North Dakota Builds a 21-point Lead and Holds South Dakota State to 21-10
North Dakota scored three touchdowns on plays of 35, 49 and 12 yards, and then the scoreboard stopped moving for most of the day. The Fighting Hawks 21-10 win over South Dakota State was decided before halftime.
Jerry Kaminski hit Cameron Weir for 35 yards with 1:16 left in the first quarter. Charles Langama ran 49 yards early in the second to make it 14-0. Kaminski found Deng Deng from 12 yards out with 3:54 left in the half, and it was 21-0. South Dakota State finally got on the board with a 30-yard Tristan Alvano field goal with 22 seconds left in the half, and James Basinger cut the lead to 21-10 with a 63-yard run early in the third quarter, with 13:35 on the clock. That was the last score of the game. Nobody was tied and nobody changed leads: North Dakota was ahead from the first score to the last.
The numbers are not what you would expect from a winner. North Dakota threw for just 116 yards (Kaminski was 10 of 16) and finished with 294 total yards to South Dakota State's 326. The Hawks lost a fumble and the Jackrabbits did not turn it over once. North Dakota had 42 rushing attempts and 178 yards, and sacked State twice.
That sends North Dakota to 6-1 and South Dakota State to 5-1. For fantasy, this was a low-scoring day all around. Basinger's 101 yards on 11 carries was the best line on the board, and he got 16.1 points for it. Matt Lawson (24 carries for 99 yards) and Kaminski were within a point of each other behind him.