Slow News Day in Park Rapids, Minn.

I wasn't quite sure what to think when this popped up in a Google news alert:

Tyler Lehrke and the Bemidji State University men’s hockey team made history last March by earning the program’s first trip to the Frozen Four.

BSU became the first No. 16 seed and the first team from College Hockey America to advance to the national semifinals.

This is a legitimate news article, dated January 2, 2010. Does it take nine-and-a-half months for news to reach upstate Minnesota?

Had, back in March, some editor thrown this on a list of possible story topics, and it was only discovered this weekend?