After a win over Augustana University to start the Humboldt State University football team’s first postseason since 1968, the Jacks were routed Saturday, 54-7, by the number one-ranked Northwestern Missouri State.
Playing in Maryland, Missouri, the Jacks record-setting offense was all but stuffed, held to a single touchdown in the fourth quarter off a blocked punt. As the Times-Standard‘s Danny Penza wrote on Twitter, “Northwest Missouri State is good.”
This article appears in Flash Fiction 2015.
