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Sunday, October 14, 2012 Catch up with baseball Vikings, Packers, Broncos playoffs Page 3D Et WWW.BISMABCkTRIBUMEitlUM laL Pawfe? State elniaBiroii mis agfflomi V- I 1 1 7' fr; Century's Christopher Ottemoeller, middle, and Dominic ball with Fargo Shanley's Daniel Bruckbauer on Saturday previews PACE5D Section MICHAEL VOSBURGFargo Forum during the state title match. Century 1, Fargo Shanley 0 ixsidi: Bismarck falls to Minot in the fifth-place match, Page 6D. its only chances, really came off set pieces. The best came very early, when Con-Continued on 6D St Cloud State 55, U-Mary 13 tive routes. "1 felt our kids came out and played hard.

We kept our intensity for most of the second half. We played some young kids in the second half and had some growing pains there, but we're working on it." Continued on 4D high-powered Lumberjacks. UD, which was receiving votes in the latest CS media poll, has now lost three straight games. The Lumberjacks took the games opening kickoff and drove right down the field. Cary Grossart threw a 2-yard touchdown to Ify Umodu 5:19 into the game.

Earlier. Northern Arizona had a touchdown called back by penalty in the drive. In the ensuing possession. UND gave the ball right back to the Lumberjacks as Continued on 4D JSjgJ Century plays its game to beat Deacons in Neameyer, right, go up for the said. It definitely was a program effort, all the way through.

Century's program has grown into the best in the state. The Patriots have played in five of the last six finals, winning in 2007, 201 1 and 2012. Both finals losses were one-goal games, one in double-overtime. Alec Rauhauser, who was appearing in his fourth consecutive championship game, scored the game-win that game plan to perfection Saturday in a 1 -0 victory over Fargo Shanley in the boys soccer state championship game. With the win, Century became the first team to repeat as champs since Fargo South won four in a row from 1998 to 2001.

"Century soccer possess the ball, go forward when we can, score on our chances and kill the game," first-year coach Nate Ulness ner, just as he did in a 1-0 semifinal win over West Fargo. In fact, the play developed in very similar fashion to Friday's goal. The feed again came from Brandon Eckroth, as has been the case on many of Rauhauser's scores. "I saw Eckroth making a run, so I ran up there really quick to get up to him," Rauhauser said. "He made a nice cross across the box, just like (Friday).

I just slid in St. Cloud State (5-2) picked up its fourth straight victory while the Marauders (3-4) continue their downward spiral with their fourth straight setback. klaphake completed 12 of hand Marauders fourth straight loss Key play: Eli Shoemaker's 19-yard pass from Phillip Klaphake on St. Cloud State's first drive started a scoring explosion from the Huskies. Key player: St.

Cloud's Michael Walker 12 carries, 166 yards and three touchdowns. Key stat: The Huskies were four of four in the red zone. title match there, because I knew the defender was coming, too. I got a foot on it and chipped it over the goalie." The goal came exactly at the 30-minute mark and was the highlight of a first half that included a couple of quality chances for both teams. In fact, Rauhauser had found the back of the net in the sixth minute off a feed from Eckroth but the play was ruled offside.

Shanley's best chances 14 passes for 187 yards and four scores with no intercep-tions. In mop-up duty, Meade completed three of six passes for 38 yards. "They put an extra guy in the box to try to stop the run, so we tried to see if we could throw it up as much as possible." St. Cloud State coach Scott Underwood said. "I was pleased with Klaphake making the decisions and putting it where it needed to be.

The receivers ran effec- Northern Arizona 45, North Dakota 33 the Big Sky and 5-1 overall with the victory. UND dropped to 1 -3 and 3-4. North Dakota trailed by 14 early, but battled back to tie the game at 17 going to halftime. UND even led twice in the second half before succomming to tKe By LOU BABIARZ Tribune Sports Editor FARGO It was textbook Century soccer and that's becoming synonymous with championship soccer. Dominate possession with precision passing, patiently wait for opportunities to present themselves, capitalize when they do then dominate possession some more.

The Patriots executed Huskies U-Mary is no match for St. Cloud State By CINDY PETERSON Bismarck Tribune ST. CLOUD. Minn. St.

Cloud State quarterback Phillip Klaphake had one chance in the second half to add to his statistics against the University of Mary. NDSU Top-ranked Bison lose to Sycamores By Tribune Sports Staff FARGO The North Dakota State football team got trapped Saturday. The top-ranked Bison, coming off of big wins over Na 14 Northern Iowa and No. 3 Voungstown State, lost to Indiana State 17-14 at the Lumberjacks cut down UND The 6-foot-l. 196-pound junior took full advantage of his opportunity.

I le took the snap, dropped back and aired it out. The result was a 68-yard scoring bomb to Renard Robinson on Saturday at Husky Stadium. It was the first play on St. Cloud's first drive of the second half. There was no need to keep Klaphake in the game after that.

The Huskies did their damage in the first half on the way to a 55-1 3 victor)' is upset Fargodome. The Sycamores, who received votes in the latest FCS coaches poll, snapped NDSU's 10-game winning streak in the Missouri Valley Conference contest. Bison quarterback Brock Jensen came into the game with no interceptions on the season. Indiana State picked him off three times, returning two for touchdowns and stopping a promising drive in the fourth quarter with the other interception. There was only one offen- over the Marauders in Northern Sun football.

Klaphake led the I Iuskies to a 35-0 lead at halftime and gave way to backup Brad Meade after his scoring strike to Robinson. Indiana State 17, North Dakota State 14 sive touchdown in the game, scored by NDSU, but it wasn't enough to keep the Bison undefeated. After the teams traded punts, Indiana State started a drive with great field position and finished with a 48-yard field goal by Tann Fritschle with 7:57 to go in the first quarter. Continued on 4D UND defense unable to stop Northern Arizona By Tribune Sports Staff GRAND FORKS It was not a very happy homecoming for the University of North Dakota football team. Na 18 Northern Arizona's offense could not be stopped as UND fell 45-38 on Saturday at the Alerus Center in a Big Sky Conference game.

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