THIS WEEK
Fresh off an overtime win at home the University of Mary football team visits the University of Minnesota Duluth for a second straight game against a Northern Sun North division opponent. The game between the Marauders and the Bulldogs is slated for 12 noon at Malosky Stadium in Duluth, MN.  

THE RECORDS/LAST WEEK
The Marauders are 1-4 overall and in the NSIC and 1-0 in the NSIC North division. UMary edged visiting Northern State 27-26 in overtime last Saturday... Minnesota Duluth is 3-2 / 1-0 NSIC North after a 36-28 homecoming win over visiting MSU Moorhead.

FOLLOW LIVE 

• Voice of the Marauders Jesse Rostvedt and former UMary athletic director and Hall of Fame football coach Roger Thomas team up to broadcast Marauders games on KFYR 550 AM. The game is also streamed online at www.kfyr.com.
• Free video streaming of Marauders home and Northern Sun games is available  https://nsicnetwork.com/goumary and at www.GoUMary.com/coverage  
• Live stats for Saturday's games are available online at www.GoUMary.com/coverage 

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• The Marauders are tied with Minnesota Duluth and Bemidji State for the lead in the NSIC North with records of 1-0
• UMary looks for a second straight win after rallying past Northern State 27-26 in overtime on Saturday
• The 14 point deficit was the largest UMary has overcome since trailing SMSU 18-3 in the 4th quarter of the 2014 season opener
• The overtime game was the first for UMary since back-to-back games in 2008
• All five Marauders games in 2022 and eight contest the last two years have been decided by one possession (8 or fewer points)
• UMary owned second half leads this season against Wayne State, Winona State and #23 Minnesota State. Wayne State scored the winning touchdown with 1:46 left in the game and Minnesota State with 1:57 remaining 
• Starting last Saturday against Northern State, the Marauders play six of seven games against NSIC North Division teams after opening with four straight against South Division teams. 
• The combined record of the Marauders first five opponents is 18-7. Wayne State. Winona State, Southwest Minnesota State and Minnesota State are all 4-1. 
• The Marauders offense continues to roll, scoring 27 or more points in 8 of their last 9 games and thrown for 300 or more yards in 8 of 10 games
• The 2021 NCAA D2 leader in passing yardage, the Marauders have had 300+ yards passing three times in five games this season (300 v WSC, 307 v SMSU, 317 at MSU)

WEEK 5 RECAP | UMary 27 Northern State 26 (overtime)

• The Marauders overcame two 14 point deficits (14-0 and 20-6)
• UMary never held a lead in the game until Kevin Powell's extra point conversion in overtime
• In his first start Jesse Forknell completed 18-of-30 passes for 264 yards, 3 TDs and no interceptions
• Dave Small Jr. ran for a 14 yard TD in the 2nd quarter
• Luke Bodine caught a 12 yard scoring pass at 5:02 of the 3rd quarter
• Collin Gapen caught a 19 yard TD pass and Powell kicked the extra point to tie the game at 20-20 with 3:42 left in the game to force overtime
• After Greg Lux caught a 20 yard TD pass for Northern State in the 1st possession of overtime, Ian Kopf blocked the extra point kick. It was Kopf's 2nd block of an extra point in the game and set the Marauders up for the win with a TD and XP. 
• Gapen caught a 21 yard TD pass in the right corner to tie the game at 26-26. A perfect snap from Josh Zakavec to holder Danny Kittner was blasted through the uprights by Kevin Powell for the Marauders first win of the year. 
• The Marauders held the Wolves 307 yards (195 rushing) and 20 first downs.
• Facing the NSIC's best defense, the Marauders posted 291 yards (264 passing) and 16 first downs. 
• Neither team committed a turnover
• Traivon Dyson posted three catches for 99 yards
• Danny Kittner caught 5 passes for 41 yards
• Collin Gapen had 2 catches for 40 yards and 2 TDs
• Luke Bodine caught 3 passes for 40 yards and a TD
• The Marauders held the Wolves scoreless in the third and fourth quarters
• Devin Beck led UMary with nine tackles
• Ty'Rhae Gibson broke up two passes and had three tackles

