Score by quarters
UND 7 7 00 7--21
UC Davis 14 10 00 10--34
First quarter
UC Davis -- Bakari Grant 4 pass from Greg Denham, Sean Kelley kick, 9:16 remaining. Drive: 12 plays, 60 yards, 5:44. Key plays: The Aggies slowly move down the field. No play went for more than 10 yards and that was a fullback smash up the middle by Dean Rogers to the Sioux 11. Earlier, Denham picks up 2 yards on a third-and-1. Three plays later, Denham throws 7 yards to Chris Carter for a first down.
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UC Davis 7, UND 0
UND -- Ismael Bamba 50 pass from Danny Freund, Brandon Hellevang kick, 8:03 remaining. Drive: 3 plays, 70 yards. Key plays: Freund picks up 4 yards on the first play. Josh Murray scampers outside for 16 yards on the next. On the touchdown, Bamba runs a fly pattern in front of the Davis bench and easily beats the Aggie secondary.
UND 7, UC Davis 7
UC Davis -- Brandon Rice 11 pass from Denham, Kelley kick, 0:09 remaining. Drive: 9 plays, 55 yards, 3:48. Key plays: UC Davis digs out of a second-and-23 hole. On third-and 13, Denham completes a 13-yard over-the-middle pass to Carter. Denham throws for 14 more yards on the next play, giving the Aggies a first down at the Sioux 20.
UC Davis 14, UND 7
Second quarter
UND -- Brandon Brady 1 run, Hellevang kick, 12:05 remaining. Drive: 7 plays, 61 yards, 3:04. Key plays: Murray gains 46 yards on a simple play up the middle. Murray hits the line, then scoots to the right and is off to the races. The Sioux gamble on fourth-and-1, but Brady powers over off of the left side.
UND 14, UC Davis 14
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UC Davis -- Dean Rogers 1 run, Kelley kick, 7:29 remaining. Drive: 10 plays, 68 yards, 4:36. Key plays: Denham hits Rice for 33 yards on second-and-7. Rogers gains 3 yards on fourth-and-1, giving the Aggies a first down at the Sioux 9.
UC Davis 21, UND 14
UC Davis -- Kelley 30 field goal, 0:07 remaining. Drive: 10 plays, 68 yards, 1:50. Key plays: The Aggies drive despite having only one timeout remaining. Denham throws six straight completions to Cutshaw. On back-to-back plays, the two hook up for 18 and 19 yards. Joel Schwenzfeier picks off Denham in the end zone, but the play is wiped out as Mike Ebanks is called for offsides. The Aggies elect to kick a field goal on second-and-4 with under 10 seconds to play.
UC Davis 24, UND 14
Third quarter
No scoring.
Fourth quarter
UC Davis -- Rogers 1 run; Kelley kick, 9:21 remaining. Drive: 11 plays, 71 yards, 9:21. Key plays: Denham completes a 14-yard pass to Brandon Rice and a 23-yard pass to Sean Creadick.
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UC Davis 31, UND 14
UC Davis -- Sean Kelley 36 field goal, 2:45 remaining. Drive: 11 plays, 32 yards, 5:13. Key play: On fourth-and-2 from UND's 32, Denham hits Carter for a 10-yard pass.
UC Davis 34, UND 14
UND -- Freund 1 run, 33 seconds remaining. Drive: 13 plays, 58 yards, 2:12. Key play: After Hawkins returns the kickoff 36 yards, Davis is called for pass interference on fourth-and-3 from the 23.
UC Davis 34, UND 21
STATISTICS
UND UC Davis
First downs 14 28
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Rushes-yards 27-68 36-95
Passing yards 177 320
Punt returns .... 1-2 2-24
Kickoff returns. 7-159 3-49
Interceptions ret. 1-6 1-0
Comp-Att-Int 21-31-1 31-42-1
Punts-avg 3-41.7 2-28
Fumbles-lost 1-0 0-0
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Penalties-yards 2-8 8-59
Time of poss 26:04 33:56
Individual leaders
RUSHING -- UND: Josh Murray 11-82, Catlin Solum 1-7, Brandon Brady 4-4, Danny Freund 10-(-23); UC Davis: Corbin Cutshaw 16-47, Josh Reese 7-31, Bakari Grant 1-16, Dean Rogers 6-14, Chris Carter 1-13
PASSING -- UND: Freund 21-30-1, 177 yards; UC Davis: 31-41-1, 320 yards
RECEIVING -- UND: Brady Trenbeath 8-54, Ismael Bamba 1-50, Alex Nicholas 6-36, Ryan Konrath 2-12, Kellen Leupp 1-10, Catlin Solum 1-8, Marcus Tibesar 1-2; UC Davis: Corbin Cutshaw 8-81, Brandon Rice 5-74, Chris Carter 8-72, Josh Reese 4-31, Chris Miller 2-23, Sean Creadick 1-23, Bakari Grant 3-16
Defensive leaders
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UND -- Rory Manke 4-4-8-0, Brett Holinka 6-0-6-0, Dominique Hawkins 5-1-6-0, Drake Otto 5-1-6-0, Kris Ankenbauer 4-2-6-0, Andrew Miller 2-3-5-0, Dan Hendrickson 3-1-4-0, Ryan Kasowski 3-1-4-0, Nathan Wayne 3-0-3-0, Broc Bellmore 2-1-3-0, Joel Schwenzfeier 2-1-3-0, Ryan Pollow 2-0-2-0, Link Gottbeheat 1-1-2-0, Clayton Leith 0-2-2-0, Paul German 0-2-2-0, Brady Kelley 1-0-1-1, Steven Battle 1-0-1-0, Blair Grover 1-0-1-0, Kellen Leupp 1-0-1-0, Nick Nolte 1-0-1-0, Ward DeMontigny 1-0-1-0, Ross Cochran 1-0-1-0, Kyle Krusenstjerna 0-1-1-0, Kenny Watkins 0-1-1-0, Matt Bodoh 0-1-1-0.
UC Davis -- Dozie Amajoyi 6-1-7-1, Tyler Pringle 2-5-7-0, Jeremy Scott 3-3-6-0, Kenneth Brown 4-1-5-0, Kymm Snowden 4-0-4-0, Mike Morales 2-2-4-0, Jonathan Calhoun 3-0-3-0, Patrick Michelier 2-1-3-0, Steven Wulff 2-1-3-2, Nero Evero 2-0-2-0, Ryan Johnson 2-0-2-0, Brock Butler 0-2-2-0, Danny Hart 0-2-2-0, John Faletoese 1-0-1-1, Mark Tos 1-0-1-0, Mike Healey 1-0-1-0, E.J. Brown 0-1-1-0, Neal Pierce 0-1-1-0.