CHOOSING SIDES
Hillsboro’s ‘Mason-Dixon’ NDSU and UND line trending toward Bison
By Jeff Kolpack The Forum Hillsboro, N.D
It is 40 miles from the northern city limit sign of Fargo to Hillsboro, a simple drive on Interstate 29. It’s just as simple from the southern border of Grand Forks, a trip that takes 38 miles.
If Rugby, North Dakota, claims to be the Geographical Center of North America, and that has been a disputed subject, then Hillsboro is the Geographical Center of the state’s Division I universities.
The dispute is whether Hillsboro is a Bison town or Fighting Hawks town. The answer this week with North Dakota State playing at the University of North Dakota on Saturday afternoon in Missouri Valley Football Conference play at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks may be skewed toward NDSU.
And it has nothing to do with the town’s recycle bins being green and yellow. Those are the company colors of Waste Management.
No, it’s not a fair fight this year since NDSU linebacker Oscar Benson is from Hillsboro. There’s a certain loyalty small towns have in claiming one of their own is a Division I football player.
“There are people from both sides who are boisterous about it,” said Scott Olsen, the head football coach at HillsboroCentral Valley. “I think it’s pretty split. It’s nice to have it back. For me personally, Grothmann played and now Oscar.”
Many Burros like Olsen won’t forget former Bison fullback and Hillsboro graduate Andrew Grothmann, who won three national championships in his time at NDSU. Add to that two former Bison football players, Brian Schaetz and Mark Merck, who work in Hillsboro.
“I think with Andrew playing there and now Oscar, NDSU probably gets a little more following from the noncommittals,” joked Gary Nysveen, sitting at the Hillsboro Cafe.
Walk into the cafe on a beautiful, sunny morning and there’s allegiance to both schools. The locals will say people working in the medical field are UND fans and people working in the agricultural industry are NDSU fans.
It’s the signature trademark of both: UND
has a medical school and NDSU used to be known as the North Dakota Agricultural College before changing its name in 1960.
“Then there’s me who went to both colleges,” said Les Hurt, a coffee cup in front of him.
He was asked if he’s an NDSU or UND fan.
“No comment,” Hurt said. “It depends on who the other guy is. If he’s a staunch NDSU guy, then I’m a staunch UND guy. Or the other way around.”
Hillsboro was considered to be more of the “MasonDixon Line” — a reference to the separation of states in the Civil War — when the rivalry was contested in the Division II days. Saturday’s game will be the first at the Alerus Center since 2003.
The teams halted the series the following year when NDSU moved to Division I. UND’s move to Division I in 2008 was the
precedent for the teams playing nonconference games in 2015 and 2019. Both are now members of the Missouri Valley
Football Conference.
“When the rivalry was back in the good old days, I think it was a lot more vocal,” Nysveen said. “It was the Mason-Dixon Line. There was a lot more coin changing hands. It’s more mellow now, maybe until there gets to be more games again. Not playing for so many years really affected it.”
Like the move of the universities to Division I, Hillsboro mayor Terry Sando has hopes of his town escalating in visibility. For one, he’s building the Goose River Brewery on Caledonia Avenue in the heart of downtown in hopes the thousands of travelers that pass through Hillsboro on I-29 will consider it a must-see attraction.
“It’s an amenity that Hillsboro needs,” Sando said. “The cafe does a great job, but we want to be able to pull people off the interstate and enjoy this.”
Goose River Brewery, expected to open later this fall, will be big-screen TV friendly for games like NDSU vs. UND. It’s part of an economic development project that includes the Riverwalk Development on the west side of town.
Sando’s son is a UND graduate so his family tends to lean to the Hawks.
He likes the small-town North Dakota background of UND head coach Bubba Schweigert, who’s from Zeeland.
When it comes to hockey, however, most everybody in town sports the UND pride.
“I like hockey so I was always kind of in between,” said Kate Ehnert, the owner of the Hillsboro Cafe. “But I really don’t do sports. I do know when there’s a Bison game this place is empty and you never hear about UND games.”
It will be really empty if Benson reaches the starting lineup. The redshirt freshman is a backup linebacker who has played in two games, but made the travel roster two weeks ago to Towson (Md.).
Benson’s home is closer to Grand Forks than Fargo by a few miles and he has friends who are “hard UND fans.”
