Brookings, s.d. — Taryn Christion threw two scoring passes to Jake Wieneke and both ran for another touchdown, Cade Johnson returned a kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown and fifth-seeded South Dakota State whipped New Hampshire, 56-14, on Saturday in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision quarterfinals.

The Jackrabbits (11-2) play at defending champion and top-seeded James Madison, winner of 25 straight, next weekend.

“Got our tails beat by a pretty good football team out there,” UNH coach Sean McDonnell said in a news release. “They executed on the offensive side of the ball as well as any team we played against this year. It starts with their quarterback. He makes a ton of plays and keeps plays alive.

“I know they lost their tight end on the first or second play of the game. They found other guys to go to and make plays for them.”

Christion, Wieneke and Isaac Wallace each ran for a score in the first quarter as South Dakota State bolted to a 21-0 lead. Wieneke scored untouched from 48 yards on a reverse around the right side.

Christion found Wieneke for a 32-yard touchdown to make it 28-0 at the half.

Wallace added a 48-yard TD run late in the third quarter before the Wildcats (9-5) got on the board with a 75-yard scoring play, Trevor Knight hooking up with Kieran Presley. However, Johnson quickly wiped that out with his return.

“They just had really good play calling,” senior UNH safety D’Andre Drummond-Mayrie said. “Called the right plays at the right time, and they executed really well. Minimal mistakes. They just played very well today.”

South Dakota State finished with 451 yards of offense. Wieneke had the big day with nine catches for 140 yards for his first 100-yard game of the season and 24th of his career.

Knight passed for 236 yards but was intercepted twice. Presley had seven catches for a career-high 133 yards. Evan Gray provided UNH’s other score on a 1-yard run with 6:48 to play, his eighth touchdown of the season.

UNH is now 14-14 over the past 14 years in NCAA football tournament play. The Wildcats came up a game short of matching the program’s deepest FCS tournament run; New Hampshire made the national finals in 2013 and ‘14.

“(The season) was successful, to an extent,” Drummond-Mayrie said. “Obviously, the ultimate goal is to win a national championship, so it’s obviously not a success at the end. But there are some positives that came out of the season, of course, throughout the year. You can’t sum up the whole season based off one loss at the end of the year. Of course, I think we had some successes. And we also had some losses.”