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MEN’S HOCKEY

Sioux succumb to rally

Defeat pushes UND below .500 for first time in five seasons
By Brad Elliott Schlossman
Forum Communications
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – This
all seems so familiar.
The University of North
Dakota is falling to mediocrity
and below, and it’s not out of
the ordinary to see the Sioux
men’s hockey team get swept
in its home rink, a place where
it has a losing record.
Saturday night – for the fifth
John Stennes / Forum Communications time in six games – the Sioux
found themselves trying to
UND’s Jonathan Toews attempts a shot against Wisconsin explain what went wrong in a
goalie Brian Elliott on Saturday in Grand Forks. frustrating loss. This time, the
Wisconsin 4, UND 2 loss dropped UND under .500 appearance. With one series
for the first time in five sea- left in the first half of the sea-

Inside: The Minnesota Wild win
in overtime in NHL action. C3 sons. son, the Sioux are looking for
“It was very disappointing and wondering whether a sim-
to lose that one,” said Sioux ilar furious finish is in store.
second period wasn’t a prob- defenseman Robbie Bina, who If so, UND coach Dave Hak-
lem. scored the lone goal of the stol said the team needs to cut
Wisconsin scored three second period. “In the last down on mistakes and get
times in the final five minutes couple of minutes, we had a bounces to go its way.
to pull off a 4-2 come-from- couple of mistakes there and “We played hard and we
behind win in front of 11,582 they were able to capitalize on played together as a team,”
fans at Ralph Engelstad them.” Hakstol said. “We made two
Arena. Last season, UND overcame mistakes and they didn’t allow
It was the second straight a mediocre start and a poor us to win.”
season the Badgers swept the home record through the first
Sioux in Grand Forks. The half into a Frozen Four SIOUX: Page C3

BOYS HOCKEY MEN’S BASKETBALL

Fargo South 9, Fargo North 3

The story: Bruins score two goals
KANSAS STATE 83, NDSU 81
on power play in first five minutes.
Sophomore Ben Woodside scores
31 points for the Bison.

South
stuffs
North
Bruins score six
on special teams
By Eric Peterson
epeterson@forumcomm.com
Fargo South thrived when
things were not equal Satur-
day at the John E. Carlson Col-
iseum.
The Bruins scored three
goals on the power play and
had three short-handed
scores. Their proficiency on
special teams sparked a 9-3
victory against Fargo North in
a battle of unbeaten East
Region boys hockey teams.
“Our special teams were
phenomenal tonight,” said
South forward Kris Graalum,
who scored a hat trick. “Five-
on-5 North is a good team.”
South (5-0, 4-0 region) scored
two power-play goals in the
first five minutes for a quick
cushion. North (4-1, 2-1) played
in chase mode the rest of the
game.
“We didn’t play very well
tonight,” North coach Jay
Erickson said. “We made a lot
of mistakes, a lot of mistakes
we haven’t made. South is an
opportunistic team. They are
big and strong and they wear
you down.”
The Bruins started to pull
away late in the second period.
With his team up 5-3, Graalum
started a string of four unan-
swered South goals.
Stationed in front of the
North net, Graalum stopped a
Jake McDougall pass with his
skates. Graalum quickly got
the puck on his stick and
fired it into the back of the
net for his second power-play
goal.
South led 6-3 at 15 minutes, 6
seconds into the second peri-
od. The goal gave Graalum a
hat trick, the first of his varsi-
ty career.
“I thought Kris Graalum
had a good game,” Wilson
said. “When he gets a little
breathing room, he’s a tough
player.”
BRUINS: Page C4
High schools
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Lynnes triumphs:
Fargo North’s Marshall
Lynnes is among the
winners at the Fargo
Invitational wrestling
tournament.

Ramberg, Spartans
win: Chantell Ramberg
scores her first goal to help
Fargo North-West Fargo
past Fargo South in girls
hockey.

Bismarck tops South:
Four players score in
double figures to lead
Bismarck to a victory over
Fargo South in girls
basketball.
