In an exciting, hard-fought South Dakota High School 9B playoff football game, the Oldham-Ramona/Rutland Raiders scored two late touchdowns to earn a 22-14 win over the Dell Rapids St Mary Cardinals on Tuesday, October 25th, in Ramona.
The Cardinals scored first with 6:41 to go in the first quarter. Dalton Houska scored on a two-yard run and also scored the two-point conversion to give St Mary an 8-0 lead. Neither team scored again in the first quarter.
The Raiders tied the game with 10:42 to play in the second quarter. Riston Wolf had a two-yard touchdown run, and Jamus Brown connected with Jeremiah Hoekman for the two-point conversion. St Mary would take the lead at halftime as Garret Frost scored on a three-yard run as time expired in the second half to give the Cardinals a 14-8 lead.
Neither team scored in the third quarter as both defenses made key stops. The Raiders forced two turnover-on-downs of the Cardinals in Raider territory. Evan Brown came up with a big interception in the end zone late in the third quarter of a J. Brown pass to keep Oldham-Ramona/Rutland off the scoreboard.
The Raiders, however, would tie the game with 9:45 to go after a nine-yard run by Jacob Hegdahl. The game-winning score for the Raiders came with 1:12 to play in the game when J. Brown connected with Hoekman for a 10-yard touchdown in the corner of the end zone on a fourth down play.
St Mary ends the season with a 3-6 record.