MARSHALL — Cory Larson kept his post-game speech short in Week 8.
The Dawson-Boyd football team lost 28-21 to Class A powerhouse Minneota. It was the one time the Vikings have been tested this season. They’re averaging 49.8 points per game and allowing just 8.2.
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“The first thing I said to our team … was that nothing that just happened in that game took away from the belief that we can beat them,” said Larson, the Blackjacks’ head coach. “We proved to ourselves that it’s there. If we clean a few things up on offense and defense, it can possibly be a different outtcome.”
Dawson-Boyd has its chance for a different outcome in the Section 4A championship. The Blackjacks and Vikings face off at 2 p.m. Friday at Mattke Field at the Schwan Regional Event Center on the Southwest Minnesota State University campus.
Dawson-Boyd has an 8-2 record and is the second seed in 4A.
Minneota is 9-0 and the top seed. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The Vikings have won four consecutive Class A championships. They’re on a 55-game win streak. That ranks third nationally behind Carl Albert High School in Oklahoma (62) and Royal High School in Washington (57).
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