’Cats scratch out win
North Dakota State’s Ben Woodside pushes his way around Kansas State’s David Hoskins during the final play of the
game Saturday. Kansas State beat NDSU 83-81.
Ohio State’s Smith claims Heisman Trophy
Associated Press
NEW YORK – Winning the Heis-
man Trophy was easy. The hard
part for Troy Smith was staying
composed.
To the surprise of no one, the
Ohio State quarterback was a run-
away winner Saturday night of the
award that honors college football’s
best player.
Seconds after his name was
called, he hugged everyone impor-
tant in his life – coaches and family
– let out a deep, deep sigh, and
headed for the podium.
“Normally, I’m pretty cool in
pressure situations, but my heart
is pounding so fast now,” he said.
“I’m at a loss for words. I just
can’t believe this is happening. ... It
means everything. Just to be here
in this situation. I love everybody
back home in Columbus.”
Just two years after nearly derail-
ing his career by taking money
from a booster, Smith received 801
first-place votes and won the Heis-
man by 1,662 points – both the sec-
Dave Wallis / The Forum
MCFEELY: Page C6
ond-best marks in the 71-year histo-
ry of the award.
The senior moved to the front of
the Heisman race in September
with a flawless performance
against Texas and finished off a
perfect regular season by throwing
four touchdowns against Michi-
gan.
Now, there’s only one thing left
for Smith to do: Beat Florida for the
national championship on Jan. 8.
HEISMAN: Page C9
Kansas State
survives late
NDSU charge
By Jeff Kolpack
jkolpack@forumcomm.com
North Dakota State came
within a few seconds and one
shot of needing a new arena
immediately. One more suc-
cessful bucket would have
brought the house down.
But Kansas State – behind
its best 3-point shooting effort
of the year – left the Bison
Sports Arena with an 83-81
men’s basketball victory Sat-
urday night. It also left 6,110
raucous fans without a chance
to give guard Ben Woodside a
curtain call.
The sophomore had 31
points and a chance for more
in the final seconds after the
Wildcats’ Lance Harris made 1
of 2 free throws with 12 sec-
onds left.
With the clock dwindling,
Woodside’s pump fake got
K-State guard Lance Harris in
the air.
“I was trying to make sure I
stayed down,” Harris said.
BISON: Page C6
Big-time
basketball
hits the BSA
elcome to major
W college basketball,
Fargo. Right down
to the garbage
thrown on the court after
North Dakota State didn’t get
the call 6,110 fans wanted.
Yes, there was full contact
between the Bison’s Ben
Woodside and Kansas State’s
Lance Harris when the NDSU
guard took a desperation
3-pointer at the buzzer. No, it’s
not a call any referee is going
to make very often.
Sorry, Bison fans, you’ll
have to settle for the
memories of K-State coach
Bob Huggins verbally
disemboweling his players
every time they, well, every
time they had the audacity to
exist.
Heisman voting
Ohio State quarterback
Troy Smith, right, won
the Heisman by
the second-largest
margin in the
history of the award.
Name Pts.
Troy Smith 2,540
Darren McFadden 878
Brady Quinn 782
The Forum
Kansas State head coach Bob Huggins argues a call with a referee during Saturday’s game.
BISON: Woodside, North Dakota State come up short in big game
From Page C1
“He just missed the shot and
I’m glad they didn’t call a foul.
It could have gone both ways.”
The shot, after contact
between the two players, was-
n’t close.
“Normally when you get
your guy in the air, it’s a good
sign for the offensive player,”
Bison head coach Tim Miles
said.
Said Woodside: “The refs
call it like it is. If they think
they made the right call, that’s
fine.”
The result wasn’t fine for
NDSU, which fell to 5-3 one
week after an upset of then-
No. 8 Marquette University. It
was the second close loss to a
Big 12 Conference team this
season – the Bison lost to
Texas Tech 85-81 earlier this
year.
The first major college team
to visit Fargo since 1971 over-
came a 10-point deficit in the
second half thanks to a potent
3-point shooting attack. The
Wildcats hit 10 of 22, including
several key treys down the
stretch.
