The Dell Rapids Quarriers football team scored 40 of their 46 points in the first quarter in their 46-7 win over the Milbank Bulldogs on Friday, September 20th, in Milbank.  The Quarriers scored two times within the first minute of the game, and they were in complete control from that point.  Brett Nichols scored three of the six touchdowns in the first quarter for Dell Rapids as the Quarriers led 40-0 after the first quarter.  Milbank picked up a touchdown with 3:03 remaining in the second quarter to make the halftime score 40-7.  Dell Rapids scored the last touchdown of the game with :33 to go in the third quarter for the win.

Dell Rapids had 378 yards of total offense, 346 on the ground and 32 through the air.  Milbank managed only 113 yards of total offense, 64 on the ground and 49 through the air.  Cody Nielsen had four carries for 65 yards.  Jacob Faux had six carries for 63 yards.  Jacob Huewe added 60 yards on three carries and a touchdown.  Nichols had 55 yards on four carries, three of those for touchdowns.  Riley Schmidt had four carries for 42 yards and a touchdown.  Jonathan DeNoon also had a rushing touchdown for Dell Rapids.  Jace Nelson was 1-1 passing for 32 yards.  The lone catch made by Dell Rapids was made by Riley Jurgensen.

Defensively for Dell Rapids, Ben Gillogly and Matt Boever each had five tackles.  Keegan Hemmenway had 4.5 tackles.  Hemmenway, Nielsen, and Huewe each had a fumble recovery in the ball game.

Dell Rapids improves to 2-1 on the year.  The Quarriers will host Dakota Valley on Friday, September 27th, for Homecoming.  The game will be webcast on Big Sioux Media.

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The Dell Rapids Quarrier football team picked up its first win on Friday, September 13th, over Tea Area 15-0.  The Quarriers led recorded a safety with 7:25 to go in the first quarter, and that was the only scoring by either team in the first half.  Dell Rapids led 2-0 at halftime.  Code Nielsen added a touchdown for Dell Rapids on a 10-yard run with 10:21 to go in the third quarter to extend the lead 8-0.  Brett Nichols scored the final touchdown of the game with 9:00 left in the game on a 36-year touchdown run in the win.

Dell Rapids out-gained the Titans 292-199 in total yards.  The Quarriers had 275 yards of rushing and 17 passing yards.  Riley Schmidt had 18 carries for 113 yards in the game.  Nichols had 12 carries for 107 yards and a touchdown.  Nielsen had 11 carries for 56 yards and a touchdown.  Tanner Solberg went 3-12 passing for 17 yards and two interceptions.  Nielsen had a catch for 12 yards, and Zach White had a catch for eight yards.  Defensively for Dell Rapids, Nichols had six tackles in the game.  Matthew DeNoon, Brock Reinhiller, and Tanner Ljunggren each had five tackles apiece.

Dell Rapids improves to 1-1 on the year.  The Quarriers travel to Milbank on Friday, September 20th.  The game will be webcast on Big Sioux Media.

The Dell Rapids Quarrier football team kicked off the 2013 season in Madison on Friday, September 6th, against the Madison Bulldogs.  Madison scored in every quarter for a 39-12 win over the 3-time defending 11A state champions.  The Bulldogs led 26-6 at halftime.  Madison dominated both sides of the ball in the game, gaining 405 total yards while holding Dell Rapids to just 235 total yards.

Brett Nichols ran for 86 yards on nine carries with one touchdown.  Riley Schmidt had 68 yards on 10 carries.  Tanner Solberg finished the game 4-16 passing for 44 yards, one touchdown and one interception.   Zach White had a 17-yard touchdown catch in the game.  Madison was led by Rush Milne on the ground with 78 yards on 16 carries and three touchdowns.  Mason Hemmer added 68 yards on nine carries and two touchdowns.  Jacob Giles was 11-16 for 221 yards passing for Madison with a touchdown.  Preston Nordling had four catches for 89 yards.

Dell Rapids falls to 0-1 on the season.  The Quarriers will host Tea Area on Friday, September 13th.

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The Dell Rapids Quarriers won their third straight 11A Football Championship on Friday, November 9th, at the Dakota Dome with a 47-0 win over the Harrisburg Tigers.

The Quarriers got off to a sluggish start by committing four of their eight penalties in the first quarter.  Cole Langer, however, would find the endzone with 1:15 to go in the first quarter on a 2-yard run to give the Quarriers a 7-0 lead after the first quarter.  Harrisburg fumbled on the first play in the second quarter, and that was a enough of a spark for Dell Rapids.  Langer would find the endzone again three plays later on an 18-yard run, and Dell Rapids extended the lead to 14-0.  After a Tiger punt, Riley Schmidt scored on a 44-yard touchdown run with 9:03 to go to give Dell Rapids a 20-0 lead.  The Quarriers would score one more time before the half on a 19-yard run by Lane LeBrun to take a 28-0 halftime lead.

