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14-0 halftime.

I was wondering about that too ...

Something about outdoor football on a cold windy November day that makes it a true test of manhood. No technomusic, no artificial nothing, just the old fashioned Dave-Osborne-will-kick-your-aff contest. That said, I like the fact that the Sioux draw about triple the fans to games at the Alerus, and the games are about the fans too. [/end rant] Halfway thru the second, still 7-0. Tech converts a 4th down and 1.

MTU on the move, into Sioux territory for the first time. Sioux force the punt, but MTU downs it at the 2. Guess we'll need a LOOONNNG drive here.

Thanks for the MTU audio link. Glas misses a FG, pushed by wind (?), then the Sioux D forces a punt.

Please don't feed the monkeys, buttheads or trolls.

[sigh] there goes our strength of schedule ...

Seems like we can safely rule out CROWD NOISE as a factor intimidating the visitors ...

These are smart voters ... they realize that any team that can hang tough with North Dakota must be a da#$ good team.

I wonder if there's some senior-itis going on with some - NOT ALL! - of the senior members of this team. We had that in 01-02 ...

Ya gotta admire what Randy Hedberg has done with the SCSU program ... perennial doormat and a school with no tradition of winning to contender in a short period of time. The StarTribune writeup described him as "voice cracking" as he talked about what the game meant to him and the program. I have this feeling that SCSU will make November playoff appearances a habit as long as Hedberg is running the show ...

oh bleep 3-1 bucky

I think Hennessy said its South 20, Central 0 at halftime.

GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL!GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! I don't get to say that very often, you know.

Word is another month ... maybe UMD 12/10 and 12/11,

Well done, Sioux. The National Weather Service says it will be 40 degrees with a chance of rain or snow next Saturday. (I guess that means the game will be played in a driving blizzard.)

Tied at 10 SC gets a 40-yard FG into the wind. Glas misses a 2nd 52-yd attempt, snap/hold were a little late. 6 minutes left. Sioux D needs to step up.

Great comments by the St Cloud announcers ... "there's as many Sioux fans here as Husky fans"

7-0 end of the half. Glas was just left on a 52-yard FG attempt. Sioux D holds SC offense under 100 yds. Sioux dominating a lot of the stats.

The fightingsioux.com feed has been in and out ... here's a St Cloud feed ... click the "listen live" button at left: http://www.kvsc.org/

Sioux with the 7-0 lead end of the first half. Some adventure on special teams, as both teams mess up a punt attempt. No harm done tho.

They are all too old, most of them are 24 or 25 when they come in as freshmen.

I was pleasantly surprised at the refereeing of Zelkin this weekend. After getting hopes dashed on numerous occassions in the past that a new ref might be better than the old, I have to give him A LOT of credit for calling the games fairly this weekend. For those who didn't see the games in person, I would characterize the ref-style as "last years definition of penalties". Which I am just fine with, and which frankly should help the Sioux when facing a speedy non-physical team like CC. HOWEVER, I wonder whether that will hurt us NEXT weekend. Going into Madison, unless Zelkin is the ref (and he hasn't been disciplined by his boss for not calling enough ticky-tack stuff), I would not be surprised if the Sioux fill up the penalty box by doing the same things that they did this weekend. I just have this sinking feeling that we'll take 7-8 penalties in the first period Friday and dig a big hole that we cant quite get out of. I hope to be wrong.