{"id":411,"date":"2014-11-09T22:23:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T04:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigsiouxmedia.com\/bsm-sports\/?p=411"},"modified":"2014-11-10T00:29:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T06:29:25","slug":"dome-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bigsiouxmedia.com\/bsm-sports\/blog\/2014\/11\/09\/dome-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Dome Bound!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DRHSvsWC_FB_11-8-14_2\"<\/a>The Dell Rapids Quarrier football team is headed back to the Dakota Dome. The Quarriers defeated the West Central Trojans 21-14 in a back-and-fourth 11A semifinal game on Saturday, November 8th, in Dell Rapids to earn the trip back to Vermillion after a one year absence.<\/p>\n

West Central got on the board first on a 3-yard touchdown run by Josh Mettler with 6:12 to go in the first quarter. Noah Vettrus tacked on the extra point to give the Trojans a 7-0 lead. Dell Rapids scored the tying touchdown with :22 left in the quarter on a 39-yard touchdown pass from Jase Nelson to Beau Carpenter. The extra point was good by Keegan Hemenway, and after the first quarter the game was tied 7-7.<\/p>\n

The Trojans regained the lead with 8:23 left to go in the second quarter when Seth Titus ran one into the endzone from 11 yards. The extra point was good again by Vettrus, and West Central led 14-7. The Quarriers again answered, this time on a 5-yard touchdown run by Hemenway with 3:52 to go in the second quarter. Hemenway then kicked the extra point to tie the game at 14-14.\"DRHSvsWC_FB_11-8-14_1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Both offenses were shut down in the second half.\u00a0 Dell Rapids was able to drive to the West Central 15 yard line late in the third quarter, but the West Central defense forced a turnover-on-downs to keep the Quarriers off the scoreboard with 2:15 remaining in the quarter.\u00a0 The Quarrier defense was just as impressive.\u00a0 With 8:54 left in the game, West Central set up to attempt 47-yard field goal.\u00a0 However the Trojans tried to run a fake field goal, and the Dell Rapids defense forced a loss of seven yard to force the turnover on downs.<\/p>\n

Later in the fourth quarter, the Dell Rapids defense force the only turnover in the game.\u00a0 With 5:24 left to play, the Quarriers recovered a fumble by Mettler on the West Central 35 yard line.\u00a0 The Dell Rapids offense drove the ball to the Trojan 14 yard line over the next three minutes and 43 seconds.\u00a0 With 1:41 left in the game, and facing a 3rd down and 11, Nelson connected with Riley Schmidt on a 14-yard touchdown pass to give Dell Rapids their first lead in the game at 21-14.<\/p>\n

Schmidt said, “The play before we ran kind of the same play.\u00a0 I saw their corner was playing up trying to stop the run.\u00a0 So I knew I could get out, get behind him, and Jase could throw me a good ball.\u00a0 He did, and we got in the end zone.”<\/p>\n

The Trojans were not about to go down without a fight.\u00a0 West Central took their last possession down to the Dell Rapids 25-yard line with :05 left in the game.\u00a0 On what looked like the final play of the game, Jace Hanisch threw a pass to Cody Bussell in the endzone as time expired that was incomplete, however, the Quarriers were flagged for pass interference.\u00a0 That gave West Central one un-timed down from the Dell Rapids 13 yard line.\u00a0 The Trojans ran a halfback pass in which Hanisch threw a pass back to the acting quarterback Dan Skinner.\u00a0 Skinner was tackled down at the two yard line giving the Quarriers the victory.<\/p>\n

Head coach Steve Hansen said, “We didn’t really know what they were going to do, if they were going to make some changes.\u00a0 We had several things, and we were trying to use Riley as a decoy a lot. But also knowing that if we were going to win the game, Riley needed to have the ball. \u00a0 It was difficult coming in.\u00a0 I thought our defense did a great job preparing defensively.\u00a0 It’s two good programs playing.\u00a0 And that’s the way it’s going to be..a knock down, drag out brawl.”<\/p>\n

Dell Rapids ran 49 offensive plays for 267 yards , 125 passing yards and 142 rushing yards.\u00a0 West Central ran 71 offensive plays for 310 total yards, 61 passing yards and 249 rushing yards.\u00a0 Dell Rapids was 5-10 on third down conversions, while West Central was 8-15.<\/p>\n

Nelson finished 7-11 passing for 125 yards and two touchdowns.\u00a0 Tanner Ljunggren had nine carries for 69 yards.\u00a0 Hemenway had 11 carries for 35 yards and a touchdown.\u00a0 Schmidt finished with eight carries for 16 yards.\u00a0 Carpenter had one catch for 39 yards and a touchdown.\u00a0 Schmidt had two catches for 26 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n

Ben Gillogly had eight tackles in the game, one tackle for loss, and a fumble recovery.\u00a0 Austin Eulberg added five tackles and a sack.\u00a0 Nate McKee finished with five tackles and two sacks.\u00a0 Ljunggren and Riley Jurgensen also had five tackles in the game.<\/p>\n

Dell Rapids improves to 10-1 on the year.\u00a0 The Quarriers will face the Madison Bulldogs in the 11A Championship game on Thursday, November 13th, at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dell Rapids Quarrier football team is headed back to the Dakota Dome. The Quarriers defeated the West Central Trojans 21-14 in a back-and-fourth 11A semifinal game on Saturday, November 8th, in Dell Rapids to earn the trip back to Vermillion after a one year absence. West Central got on the board first on a… <\/p>\n

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