Tag: football

Records, futility a rare combo for Blue Hawks

This sure was an interesting season for the Dickinson State football team. The Blue Hawks won just two games by a total of two points in 2012, their inaugural Frontier Conference season. Yet, head coach Hank Biesiot still managed to set a NAIA record for wins. (Though it’s a record in the eyes of some and not others, including the NAIA).

DSU finishing 2-9 — its second consecutive losing season and first time Biesiot has experienced back-to-back below-.500 years — in a season not without some historic moments is The Dickinson Press’ No. 8 sports story of 2012.

One great moment came Sept. 15 when the Blue Hawks beat Montana State-Northern 21-20 to help put Biesiot in a three-way tie for the NAIA’s coaching wins record.

On Oct. 13, Biesiot became the first football coach to win 257 games while coaching an NAIA school when the Blue Hawks got gutsy and scored a touchdown and went for the twopoint conversion with 14.6 seconds remaining to beat rival Jamestown College 8-7 in their lone nonconference game of the year.

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DSU must learn from this season

There are two ways to remember the 2012 Dickinson State football season:

One is to forget about it and act like it never happened. The season is over. Bring on the next.

The second, and undoubtedly better, option is for it to be evoked as a lesson learned and as the season which helped the program take a step toward improving in every aspect.

Truth be told, the Blue Hawks’ 2-9 finish in their first season in the Frontier Conference wasn’t entirely unexpected. They came into the season picked to finish second-to-last by the league’s coaches and their projected fifth-string running back, senior Presley Straub, was thrust into a starting role before fall practice even began.

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SMALL WONDERS: Senior running backs Ewoniuk, Hecker the 1-2 punch driving Heart River

Heart River Cougars football standouts Cole Hecker, left, and Seth Ewoniuk, right,

BELFIELD — Dave Hendrickson was in his second season as Heart River’s head football coach when he heard rumblings about two small, yet exceptionally fast eighth-grade running backs.

Planning to stick around for a while, Hendrickson decided he should check out the Cougars’ junior high games.

Hendrickson barely had to watch Seth Ewoniuk and Cole Hecker to realize he had a special pair of players waiting in the wings.

“I knew, after watching film for years and years, there was no question those two were going to develop into good athletes,” Hendrickson said. “They were good already as eighth-graders.”

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Time-tested tackles: Hawks senior offensive linemen Dynneson, O’Connor wrapping up standout careers

If Dickinson State head football coach Hank Biesiot can think of one attribute that best characterizes his starting senior offensive tackles, Carl Dynneson and Ry O’Connor, it is their consistency.

“They’re there every day, every practice,” Biesiot said. “The number one thing a football coach looks for is that consistency, that everyday thing, and those guys have been there every day.”

Every day means five years in O’Connor’s case and four in Dynneson’s.

Both players were thrust into action as true freshmen.

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Kuntz sits down with SB Nation, ESPN next

Former Dickinson High football player Jamie Kuntz gave his first on-camera interview today to SB Nation regarding his much-publicized dismissal from the NDSCS football program after lying to his coach and then admitting that he was gay after he was caught kissing his boyfriend in the press box while filming the team’s game on Sept. 1 in Pueblo, Colo.

Kuntz said today that ESPN is in town and plans to interview him either tonight or tomorrow. He said earlier this week that Outside the Lines had inquired about doing a piece on him.