{"id":109349,"date":"2016-10-18T14:43:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T19:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=109349"},"modified":"2016-10-19T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:55:07","slug":"vikings-peterson-nsaa-offensive-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=109349","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Peterson NSAA Offensive Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109350\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109350\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PetersonJake.jpg\" alt=\"Jake Peterson\" width=\"169\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PetersonJake.jpg 169w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PetersonJake-132x175.jpg 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jake Peterson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(CSi-Playnorthstart.com) Valley City State freshman\u00a0Jake Peterson\u00a0has been named the NSAA Football Offensive Player of the Week after catching four touchdowns in Saturday\u2019s 41-22 win at No. 19 Dakota State.<\/p>\n<p>The eighth edition of the Dacotah Bank\/North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) Football Players-of-the-Week was announced by the conference office Monday.\u00a0Jake Peterson\u00a0of Valley City State (N.D.) was selected as Offensive Player-of-the-Week.\u00a0 Steven Koch of Dickinson State was chosen as Defensive Player-of-the-Week.\u00a0 Dylan Paulson of Presentation (S.D.) was named as Special Teams Player-of-the-Week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NSAA Football Offensive Player of the Week<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Jake Peterson\u00a0\u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 6\u20194\u2033 \u2013 195 lbs., Freshman \u2013 wide receiver \u2013 Larimore, N.D.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 All four of Peterson\u2019s catches went for touchdowns as Valley City State (N.D.) upset No. 19-ranked Dakota State (S.D.) 41-22. He had scores of 24 yards and 4 yards in the first-half, helping the Vikings to a 21-6 halftime advantage. Peterson added 61-yard and 43-yard touchdown receptions in the second-half. He set career-highs in receiving yards (132) and touchdown catches (4).<\/p>\n<p><strong>NSAA Football Defensive Player of the Week<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Steven Koch \u2013 Dickinson State (N.D.) \u2013 6\u20193\u2033 \u2013 220 lbs., Junior \u2013 linebacker \u2013 Buffalo, S.D.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Koch had an interception that he took back 23 yards and a touchdown in No. 14-ranked Dickinson State\u2019s (N.D.) 41-13 North Star conference victory over Jamestown (N.D.).\u00a0 He also recorded three tackles (1 solo, 2 assists).\u00a0 Koch registered 0.5 tackles-for-loss for 2.5 yards as the Blue Hawks extended their winning streak to six games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NSAA Football Special Teams Player of the Week<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Dylan Paulson \u2013 Presentation (S.D.) \u2013 6\u20190\u2033 \u2013 170 lbs., Freshman \u2013 kicker \u2013 Aurora, Colo.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Paulson recorded four (4) punts for 159 yards while averaging 39.8 yards per punt in Presentation\u2019s (S.D.) 74-0 rout over Finlandia (Mich.).\u00a0 He made a field goal of 31 yards and converted 9-of-10 PAT extra-point kicks for the Saints.\u00a0 Paulson also had 12 kick-offs for a total of 687 yards with two touchbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CSi-Playnorthstart.com) Valley City State freshman\u00a0Jake Peterson\u00a0has been named the NSAA Football Offensive Player of the Week after catching four touchdowns in Saturday\u2019s 41-22 win at No. 19 Dakota State. The eighth edition of the Dacotah Bank\/North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) Football Players-of-the-Week was announced by the conference office Monday.\u00a0Jake Peterson\u00a0of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109351,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109349\/revisions\/109351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}