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EASY RIDER Tech linebacker has high motor speed

BY BILL FOLEY of The Montana Standard

ONNOR O’NEILL is hardly a menacing figure when he rolls onto campus riding his little red Honda scooter.

“It’s perfect for me, living four blocks away,” he says. “I don’t have to worry about parking.”

O’Neill rides the 50cc scooter all around town. The engine size is small enough that he doesn’t need a motorcycle endorsement with his driver’s license.

“The only problem is coming up some of the steeper hills,” O’Neill says. “It doesn’t have a big engine, but it gets me around.”

On the field is a different story.

When he slips into his No. 6 Orediggers jersey, the Montana Tech senior linebacker never has his motor speed questioned.

“I just try to get mentally locked in before the game,” O’Neill says. “I’m definitely more carefree and loose off the football field.”

On or off the field, O’Neill, a 2007 Butte High graduate, is always one to entertain. Take last year’s 40-yard interception return for a touchdown against Montana Western for example.

The 6-foot, 205-pound O’Neill jumped to make a one-handed catch of a Jeff Logan pass. His return took him toward the Oredigger sideline, where O’Neill was surrounded by almost every other player on the field.

Somehow, O’Neill spun out of some would-be tacklers and dove into the end zone for the touchdown.

“I still don’t know. It’s kind of a blur,” O’Neill says of how he managed to get to the end zone that day. “That was definitely the highlight of my football career. I don’t know how I got out of that one.”

The touchdown was O’Neill’s first — and so far only — collegiate score.

That scoring play came a couple of weeks after O’Neill just missed another touchdown.

“I came close a couple of times,” he says. “One I pitched to Jordy (Jordan Heringer). There was one guy to beat. It wasn’t a good thing to pitch it, but it could have been a score. “So then it was like ‘Man, if I get another opportunity I’ve got to score.’”

O’Neill earned himself a brief stay in then-coach Bob Green’s doghouse over pitching the ball after an interception.

A week earlier, teammate Jake Stagnoli intercepted a pass against MSU-Northern.

Stagnoli’s attempt to pitch the ball to a defensive teammate ended up giving the ball back to the Lights.

So, O’Neill can’t say that he wasn’t warned.

“He was like ‘Do not ever pitch the ball,’” O’Neill says, raising his voice to impersonate the boisterous Green. “‘Do not, do not, do not, do not, do not pitch the ball. I got pulled after that. It’s a good thing we recovered it.

“That might have been going back to my ‘O’ days, trying to relive some of the glory from offense.”

That wasn’t the only time O’Neill got in a little trouble with coaches for having too much fun on the football field.

During his sophomore season, O’Neill recorded a pair of sacks in one game.

After each sack, he did a little sack dance.

He said he was going to review the game film to decide whether or not to continue the dance, which included a little side step and shake of the hips.

The next week, O’Neill registered another sack. This time, he went straight back to the huddle, business as usual.

Didn’t he like the look of his dance on film?

“No,” O’Neill said. “Konen didn’t” He was talking about his no-nonsense linebackers coach, Jim Konen.

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SENIOR LINEBACKER CONNOR O’NEILL is pictured during Tech’s game against Eastern Oregon last weekend.

“I THINK WE HAVE A REALLY GOOD TEAM. I HAVE A REALLY POSITIVE ATTITUDE ABOUT IT. I’M EXPECTING GOOD THINGS. I’M SAD THAT WE LOST (TO EASTERN OREGON), BUT I ALREADY FORGOT ABOUT IT. I’M ALREADY THINKING WE’RE GOING TO WIN A LOT OF GAMES.” Connor O’Neill

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Tech spikers split at Houston invite Montana Tech split four matches at the St. Thomas Invitatonal in Houston last weekend.

The Orediggers defeated Huston-Tillotson of Austin, Texas, 25-11, 25-19, 25-17,and topped Friends University of Topeka, Kan., 25-21, 25-15, 25-12, after losing to Southwestern Assemblies of God 25-20, 26-28, 25-21, 25-28, 9-15, and to St. Thomas 25-18, 25-23, 2225, 25-23.

Montana Tech shook off the scary effects of a gulf swimming accident to bounce back with the Saturday Matosich Phelan wins. Nobody was seriously hurt in the accident at the Galveston beach when an undertow swept five team members into the rocky outcropping. However, cuts and bruises were incurred and made for some soreness.

