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A Mizzou walk-on, this Bishop Miege grad is contributing at running back

Bishop Miege coach Jon Holmes and some of his assistants went to Notre Dame last weekend to watch the Irish play North Carolina State. The Wolfpack’s head coach is a Miege grad, as are two current Irish players. Heavily favored Notre Dame won, and when the coaches returned to a townhome, they saw something they might’ve expected.

“We all kind of screamed,” Holmes said of what happened soon after he and his assistants began watching the Missouri-Connecticut football game. “Then we all kind of looked at each other and said, ‘We’ve seen that before.’”

That was Missouri running back Dawson Downing’s impressive run in the Tigers’ win over the Huskies.