earlier than he really wants to, though he wasnt quite pushed. The selectors had tapped him on the shoulder, but he also knew that at 39, he would need to score twice as many runs as any bats

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Brady Oliveira ran 22 times for 171 yards and two touchdowns, including a key touchdown late in the fourth quarter in North Dakotas 17-15 win over Montana State on Saturday.Oliverias 60-yard gallop gave the Fighting Hawks a 17-9 lead with 2:27 to play. MSU rallied with a 3-yard touchdown run by Chad Newell, but Newell failed to score on the two-point conversion attempt after a pass interference call against UND moved the ball to the one.MSU (2-2, 0-1 Big Sky) recovered the onside kick, but Tyler Bruggman threw his third interception three plays later.MSU, which came into the game leading the nation in turnover ratios, turned the ball over five times to just one for UND (2-2, 1-0).That was the entire difference in the game. Period. MSU head coach Jeff Choate said of the turnovers. Cannot win a game like that. Thats a really tough one.MSU had two chances to win the game with a field goal, but couldnt get the ball into UND territory on either drive.I probably thought that game was over two or three times, UND safety Cole Reyes said. Its probably one of the funnest games Ive ever been in. Im spent but its fun to win a game like that.Reid Taubenheim kicked a 22-yard field goal late in the third quarter to put UND ahead for good at 10-9.Neither team could reach the end zone in the first half until UNDs Oliveira scored from two yards with just 59 seconds remaining following a fumble by MSUs Chad Newell. MSU had scored on field goals of 26 and 31 yards by Gabe Peppenger earlier.Following the touchdown Newell, a senior captain, left the game with an apparent leg injury, but returned in the second half. He ran for 68 yards on nine carries prior to the injury, but limited to just 32 yards in the second half finishing with 18 carries for 100 yards.THE TAKEAWAY:Montana State struggled offensively for the fourth straight game, but got a spark from true freshman receiver Kevin Kassis, who had 4 catches for 90 yards. MSU will need more players to emerge on offense if it expects to stay in the league race.North Dakota has seen all four of its games decided by four points or less and have now won the last two after falling to Stony Brook and FBS Bowling Green. Experience in close games will likely go a long way in what appears to be a balanced Big Sky Conference.UP NEXT: Montana State travels to Sacramento State for a conference game against the Hornets (0-1, 1-3), who lost 42-34 to Idaho State.North Dakota hosts Cal Poly in a conference game. 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Eric ONeal says most of the arrests at Monday nights game were for public drunkenness, though one person was taken into custody on suspicion of trying to steal a seat from the stadium. So before Tillakaratne Dilshan has even left the building, he has tried to set the place on fire.There were the veiled accusations about lack of support from team-mates, after his final ODI. We shouldnt dig up old grievances, he had said at the time. Moments later, he found himself unable to resist digging them up.In Sinhala interviews since, the beefs have grown in number, and have become less veiled. Angelo Mathews had an injury for a whole year, under my captaincy, went one complaint. Why are some team-mates saying the dilscoop is a shot only a brainless cricketer plays? was another. And where was the support from the senior players when I hit 193 with a broken hand, at Lords, and couldnt play the next game?When an obviously-injured Mathews came out to bat in the fourth ODI, hobbling between ends, some had thought this the perfect response to Dilshan - a reclaiming of Mathews man-of-duty brand. Dilshan, though, was probably watching on, thinking, Oh sure, in his own captaincy, this p***k can play on a torn calf.If he is leaving a few reputations singed, what did we really expect? It was always the blazes Dilshan started that defined him, and if they spread quickly enough, that defined the games he played. The whirring cover drive set so many tall totals in motion. When the savage pull and atomising sweep were played, the scene was doused in kerosene and matches were lit. On many days, it was because of Dilshan that the middle order got so many runs. It was because he had cleared out an oppositions plans like a fire does a forest, that saner men could put down their roots; watch their own innings grow.He was mostly a captains fantasy, but also, occasionally, a nightmare. A nightmare because he was always wanting to bowl, kept asking to field wherever the action was thickest, and because every one of his appeals for lbw were plumb, and the captain would be out-of-this-world stupid for declining to review.A fantasy because he has won games as batsman, bowler, fielder, and wicketkeeper, and its a pity he can only be in one place at a time, because if he could be in the stands, hed be the best fan, or the greatest hot-dog vendor that ever drew breath, and people would be begging to be dragged out of the stadium by him had he become a crowd-control cop.ddddddddddddDilshans utopia is a planet full of Dilshans. At the very least, it is a world in which everyone leans into their work with the blinding energy he brings to his. Doesnt that seem an improvement on the world that we are stuck with? It is difficult to argue against.He is immensely proud of the dilscoop. Others say Douglas Marillier invented it. Dilshan says it was he who made the shot what it now is, pushing the frontiers of batting out a little further, and the man, of course, has got a point. He alone plays it off a length ball, with head bowed, directly over the wicketkeeper, where no fielder will ever stand. It is an opportunists sucker punch: the picking of crickets bulging wallet. He was savvy enough in later years, to realise when the opportunity no longer lay in the early overs, when ODI rules changed and two new balls were nipping around. In his 12 ODI hundreds since 2012, Dilshan prospered through the middle of an innings, stealing as many twos as his still-strong legs could manage, mining just about every gap.He leaves cricket now, at least a year earlier than he really wants to, though he wasnt quite pushed. The selectors had tapped him on the shoulder, but he also knew that at 39, he would need to score twice as many runs as any batsman jostling to replace him. For once, he didnt fancy the fight.The men he has recently hassled will eventually get over it. In a few months, cricket will have moved on. But what will not be forgotten are the many manic hues of Dilshan. What cannot be erased are the opening berserks that opened up breaches for team-mates, the elastic prowling at backward point, the six World-Cup fours in an over against Mitchell Johnson, and his hijinks - it always felt like hijinks - with the ball. There were mad run-outs, match-defining catches on the boundary off the final ball, and that time he welcomed Shane Bond back to international cricket with four consecutive fours.It is prosaic to say that Dilshan has merely left us these memories; its more that he has burned them into our minds. ' ' '