Michelle Hardy, Emily Matosich, Emily Lobnitz, Gabby Weber, Lacey Phelan and Korey Krumm were comeback leaders.

The all-around play of Kiara Ross was key all weekend. Libero Allyse Cruise played so well she earned Frontier Conference player-of-the-week honors.

Westminster Westminster begins conference play after posting a 3-5 record during the first two tournaments of the year. All five losses have come against teams ranked in the NAIA preseason top 25.

Ashley Marchant leads the offensive attack with 82 kills and averages 2.83 kills per set. She ranks third in the conference in average kills while also ranking eighth in digs per set at 3.1. Kenzie Mitchell has recorded 65 kills with a .220 hitting efficiency to start the year. Stephanie Jones Morin leads all Griffin hitters with a .271 hitting efficiency.

Kyndall Kordakis anchors the defense and averages 4.14 digs per set. Her average is third-best in the league while her 120 total digs is fifth. Katie Vance is posting 0.59 blocks per set to rank eighth in the Frontier and her 17 total blocks is 12th most.

Emily Atkinson is second in the conference with an average of 9.17 assists per set.

The sophomore setter has 266 total assists and ranks second in the league and 26th nationally in the department.

Lewis-Clark State College Lewis-Clark State College women’s team remained at No. 7 in the poll. The Warriors defeated four teams that were ranked in the preseason Top 25 poll and also lost a five-set thriller to Southern Oregon, which moved up one spot to No. 13 after its 4-2 start.

Lewis-Clark State seemed to keep laboring to a minimum at the Bruin Labor Day Classic on Friday. The seventh-ranked Warriors opened the event with a 2516, 26-24, 25-17 sweep of Grand View University and then followed with a 25-18, 25-16, 27-29, 25-16 fourset win over No. 20 Dordt College.

“We played well and had many players step up,” said LCSC head coach LaToya Harris. “I was very happy with how today ended up.”

The Warriors squared off against an undefeated foe in Grand View, but were able to keep the Vikings’ Krumm offense off balance. Grand View hit just .027 overall including a negative .056 clip in the first set. The Warriors hit just .179, but had a 11-7 edge in blocks and a 6-2 advantage in service aces.

“We came out fired up the first set, and everything just kept rolling,” Harris said. “In the second set we relaxed a little bit, got behind a little, and had to push to finish... We regrouped in the third, changed our offense some, and served aggressively and that brought our flow back.”

LCSC cruised with comfortable leads in sets one and three and faced its only real deficit during the second set. After falling behind 18-13 and then 22-17, the Warriors scored four in a row to cut the lead to 22-21. From here the teams stayed close until Kelli Tikker and Kaytlyn Coleman combined for three straight kills to end the set.

Tikker hit .250 to lead the team in total kills with 10, while Brianne Brown and Lauryn Herrick had eight kills apiece and hitting percentages of .389 and .273, respectively. Devon Jensen led Grand View with nine kills.

Ali Hubert, who had a match-high three aces, led L-C with 14 assists, while Nevena Dragovic had 12. Tikker and Herrick led with 10 digs apiece, and Chelsea Strong led with seven blocks.

Carroll College The Carroll College volleyball team went 1-1 on the final day of the Concordia Irvine Tournament Saturday.

The Saints lost to No. 9 Concordia Irvine 25-10, 21-25, 25-15, 25-14, before beating San Diego Christian 25-21, 25-21, 25-19.

Individual leaders versus Concordia were Markki Otteson with nine kills, Maureen Frauenholtz with 23 digs, 14 assists by Caitlin Tocci, and Elli Graff’s three blocks.

“In the second set we passed really well and our system came through,” said CC coach Moe Boyle, whose spikers went 1-3 in the tourney, and stand 10-4 overall.

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Oreiggers need to run the ball includes explosive junior receiver Kyle Johnson, who racked up 155 receiving yards last week.

Tech is hoping to get hard-hitting safety Jordan Heringer back from injury. That would be a big boost for the Orediggers.

After a fast start by the Lights, Western forced seven Northern punts.

If you see Northern punter Juan Garcia on the field that much Saturday night, it’s a good bet that the Orediggers will win.

