North Star Football Conference Players of the Week

(October 22, 2013) - The North Star Football Conference has announced the Players of the Week for the final week of regular season action.  Pine River-Backus won the East Division with a 6-2 record and Mahnomen finished first in the West Division with a perfect 8-0 mark.  Pillager and Prairie Valley finished second in the East with a 5-3 marks followed by Blackduck (3-5), Bagley (2-6), Cass Lake-Bena (2-6), Walker-Hackensack-Akeley (1-7).  In the West Division, Red Lake County was second (7-1), followed by Frazee (6-3), Lake Park-Audubon (5-3), Fertile-Beltrami (4-4), Fosston (2-6) and Red Lake (0-8).

 

East Division

Offensive Player of the Week – Skyler Meiners (Prairie Valley) was 9 of 11 passing for 143 yards and two touchdowns.  He also rushed for one touchdown in a 48-14 win over Cass Lake-Bena.

 

Defensive Player of the Week – Cole Franzen (Pillager) had nine tackles and one sack in a win over Pine River-Backus.

 

West Division

Offensive Players of the Week – Wyat Casavan (Red Lake County) had 10 carries for 119 yards and a touchdown and was 3-4 passing for 83 yards and a touchdown pass in a 45-14 win at Blackduck.

 

Austin Reitan (Mahnomen) had 10 carries for 135 yards and two touchdowns in a win over Fertile-Beltrami.

 

Defensive Player of the Week – Hesston Bachmann was involved in 6 tackles and intercepted a pass that was returned for nearly 50 yards for a touchdown against Fosston.

 

Special Teams Player of the Week – Jacob Magnell (Red Lake County Central) had three punt returns for 77 yards including a 73 yard punt return for a touchdown in a 45-14 win at Blackduck.

 

Other outstanding performances were turned in by:  Zach Struss (Pine River-Backsu), Dezmond Berndt (Pillager), and Cory Wakoasch (Frazee).