RALLY TIME
The Marauders overcame a a pair of 14 point deficits to defeat Northern State 27-26 in overtime. The last time UMary rallied from a 14 point or more deficit to win a game was against Southwest Minnesota State in September 6, 2014, when the Marauders overcame an 18-3 4th quarter deficit to win 19-18... The last time UMary trailed at halftime and rallied to win the game was October 18, 2014. Down 7-3 to Minnesota Crookston, the Marauders came back for a 17-10 win... The last time UMary trailed in a game (21-14, 28-21) and also trailed after the 3rd quarter (28-21) and rallied to win was a 33-28 victory at Minnesota Crookston on October 31, 2015.

OVERTIME REMEMBRANCES
UMary is now 3-0 all-time in NCAA overtimes. Oddly enough the Marauders previous two overtime contests occurred on back to back weeks... The Marauders 27-26 victory over the Wolves was the first overtime game for UMary since a 34-31 road win at Northern State on October 16, 2008. It was a walk-off win for the Marauders when all-time leading rusher Jamal Lomax ran 13 yards for the touchdown... The Marauders other NCAA overtime game came a week earlier. On October 9, 2008, the Marauders edged visiting MSU Moorhead 24-17 on a 2 yard scoring run by Lomax with Rett Thibodeaux hitting the extra point. Phil Thomas knocked down a 4th down pass attempt by the Dragons to seal the win. 

NSIC NAMES FORKNELL, KOPF PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Jesse Forknell and Ian Kopf earned Northern Sun Player of the Week honors for their tremendous impact in the University of Mary's 27-26 overtime victory over Northern State University. Forknell was selected on offense with Kopf claiming special teams recognition... Making his first collegiate start, Forknell rallied the Marauders to the victory as UMary twice trailed by 14 points in the contest. The sophomore from Fargo, ND, completed 18-of-30 passes for 264 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions... All three touchdown passes came in the second half, including a 19 yard scoring strike to Collin Gapen to tie the game at 20-20 with 3:42 to play in the fourth quarter. With the Marauders down 26-20 in overtime, Forknell hit Gapen in the back right corner of the end zone to tie the game. Kevin Powell then kicked the extra point to give the Marauders their first win of the season after four losses by one possession each... Kopf made the Marauders win possible by blocking two Northern State extra point attempts. The first block by the redshirt freshman from Walla, Walla, WA, came in the second quarter to limit the Wolves lead to 20-6... The second block by Kopf was even more impactful and came after the Wolves scored on the opening possession of overtime to take a 26-20 lead. The block allowed the Marauders to win the game on the Gapen touchdown and Powell extra point off the snap by Josh Zakavec and the hold by Danny Kittner... This is the first time the Marauders have had multiple NSIC players of the week for the same game since Paul Guptill captured defensive honors and Brody Riggs was cited for his special teams work in the 2019 season finale against Minnesota Crookston... It was also the second straight season a Marauders quarterback won NSIC offensive honors for their play against the Wolves as Logan Nelson was recognized after UMary's road win at Northern State in 2021.

MARAUDERS-BULLDOGS SERIES HISTORY

• This is the 15th meeting between the Marauders and the Bulldogs
• UMD has won every meeting and is 7-0 in Duluth
• The Bulldogs have been nationally ranked nine times when facing the Marauders
• in 2011 Tyler Steffan caught a school-record four touchdown passes in a 41-28 lost to #9 UMD. On the Marauders 1st offensive play Steffan caught a 64 yard TD ass from Josh Edwards, who threw for 318 yards in the game. Steffan caught additional TD passes of 6, 9 and 2 yards in the 4th quarter. He finished with 10 catches for 140 yards. 