“For me personally, it was always NDSU,” Benson said. “But I think a lot of it depends on what your family is like. You have families whose parents went to UND or NDSU. I think it’s kind of divided.”
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Oscar Benson was the North Dakota Gatorade Player of the Year at Hillsboro-Central Valley his senior year before enrolling at North Dakota State.
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A household along the main thoroughfare through the town of Hillsboro, North Dakota, makes no bones about which school it will be cheering for on Saturday.
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Hillsboro, North Dakota, mayor Terry Sando stands in front of his Goose River Brewery, which is expected to open this fall.
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By Jeff Kolpack and Eric Peterson
The Forum Fargo
The bye week for North Dakota State didn’t mean the weekend off for linebacker James Kaczor. He did something unusual for a college football player during the season.
He got married.
Like a game day, he admitted to some nerves. Unlike a game day, he was more emotional than he’s used to being on Saturdays in the fall.
“I’m an emotional guy, I was crying quite a bit during the day,” Kaczor said. “But it was awesome, better than I could have expected. No major mishaps; everything went smooth.”
The wedding of Kaczor and Gracie Wright had a large audience of Bison players and coaches.
“Had the opportunity to go to the ceremony, spend time with his mother and all the siblings,” said Bison head coach Matt Entz. “It was a good day. You could tell by the smile on his face and the cracks in his voice that he was super excited. I told him to make it a quick honeymoon, we have things to do on Monday.”
They were engaged last May. Not wanting to put a wedding off too long, they went looking for dates. August is fall camp for Bison players and that was immediately ruled out. Sometime in July was too soon. They settled on NDSU’s bye week.
They met in a coed dormitory at NDSU, but became more serious through church and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
“After I knew she loved Jesus, I was ready to commit to a relationship with her,” James said.
Kaczor said he got a “special wedding gift” from head strength and conditioning coach Jim
Kramer.
“He let me lift on Friday with the team,” he said.
Kaczor missed NDSU’s last two games rehabilitating a groin injury. He’s expected to be in the lineup when the Bison play at the University of North Dakota. It was his answer when asked earlier this week what he was going to do for his honeymoon.
“We’re going to the Alerus Center on Saturday,” he said. Bison traveling same day to GF NDSU will bus to Grand Forks on Saturday morning, a departure from the usual routine of traveling to an outof-town game on Friday. Entz compared it to a road game at Western Illinois, where the Bison stayed in Bettendorf, Iowa, on Friday night.
It’s a few miles farther from Bettendorf to Macomb, Ill., than it is from Fargo to Grand Forks. Moreover, country singer Eric Church is performing at the Alerus Center on Friday, a concert that is expected to pack the facility.
“All of a sudden we’re going to be in a hotel that could have a number of interruptions,” Entz said.
‘It’s an electric atmosphere’
The Bison and Fighting Hawks haven’t played in Grand Forks since Oct. 18, 2003, when UND earned a 28-21 overtime victory and both programs were NCAA Division II programs.
Saturday marks the first Division I matchup between the two programs in Grand Forks. NDSU has a 3-0 record against the Fighting Hawks during the D-I era with all those games played at the Fargodome.
“It’s been 18 years since North Dakota State has been in Grand Forks,” said UND head coach Bubba Schweigert. “We’re excited about this opportunity. This is the reason we wanted to be in the Missouri Valley Football Conference.”
UND was in the Big Sky Conference before it joined the MVFC. The Alerus Center officially holds 12,283 fans and the game is sold out.
“I’d expect it to be pretty full of energy. We think it’s difficult to play in those atmospheres and that has helped us at home when you look at our home record,” Schweigert said. “We also got to work with our team to be able to handle that noise and communicate when it’s loud, but we want it electric.”
Schweigert was the UND defensive coordinator for that 2003 game in Grand Forks.
“None of our guys have really experienced having that game in Grand Forks and it’s been 18 years so they weren’t very old the last time we had them here, but I remember it,” Schweigert said. “I was part of that. It’s an electric atmosphere.”
Bison run game thriving
The Bison have had a dynamic ground game through three games this season, averaging 348.3 rushing yards per game. They are averaging 7.9 yards per carry.
