ISU vs. SDSU

By Ariy-El Boynton
Sports Editor
The SDSU football team intended to travel to a Big 12-school in order to "measure" themselves in their opening game of the Jacks’ first year of play in the Missouri Valley Football Conference. What Jackrabbits head coach John Stiegelmeier and company learned that additional measures are needed.
Iowa State scored off their first possession and led wire-to-wire and beat the Jackrabbits 44-17 in front of 46,617 fans at newly upgraded Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa on August 28.
Physically, the Jackrabbits defense played strong, allowing the game to be a contest until the end of the third quarter while the Jackrabbits’ offense struggled.
The game film of the offense will show some bright spots, which can be taken away from the nationally broadcasted contest. The offensive line allowed senior quarterback Ryan Berry plenty of time in the pocket, allowing only one sack and made way for running back Kyle Minnett's 111 yards a rushing touchdown. In addition, sophomore Peter Reifenrath's made a 35-yard field goal while the SDSU punt team forced a fumble in the first quarter.
But the mistakes out weighed the let downs, big time.
"We came down here to measure ourselves," Stiegelmeier said, " I think we're tremendously disappointed in two ways. Number 1 the loss and it's hard to measure yourself when you play so poorly at times."
In his first career start, ISU’s sophomore quarterback Austen Arnaud threw for a touchdown pass and had a 1 yard sneak on the Cyclones’ first offensive drive. Fellow sophomore quarterback Phillip Bates had a touchdown pass of his own. Freshmen wide outs Sedrick Johnson and Darius Darks each caught touchdown passes for Iowa State with each touchdown being highly contested by an SDSU defender.
The Cyclone offense was blessed by good fortune as 20 points came off of SDSU turnovers with the Jacks committing six turnovers in all. Not taking care of the ball is no way for a Football Championship Subdivision team to hope to pull off an upset against a BCS school, and thus the Jacks were treated to a long ride home and 0-1 on the season.
The longest ride back to Brookings for anybody on the team may be the Jackrabbits signal caller, Berry whose day got worse as the night went on, he ended with a school-record five interceptions. To put that in perspective Berry only threw nine interceptions in the whole season, last year.
"It was just one of those games," Berry said. "We just kept turning it over, and that's not how to win these games."
Cyclones’ defensive linemen, Kurtis Taylor and Austin Alburtis who weigh 530 pounds together both caught a Berry pass along with a “pick-six” from cornerback Derec Schmidgall whose 37-yard return put the game way out of the reach for the Jacks at 34-3 with less than 3 minutes in the third quarter. Berry ended up with 170 yards along with a extra point completion at the end of the game.
Stiegelmeier observed that the ISU players were faster than SDSU was used to playing. He was also quick to give the credit to the home team for their performance.
In a game, which showcased unique plays, including five turnovers in the first quarter got a little stranger in the fourth quarter. With more than six minutes left to go in the game, Minett took one of his game high-22 carries up the middle and fumbled the ball. Jacks wide-out JaRon Harris who was at the right place, at the right time scooped up the ball and got to showcase his “wheels,” to give at least one SDSU receiver a touchdown on the young season.
“Expect the unexpected in college football,” said ISU’s lineman Taylor who ended up with four tackles in the game.
Next up for the Jackrabbits are the Penguins of Youngstown State at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium at 6 p.m. on Sept. 6 The Jacks will look to avenge a 23-17 Penguin victory which took place last year in the second week of the season.

Volleyball Info.

The Jackrabbit Volleyball team will be in action on Friday at the Blue Raider Bash at Murfreesboro, Tenn. against Southeast Missouri State at 4: 30 p.m. You will be able listen on 910 AM and Go Jacks.com
The Jacks will be without the services of Annie Adams, Emily Rooney who followed Andrew Palileo to Washington State. If you would like to read his online chat, just hit this link:
http://wsucougars.cstv.com/chat/081908aaa.html.

With six freshmen and four upperclassman, head coach Nana Allison Brewer and staff could have long season. Repeating as Summit League Champs could be difficult without Tina Martin, Adams, Amy Anderson, Rooney and Samantha Pearson, but that is why they play the game!
Here is a quick season preview from Zach Anderson about the 2008 Summit League teams:

Oral Roberts received six out of nine first place votes from the Summit League’s head coaches as favorites to win the conference. The Golden Eagles return five starters plus the libero from last year’s team that went 16-14 overall, 11-5 in Summit League play. The Golden Eagles are led by first-team All-Summit League player, Jackie Oliveira, who currently ranks seventh all-time on ORU’s career kills list with 1,116 kills. ORU also returns senior JoJo Souza, a second-team All-Summit league pick, and sophomore Jocelyn Swier who earned All-Summit League freshman team.

The 2008 Preseason Poll ranks from first to last, Oral Roberts with 62 points, IPFW with 55 points (one first place vote), North Dakota State with 54 points (two first place votes), Western Illinois tallied 38 points, and SDSU came in fifth place with 36 votes. Sixth place was IUPUI with 30 points, Oakland 26 points, UMKC 14 points and Centenary nine points.

