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State of Origin - #1 Montana vs #8 BOTR

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Montana vs Best of The Rest

Location: Washington Grizzly Stadium (Duh)

Attendance: Sold out, loud, cold, and smokey.

Best Food at the Tailgate: Everything, Griz fans have their tailgate game down.

Montana
Strengths: They have All-Americans or All-Big Sky players two deep across the board, except at corner back. Their back up offensive line is probably the second best line in the competition and might be the first. Dickenson, Hilliard, Reynolds, Mariani, Scrafford, Germer, Biermann, Wagenmann, Petek, Crebo, Tripp, Utterbeck, Harris, Hauck, Anderson, Carpenter, etc, etc, etc.
Weaknesses: One cornerback, and the depth behind at that position.

Best Of The Rest
Strengths: QB, TB, better than average receivers, special teams and three stud defensive linemen.
Weaknesses: Outside of the three offensive linemen and one linebacker the defense lacks almost any experience at all.

Scoring
1st 11:21 MONTANA Hilliard, Lex 12 yd Run (Carpenter, Dan kick ) 0 – 7
1st 8:02 MONTANA Mariani, Marc 25yd pass from Dickenson, Dave (Carpenter kick) 0 – 14
1st 7:11 MONTANA Reynolds, Chase 1 yd Run (Carpenter kick) 0 – 21
1st 6:42 MONTANA Ferriter, Mike 12yd pass from Dickeson, Dave (Carpenter kick) 0 – 28
1st 3:08 MONTANA Hilliard, Lex 28 yd Run (Carpenter kick) 0 – 35
2nd 0: 15 MONTANA Carpenter, Dan 31 yd Field Goal 0 – 38
3rd 10:57 MONTANA Watkins, Jeremy 39 yd Pass from Edwards, John (Duce, Kirk Kick) 0 – 45
3rd 8:11 MONTANA Farmer, Jody 4 yd Run (Duce, kick) 0 – 52
3rd 4:17 MONTANA Duce, Kirk 47 yd Field Goal 0 – 55
4th 13:26 MONTANA Farmer, Jody 15 yd Run (Duce, kick) 0 - 62

Statistics

Montana Passing: BOTR Passing:
Dickenson, Dave 15 – 17 210 yds 2 TDs Ah – Yat, Brian 19 – 32 210 yds 2 INTS
Edwards, John 12- 18 164 yds TD
Montana Rushing BOTR Rushing
Hilliard, Lex 12 – 92 2 TDs Humphrey, Yohance 23 – 96
Reynolds, Chase 9 – 72 TD Bradshaw, Reggie 2 – 1
Farmer, Jody 10 – 55 2 TD Cabunoc, Shannon 1 – (-8)
Stensrud, Kelly 7 - 45 Ah – Yat, Brian 6 – (- 19)

Montana Receiving BOTR Receiving
Mariani, Marc 4 – 61 TD Pacheco, Raul 5 – 75
Watkins, Jeremy 3 – 60 TD Cabunoc, Shannon 4 - 70
Ferriter, Mike 4 – 55 TD White, Keelen 5 - 52
Bagley, Ryan 4 – 51 Humphrey, Yohance 5 - 13
Pfahler, Steven 3 - 48
Reynolds, Chase 3 - 35
Stensrud, Kelly 2 – 31
Beaudin, Dan 2 – 18
Farmer, Jody 2 - 15

Highlights

Montana finally got a chance to take the field and stretch their legs. It did not take long to realize that Montana’s offensive line was going to put its stamp on this one. With Hilliard and Reynolds able to get into the second level it was always going to be a long afternoon for an overmatched BOTR squad.

Montana was able to bring 5 fresh o-linemen in on each series and most of the starters sat the entire second half.

BOTR fought hard but MONTANA was just too deep and too talented. Humphrey and Ah-Yat especially played like warriors and if it wasn’t for a couple of timely turnovers and BOTR’s refusal to settle for field goals the score might have been a little less one sided.

Game day highlights included a Silver Tip sky diver narrowly missing the NEZ goal posts and managing to knock Monty off his ATV. This completed Monty’s triumvirate of falling; adding to his falls off a Harley and the wagon. The ROTC cannon being “accidently” loaded with a cannon ball that “accidently” took out Royce Engstrom’s 2002 Toyota Corolla. A spirited rendition of Cotton Eyed Joe with the removal all mentions of the words “Cotton” Racist, “Eyed” Triggers people with vision problems, “Married” there are lots of options for cohabitation, and “Long” implies size does matter, shaming.

Post-game interview with Coach Hauck;
“No comment”
 
I figured BOTR might’ve performed a little better since they had a “warm up” game going into this one but Montana should be a heavy favorite to win it all. Nice to get Yo and Ah Yat back in WaGriz though, even if they do have “BestOfTheRest” stenciled across their chest.
 
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