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Dell Rapids and Harrisburg met in the class 11A championship game two years ago, a game which the Dell Rapids Quarriers won 55-20. Harrisburg was attempting to avoid that same fate in this game, coming in with a 9-2 record, but facing the team that was a two-time defending champion of class 11A, and had won three of the last four class 11A...
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The class 9B championship game almost made history in one respect, but it did make history in the respect that this was the first time that a pair of teams from west of the Missouri River met to play for a state football championship. Harding County had been close several times to attaining a state championship in recent years, but was never quite...
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Purist football fans got what they paid for at the class 11B state championship game, which featured two traditional double wing, very run-heavy, and very hard-hitting teams. That didn't mean that the Winner Warriors, who last visited Vermillion for a state title game in 2009, and the Tri-Valley Mustangs, who came into the game as the class 11B...
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Entering this class 9AA championship tilt, the Deurbook Dolphins had survived two close calls in the playoffs, and still managed to possess a perfect 11-0 record heading into Vermillion. A large part of that was their speedy running back Ryan Knutson, who in those 11 games racked up 2175 yards and 38 touchdowns.
Turns out he was only getting...
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Much like the last two years, the Canistota Hawks set foot in the Dakota Dome with an undefeated record, to play for a state championship against an undefeated opponent. In those two games, the Hawks had rolled over Hitchcock-Tulare (2010, 66-0 final) and Wall (2011, 66-6 final), so would the fate be any different for the Warner Monarchs this time...
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