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Football: D-B's Zach Durfee defies the odds

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Football: D-B's Zach Durfee defies the odds

Zach Durfee is a 2020 Dawson-Boyd grad and a defensive lineman at Division II Sioux Falls. He will play for the University of Washington. The team is ranked 12th in the country and finished second in Pac-12 Conference. They will face No. 20 Texas in Alamo Bowl on Thursday, December 29 at the Alamodome in San Antonio. The Huskies’ second-year coach Kalen DeBoer has roots at Dur fee's previous school, USF. Deboer was a receiver for USf from 2005-09. Dur Fee chose Washington over Minnesota, Iowa State, North Dakota State and North.

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