VERMILLION - Whenever faced with a challenge Friday morning, Howard had the response.
Each time Wolsey-Wessington scored, the unbeaten Tigers matched it on the way to winning the Class 9A State Football Championship with a 38-30 victory at the DakotaDome.
"This is how a state championship should be. It had a lot of flows to it, up and down and whatever," said Howard coach Pat Ruml. "Championship teams respond to that and we did. I think it just came from the leadership of our seniors, going let’s go and they did that."
They had to do that, because the Warbirds kept the pressure on.
Wolsey-Wessington battled back from an 18-6 deficit, but could not sustain momentum, because the Tigers scored nearly every time they needed to in order to maintain a lead.
"That was very frustrating, because it feels like we get the momentum and then they just come down and they ended up scoring," said Wolsey-Wessington senior Keaton Zomer. "I felt like everybody did their job pretty well, 
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