“We’ve made 10 but it’s
taken us 30 attempts,” K-State
head coach Bob Huggins said.
NDSU’s Ben Woodside pounds the floor with his fists after missing a basket during the first half Saturday.
MCFEELY: Kansas State coach Huggins all over many of his players
From Page C1
On a night when Huggy Bear
taught anybody within earshot
(and those who could read lips)
seven or eight new words that
will not be finding their way
into this newspaper anytime
soon, his team defeated the
upstart Bison 83-81.
Disappointing for NDSU? Of
course. This is a team that
had designs on knocking off
another big-time team, even if
the Wildcats didn’t carry the
pedigree of Wisconsin or
Marquette.
Defense and depth, or a lack
thereof, were the culprits.
K-State, a team that prior to
arriving at NDSU couldn’t hit
the broad side of the
“We took better shots in all
honesty.”
It was clearly a different bat-
tle from last year’s 82-56
Kansas State win in Manhat-
tan, Kan. NDSU may be a Divi-
sion I independent, but it was
clear Huggins put a lot of
emphasis on this game.
“I told them this could be a
game that could really make
or break our year,” he said. “I
knew they were good.”
NDSU took a 50-40 lead with
just under 16 minutes remain-
ing. But behind Harris, who
was 5 of 6 from behind the 3-
point line, the Wildcats
chipped away.
Clent Stuart’s 3-pointer after
an offensive rebound gave the
Wildcats a 79-78 lead with 1:28
left.
NDSU lost a battle with the
shot clock on its possession,
getting only a double-pump
jumper by Brett Winkelman.
Winkelman’s shot missed and
K-State had the ball with 47
seconds left.
Harris made it hurt with a 3-
pointer with 21 seconds left
and to put the Wildcats ahead
82-78. Woodside, however,
countered with his own trey
with 14 seconds remaining.
Fargodome with a jump shot,
shot 65 percent in the second
half against a porous Bison
defense.
And once Mike Nelson
fouled out with five minutes
remaining, the Bison were
exposed as being as thin as
Lindsay Lohan. With Lorenzo
Riley and Austin Pennick on
the floor, NDSU was playing a
three-man offense down the
stretch, which often doesn’t
work against five defenders.
But enough negatives.
How about that atmosphere?
Big-time. Major college,
intense, March Madness, Big
12 Conference, not a seat to be
had in the old airplane
hangar, nothing will match
this for years big-time.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Woodside’s chance for one
more went awry. In the end,
NDSU’s failure to stop Kansas
State on the defensive end in
the last 10 minutes cost the
Bison.
“We’ve seen Kansas State
play several times and I’ve
never seen them play that well
on offense,” Miles said. “We
weren’t able to get stops on
defense in the second half and
that’s what cost us.”
NDSU also suffered a costly
exit when one of its leaders,
guard Mike Nelson, fouled out
with five minutes remaining.
The Bison could have used his
offense in the final minutes.
“He’s a key guy for us, every-
one knows that,” Woodside
said.
KSU (6-3): Hoskins 3-5 8-13 14, Colon 1-2 0-0 2,
Harris 8-10 3-8 24, Stewart 2-6 0-0 6, Wright 2-6
1-2 6, Young 1-4 0-0 2, Martin 7-17 3-3 18, May-
bank 3-3 2-2 9, Kent 0-1 0-0 0, Bennett 1-2 0-0 2.
Totals: 28-56 17-28 83.
NDSU (5-3): Winkelman 5-11 2-2 12, Smith 9-12
5-7 23, Moormann 0-2 1-2 1, Woodside 8-16 12-
15 31, Nelson 4-11 2-2 11, Riley 1-3 0-0 2, Pen-
nick 0-1 1-2 1, Vaughan 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 27-56
23-30 81.
