one-dimensional. Marcus Williams... Is
more needed to be said? Two defensive touchdowns
sealed the deal for the Bison.
Another great win for the Bison, and it is now time for
conference play, but for now, after another win against Big
Ten Minnesota, How Bout Them Bison!
Royston said. “It was devas- Williams said he wanted
tating. It’s a different ball- the ball once he saw that
game if that doesn’t hap- Heagle was going to get
pen. … Those things can’t tackled.
happen to us.” “I’m yelling ‘Pitch, pitch,
The Gophers trailed 21-14 pitch’ and he threw it
with five seconds remain- back,” Williams said. “It
ing in the first half and had was just a heads up. I’ve
the ball at midfield. Min- never been in one of those.
nesota faced a fourth down- You see them on TV a lot.
and-8 with five seconds I’ve always said ‘I want to
remaining in the half and be part of one of those.”
set up for a “Hail Mary” The Gophers never recov-
attempt. Gray dropped back ered from the 14-point half-
and then heaved the ball time cushion and never got
downfield. closer than within seven
Heagle picked off the points of the NDSU lead the
deep pass attempt at the 18- rest of the way.
yard line. He then picked “The biggest thing about
his way up the sideline and that is we were able to score
returned the ball 30 yards and we had the ball first in
before he ran into some the second half,” Heagle
would-be Minnesota tack- said. “As a momentum
lers. shift, that was huge.”
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