Key injuries to star players have resulted from action in last weekend’s stunning upset of North Dakota State by the University of South Dakota.
USD starting running back Trevor Bouma is done for the season after breaking an arm.
Bouma suffered the injury Saturday in USD’s 24-21 upset of four-time defending Football Championship Subdivision champion North Dakota State. Bouma rushed 20 times for 94 yards in the game and had two receptions for 80 yards.
Coyotes coach Joe Glenn says Bouma is scheduled for surgery on the broken arm — the same one he broke a year ago that cut his season five games short. He’ll miss the final five games again this year.
Bouma was leading the Missouri Valley Football Conference in yards per carry and was the league’s fifth-leading rusher.
The game also was costly for NDSU, which has lost starting quarterback Carson Wentz to a broken wrist.
North Dakota State has confirmed that Wentz will miss 6 to 8 weeks after breaking a bone in his throwing wrist.
Bison athletic department spokesman Ryan Perreault (pur-AHLT’) says Wentz will undergo surgery Wednesday for the right wrist injury he suffered Saturday during the team’s 24-21 loss to South Dakota in Fargo.
Perreault says Wentz has a “non-displaced fracture” and is expected to miss the regular season. The team hasn’t ruled out a possible return in the postseason.
NDSU is the four-time defending Championship Subdivision champion. The Bison are 4-2 this season after the upset loss to the Coyotes that ended NDSU’s 26-game home winning streak.
Wentz is a senior from Bismarck. He passed for 1,454 yards and 16 touchdowns in the season’s first six games.
