MOORHEAD, Minn. - The Dragon football team will kick-off the 2010 season at Missouri Southern on Thurs., Aug. 26 in Joplin, Mo.
MSU Moorhead will be guided by first year Head Coach Joel Beard. He inherits a team that was 2-9 in 2009, finishing 1-9 in league play, for a sixth place finish in the North Division of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.
The team returns a majority of the starters from the 2009 season, with 11 position players returning to the field and the team's starting punter. The team boasts 8 seniors, 22 juniors, 20 sophomores and 11 freshmen.
Senior
Jake Larsen was honored as the team's Most Valuable Player in 2009 and will anchor the Dragons defense with another top-returner in the Dragon's backfield in
Brandon Larson. On the offensive side the Dragons key returners include
Zack Tourangeau and
Nick Scharpf.
Aye, Aye Captain…
Captaining the team will be seniors Larson and Larsen as well as juniors Tourangeau and starting quarterback
Kevin Koch.
The Opposite Jersey…Missouri Southern Lions
The Lions, preseason picked No. 8 in the Mid-America Athletic Conference Coaches Poll, will host the Dragons in their season opener. MSSU finished the 2009 season with a 3-7 overall record and were 3-6 in the MIAA.
MSSU returns seven starters on offense and eight on defense, including three honorable mention All-MIAA athletes. The top returners include defensive backs Justin Cowper and Antwoine Brown, and linebacker Dustin Bratzler.
Lions Head Coach Brett Tatum will enter his fifth season as the governor of the team, as he put together an 18-25 overall record in the past four season.
Be Social, join our Network…
Follow the Dragons through social networking and new media outlets by searching the following:
FACEBOOK – Scorch's Fan Page
TWITTER - /dragonsports
YouTube – DragonAthletics channel
Listen In, Watch Live…
All Dragon football games are broadcast live by the Voice of the Dragons, Steve D'Eustachio with color man The Legend, Larry Scott on 106.9 the Eagle. The pre-game show begins 20 minutes prior to kick-off and can also be heard live on
www.theeagle.tv
MSU Moorhead conference football games can be viewed for FREE on the internet, live on New Media Television Networks, Inc. through the Northern Sun Intergollegiate Conference LIveStreaming. Visit free NSIC Web Stremaing under the Dragons Sports Media tab on the Dragon's homepage, www.msumdragons.com
Live stats for the Missouri Southern game can be found by
CLICKING HERE.
Manning the Helm…
Joel Beard became the Dragons Interim Head Coach in the spring of 2010 after serving as the team's offensive coordinator for three seasons. Beard also served as the team's interim head coach for the final five games of the 2009 season.?
Beard, along with Athletics Director
Doug Peters, hired a decorated coaching staff in the spring of 2010 that will assist in developing a renewed tradition in the Dragon football program as well as training the athletes to play at their fullest potential.
A new scheme both on and off the field was hatched in the spring of 2010 under Beard's guidance where the team operates under the motto 'Win Everyday.' The motto emblazon in all aspects of the student-athletes' lives, where the Dragons coaching staff's goal is to promote the total development of each student-athlete academically, socially and athletically.
This spring the team and the coaching staff signed a pledge that states: On a daily basis, we pledge to represent ourselves, family and our university with pride and honor with total commitment to winning everyday.
