Orange Crush: Beeters are state champs

CHINOOK — Playing in, and earning their first-ever state football championship in sub-freezing temperatures, gusty winds and constant snow fall was quite fitting for the Chinook Sugarbeeters football team, because behind key blocks, a defensive wall and the legs of Ben Stroh, it wasn't long before the Beeters put the Wibaux Longhorns on ice.

Saturday at Hoon field in Chinook, the seventh-ranked Beeters were virtually unstoppable as they defeated the previously undefeated and top-ranked Wibaux Longhorns 74-6 in the state Class C 8-Man championship game.

"I am really proud of our kids and coache...