Duluth, Minn. – In the final game of the season, the Northern State University football team fell to No. 6 Minnesota Duluth 40-13. The Wolves finish the year with a 4-7 record overall and 3-4 mark in the NSIC North.
 
The Bulldogs took a 22-0 lead through the opening minutes of the second quarter with three touchdowns. Northern answered back with the clock winding down, as Chaka Kelly ran for his fourth touchdown of the season, a 1-yard rush.
 
Down 32-7 in the third, Northern struck again with an 80-yard touchdown reception by Boston Bauer. The long ball from Hunter Trautman brought the Wolves within 19 with 6:43 to play in the third.
 
The Wolves tallied 236 yards passing and 30 yards rushing, for 266 yards of total offense. NSU averaged 16.9 yards per completion. Defensively, they tallied 70 tackles, including seven tackles for a total loss of eight yards.
 
Trautman threw for 214 yards, averaging 8.2 yards per pass with one touchdown to Bauer. Bauer led the Wolves receivers with 92 total yards, averaging 30.7 yards per catch. Dakota Larson followed with 46 yards, while Spencer Johnson and Jacob Streit notched 39 and 35 respectively.
 
Alex Gray led the Wolves defense with eight tackles, including seven solo stops. Brady Thielges added six tackles, while eight Wolves recorded four tackles. Jacob Rader tallied the team's lone sack in the game. Noah MacPherson tallied the team's fumble recovery in the game, which came on the Bulldogs first drive at the Northern State 20.
 
Jacob Wiedrich punted for 256 total yards, averaging 42.7 yards per punt with a 52-yard long. The senior also added 132 yards on kickoffs, averaging 44.0 yards per kick.
 
Northern State seniors, Etienne Ezeff, Jacob Wiedrich, K.C. Yeargain, Chaka Kelly, Brady Thielges, Josh Coyle, Alex Gray, Noah MacPherson, Drew Fahrman, Olaf Hanson, Zech Culbreath, and Tyler Trefethren exhausted their eligibility playing their final game in a Wolves uniform.