HOUGHTON, Mich. – The Michigan Tech football team is back at Kearly Stadium for the second-to-last time this season, playing host to second-year GLIAC affiliate Roosevelt, slated for a noon kickoff on Saturday.
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The Series
Michigan Tech played Roosevelt for the first time in program history last season and claimed a 1-0 series lead with a 20-7 victory in Arlington Heights last November.
About the Lakers
Roosevelt, in its second year at the Division II level as an affiliate within the GLIAC, has struggled to find results with a 1-6 record overall and a 0-4 standing in the GLIAC in 2025.
The Lakers allow an average of 48 points on 524 yards of total offense per game while accumulating 18.8 points with a total offense of 348 yards.
Quarterback Zach Zella has tossed for 1,148 yards for nine touchdowns and eight interceptions with a 61.5% completion rate. He has also attempted 32 carries for 88 net rushing yards. His top receiver is Norion Espadron with 35 catches for 477 yards and a touchdown. Jack Young Jr. leads the team with four receiving scores in 27 catches, totaling 28 yards. CJ Hood and Norbert Espadron have over 200 receiving yards and a touchdown on the season.
Cam Davis controls the run game for the Lakers with 129 carries for 428 net rushing yards and two touchdowns.
Defensively, Roosevelt has two players with over 50 total tackles, led by Brandon Harvey (53) and Kamal Mukarram (52). Khalil Nichols and Keron Pryor have recorded a team-leading five breakups, while KJ Hayes has 5.5 TFLs, including two sacks for 15 yards.
About the Huskies
Michigan Tech returns to Kearly Stadium following a 56-17 pummeling of Northern Michigan at the Superior Dome on Saturday to win the 15th-straight Miner's Cup. The Huskies hold an overall ledger of 6-2 while playing to a 3-1 GLIAC standing.
Freshman quarterback Elliott Larner impressed a crowd of 4,500 at the Superior Dome, rushing for a season-high four rushing scores with his 171 yards on the ground on 13 carries, also a season-high for the team. The Lansing, Michigan, native completed half of his passes for 92 yards and a touchdown pass in the win.
The Huskies are putting up 32.5 points while allowing just over 20 points per game with a total offense of 364.4 and a total defense of 280.8, which ranks second in the league and 14th in the country.
Receivers Nic Nora and Ethan Champney rank second and third in the GLIAC with 481 and 379 receiving yards, respectively, while Nora ranks second in the league in receptions per game (4.38) and receiving TDs (5). Bryce Kurncz (283) and Jake Rueff (140) join the aforementioned duo with over 100 receiving yards and have two receiving scores on the season.
Rueff paces the run game with 391 net rushing yards on 96 attempts with two touchdowns. Larner leads the team with six rushing touchdowns, totaling 225 rushing yards in four games played.
Defensively, linebacker Chase Koch leads the squad with 74 total tackles, including four TFLs and a sack for seven yards, to go with two breakups and interceptions. Dante Basanese also has two interceptions with four breakups and 39 total tackles. Porter Zeeman has a team-leading six tackles for loss of 12 yards.
One Last Thing
In back-to-back years against Northern Michigan, the Huskies were able to reach the end zone on punt returns with Jaxon Lippert ripping off a 78-yard punt return touchdown last season before Nora's 60-yard punt return score at the Superior Dome last weekend. Michigan Tech has also had its last two fumble recoveries for touchdowns coming at the Superior Dome, with Hunter Buechel scoring on a fumble recovery (22 yards) in 2023, as Brady Isaacson took a fumble recovery 59 yards to the house in 2025.
