HOUGHTON — For 30 minutes Saturday, the Michigan Tech Huskies football team looked like a group still basking in a rivalry win from a week earlier. They trailed the Roosevelt Lakers, 24-21. But, 30 minutes later, Huskies played a phenomenal second half and came away with their seventh win of the season, 56-31, over the Lakers at Kearly Stadium.

“Obviously, slow starting,” said Huskies coach Dan Mettlach. “Thought we were pretty sloppy in the first half. Did some good things at times, obviously, to put 21 points on the board in the first half. But, you have the emotional week last week, big win on the road. Thought we did everything we could to protect against a letdown today, and just took us a little bit longer to get out of bed than I’d like to.

“Made some adjustments, and had some goo

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