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    Never a good way to start a season. The Bobcats lose their starting right tackle to a pick up game of basketball

    http://www.greatfallstribune.com/new...ts/514142.html

    From the Great Falls Tribune
    Cats lose starting tackle to torn ACL

    By SCOTT MANSCH
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    The start of the college football season is still about four months away, but the Montana State Bobcats suffered a big loss this week.

    Offensive right tackle Joe Hirst, a 6-foot-7, 275-pounder who started all but one game at right tackle as a redshirt freshman last fall, is expected to miss the 2004 season with a knee injury. Hirst, a Spokane native, earned honorable mention all-Big Sky Conference honors last year and is considered a rising star on the Bobcat team.

    Montana State coach Mike Kramer, in Great Falls Wednesday night to meet boosters, said Hirst was injured playing basketball. He suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his knee and will likely have season-ending surgery soon.

    The MSU offensive line was expected to be a team strength in the fall, what with center Zach Wolf, All-American candidate Jeff Bolton at guard and Hirst returning to the starting lineup. Kramer said either Peder Jensen or Adam DeCock, redshirt freshmen who alternated at left tackle during spring drills, might be shifted to the other side of the line.

    Joaquin Echauri, a 285-pound senior who missed much of last season with shoulder and hamstring injuries, is listed as Hirst's backup on the most recent MSU depth chart. Senior Dusty Daws, a fine long snapper who came to MSU as a tight end, is another tackle candidate. But he has also been bothered with shoulder injuries in the past.

    Kramer said Brant Birkeland, a former Fort Benton and Helena High star, had a fine spring and seems entrenched as the starter at left guard. He said Jensen and DeCock, a 6-6, 290-pounder from Harlowton, have fine futures on the Bobcat offensive front. . . .
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