Establishing ground attack is key as Montana Tech takes on MSU-Northern

BY BILL FOLEY of The Montana Standard

Last week Montana Tech didn’t get the running game going.

The Orediggers racked up just 83 yards on 33 carries (2.5 yards per carry) in a 31-15 loss to Southern Oregon.

A week earlier, Tech ran for 220 yards on 45 carries (4.9 ypc) in a 50-47 double overtime win over Southern Oregon.

Tech ran the ball 45 percent of its plays last week.

Under offensive coordinator Ted Schlafke, the Orediggers don’t get too wrapped up in percentages like that.

They do, however, know they need to do better than 2.5 yards per carry.

Behind a young offensive line, the Orediggers showed they can run the ball effectively in week 1.

Last week, the Orediggers had senior Drew Waltee and junior David Tapia-Pardon join the starting lineup after sitting out the opener with injuries.

It’s not necessarily fair to say that the offensive line lost the battle of the line of scrimmage.

They didn’t win it, though.

This week the Orediggers face a tough defense.

Led by defensive end Will Andrews and middle linebacker A.J. Pasalo, both seniors, the Lights held Montana Western to 53 yards on 29 carries in last week’s 24-17 win over the Bulldogs.

“They’ve got a couple dominant guys there,” Tech coach Chuck Morrell said. “They hopped all over Western early. They really shut down Western’s offense.”

The Orediggers have high hopes for their group of linemen that includes Jay Pyburn, Mack Ferko, Logan Sims, Keith Mullan, Frank Petitta, Matt Study and Anthony Tanger.

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TECH VS. TIME OF POSSESSION Against Eastern Oregon, the Orediggers gave up 23 first downs. Too many of them came on third down.

A lot of that had to do with the elusiveness of quarterback Chris Ware and the explosiveness of running back Kevin Sampson.

Saturday, the Orediggers face another tough test in sophomore quarterback Derek Lear and junior running back Stephen Silva.

Lear is in his second year starting after a stellar prep career at Class B Fairfield. Against Western he completed 20 of 39 passes for 342 yards.

Morrell said a lot of Tech’s offensive struggles last week came down to the defense being on the field for too long.

“We need to do a better job defensively just feeding our offense,” Morrell said. “When our offense is up-tempo and they’re going, they do their best.

“When they’re off the field for long periods of time, it’s hard for them to heat up again.”

The Orediggers sacked Ware four times last week.

They just missed on three or four more.

The front seven of Ryan Jones, Mike Waldman, Marcus Johnson, Joe Hickey, Kevin Schey, Connor O’Neill and Joe Semansky have to make those opportunities count this week.

A secondary that will likely start Logan Ledgerwood, Daniel Chandler, Nate Kobold and Jake Helbling will be tested by a receiving corps that

The Orediggers are younger than they’ve been in years, maybe ever.

Morrell’s style is different from former coach Bob Green, who redshirted almost all of his players.

With youth comes mistakes.

Morrell said he and his coaches have to constantly remind themselves that they’re not dealing with a veteran group yet.

“It’s easy after one game when you win to move past the point that this is still their second game,” Morrell said. “There’s 26 guys who have played their first Oredigger football game the previous week. Now it’s just their second game.”

Limiting the damage on those young mistakes is key.

“We know that there’s going to be some ups and downs,” Morrell said. “We need to do a better job of not letting those down swings turn into a bad series, a bad quarter, a bad half.”

THE X FACTOR Last week, turnovers proved to be the difference at Alumni. One team took advantage of two turnovers.

The other wasted two turnovers.

“Their turnovers turned into 14 points,” Morrell said. “Our two turnovers didn’t turn into anything.”

Last week the Lights proved to be an opportunistic team when they blocked a punt and Ryan Craig returned it 15 yards for a touchdown.

The team that cashes in on big opportunities Saturday, will likely be the team celebrating under the lights.

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Tech golfers swing into action for fall

BY BRUCE SAYLER of The Montana Standard

Bridging the two seasons is what makes college golf a difficult sport for the student athlete, said Mike Hitchcock, head coach of the Montana Tech links team “They’re dedicated student athletes to try to play a sport that carries from the fall to the spring and keep their grades up,” Hitchcock said. “How hard they have to work is a big issue.”

