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www.argusleader.com JOIN OUR ONLINE FORUMS SPORTS Answer that question or give your opinion about other local sports issues at www.argusleader.com. Can South Dakota State compete with such D-l basketball schools as Kentucky and Illinois? SECTION ARGUS LEADER, SIOUX FALLS, S.D. SUNDAY NOV. 13, 2005 FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS rv PHOTOS BY STUART VIUANUEVA ARGUS LEADER O'Gorman's Matt Leedom (center) and his teammates lift the Class 11AA championship trophy after the Knights beat Yankton 42-7 In Vermillion on Saturday. AB.

RONCALLI 20, ST. THOMAS MORE 14 GORMAN 42, YANKTON 7 Knights win 2nd straight BY STU WHITNEY swhitneyargusleader.com VERMILLION Some state football observers questioned how a battle between undefeated conference champions could be ONLINE Access exclusive online high school football playoff coverage at www.argusfeader.com: Photo galleries: Every game of the championships will be put into photo galleries on the Web site. Submit your own photos: Do you have a good picture from the game? Submit it on the Web site for a separate gallery. Forums: What were the most surprising finishes during the finals? Who were the best players? Talk about it in the forums. INSIDE Box scores: Stats and scoring summaries from '11AA' and '11B'.

Pick 'em results: The Argus Leader's expert was decided Saturday night. Who was the winner? See Page 2C Roncalli claims 1st state title by slim margin BY MICK GARRY mgarryargusleader.com VERMILLION A lot of broken plays could not break up Aberdeen Roncalli's hopes Saturday. The Class 11B matchup "of Roncalli and St. Thomas More promised to be an evenly-matched game in what had otherwise been a series of football routs on state title weekend. On that count, the teams delivered in a 20-14 Roncalli victory at the DakotaDome.

Both schools are Catholic, both teams are nicknamed the Cavaliers and both cooked up some significant mistakes. But when Roncalli quarterback Dan O'Keefe scored from the 2-yard line with 1:22 to play, it was enough to secure the school's first state title in football. "It was scary out there," said Roncalli running back Tyler Wall, who ran 33 times for 104 yards. "We had See ABERDEEN, page 2C considered a mismatch. Saturday night shed some light.

Top-ranked defending champion O'Gorman put on a prime-time display against No. 2 Yankton, exploding for 28 second-quarter points on the way to a 42-7 victory in the 1 Dusty Coleman Class 11AA championship contributed before an appreciative crowd flveTDs. of 10,051 at the DakotaDome. It was the 26th consecutive win for the Knights (13-0), who completed a second straight unbeaten season to claim the eighth state title in school history. See O'GORMAN, page 2C STUART VIUANUEVA ARGUS LEADER Aberdeen Roncalll's Jerry McNeary (right) and Dan O'Keefe congratulate each other after O'Keefe scored a a touchdown In the first quarter against St.

Thomas More. NDSU pummels Jacks' title bid The real D-l: SDSU at Kentucky today by chris solari Still, when SDSU tips off at 7 csoiariargusieader.com p.m. CST today against the ninth- 1 LEXINGTON, Ky. For all of ranked Wildcats in the opening game of the Guardians the talk about Division I NDSU 41, SDSU 17 RUNNING GAME PREVAILS: North Dakota flip til" fi" I A Classic, the Jackrabbits plan to focus on one thing. "There's no doubt in my mind we can beat them," SDSU sophomore Steve Holdren said.

"If they come out flat at all and we come ready to play, we can jump on them." That might sound like the past two years, South Dakota State has yet to experience anything in its 100 years of basketball that measures up to the Kentucky Wildcats. Seven national titles and nearly 1,900 victories. Basketball royalty like Adolph Rupp, Rick State beat South Dakota State with a steady supply of running. The Bison rushed for 307 of their 477 total yards. BY CHRIS SOLARI csolariargusleader.com FARGO And the drought continues.

South Dakota State missed a chance at its first conference championship in 42 years as North Dakota State continued its dominance over the Jackrabbits in Fargo with a 41-17 victory Saturday at the Fargodome. The 22nd-ranked Bison (7-3, 3-2) whipped the Jackrabbits at their own game, rushingfor307 of their 477 yards of total offense in denying SDSU a chance to share the Great West Conference title. To win the crown, SDSU would have had to also beat Northern Colorado in the season finale in Scott Nagy 'J AP Brookings next Saturday. SDSU (5-5, 2-2) last beat NDSU in Fargo in 1962 and hasn't won a league crown since taking the 1963 North Central Conference title. See SDSU, page 5C overconfidence, but it's exactly the kind of bluster that Coach Scott Nagy wants his Jackrabbits to exude heading into their first full Division I season.

He's not See KENTUCKY, page 5C Pitino, Pat Riley and dozens of All-Americans who landed in the NBA filling the record books. Rupp Arena, filled with 22,999 fans (and usually one Ashley Judd) all screaming and decked out in blue and white. Kentucky coach Tubby Smith gives guard Ravi Moss tips during a recent exhibition game. Kentucky hosts SDSU at 7 p.m. CST tonight.

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