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Battlers (11-1) to their first state championship. His eight TD passes tied the state 9-man record.
• Hall completed 16 of 20 passes and added a title-game record 30-yard field goal. He also led Potter County in rushing with 51 yards.
• Tanner Heuer caught five passes for a game-record 214 yards and three touchdowns, including a 65-yard score on the game's first play.
• Michael Rausch also caught three TD passes.
• Leola-Frederick (11-1) beat the Battlers 12-7 during the regular season.
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Jamar leads Montana over South Dakota State 77-69
• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- Kareem Jamar scored 23 points and had a game-high 12 rebounds Thursday night and Montana beat South Dakota State 77-69.
• Montana (3-0) snapped South Dakota State's 30-game home winning streak.
• Jamar scored 14 of his points, including three 3-pointers, in the second half. Montana took a 33-32 lead with 16:27 to play and did not trail the rest of the game. Three other players scored in double-figures for the Grizzlies, the first time someone other than Jamar has done so this season.
• South Dakota State (0-3) led by as much as nine points in the first half, and had 25-24 halftime lead. But the Jackrabbits shot just 29 percent from the floor in the second half. Jordan Dykstra led with 20 points while Cody Larson grabbed 11 boards.
• With the win, the Grizzlies avenged last season's 68-67 double-overtime loss to the Jackrabbits in Missoula last season.
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SD ponders response to change in health care law
CHET BROKAW, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota insurance regulators said Thursday they need more time to study President Barack Obama's announcement that insurance companies will be allowed to keep offering their customers plans that would otherwise be canceled under the federal health care law.
• The president said the administrative changes would give insurance companies the option to extend for one more year policies that would otherwise be canceled because they don't meet the standards set in the Affordable Care Act. State officials would have to approve those changes.
• Obama's policy change could affect at least a few thousand South Dakota residents who are due to lose their existing policies.
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