Halftime: NDSU 38, KSU 31. Total fouls: KSU
20, NDSU 20. Fouled out: Nelson. Rebounds:
KSU 24 (Martin 6); NDSU 40 (Smith 16). 3-point
goals: KSU 10-22 (Harris 5-6, Stewart 2-4, Wright
1-2, Young 0-1, Martin 1-7, Maybank 1-1, Kent 0-
1); NDSU 4-12 (Winkelman0-1, Woodside 3-8,
Nelson 1-2). Assists: KSU 18 (Stewart 6); NDSU
11 (Woodside 8). Turnovers: KSU 6 (Maybank 3);
NDSU 12 (Woodside 4). A–6,110.
Readers can reach Forum reporter
Jeff Kolpack at (701) 241-5546
This was the night when
Fargo got a taste of what real
college basketball is supposed
to be about. Noise, passion,
athleticism, excitement and a
big-name opposing coach who
obviously hates his team and
lets them know it at every
opportunity.
The trick will be repeating
it, of course, but for one night
there was insanity in the
Bison Sports Arena.
“It was a great atmosphere,”
Huggins said after the game,
his Erupt-O-Meter turned off
for the evening. “We’ve been in
places where there’s 20,000
people and it’s not any
different, it’s just bigger. It’s
not any louder, it’s just bigger.”
Great entertainment is what
NDSU’s Brett Winkelman runs into Kansas State’s Luis
Colon and Cartier Martin after going up for a basket during
Saturday’s game.
it was. The final two minutes
saw Woodside hit a trey, K-
State’s Clent Stewart answer,
Wildcat Lance Harris drill
another one to seemingly
bury the Bison and Woodside
bang down one more to give
his team a final chance.
You didn’t see this type of
stuff when Mankato State was
busing in for a Saturday night
game.
Nor did you see Huggins,
who was worth the ramped-up
$14 price of admission all by
his lonesome. Of course, it
was only entertaining if you
were not an 18- to 23-year-old
basketball player wearing
purple.
Never has a coach, opposing
or home, shredded his players
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Dave Wallis / The Forum
Dave Wallis / The Forum
Dave Wallis / The Forum
like Huggins shredded his. If
K-State’s 7-foot-3 freshman
center Jason Bennett has an
ounce of self-esteem
remaining after Saturday, he
is mentally tougher than a
lifer Marine drill sergeant.
It raises this question: If
you were a college basketball
player, would you rather play
for Bob Huggins or have a
Phillips screwdriver rammed
into your eye socket?
Well, Kansas State did win
the game. And that, we
suppose, answers the
question.
Welcome to the big-time.
Forum sports columnist Mike McFeely can be
heard on the Saturday Morning Sports Show,
10 a.m. to noon on WDAY-AM (970). He can
be reached at (701) 241-5580 or
mmcfeely@forumcomm.com
AREA ROUNDUP
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Dragon men top
Bemidji State
BEMIDJI, Minn. –Min-
nesota State Moorhead fin-
ished the weekend with a
pair of Northern Sun Inter-
collegiate Conference men’s
basketball victories, defeat-
ing Bemidji State 72-61 Sat-
urday.
Jamal O’Neal scored 16
points and pulled down 13
rebounds for the Dragons.
MSUM (6-2, 2-1 NSIC): Strouth 6-14 2-2 15,
Fossum 3-9 6-6 12, Williams 1-7 1-2 3, O’Neal
7-13 2-5 16, Isaacson 3-7 6-10 12, Aakre 3-10
0-0 8, Hardy 1-1 2-3 4, Holte 1-1 0-0 2. Totals
25-62 19-28 72.
BSU (0-11, 0-4): Gibson 0-2 0-0 0, Evans 4-9
0-0 10, Baskow 2-7 0-0 4, Smith 12-18 3-5 27,
Bell 2-7 0-1 4, Sowu 1-6 0-0 2, Marsh 2-6, 0-0
5, Ramos 4-7 1-1 9. Totals 27-62 4-7 61.
Halftime: MSUM 39, UND 30. 3-point goals:
MSUM 3-16 (Strouth 1-4, Fossum 0-4,
Williams 0-1, Aakre 2-7), BSU 3-12 (Evans 2-
5, Baskow 0-1, Bell 0-1, Sowu 0-2, Marsh 1-2,
Ramos 0-1). Total fouls: MSUM 13, BSU 20.
