Walljasper and Dehnicke Combine for Career Games in Bulldog Win Over UMary 54-32

Game Recap: Football | 10/25/2025 4:02:00 PM | Tyler Bremner

The No. 15 (AFCA) and No. 11 (D2Football.com) University of Minnesota Duluth soccer staff was led by the profession efforts of Kyle Walljasper and Luke Dehnicke Saturday afternoon at James S. Malosky Stadium in opposition to the University of Mary, taking a 54-32 victory.

Walljasper entered a four-way tie with a profession finest six landing passes. Before this feat, his profession finest had been 4 passing touchdowns. He additionally threw for 258 yards with an 81% completion charge, one speeding landing, and 90 internet speeding yards. Dehnicke caught 4 of Walljasper’s landing passes for his profession finest and earned a profession excessive 230 receiving yards, simply 19 yards in need of this system file (249 yds, Tim Battaglia).

After a failed first drive that noticed UMD go for 40 yards on seven performs, UMary drove down 50 yards however was held to a discipline objective. The subsequent drive, the Bulldogs jumped out forward with each a landing and a two-point conversion from Dehnicke, which included a 75-yard landing move from Walljasper.

With UMD main 8-3, the Marauders discovered room to attain after a 64-yard drive to interrupt again forward 11-8 after a two-point conversion. On the final Bulldog drive of the quarter, Walljasper would fumble after a two-yard rush to permit the Marauders the primary possession within the second quarter.

UMD shut down the UMary offense beginning the second quarter and scored on their first drive off a 27-yard move to Francis O’Malley to leap again forward 15-11 after an additional level from Drew Henson. On the third play of the next Marauder drive, Luke Humbert intercepted Jordan Polo Solomon to set the Bulldog offense up on the UMary 32-yard line.

Walljasper discovered an open Dehnicke on a 20-yard landing move three performs in to mark his second receiving landing of the day. O’Malley rushed within the two-point conversion to carry a dominant 23-11 rating over the Marauders.

UMary rallied for a nine-play 84-yard landing drive to inch again in at 23-18 with seven minutes to go earlier than halftime. The first Walljasper move of the UMD drive was picked off by Camani Cobbs to start out their offense at their very own five-yard line after a penalty. After driving for 41 yards, Polo Solomon fumbled, permitting David Gauderman to recuperate it and begin the UMD offense on the Marauder 19-yard line.

This time, Walljasper rushed twice for a complete of 19 yards to attain a landing, and with a Henson kick, marked a 30-18 lead. The subsequent UMary drive stalled for a lack of eight yards, permitting UMD to start out at their very own 44-yard line with 1:51 to go earlier than halftime.

The Bulldog offense went on a fast landing drive in 52 seconds, culminating in one other landing move to Dehnicke for 27 yards to power a 37-18 lead into halftime.

UMary started the ultimate half with possession, failing once more after a 13-yard drive. UMD would then rating on the following two drives with Walljasper passing to DaShaun Ames and Dehnicke to leap to a 51-18 lead with 4:07 left earlier than the ultimate quarter.

The Marauders scored with two minutes remaining to inch to a 51-25 deficit. The subsequent Bulldog drive sputtered to permit UMary to start out the fourth quarter with possession.

Eggert led UMD on their remaining scoring drive of the sport on a seven-play 42-yard drive to get into discipline objective vary to mark the rating at 54-25 with 11 minutes to go. After a UMary drive that ended with an interception from Preston McQueen, the next Marauder drive discovered success in scoring a landing with 4:21 left, marking the ultimate rating at 54-32.

On the defensive aspect, McLeod and Mark Rendl every tallied a sack for a lack of over ten yards every. Humbert and McQueen every picked off the UMary quarterback, with McQueen gaining 27 yards afterwards. Joey Krouse and Humbert led the staff in complete tackles with eight apiece.

Jadon Apgar tallied 9 kickoffs for 533 complete yards (59.2 avg) with Henson going one for one on discipline objectives and 5 for 5 on extra-point kicks. Ryder Patterson led the kick returns with 71 complete yards.

As a staff, UMD doubled the UMary speeding effort with 209 speeding yards to their 104. However, the Bulldogs have been out-passed 354 yards to 300.

UMD heads again on the highway to face NSIC convention newcomer, the University of Jamestown in Jamestown, North Dakota, on Saturday at 1:00 p.m.