DeKALB — NIU’s football team leads the Ball State University Cardinals 17-3 at halftime at Huskie Stadium in the Battle for the Bronze Stalk.
Redshirt junior running back Tre Harbison has 123 rushing yards and a pair of touchdowns early for NIU. Rain that was forecasted before the game arrived in the second quarter.
Redshirt senior linebacker Antonio Jones-Davis came up with an interception on the first play of the game, with Harbison scoring a 19-yard touchdown in response.
Harbison scored another rushing touchdown early in the first and set up a 24-yard field goal by redshirt first-year kicker Josh Richardson with a long run.