Harrisburg started with the ball in the second half and drove down to the Dell Rapids 11 yard line, but the Quarrier defense would shut down the Tiger offense.  Harrisburg would attempt a 28-yard field goal that missed wide to the left.  Michael McGee would add another score two plays later on a 76-yard run that would put Dell Rapids ahead 35-0.  Dell Rapids would score quickly again after a punt in the third quarter.  Schmidt found the endzone for the second time on a 17-yard run with 4:19 left in the third quarter to give the Quarriers a 41-0 lead.  Harrisburg would drive down to the Dell Rapids two yard line at the end of the third quarter.  But three plays into the fourth quarter, Schmidt would pick up a fumbled pitch and run it 89 yards for the final touchdown of the game, and give the Quarriers a 47-0 win.

Schmidt had four carries for 112 yards and two rushing touchdowns in the game.  Langer carried 12 times for 88 yards and two touchdowns.  McGee had three carries for 77 yards and a touchdown.  L. LeBrun had eight carries for 58 yards and a touchdown.  Matt Kolbeck was 1-2 passing for 40 yards.  Jacob Morris had the lone reception for 40 yards.  Dell Rapids finished the game with 358 yards of rushing and 40 yards of passing for a total of 398 yards in the game.  Langer finished the game with 11 tackles to lead the defense.  McGee, Jackson Entringer, and Ryan Nichols each had seven tackles apiece.  Schmidt finished with six tackles and a fumble recovery.  Cody Nielsen had an interception to go along with four tackles in the game.

Riley Schmidt was named the SD Sports Writers “Joe Robbie” MVP and the SD Coaches Association Awards Outstanding Back.  Jackson Entringer was named the SD Coaches Association Awards Outstanding Lineman.

The Dell Rapids Quarriers will be making their third straight trip to the Dakota Dome in Vermillion for the class 11A Championship football game.  Dell Rapids defeated Hot Springs in the semi-final game 49-25 on Saturday, November 3rd, in Dell Rapids.  The Quarriers got off to another quick start by scoring 1:17 into the game.  Matt Kolbeck completed a 16-yard touchdown pass to Bryce Koch.  Riley Schmidt found the endzone for the first of four times with 5:58 to go in the first quarter on a six yard touchdown run to give Dell Rapids a 14-0 lead.  Kolbeck would throw another touchdown pass in the second quarter, this time to Lane LeBrun for 12 yards to give Dell Rapids a 20-0 lead.  Hot Springs would get on the board with 8:02 to go in the second quarter on a Grady Egly 52-yard fumble recovery and return for a touchdown to cut the lead to 20-7.  But Dell Rapids would put up four more scores before halftime on a Michael McGee 58-yard run, a Schmidt 11-yard run, a safety by Connor Van Duyn, and a 75-yard kickoff return by Schmidt to give the Quarriers a 43-7 halftime lead.

Hot Springs would score the only touchdown in the third quarter with 2:24 to go on a 1-yard run by Justin Harkness.  Schmidt would find the endzone one more time in the fourth quarter on a 57-yard touchdown run to extend the lead 49-13.  The Bison would score two times in the fourth quarter on an 18-yard run by J. Harkness and a 5-yard touchdown pass from J. Harkness to Eriq Swiftwater to make the final score 49-25.

The Quarriers finished the game with 460 yards of total offense, 260 rushing and 180 yards passing.  The Bison were held just 173 yards of total offense.  Schmidt had five carries for 88 yards and three touchdowns.  McGee had five carries for 82 yards and a touchdown.  Cole Langer finished with six carries for 57 yards, and L. LeBrun had five carries for 33 yards.  Kolbeck was 3-5 passing for 156 yards and two touchdowns.  Koch had three catches for 168 yards and a touchdown.  L. LeBrun had a touchdown catch.  Tyler Gee led the defense with eight tackles in the game.  Langer had 4.5 tackles, and Phillip Schwebach added 3.5 tackles.  Schmidt had an interception in the game.  Zach White and Jackson Entringer both had a fumble recovery.

Dell Rapids will take on Harrisburg in the 11A Championship game on Friday, November 9th, at 7:30 p.m. in Vermillion.

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For some, Monday night football featured the San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals, but for the true high school football fans, and more specifically, the Dell Rapids Quarriers football fans, Monday night football featured a romp and stomp affair as Dell Rapids destroyed Chamberlain, 47-6.   As in the opening round of the football playoffs last week, Dells opened up a 28-0 lead after one quarter.  The difference this week was the presence of Cole Langer—-3 rushes, 3 touchdowns—and instead of a kick-off return for a touchdown, this time it was a blocked punt causing the ball to head into the end zone where Andrew Wiebenga made the recovery for the other TD of the first quarter.   By intermission, Cody Nielsen got into the scoring frenzy making it 35-0.  Before the end of the second quarter, Coach Steve Hansen was getting back-up players into the game for more “game time experience”.  As Hansen told Big Sioux Media in the post-game interview, “Everybody got into the game tonight…every player…and when we can do that, it feels good”.  Second half scoring for Dell Rapids included touchdowns by Brett Nichols and Matthew DeNoon.   The win allows Quarriers fans to stay home and support the team in the semi-final game Saturday against Hot Springs, winners over Todd County.  Other teams winning in 11A included Spearfish and Harrisburg ending the season for West Central and Dakota Valley.

