Paters Gonna Pate (10th Anniversary)

[Kurt_Evans]

Ten years ago today I was planning a road trip to Missouri with a couple of SDSU undergrads, one of whom happened to be the son of Heather Sieler's Huron pastor.

Ten years ago tomorrow I made five brief, blurry appearances on ESPN2.

South Dakota State wins NCAA D-II title
sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=1531389

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- Melissa Pater scored 22 points as South Dakota State beat Northern Kentucky 65-50 to win the NCAA Division II championship Saturday night.

Pater also had a game-high 11 rebounds on her way to being named the tournament's most outstanding player.

"It's a great way to end a season and a career,'' she said.

South Dakota State (32-3) held Northern Kentucky (26-8) to 23 percent shooting and forced 16 turnovers in the first half to take a 32-17 halftime lead.

Heather Sieler added 11 points for South Dakota State and Brenda Davis had 10.

Connie Myers and Sharell Snardon led Northern Kentucky with 12 points each and Amy Mobley had 11.

Northern Kentucky shot just 34 percent from the field and was only 4-for-20 from behind the 3-point line.

"We weren't really rushing shots,'' Northern Kentucky coach Nancy Wistel said. "They just weren't going in.''

Pater, Sieler and Snardon were named to the all-tournament team along with Carone Harris of Central Arkansas and Keri Flynn of Bentley.

[RowdyRabbit]

Re: Paters Gonna Pate (10th Anniversary)

Ten years ago I had just moved back to Brookings after a 4 year stint away (2 years in tech school and 2 years in the twin cities) and hadn't gotten back into Jackrabbit athletics yet. That didn't occur until 05-ish.

I wasn't even aware at the time that the Jackrabbit women were in the D2 championship game.

Wish I would've been paying attention, would've been a blast to go watch.

[Nidaros]

Re: Paters Gonna Pate (10th Anniversary)

The championship game was on ESPN, and the people doing the color had already determined UNK was the winner. They made up cue cards in advance, that sounded very odd to say the least since they did not match the outcome of the game. I remember asking Scotty Kwaz about this on golf course the following summer and Scotty told me that he had witnessed the ESPN people making up the cards the day before the game. I believe they learned something from this game. Make two sets of cards and use the right ones to fit the game.

[jacks1]

Re: Paters Gonna Pate (10th Anniversary)

The championship game was on ESPN, and the people doing the color had already determined UNK was the winner. They made up cue cards in advance, that sounded very odd to say the least since they did not match the outcome of the game. I remember asking Scotty Kwaz about this on golf course the following summer and Scotty told me that he had witnessed the ESPN people making up the cards the day before the game. I believe they learned something from this game. Make two sets of cards and use the right ones to fit the game.

It was actually on ESPN 2...I still have the game on vhs

[Southeast]

Re: Paters Gonna Pate (10th Anniversary)

I watched that game with some friends on the projection big-screen at the Pavillion restaurant in Brookings. There was lots of cheering in there.

[Nidaros]

Re: Paters Gonna Pate (10th Anniversary)

It was actually on ESPN 2...I still have the game on vhs

ESPN is ESPN as far as I am conerned. I could give a rat ass about 2, or 3 or 4 or 5. I still have it on vhs too, so there you go.