Staying sharp on the course through Montana winters is so very difficult. The competition of college sports, however, necessitates that the participant do what he or she can, legally, to be as skilled as possible.

It is a promise owed self, school, conference, organization and community.

In the Frontier Conference points are carried from the fall part of the schedule to the spring slate.

Championships are then decided in April, with advancement to NAIA postseason following for qualifiers.

The fall season began Thursday for the Montana Tech team. The Orediggers opened in a meet put on at Billings’ Briarwood Golf Course by Montana StateBillings. The competition replaced the Westminster Invitational on the schedule. Westminster’s meet,

which was to be played on a Salt Lake City course, was canceled.

So, the first Frontier Conference meet of the fall schedule will be Sept. 19-2o in Helena where Carroll will play host to its invitational at the Green Meadow Country Club.

Rocky Mountain will put on a tournament Sept. 26-27 in Billings.

Hitchcock said he is also hoping to enter the Orediggers in a tournament the University of Great Falls is plannng for early October.

“We may try to go to that,” Hitchcock said. “We hope the weather holds for fall play. Then, we’ll knock off for the winter, then hit it hard in the spring.”

The coach said he likes the roster for this year’s team.

The women’s squad returnees include junior Brooke DeBolt of Missoula, sophomore Ellie Stanisich of Dillon, senior Whitney Lamb of Missoula, junior Shelby Fortune of Butte and junior Alex Hareland of Butte.

Newcomers include Whiteffish recruit Danielle

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Hitchcock also added recent Miles Community College No. 1 golfer Bethany McAuley. However, she will miss the fall season with an injury.

Hitchcock said McAuley hurt her back while working a summer job and won’t be recovered enough to play this fall.

“We have a good bunch of girls who can strike the ball,” Hitchcock said. “With Bethany joining us int the spring and Danielle added to the team, I’m anxious to get them on the course.”

Men’s team returnees are sophomore Justin Sullivan of Butte, sophomore Rick McCloskey of Butte and sophomore Dustin Kaste of Great Falls.

New to the team are Milwaukee School of Engineering transfer Zach Massen, who is originally from Whitefish and carries sophomore eligibility; junior C.J. Kissell from Butte, freshman Lee Paulson from Manhattan, Alec Shull from Missoula and senior Shawn Medland.

“Justin Sullivan is kind of our leader of the team,” Hitchcock said. “He is a skilled golfer.”

The new players are not new to competition, the coach noted.

“I’m anxious to have the new recruits on the team,”

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Tech ready for bounce-back game

BY BILL FOLEY of The Montana Standard

For the first time in the Chuck Morrell era, the Orediggers must bounce back from a loss on the football field.

Montana Tech (1-1 overall, 0-1 conference) will get that chance Saturday when they play host to MSU-Northern in a 6 p.m. game at Alumni Coliseum.

The game will be the third straight home game for Montana Tech, which fell 31-15 to Eastern Oregon last Saturday night.

Morrell said his first loss with the Orediggers stung, and that sting is a good thing.

“I don’t want us to move on from it too quickly,” the coach said. “The way I look at it — and I told the team this — is we invest time, energy and passion into every game we play. If you didn’t come out in the win column and there’s not some part of you that is torn up about it, then I think there’s an issue.”

The issue facing the Orediggers this week was not dwelling on the loss

for two long.

“What I look for, and this is how I react, whether you win or lose, is you have about 24 hours,” Morrell said.

“You’ve got to deal with either the highs of winning the game or the lows of losing the game within those 24 hours.

“You’ve got to deal with it good or bad, then we’ve got to move on. You can’t get hung up on a win, you can’t get hung on a loss.”

Morrell said his team should be ready to face the Lights in what is — like every week in the Frontier Conference — a key league matchup.

“We talked about it coming out on Monday,” Morrell said of the Eastern loss.

“We evaluated the mistakes that we made and how we’re going to fix them.

“Now you’ve just got to transition.

You’re mind’s got to go right into playing Northern.”

Morrell said he doesn’t want his players to be gracious losers.

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he said. “That’s that 24-hour window, and then you’ve got to put it behind you.”

Morrell also said his team can learn from such a difficult lose.