Fouled out: Bell. Rebounds: MSUM 42
(O’Neal 13), BSU 35 (Baskow 9). Assists:
MSUM 14, BSU 19. Steals: MSUM 9, BSU 1.
Mayville State men
edge Concordia
MAYVILLE, N.D. – Con-
cordia fell behind in the
first half, gained momen-
tum in the second but was
never able to claw all the
way back, falling to
Mayville State 62-58 in
men’s basketball Saturday.
Junior Luke Linz scored
18 points for the Cobbers.
CONCORDIA (0-6): Linz 4-10 8-11 16, John-
son 7-8 0-0 14, Baldwin 3-6 1-6 7, Meischner
0-5 2-2 2, Boike 1-2 2-2 5, Ganab 0-1 0-0 0,
Schulz 1-2 1-2 3, Dyshaw 3-7 1-1 8, Citterman
1-4 1-2 3, Johnson 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 20-47 16-
26 58.
MAYVILLE STATE (7-3): Benjamin 0-1 0-0 0,
Parocha 3-12 2-2 10, Rogers 7-14 2-2 16,
Reinhart 1-3 2-4 4, Stenehjem 6-8 2-6 14,
Hobbs 0-0 0-0 0, Gathman 0-0 0-0 0, Theis 1-
3 0-0 2, Gilot 1-6 1-2 3, Frazier 4-12 3-3 13.
Totals 23-59 12-19 62.
Half: MSU 34, CC 20. 3-point goals: CC 2-6
(Meischner 0-2, Boike 1-1, Dyshaw 1-3), MSU
4-19 (Benjamin 0-1, Parocha 2-8, Rogers 0-1,
Reinhart 0-2, Gilot 0-2, Frazier 2-5). Total
fouls: CC 20, MSU 22. Fouled out: Theis.
Rebounds: CC 35 (Johnson 8, Baldwin 8),
MSU 36 (Rogers 7). Assists: CC 13 (Linz 3,
Meischner 3), MSU 18 (Benjamin 7). Steals:
CC 8 (Meischner 3), MSU 11 (Stenehjem 4).
Blocks: CC 3 (Baldwin 2), MSU 1 (Gilot).
Turnovers: CC 24 (Boike 5), MSU 22 (three
players with 4).
Kimbrough, Sioux
roll to victory
GRAND FORKS, N.D. –
Kierah Kimbrough scored
23 points to lead the Univer-
sity of North Dakota 107-79
victory against Alaska-Fair-
banks on Saturday in non-
conference women’s basket-
ball.
Ashley Langen added 20
points and 12 rebounds for
the Sioux. Kari Reabold
paced Alaska-Fairbanks
with 26 points.
ALASKA FAIRBANKS (4-5): Reabold 8-16
7-9 26, Brown 6-11 3-4 17, Rohrbach 3-10 2-
2 9, Robinson 2-7 2-2 8, Seagraves 3-7 1-4
7, Herrin 2-4 1-2 5, Bruketta 1-5 0-0 3,
Rabung 1-4 0-0 2, Shumate 0-0 2-2 2, Black
0-2 0-0 0. Totals 26-66 18-25 79.
NORTH DAKOTA (12-1): Kimbrough 10-16
3-3 23, Langen 8-12 4-7 20, Jahner 5-12 4-4
16, Guinn 5-6 2-2 14, Bagaason 3-7 0-0 8,
Holthusen 2-5 1-1 5, Sannes 1-4 3-4 5, Maf-
fin 2-10 1-2 5, Seay 2-4 0-2 4, Beck 2-5 0-0
4, Bergan 1-4 0-0 3. Totals 41-85 18-25 107.
