Stockton 'D'-nies Rivermen

For years, teams that played with the smaller teams in the NUIC have heard how they wouldn't have a chance if they played with the big boys - Lena-Winslow, Forreston, EPC and Dakota. They've even heard how they couldn't hang with the teams that struggled in that conference like, say, Durand-Pecatonica.

That disrespect found its way to social media this week as the Blackhawks had to hear how they wouldn't win a game the remainder of the season and other such insults, some thinly disguised as prognostications.

"I think you approach it like any other game," Stockton coach Jesse Snyder said after...