Dell Rapids racked up 263 yards of total offense while holding Chamberlain to just 83 yards.  Langer had three carries for 104 yards and the three touchdowns.  Joel Brust had two carries for 40 yards, and Nielson had two carries for 24 yards and a touchdown.  Matt Kolbeck was 1-4 passing for two yards.  Tanner Solberg was 1-1 passing for 26 yards.  James Webster was on the receiving end of the Solberg pass for 26 yards.  Tyler Gee led the defense with four tackles.  Bryce Koch finished the game with 3.5 tackles, and Wiebenga added three tackles for the Quarriers.  Tanner Ljunggren had an interception.

The semi-final game on Saturday will kickoff at 5:00 p.m., with the webcast starting at 4:45 p.m. on Big Sioux Media.

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As quick as a rattler can strike an unsuspecting foe, the Dell Rapids Quarriers struck quickly against the Milbank Bulldogs in the first round of the high school football playoffs Tuesday, October 23rd, in Dell Rapids.  Riley Schmidt took the opening kick-off 75 yards for the first of four touchdowns the Quarriers would score in the first quarter.  Milbank then was forced to punt the ball away on their opening offensive set.  Moments later Lane LeBrun would score on a five yard rushing touchdown.  On the next Milbank possession, the Quarrier defensive unit rose to the occasion forcing a fumble and recovering it in great field position. Ryan Nichols of Dell Rapids then became the 3rd Quarrier to score before the mid-way point of the first quarter.  R. Nichols followed up his 36 yard TD with another touchdown of 25 yards, making the score 28-0 in favor the hometown Quarriers.  Michael McGee added two TD’s in the 2nd quarter, including an 80 yard sprint to the end zone.  By halftime the Quarriers were showing their dominance on both sides of the ball and led 42-14.  Touchdowns in the second half by Schmidt and Tanner Ljunggren added to the final score of 57-22, allowing the Quarriers to advance to next Monday night’s game (October 29th).

Dell Rapids had 411 yards of total offense to 291 yards for Milbank.  McGee had 110 yards on four carries.  R. Nichols had 82 yards on seven carries, and L. LeBrun had 73 yards on seven carries.  Matt Kolbeck was 2-4 passing for 44 yards.  Zach White and Jacob Morris led the defense with 4.5 tackles each.  Colin LeBrun and Schmidt added 3.5 tackles each on the night.  Jackson Entringer had a fumble recovery, and Schmidt also had an interception in the game.

Dell Rapids will face Chamberlain in the second round, and the game will be webcast on Big Sioux Media.

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The Dell Rapids Quarriers ground out a 20-0 win over the Milbank Bulldogs on Thursday, October 18th, in Milbank.  Dell Rapids countered 30-40 mph winds and rain with a ground attack in the win, scoring a touchdown in each of the first three quarters.  Lane LeBrun scored two rushing touchdowns, and Ryan Nichols had the other rushing touchdown for the Quarriers.  Dell Rapids also won the turnover battle 2-1 in a game that featured eight total fumbles caused by the wet conditions.

The Quarriers racked up 285 rushing yards while holding Milbank to just 58 yards of rushing.  The Bulldogs were only able to gain 119 yards of total offense and five first downs on Dell Rapids.  LeBrun carried the ball 19 times for 164 yards.  R. Nichols had 18 carries for 98 yards.  Phillip Schwebach led the defense with 5.5 tackles. R. Nichols had four tackles, and Zach White added three tackles for Dell Rapids.

The Quarriers finish the regular season at 7-1 and the #1 seed in Region 1 of class 11A.  Dell Rapids will get to take on the Milbank Bulldogs again on Tuesday, October 23rd, in the opening round of the 11A football playoffs in Dell Rapids.  Big Sioux Media will be webcasting the Quarrier games on their march to the Dome.

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The Dell Rapids Quarriers defeated the Sisseton Redmen on parents night Friday, October 12th, 52-0.  Dell Rapids scored in every quarter on their way to the victory.

The Quarriers gained 383 rushing yards and 81 passing yards for a total of 464 yards of offense.  Sisseton gained 22 yards rushing and 131 passing yards for a total of 153 yards of offense.  Lane LeBrun had 11 carries for 107 yards.  Ryan Nichols had nine carries for 99 yards and a touchdown.  Brett Nichols carried the ball four times for 80 yards.  Riley Schmidt had four carries for 30 yards and two touchdowns.  Tanner Ljunggren had a touchdown run of 21 yards.  Matt Kolbeck was 6 of 7 passing for 81 yards and two touchdowns.  Bryce Koch had a touchdown catch of 17 yards.  Michael McGee also had a touchdown catch.  McGee, Schmidt and Andrew Anderson all led the defense with four tackles each.

The Quarriers improve to 6-1 on the year.  Dell Rapids will travel to Milbank to take on the Bulldogs Thursday, October 18th.  The game will be webcast on Big Sioux Media.