“There’s two ways to learn,” Morrell said. “Sometimes you don’t learn from winning big. You can learn from a close win, like we had in the first week, which is a fun way to learn.

“You can also learn from a loss, which is a tough way to learn,” Morrell added.

“Both of them have value, but I would obviously prefer any day of the week to learn from winning a close game as opposed to learning off a loss.”

The Lights (1-0, 1-0), meanwhile, are coming off the high of a 24-17 home win over Montana Western.

Next week, the Lights are back at home to take on Eastern Oregon.

Tech will hit the road for the first time in 2011 to take on Rocky Mountain College in Billings.

The Orediggers are hoping another bounce-back won’t be necessary during that road trip.

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Continued from Page D8 Hitchcock said. “All have good experience. All have played high school golf, and some have played college golf “They have good golf skills. All of these guys are focused golfers.

The Orediggers practice at both the Butte Country Club and the Old Works courses, the latter a Jack Nicklaus-signature course in Anaconda.

“They’ve given us privileges for afternoon play,” Hitchcock said, grateful for the support the courses have extended to the program.

“They’ve been gracious to our team and that’s really good of them.”

The only way to improve at the game is to play and Hitchcock said such will be the focus.

“We will try to play a lot of fall golf,” he said. “It’s exciting, (coaching) the young kids, so bright-eyed.”

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Keanaaina had 22 assists. Northern then swept Dakota State by scores of 25-14, 25-14 and 26-24. In that match, Williams had 12 kills and eight digs, Holly Cartwright had Continued from Page D4 25 digs and Keanaaina had 28 assists.

(According to conference website) MSU-Northern kept rolling on Saturday too. advantage of us.” Boyle praised the play of Otteson on offense, and Emma Priddy on Great Falls 15-1 The Skylights beat Dickinson State for the third week defense. She added that Lauren Wilder did a great job coming in and playing hard.

Rocky Mountain 11-2 in a row, this time by scores of 10-25, 25-13, 25-12 and “It doesn’t seem right now that we’re all clicking at the same time, just two or Lewis-Clark State 6-2 25-17. Hillary Isleifson garnered 12 kills and a block, three at a time,” Boyle said.

Carroll 7-3 Keanaaina had 27 assists and two aces and Cartwright had In the win over San Diego, Kristen Telin hammered 11 kills, Frauenholtz had 17 digs, MSU-Northern 8-4 10 digs. “That match was important,” Huebsch said to the Tocci passed for nine assists, and Graff stuffed four blocks.

Montana Tech 7-6 Havre Daily News. “We came out flat, we didn’t play well The Saints coach said her club passed much better in the win. “We had such a dif- UM Western 5-6 early on. But the kids responded. You saw them clean up ferent level of confidence going into that match than the previous three,” Boyle said.

Westminster 3-5 their mistakes and after that first set, they played really, “The two matches yesterday were No. 5 and 6 in the country. You see that on paper really well. I was really pleased with how they responded to and I think we were intimidated stepping on the floor against them. that first set.” In the finale Saturday, Northern took care of “We didn’t play flawless (against San Diego), that’s for sure — but that’s our youth.”

York College 3-1 by scores of 25-12, 23-25, 25-12 and 25-17. Again, in the three sets they She said Telin put the ball away with force, while Kathleen Mulligan did “pretty well on won, the Skylights were dominant. Isleifson had a match-high 18 kills while Williams the outside.” added 14. Keanaaina had 51 assists, Cartwright had 20 digs and Diehl and Victoria Polo “We’re trying to find out who our main starters are going to be and I don’t think had two blocks each. we’re at the elite level yet,” Boyle said. “But I believe, with the players we have, that Rocky Mountain College we’ll be playing some very good volleyball by the end of the season.”

No. 8-ranked Embry-Riddle received 13 kills and 13 digs from Jordan Holcomb in MSU-Northern beating No. 18 Rocky Mountain College 29-27, 25-13, 25-23 in a women’s volleyball This past weekend, the Northern Skylights ended nonconference play by going 4-0 showdown at the Embry-Riddle Labor Day Tournament. Embry-Riddle improved to 5at the Dakota Wesleyn Tournament in Mitchell, S.D. And MSU-N head coach Bill 0 in handing 11-1 Rocky its first loss of the season.

