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NIU Huskies are MAC Champions

Drew Hare threw for two
touchdowns and ran for another as the Northern Illinois Huskies
crushed the Bowling Green Falcons, 51-17, in the Mid-American
Conference championship game at Ford Field.

Hare converted 29-of-49 passes for 218 yards, was sacked twice and
intercepted once as the Huskies (11-2, 7-1 MAC) won their third MAC
title in the last four years. Cameron Stingily carried the ball 15
times, leading to 116 yards and two touchdowns on the ground for
NIU as the team generated 334 yards and scored four times on 51
rushing attempts.

NIU has now won 7 straight games as they are bowl eligible for the
7th straight season.

The Falcons (7-6, 5-3) were led by James Knapke who hit on 12-of-21
passes for 151 yards and a score, but he was taken down for three
sacks and suffered a pair of picks. Running back Travis Greene
accounted for 105 yards and a TD on 18 attempts.

The Huskies scored the first 13 points of the contest and never
looked back as Hare found the end zone on a five-yard run at the
5:57 mark of the first quarter, followed by field goals of 35 and
32 yards by Christian Hagan in the first and second period,
respectively.

The Falcons finally chimed in with just over nine minutes left in
the first half as Knapke combined with Gehrig Dieter on a 42-yard
TD pass play, capping a six-play, 75-yard drive that consumed just
91 seconds of the clock.

With a mere 25 seconds remaining before halftime, hare found Luke
Eakes with a five-yard TD strike to make the score 20-7, but as
time expired BGSU was able to add three more points to the
scoreboard on a 46-yard field goal by Tyler Tate, making the score
20-10 at the break.

The second half began with the Huskies scoring 24 straight points,
starting with a four-yard TD catch by Juwan Brescacin, followed by
a two-yard TD run by Stingily. Hagan added a 23-yard field goal in
the final minutes of the third, while Stingily found the end zone
on a two-yard effort midway through the fourth period.

Once more, the Falcons stopped the bleeding momentarily when Greene
crossed the goal line from six yards away, but NIU's Jordan Huff
capped off the team's ensuing possession with a two-yard TD run,
completing the onslaught of scoring for the Huskies.

Northern Illinois generated 552 yards of offense on 100 snaps,
controlling the action for just under 38 minutes as the team
converted 10-of-19 on third down.

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