He's best known for his basketball prowess but Jalen Suggs also shines on the football field as he threw three touchdown passes, ran for one and also scored one on defense to lead the SMB Wolfpack to a 44-18 win over the Willmar Cardinals Friday in the Class AAAA football final at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
It was the first state title for the combined team from St. Paul Academy, Minnehaha Academy and Blake in their state tournament debut.
Siegel Howard began the scoring on a four yard run. Then the Wolfpack would go up by 10 on a 19 yard field goal from a member of the Class A state boys soccer champions the Blake Bears, Tate Crosby. Following the field goal, the Cardinals Ethan Roux would return the kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown to cut the SMB lead to 10-6.
Suggs would use his speed to score the Wolfpack's first second quarter touchdown as he scored on a 27 yard keeper. Willmar would counter as Drey Dirksen threw a 15 yard touchdown pass to Ty Roelofs. SMB would wrap up the first half scoring as he threw a six yard touchdown pass to his Redhawk basketball teammate Kaden Johnson with :15 to go and SMB led at halftime 24-12.
Both teams would tally in the third quarter. Not only did Suggs play quarterback for the Wolfpack, he also played defense and intercepted Dirksen's pass on fourth and goal to go 97 yards for a touchdown. Willmar got their touchdown on a 21 yard pass from Dirksen to Jake Evans and SMB led 31-18.
The Wolfpack would add two touchdowns to their ledger in the fourth quarter. Both scores came on touchdown passes from Suggs. The first came on a 76 yard completion to Johnson and the second on a 28 yard strike to Tony Avila-Tovalin with 1:17 left in the game.
SMB ended their season with a 13-0 record and Willmar finished 11-2.
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