NDSU running backs Dominic Gonnella, TaMerik Williams, Jalen Bussey and Hunter Luepke are all averaging at least 8.2 yards per carry. Kobe Johnson is averaging 6.1 yards per attempt. Gonnella leads the team in rushing with 238 yards and two touchdowns on 29 attempts.
“You’re always going to have to stop the run against them. You’ve got to be good on the inside, outside, they really are multiple in the type of run plays that you defend,” Schweigert said. “They do a nice job of different looks and challenge you across the field and running different types of run plays. Not only do they do
it with their running backs, but they add the quarterback run game to their attack and that creates a lot of challenges.”
The Bison have limited quarterback Quincy Patterson’s designed runs through three nonconference games. The 6-foot-3, 246-pound Patterson has rushed for 114 yards and two touchdowns on 22 attempts.
“He’s very capable of making all the throws. He’s capable of running the football,” Schweigert said. “We don’t have a large sample of his runs. ... We’re going to have to defend the run and then you can’t let them have explosive plays, which is a real challenge.”
NDSU rushed for 316 yards on 54 attempts in a 34-13 victory against UND last March at Gate City Bank Field at the Fargodome.
Odds and ends
► UND is 8-1 against nationally-ranked opponents at home in the last four years. No. 4 Weber State (Utah) was the only blemish, a 35-30 Wildcats win in 2018.
► Despite the layoff with the two teams playing each other after the 2003 season, the series is still tied for the eighth-oldest rivalry west of the Mississippi River dating back to 1894. They’ve played 113 times with UND holding a 62-48-3 lead.
► UND’s Isaiah Smith ran for 125 yards two weeks ago against Drake, the first time a back has run for 100 yards or more in his first game since John Santiago in 2015. Fighting Hawks running back Otis Weah needs 62 yards to reach 1,000 for his career.
► NDSU has won 34 straight games after a bye week. The streak comprised 19 home games, seven road games and eight national championship games.
► This week marked the 150th straight week NDSU has been ranked in the Stats Perform FCS top 25 poll, which dates back to 2010.
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On the bye week, LB Kaczor said goodbye to being a single man
North Dakota State senior linebacker James Kaczor (26) got married during the Bison football bye week.
North Dakota State quarterback Quincy Patterson (2) has rushed for 114 yards and two touchdowns on 22 attempts through three games this season.
Big offenses, defenses highlight Week 4 in FCS
By Craig Haley Stats Perform
The 10 wins over FBS opponents had already made it a September to remember across FCS college football, but the month’s final week of action delivered once again as more teams settled into conference action.
The 4-0 teams — ETSU, Eastern Washington and UC Davis — have all earned it, going through FBS opponents to open their schedules. Then there’s the teams that should sense it’s getting late early, such as Weber State and Central Arkansas - ranked sixth and 14th, respectively, in the preseason, but off to 1-3 starts. The best news? With two months left in the regular season, the action’s only going to get more intense.
Here are 10 takeaways from the Week 4 action:
Big 3 are best out of conference
September will end with the Big Sky owning the most FBS wins in a season (four) since 2016, followed by six conferences with one each. The most wins against outof-conference FCS opponents belong to the Missouri Valley (17-2), CAA Football (16-4) and Big Sky (11-7) followed by the Ivy League (8-4), Southern Conference (8-6) and Big South (8-7).
Sam Houston triumphs in first AQ7 matchup
The first conference game in the one-year AQ7 lived up to the billing as top-ranked Sam Houston held off No. 25
Central Arkansas 45-35 for its FCS-leading 14th straight win. Quarterback Eric Schmid threw two touchdowns each to wide receivers Cody Chrest and Jequez Ezzard while the defending FCs champ built a 31-14 halftime lead. With his 246th career win, the Bearkats’ K.C. Keeler took over
sole possession of 10th place all-time among coaches who have been at FCS schools for at least 10 years.
Barriere: Back-to-back
500-yard games
Sixth-ranked Eastern Washington (4-0) carved up Southern Utah 50-21 in a Big Sky opener behind Eric Barriere’s second straight game over 500 passing yards. Having passed for 542 yards at Western Illinois last weekend, the senior was 30 of 43 for 518 yards and four touchdowns in Cedar City, Utah. He is the first FCS player with consecutive 500-yard passing performances since Cornell’s Jeff Mathews in 2011 (521 versus Cornell and 548 at Penn).