IPFW returns five starters from last year including top three kill leaders- Jessica Miller (442), Rebekah Roehm (409), and Mayara Schlindwein (298). The Mastodons have won 20 or more matches in each of the last five seasons.

NDSU returns five starters from last year, including the duo of Summit League Setter of the Year Mattie Johnson, newcomer of the Year Brooke VandenBergh. The Bison will have to replace Summit League Offensive Player of the Year Christy Stuewe and Defensive Player of the Year Kari Fagnan, who set every NDSU digs record her senior year.

Western Illinois returns seven letter winners, including senior setter Sarah Trimpe, who currently ranks second all-time in career assists with 3,075 and all-league selection Monique Houston. The Westerwinds also welcome six freshmen.

SDSU will have a tough time replacing all-time kills leader Kristina Martin, digs leader Samantha Pearson and blocks leader Amy Anderson. The Jackrabbits will replace 2007 Summit League Coach of the Year Andrew Palileo with new head coach Nana Allison-Brewer.

IUPUI returns Chelsea Bastin who led the team with 492 digs in 2007, and Danielle Goodnight who had a career-high 1, 099 assists in 2007. The Jaguars will have to find some offense after the graduations of Carol Newell and Devika Bellamy; they combined for nearly 49 percent of IUPUI’s kills last season.

Oakland returns it’s first ever first-team All-Summit League selection Lauren Duquette to a team that made great strides in 2007 going 8-21 improving from their 1-25 record in 2006. The Golden Grizzlies also return all-freshman team pick, Katy Wilson, and Leah Dupuie; Dupuie tied the single season record with a 1.25 blocks-per-game average.

UMKC returns four starters, the libero, and eight letter winners including junior Jamie Hagerman, the team’s Offensive Player of the Year in 2007. Hagerman finished with 277 kills and 96 blocks during her first year. The Kangaroos also return senior Mandy Tipton, who became just the fifth member of UMKC’s 1,000-dig club in 2007. Tipton needs just 144 digs this season to set a new school record.

Centenary will welcome 10 freshmen to the 12-spot roster with lone senior Ashlee Freeman returning from the 2007 squad.

Football Picks

Hello Blog readers of the The Collegian at South Dakota State University. After a summer full of Conference name changes, players leaving and buzz about Iowa State along with the Summit League Basketball Tourney we are back and ticking giving the readers what they want, news!

So the Collegian is proud to bring you a contest which should be fun, so get ready to put your thinking caps on and pick your favorite football teams.

First for the rules:

How you win: each week all users will enter scores for both the NFL and the College
Ranks, those scores will be added together at the end of the week. Whoever has the best score at the end of the year will win. The winner will get $20 dollars at the book store.

How the scoring systems works... You will start with 300 points for
college football and NFL games.
For every 3 points you are off on both team's score, you will get
deducted a single point. For example: If you picked SDSU to beat Iowa
State, 27-24 and the real score was SDSU 30, Iowa State-18 then you
would lose three whole points due to being off by 3 points on the SDSU
score and 6 off the Iowa State score.
But, lets say you picked SDSU to win 24-22 and SDSU won 22-21; you
would not be penalized a single point, due to be under 3 points on
both.
The max. you can lose on a single game is 15 points for guessing the score wrong.

Also, you will be deducted 5 points for guessing the wrong winner.

I know it might seem confusing, but give it a shot and it will make
sense in no time.

Please have your picks in by the 31st of August.

Now here are the picks:

NFL-Week 1

Detroit Score: VS. Atlanta Score:
Cincinnati Score: VS. Baltimore Score:
Seattle Score: VS. Buffalo Score:
New York Jets Score: VS. Miami Score:
Kansas City Score: VS. New England Score:
Tampa Bay Score: VS. New Orleans Score:
St. Louis Score: VS. Philadelphia Score:
Houston Score: VS. Pittsburgh Score:
Jacksonville Score: VS. Tennessee Score:
Dallas Score: VS. Cleveland Score:
Carolina Score: VS. San Diego Score:
Arizona Score: VS. San Francisco Score:
Chicago Score: VS. Indianapolis Score:

College Football-Week 2
Missouri State Score : VS. Washburn Score:
North Dakota State Score: VS. Central Conn. State Score:
Northern Iowa Score: VS. South Dakota Score:
Youngstown State Score: VS. South Dakota State Score:
Southern Illinois Score: VS. Hampton Score:
Western Illinois Score: VS. Quincy Score:
South Carolina Score: VS. Vanderbilt Score:
Navy Score: VS. Ball State Score:
Georgia Tech Score Score VS. Boston College Score:
Oregon State Score VS. Penn State Score:
San Diego State Score: VS. Notre Dame Score:
South Florida Score: VS. Central Florida Score:
Miami(FL.) Score: VS. Florida State Score:
Texas(Austin) Score: VS. UTEP(Texas at El Paso) Score:

Publish Post

Good luck and have fun! Questions??? Let us know.