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was named the North Star Athletic Association Defensive Player of the Week after reaching 500 career tackles on Saturday.<\/p>\nMadison SD \u00a0 (PlayNorthStar.com) –\u00a0Valley City State senior linebacker\u00a0Nicholas was named the North Star Athletic Association Defensive Player of the Week after reaching 500 career tackles on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The sixth edition of the Dacotah Bank\/North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) Football Players-of-the-Week honors were announced by the conference office Monday.<\/p>\n
NSAA Football Defensive Player of the Week<\/u><\/strong> Madison SD \u00a0 (PlayNorthStar.com) –\u00a0Valley City State senior linebacker\u00a0Nicholas was named the North Star Athletic Association Defensive Player of the Week after reaching 500 career tackles on Saturday. The sixth edition of the Dacotah Bank\/North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) Football Players-of-the-Week honors were announced by the conference office Monday. NSAA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130090","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\/130090","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=130090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130093,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130090\/revisions\/130093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNicholas McBeain\u00a0\u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 6\u20191\u2033 \u2013 238 lbs., Senior \u2013 linebacker \u2013 Shakopee, Minn.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 McBeain reached 500 career tackles at Valley City State (N.D.), despite a 39-35 road loss at Waldorf (Iowa).\u00a0 He tallied 16 stops (13 solo tackles, 3 assist tackles).\u00a0 He also had a tackle-for-loss of 1.0 yards.\u00a0 McBeain is the only player in VCSU\u2019s history to reach both 400 and 500 career tackles.\u00a0 He continues to lead the NAIA in tackles per game, averaging 16.8 tackles per contest this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"