Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton wears down Annandale to win Class AAA state quarterfinal

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ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Battling freezing conditions and each other on Friday, Nov. 13, the Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton and Annandale football teams played a tactical game.

And with the season on the line, the Rebels found the winning move.

DGF, seeded at No. 2 in the north bracket, edged the No. 3-seeded Cardinals 18-14 in the Class AAA state quarterfinal round on a late go-ahead rushing touchdown from Jace Baumgartner at Viking Bank Field, moving to 11-0 on the season.

The touchdown from Baumgartner, a 5-yard run that capped an 85-yard Rebels drive with just over two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, was a result of everyone on the field being in sync with one another.

“It’s 11 kids working together,” DGF head coach Tony Soderberg said. “Our running backs run hard and they run physical, but we have people up front that are doing the same. That’s team play. … It was a high school football playoff game where two teams really wanted (to win) badly.”

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DGF capitalized on the turnover as Luke Krueger found Michael Whitney on a 17-yard touchdown pass midway through the second quarter. However, both teams combined to commit four turnovers for the rest of the period, with Adam Klatt’s fumble recovery leading to a 5-yard touchdown pass from Braylon Fobbe to Brody Berggren for Annandale.

Out of halftime, the Rebels coaches wanted to see the players rise to the challenge of coming back, especially following a long touchdown drive from the Cardinals to start the third quarter, taking over seven minutes off the clock and Rylan Horsch punching it in from a yard out.

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“We got down and then we got our head hung a little bit,” Sodorberg said. “Our players responded in the correct manner that’d you want to see, and we had a big drive to waste away the fourth quarter and our defense was able to shut them down.”

The drive began after Whitney came away with an interception 30 seconds into the fourth, as the Rebels methodically moved the ball downfield with short runs, leading to Baumgartner’s touchdown run with 2:28 remaining.

The defense held serve the rest of the way to seal the victory, as Annandale only had one pass completed in its last eight attempts, with Fobbe’s last pass broken up on a fourth-and-10 with 1:08 left on the clock.

DGF moves on to the Class AAA state semifinals, facing the highest remaining seed from the south bracket at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 21, at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. Annandale’s season ends with a 10-1 record.

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Blake Durham is the Sports and Outdoors Editor at the Echo Press. He joined the newspaper in September 2025 and covers various sports in Alexandria and throughout Douglas County. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire with a bachelor’s degree in communications in 2022.

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