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The Riverdale Chieftains have been selected as the Week 8 WSN Team of the Week following a statewide vote on WisSports.net. The team scored one of the biggest upsets of the year when they knocked off Iowa-Grant, a D6 semi-finalist last season, in triple overtime. The Chieftains were chosen from a strong group of nominees in Week 8. A total of 11564 votes were cast, as Riverdale's 5124 votes narrowly edged out the 5104 of Hortonville, a margin of less than .01%.
 
It has to go down as one of the biggest upsets of the season, as Riverdale's 18-15 triple overtime win over Iowa-Grant secured the Chieftains' playoff spot and forged a three-way tie in the SWAL standings. Coming into this season, Riverdale had gone just 2-47 in conference play since last qualifying for the playoffs in 2005. Iowa-Grant was coming off a state semi-final run last year and entered the game with just one loss this year to league-leading Darlington. Neither team scored in the first two overtimes, but junior Keegan Franklin's 27-yard field goal in the third extra period provided the winning points.

Note: Due to the incredible number of votes and hits (the article received more than 150,000 pageviews), the system was not able to keep up with the number of votes and display a live total. This resulted in some votes registering after the poll had been closed at 4 pm. However, no votes were entered after the deadline.
 
Remember folks, the only way your favorite team can be named WSN Team of the Week is to vote and share the word. Look for the Week 9 nominees to be posted Monday afternoon.