HALF: UND 49, AF 36. 3-point goals: AF 9-
18 (Reabold 3-4, Robinson 2-3, Brown 2-3,
Rohrbach 1-2, Bruketta 1-3, Black 0-2, Her-
rin 0-1), UND 7-18 (Guinn 2-3, Jahner 2-4,
Bagaason 2-2, Bergan 1-3, Maffin 0-1, Beck
0-3, Holthusen 0-2). Total fouls: AF 20, UND
20. Rebounds: AF 41 (Reabold 8), UND 53
(Langen 12). Assists: AF 13 (Seagraves 3),
UND 31 (Jahner 10). Steals: AF 6 (Rohrbach
2), UND 11 (Jahner 4). Blocks: AF 3
(Reabold 2), UND 6 (Kimbrough 3).
Turnovers: AF 21 (Brown 5), UND 11 (Maffin
2). A–1,708.
MSUM women get
by Bemidji State
BEMIDJI, Minn. – Min-
nesota State Moorhead
edged Bemidji State 83-78 in
Northern Sun Intercolle-
giate Conference women’s
basketball Saturday.
Katie Walden scored 25
points for the Dragons.
MSUM (6-3, 2-1 NSIC): Swenson 3-8 2-2 8,
Walden 10-12 0-0 25, Soule 3-3 0-0 7, Ander-
son 3-10 1-2 8, Fesenmaier 2-7 3-5 7, Falzon
4-4 3-3 13, Trautwein 2-4 1-3 5, Rettke 4-7 1-
1 9, Nash-Gerlach 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 31-55 12-
18 83.
BSU (4-4 3-1 NSIC): Smith 1-6 0-0 3, Matzke
5-10 1-4 14, Simonson 6-12 0-1 16, Lawson 5-
14 2-2 13, Peterson 10-17 3-3 23, Landsverk
1-1 0-0 2, Wenlund 1-2 1-2 3, Hengstler 1-1 0-
0 3. Totals 30-68 8-14 78.
Halftime: BSU 40, MSUM 39. 3-point goals:
MSUM 9-15 (Walden 5-7, Soule 1-1, Ander-
son 1-5, Falzon 2-2), BSU 10-25 (Smith 1-5,
Matzke 3-5, Simonson 4-5, Lawson 1-7, Boell
0-1, Roberts 0-1, Hengstler 1-1). Total fouls:
MSUM 17, BSU 15. Rebounds: MSUM 36
(Rettke 7), BSU 35 (Peterson 11). Assists:
MSUM 24 (Anderson 5), BSU 22 (Lawson 9).
Steals: MSUM 5 (five players with 5), BSU 8
(Lawson 3). Turnovers: MSUM 15, BSU 10.
Keeley, Cobbers
topple St. Catherine
ST. PAUL – Anne Keeley
scored her 1,000th career
point and Concordia defeat-
ed St. Catherine 87-80 in
women’s basketball Satur-
day.
Keeley finished the game
with 18 points and team-
mate Sarah Krabbenhoft
had 19. The Cobbers handed
the Wildcats their first loss
of the season.
CC: Freudenberg 0-3 2-8 2, Keeley 6-15 3-4
18, King 5-7 1-1 11, Hageman 7-11 9-11 23,
Krabbenhoft 8-12 0-0 19, Greenheck 0-1 0-0
0, Heintz 4-6 1-2 12, White 0-3 0-0 0, Sorbo 1-
3 0-0 2, Swierenga 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 31-62 16-
26 87.
CSC: Petrich 5-11 0-0 10, Berglund 11-20 0-0
23, Johnson 2-6 0-2 4, Busch 5-8 2-2 14,
Schneider 6-9 5-5 17, Schafhauser 2-2 0-0 4,
Kurtenbach 3-3 2-4 8. Totals 34-62 9-13 80.
Halftime: CC 44, CSC 44. 3-point goals: CC 9-
22 (Keeley 3-9, King 0-1, Krabbenhoft 3-5,
Heintz 3-4, White 0-1, Sorbo 0-2), CSC 3-10
(Petrich 0-3, Berglund 1-4, Busch 2-3). Total
fouls: CC 12, CSC 20. Rebounds: CC 38
(Hageman 13), CSC 28 (Johnson 9). Assists:
CC 15 (Hageman 5), CSC 13 (Petrich 5).
Steals: CC 7 (Heintz 2), CSC 6 (six players
with 1). Turnovers: CC 15, CSC 15.
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