TOPSY TURNOVERS

• The Marauders streak of nine straight games forcing a turnover was snapped against the Wolves. 
• It was was the team's longest stretch of forcing turnovers since a 9-game run in 2018
• UMary is +1 in turnovers this season
• The Marauder have committed multiple turnovers just once in their last eight games while forcing multiple turnovers four times. 

KITTNER KNOWLEDGE BITES

• Danny Kittner has passed the century mark in receiving yards three times in five games this season
• The All-American has had 100+ yards receiving in 12 of his last 16 games and 15 times in his career
• Kittner is 4th in NCAA Division II in receptions/game (8.6) and 15th in receiving yards/game (109.2)

KITTNER GAME BY GAME 2022

• Game 1 v WSC | 8 catches for 114 yards and 1 TD | 1-for-1 passing for 29 yards
• Game 2 at WSU | 7-78 and 1 TD 
• Game 3 v SMSU | 9-152-0
• Game 4 at MSU | 14-161-0 | 5 yard TD pass
• Game 5 v NSU | 5-41-0

Season Total | 43-562-2 TDs

RECORD WATCH | KITTNER
Danny Kittner, the Marauders all-time leading receiver with 244 catches and 3,211 yards, has caught 26 touchdown passes to trail only Jake Pfau (34) and Tyler Steffan and Luke Little (30). Kittner broke the career record for receptions in the final game of last season and the career yardage record in game two at Winona State. 

NSIC RECORD WATCH | KITTNER
With 244 catches for 3,211 yards, Danny Kittner has a shot as breaking the Northern Sun career records in both categories.

NSIC Catches:
1. 269 Nate Huot (Northern State 2014-17)
2. 244 Danny Kittner

NSIC Receiving Yards:
1. 3,428 Shane Zylstra (Minnesota State)
2. 3,360 Matt Heller (Augustana)
3. 3,304 Nate Huot (Northern State)
4. 3,211 Danny Kittner (UMary)

KITTNER IMPACT
All-American Danny Kittner may be best known for leading all levels of NCAA football in receptions and receiving yardage and leading NCAA D2 in all purpose yardage in 2021. But Kittner impacts the Marauders in far more ways than just running routes:  

• Threw his first career TD pass against Minnesota State. For his career he has completed 4-of-7 passes for 107 yards
• Holds for extra points and field goals
• Returns punts and kickoffs
• Scored a 2-point conversion in 2021
• Recovered an onside kick in 2021

CLIMBING THE CHARTS | NELSON

• Logan Nelson moved into 3rd place in career passing yardage at UMary with 5,727 yards, passing both Paul Cronin (4,990) and Tim Garcia (5,154) this fall... Craig Bagnell is the all-time leader (9,170), followed by Chris Schwab (7,786)
• Nelson is 5th in TD passes with 54. Craig Bagnell leads with 75, followed by Chris Schwab (73), Tim Garcia (58) and Paul Cronin (55). 

1K
Dave Small Jr. is the 15th Marauder to crack 1,000 career rushing yards. In just over two seasons (16 games) at UMary Small has run for 1,090 yards. He has also rushed for 11 TDs. Small is now 13th all-time at UMary after passing Evan Gross (1,023) and Mike Brunner (1,053). Next on the list is #12 Josh Murray (1,095), #11 Bayland Rippenkroger (1,106), #10 James Barrrett (1,133) and #9 Dariouse Gravely (1,248). 

NCAA TOP 50 RANKINGS | INDIVIDUAL 
Danny Kittner 

• Receptions/game - 4th (8.6)
• Receiving yards/game - 15th (109.2)
• All purpose yards - 19th (148)

Logan Nelson

• Passing yards/game - 24th (250.5)
• Total offense/game - 25th (264.8)
• Completions per game - 26th (19.5)

Dave Small Jr. 