Huebsch said things are right where they need to be heading into this weekend, said Rocky was led by the 11 kills and 12 digs of senior Sara Brunner, who was selected to the Havre Daily News. “It was really good,” Huebsch said. “What we were able to do the all-tournament team. Kristin Barott compiled 26 assists, while Jamie Elenbaas down there, how we played this weekend, I was very pleased. It was good for us to be came away with 14 digs. Later in the day, Madonna University of Michigan beat the able to and do what we did, and it really gives us a lot of momentum heading into conBears 25-22, 19-25, 22-25, 25-22, 15-12 to improve to 8-1. Brunner notched 20 kills for ference play. I was just very pleased with the way the team performed.” the Bears. Jillian Bates had 11 and Jillian Stanek 10.

On Friday, the Skylights opened the tournament with a 3-0 sweep of Valley City ■ Information compiled By Bruce Sayler of The Montana Standard from school websites, State. Northern won by scores of 25-19, 25-11 and 25-17. Kelsey Williams led the way with nine kills, three aces and 13 digs, while Sierra Diehl had seven kills and Nahe The Montana Standard, Helena Independent Record, Billings Gazette and Havre Daily News.

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Continued from Page 3 “It was a bad week for me,” O’Neill says. “He wasn’t too happy.”

O’Neill has nothing but respect for Konen, who coached inside linebackers for nine years at Tech.

“He was my guy for four years,” O’Neill says. “Me and him spent a lot of time together. I liked coach Konen. I miss him this year.”

O’Neill’s new coaches don’t have to worry about him celebrating too much after a sack.

“I’m not doing dances anymore,” O’Neill says. “I don’t know what it was. I got made fun of quite a bit for it, still to this day. Everytime that comes up, usually (Kevin) Schey is the one giving me (guff).”

O’Neill started at linebacker and running back for Butte High’s 7-3 team in 2006.

He earend first-team All-Conference and second-team All-State honors on defense that year, helping the Bulldogs earn a home playoff game.

O’Neill and offensive lineman Matt Study from Kalispell were the first two players to sign with the Orediggers in January 2007.

O’Neill also played basketball for two years at Butte High under coach John Thatcher. He wrestled one season under coach Jim Street.

“Coach Mac (Jon McElroy) was my triple jumping coach,” O’Neill says. “I had all the legends.”

Then he played three seasons — and one year as a redshirt — under Green at Tech.

“I’ve got a whole gamut of Butte legends,” O’Neill says.

Now O’Neill, a captain, is helping the Orediggers make a smooth transition to the Chuck Morrell era.

O’Neill says he sees it as an opportunity.

“I just went in thinking it’s just a chance to learn a new defense,” O’Neill says. “It was a new learning experience. Usually in your senior year, it’s supposed to be old

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O’Neill’s position is much different than it was the last three years.

“Linebacker is linebacker, but it’s more outside the box, playing the back side,” he says. “It’s definitely a better fit for my body type. I don’t have to try to bang around with tackles and tight ends all the time.”

That new position means more fun for O’Neill, who is majoring in metallurgical engineering.

“I get to move around a lot more,” he says. “I like coming off the end, coming and pressuring the passer. In this new defense I get to do a lot of fun stuff.”

Along with fellow senior captains Schey, Drew Waltee and Clay McQueary, O’Neill has made sure those dreaded words “rebuilding year” weren’t part of the every-day lingo at Montana Tech, which lost 23 seniors from last season and a legendary coach.

“For me, that was the last thing I wanted to hear on my senior year, ‘let’s start rebuilding,’” O’Neill says. “That’s not something we ever really talk about.”

After two games, the new-look Oredigger defense — which is depending on young players like never before — hasn’t quite gelled.

Tech beat Southern Oregon 50-47 in double overtime in the opener two weeks ago.

Last week, Tech lost 31-15 in a game that was littered with missed tackles.

“It’s kind of frustrating watching the film on our defense, and I’m making just as many errors as anybody,” O’Neill says. “But we can play really good when we get going and things are clicking.”

Even in the moments after Tech’s loss Saturday, O’Neill looked to the not-sodistant future with optimism.

“I think we have a really good team,” he says. “I have a really positive attitude about it. I’m expecting good things.

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