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Hubert with 2:43 left before halftime to make it 10-7. Justin Syrovatka's 46-yard field goal two minutes later knotted the game at 10 going into intermission.
• "It was a case of a mistake here and a mistake there. Ours were penalties," Stiegelmeier said.
• Both teams close out the regular season next week -- NDSU at Illinois State and SDSU at home against South Dakota.
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• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- David Johnson ran for two touchdowns and caught a pass for another score to lead Northern Iowa past South Dakota 24-21 on Saturday.
• Johnson, who finished with 130 yards rushing on 21 carries, scored on runs of 3 and 1 yards, and caught his only pass of the game, a 20-yarder from Sawyer Kollmorgen for the Panthers (4-6, 3-4 Missouri Valley). It was Johnson's fifth game in a row with at least 100 yards.
• The Coyotes (1-9, 0-7) lost their eighth straight despite the efforts of Josh Vander Maten, who threw for 205 yards and ran for 135 more. He accounted for two scores. Will Powell caught nine passes for 127 yards and a touchdown for South Dakota, which hasn't beaten Northern Iowa since 1981.
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• MANDAN, N.D. (AP) -- U.S. Sen.-elect Heidi Heitkamp is naming her chief of staff.
• Heitkamp announced Saturday that Tessa Gould will be the chief advisor for the new senator.
• Gould managed Heitkamp's successful campaign to win the senate seat. Before that, Gould served as associate development director for the University of South Dakota Foundation.
• Gould was chief of staff to former Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin in South Dakota. She has also worked with Congressman Earl Pomeroy and Senator Byron L. Dorgan, both from North Dakota, and House Leader Dick Gephardt from Missouri.
• Gould says in a news release that she is humbled and honored to be asked to go to Washington to work for Heitkamp.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Preliminary snow totals from the National Weather

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