Bobcats grinding after year off
Apparently, it’s possible for a team that advanced to the FCS semifinals in its most recent season to be under the radar. Montana State, under first-year coach Brent Vigen, a former player and assistant coach at North Dakota State, has been a bit overshadowed by archrival Montana since the Griz’s season-opening win over a nationally ranked Washington squad. Following
a 30-17, grind-it-out victory at Portland State to open its Big Sky schedule, the No. 13 Bobcats (3-1) have the most wins through September among the 27 programs that sat out the 2020-21 season (including newcomer St. Thomas and the eight-team Ivy League, which is only two games into its schedule).
Isaiah Ifanse’ 217 rushing yards against Portland State were 10 off his career high and the fifth-highest in the last 25 Bobcats’ seasons. San Diego slide continues; St. Thomas wins PFL opener
The Pioneer Football League had eye-catching results to open its league schedule. Davidson not only ended San Diego’s 39-game PFL winning streak during the spring season, but the defending champ added on a 28-16 win, marking the first time an PFL opponent has beaten the Toreros in two straight meetings since 2010. The usually potent Toreros (0-4) are struggling offensively (12.5 points per game) and have lost five straight games since the spring, which hasn’t happened since a six-game slide between the 1998-99 seasons.
In addition, transitioning member St. Thomas won its inaugural PFL game, routing Butler 36-0 as Tom Loeffler rushed for two touchdowns and Cade Sexauer passed for a pair.
(Princeton) Tigers’ tale of shutouts
A glitch in the statistics on Princeton’s athletic website on Saturday temporarily listed Stetson as scoring one point against the Tigers. Impossible, right? No, not just scoring one point in college football, but this year’s Ivy League favorite actually surrendering points (tough in cheek, of course). With their 63-0 rout on top of a 32-0 triumph at Lehigh, the Tigers have posted backto-back shutouts for the first time since 1965. In the two wins, quarterback Cole Smith has accounted for eight touchdowns (six passing, two rushing) and the defense has 12 sacks for 80 yards in losses.
Stingy, stingy, stingy
While Princeton is the first FCS team with multiple shutouts this season, the 10 national leaders for fewest points allowed per game is telling. After the Tigers’ perfect 0, it’s North Dakota State (4.3), Montana (7.0), South Dakota State (10.0), Dartmouth (10.5), Northern Iowa (11.7), Jackson State (12.8), Harvard (13.0), Montana State (13.3) and James Madison (13.7). Those teams are a combined 26-3, with the losses only against FBS opponents, who, oh, by the way, didn’t even score 20 points in those defensive matchups.
Samford’s Welch dominant in defeat
While using the extra season of NCAA eligibility, Samford quarterback Liam Welch knows how to be a super senior. Unfortunately for Welch, he had everything but the victory
when No. 15 ETSU topped the Bulldogs 55-48 in overtime in the Southern Conference. He set school records for completions (56), pass attempts (73), passing yards (582) and total offensive yards (655). ETSU’s Quay Holmes rushed for 168 yards and two touchdowns, including a game-winning 13-yarder in the OT.
Tribe grab CAA spotlight
The CAA isn’t accustomed to subpar weeks, but when the conference had five losses to FBS opponents, William & Mary posted the only victory, edging Elon 34-31 to secure its first three-game winning streak since 2015, which also is when the Tribe (3-1, 1-0) last had a winning season. Quarterback Darius Wilson accounted for three touchdowns and running back DreSean Kendrick threw a 29-yard score to Cole Blackman. Elon surely didn’t game plan for Tribe tight end Lachlan Pitts, a senior who had one career reception entering the game, then caught four passes for 70 yards and two TDs.
Go West(in), Merrmimack
That Holy Cross has won on the road over UConn, Yale and now 20th-ranked Monmouth 45-15 helps punctuate Merrimack’s 3-1 start because earlier this month the Warriors posted a 35-21 triumph over Holy Cross for their first win over an FCS ranked team. Louisiana Tech grad transfer Westin Elliott has made all the difference with the Northeast Conference program while passing for 15 touchdowns, including six (three to tight end/H-back Pat Conroy) in Saturday’s 47-10 rout of Delaware State. He was 21 of 23, setting the school’s singlegame record for completion percentage (91.3), finishing with 336 passing yards.
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