• Rushing TDs - 35th (5)

Devyn Charles

• Forced fumbles/game - 16th (0.4)

Ty'Rhae Gibson

• Interceptions/game - 51st (0.4)

Collin Gapen

• Receiving TDs - 16th (5)

Ian Kopf

• Blocked kicks - 2nd (2)

NCAA TOP 50 RANKINGS | TEAM 
4th - Blocked kicks (4)
21st - Fumbles Lost (3)
23rd - Passing Offense (268/game)
25th - Passing Yards allowed (159.4/game)
34th - Fewest Penalty yards/game (52)
36th - Red Zone Offense (.882)
37th - turnovers lost (6)
45th - passing yards/completion (13.41)
45th - 4th down percentage (.500)
49th - First Downs (103)

DEBUTS
Several scholar-athletes made their collegiate debuts for the Marauders this year. Among those wearing the Blue & Orange for the first time were transfers Adam Brown, Sonny Brown, Jordan Duson, Korvin Feagins, Caden Green and Xavier Lewis, redshirt freshmen Tre Gola-Callard, Braydon Evertsen, Jaxon Feller, Raphael Hamilton, Eli Heinrich, Ian Kopf, Gabe Levy, Mason Phillips, and Carter Smith and true freshmen Jaxon Young and Traivon Dyson.  

FAMILY MATTERS
Twins Ty'Rese Gibson and Th'Rhae Gibson and Alex Godfrey and Norman Godfrey are the two sets of brothers on the Marauders this season... Ryan Woroniecki and Jacob Thomsen both have had brothers play for UMary... Dave Small Jr. and Tylen Small are cousins... Devin Beck's father was a member of the Marauders "Originals" first football team.  

TICKETING FAQs

• Fans are encouraged to purchase tickets online at www.umarytickets.com or via the HomeTown Fan App for iOS and Android mobile devices
• Save money by purchasing tickets online
• $5 discount (minus fees) on tickets purchased online vs. purchases at the gate
• Tickets purchased at the gate are CASH ONLY transactions | ATMs are located near the main ticketing gates for Marauders home game
• Debit and credit card purchases are online only at www.umarytickets.com or via the HomeTown Fan App
• UMary students and faculty and staff with their MCard are admitted FREE
• Youth 12 and younger with an adult are admitted FREE
• Any youth 12 and under unaccompanied by an adult are charged a $5 admission fee at the gate (cash only)
• All ticket sales are FINAL at time of purchase, whether online or at the gate

 
MARAUDERS FOOTBALL HOME GAME TICKET PRICES

• Adults | $15 + fees online and $20 (CASH ONLY) at the gate
• Seniors (65+) and youth 13-18 | $7.50 + fees online and $10 (CASH ONLY) at the gate
• Children 12 and under accompanied by an adult | Free
• Children 12 and under with no adult present| $5

KITTNER EARNS PRESEASON HONORS

• Senior WR Danny Kittner has earned several preseason accolades after earning unanimous All-American honors in 2021:
• Lindy's College Football Preview 1st team preseason All-American
• D2Football.com Elite 100 1st team
• East West Shrine Bowl 1000
• NSIC 2022 Preseason Offensive Player of the Year

NELSON NAMED TO PRESEASON ELITE 100
All-American senior QB Logan Neson was named to the 2022 D2Football.com Elite 100 team. The Billings, MT, native threw for 3,732 yards and 41 touchdowns while tossing just six interceptions and completing 65% of his passes. The NSIC North 1st team quarterback set single season UMary and NSIC records for passing yards while the scoring passes are a Marauders record... Twice he threw six touchdowns in a single game to tie the school record... He earned Don Hansen All-American honorable mention honors and D2Football.com Elite 100 team in 2021. 

TY'RESE GIBSON NAMED NSIC PLAYER TO WATCH
1st team All-NSIC North Division CB Ty'Rese Gibson was named the Marauders Defensive Player to Watch in 2022 in the conference preseason coaches' poll. A junior from Los Angeles, CA, Gibson picked off a team-leading two passes for 51 return yards. Both his interceptions led to points for UMary. He also broke up five passes and made 29 tackles (22 solo). Gibson also earned NSIC All-Academic Team honors.