South Dakota State linebacker Christian Rozeboom and punt returner Jaxon Janke notched Player of the Week honors in the Missouri Valley Football Conference.
Rozeboom recorded a team-high eight tackles, forced a fumble and intercepted a pass in South Dakota State’s 38-3 victory over Long Island University on Saturday. His interception in the third quarter came in the middle of the Jackrabbits scoring 14 points in a 19-second span. Rozeboom led a Jackrabbit defense that held LIU out of the end zone, limiting the Sharks to only 123 yards of total offense and eight first downs.
Janke swung the momentum firmly in South Dakota State’s favor by returning a punt 77 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter of the Jackrabbits’ 38-3 home victory over Long Island University on Sept. 7. The redshirt freshman from Madison, whose touchdown pushed the lead to 14-3, finished the game with four punt returns for 111 yards, becoming the first SDSU player in the Division I era (since 2004) to record more than 100 punt return yards in a contest.
The Jackrabbits (1-1) host Drake on Saturday at 1 p.m. MidcoSN will televise the game live, while you can hear it in the Sioux Falls area on 105.1 FM, 107.9 FM, and KELO-AM 1320.
SDSU coach John Stiegelmeier joins KWSN’s “Sports Talk with Craig & John” every Monday at 3:20 p.m., an interview that is podcasted for on demand playback at kwsn.com/podcasts.
