ST. PAUL, Minn. – Concordia-St. Paul (0-7 NSIC, 0-2 North) dropped a 53-7 home contest to Minnesota Duluth (5-2 NSIC, 3-0 North) on Saturday afternoon at Sea Foam Stadium.
 
Concordia returns to the road, heading to Aberdeen, South Dakota next Saturday at Northern State (3-3 NSIC, 0-1 North) against a Wolves team that is leading Minot State 21-3 in the third quarter.
 
Golden Bear sophomore quarterback Bryce Sievers connected with freshman wide receiver Dion Green to give CSP its lone score of the day, a 42-yard touchdown strike in the third quarter. Sievers finished 5-11 for 78 yards and a touchdown while the touchdown for Green was the first of his career.
 
CSP's ground game was led by sophomore running back Jaylin Richardson (6-21) and freshman wide receiver Troy Ellison (2-17), while Jack Munsterteiger added a 32-yard reception in the third quarter from sophomore quarterback Conner Cordts to round out the top offensive performers.
 
Defensively, junior linebacker Andrew Egnarski had his second-straight double-digit tackle performance with 10, securing nine in the first half on the heels of his 19-tackle effort last week at Bemidji State.
 
Freshman cornerback Zantavious Graham matched Egnarski's 10 tackles, setting a new career-high with nine of his stops being solo tackles.
 
Senior safety Rhett Sheehan added five tackles and a forced fumble and the Golden Bears had six team tackles for loss with El-Osiris Jeudy, Javon Jones, Lucas Becker and Isaac Reed each producing 1.0 TFLs.
 
The Bulldogs were led by running back Wade Sullivan's 100 rushing yards, needing just seven carries and adding a touchdown while quarterback Kyle Walljasper completed 11-16 for 132 yards and two scores while producing 12-67 with a rushing touchdown.
 
UMD had four different players at the quarterback position combine to complete 23-33 for 269 yards while the run game produced a 304-yard day and five touchdowns.