Scoreboard

Week Ten Game Summaries

McMurry 56, Sul Ross State 28
ABILENE, Texas — McMurry ran their winning streak to five games by giving the Sul Ross State Lobos (2-6, 2-6 ASC) a thumping, 56-28. The Indians (6-3, 5-3) exploded for 28 first-quarter points and then jumped out to a 42-14 halftime lead.

Rory Peacock and Isaiah Navarrete led the way for the Indians. Peacock recorded five catches for 114 yards and three touchdowns. This is the 38th consecutive game that he has caught a pass and he also broke McM's record of touchdowns caught in a season with 13. Navarrete finished the day with 303 yards passing (16-for-22) and 69 yards rushing, while throwing for five touchdowns. The McM offense came away with 525 yards of total offense.

For the Lobos, Scott Kello threw for 263 yards. A.C. Hood caught four passes for 108 yards. Scott Kissee was the leading rusher, carrying the ball 16 times for 75 yards.

Defensively, McMurry lit the Lobos up. McM dominated the trenches, recording seven sacks, two interceptions, and returning one fumble for a touchdown. Roque Vela was the leading tackler with 12, recorded both interceptions, and five passes deflected for the Indians. Cale Melton also had 12 tackles and one sack. Kenny Ochoa had 10 tackles for the Lobos.

McMurry started the game scoring on their first five possessions of the first half. Just 1:38 into the game, Navarrete hit Keidric Dixon on a 42-yard pass for the first score of the game. Six minutes later, Peacock caught his first of three touchdowns on a 4-yard pass from Navarrete. Then, on a third and 1, Peacock laid out to catch his second touchdown with 2:13 left in the first. With time winding down in the first, Dixon took Sul Ross' third punt of the game back 72-yards for his second TD of the day and a 28-point lead.

Peacock started the second quarter off with a bang when recorded his third touchdown of the day on a 48-yard pass from Navarrete. This gave McM a 35-0 lead. The Lobos finally crossed the goal line with 7:09 left in the second when Scott Kello took a quarterback sneak in from 1 yard out. A.C. Hood caught the two-point conversion to make it 35-8. With 1:04 left in the half, Vincent Sanchez gave the Lobos 13 points on his 1-yard run. 

The Indians still were not done before halftime. Navarrete threw for his fifth touchdown of the day, with 0:05 left in the half, to Danny Black on 24-yard pass to take a 42-14 advantage into the locker room at halftime.

Things did not go Sul Ross' way in the second half, either. Just 0:14 into the third quarter, quarterback Scott Kello fumbled the ball when senior Johnny Golden nailed him. Senior defensive lineman Bobby Ramsay saw nothing but the end zone when he picked it up to rumble 33 yards for the touchdown. Sul Ross did convert another touchdown in the third when Kello hit Matt Horton on a 9-yard pass.

McM did put seven more points on the board when sophomore Rueben Heights scored his second touchdown of the season at the 3:49 mark in the third quarter to take a 36-point lead. Jesse Wells finished out the scoring for Sul Ross at 2:25 left in the game on a 20-yard pass from Kello.

Thomas More 26, Bluffton 15
Thomas More College capped off a 9-1 regular season and kept their playoff chances alive with a 26-14 win over Bluffton in Salzman Stadium. Bluffton falls to 6-3 overall and will get back into Heartland Conference action next Saturday as the Beavers travel to Defiance College for a shot at tying for the 2000 HCAC title and winning an automatic bid with help.

After a 7-7 first half which ended with a 31-yard field goal attempt that hit the upright, Thomas More scored two touchdowns in the third quarter to take a 19-7 lead. Early in the fourth quarter Bluffton's Jamie Stevens hauled in a 10-yard touchdown pass from Brad Moore to get BC back in the game at 19-14, but Thomas More put the game away with another touchdown with 1:41 left in the game.

In a much anticipated matchup, Thomas More running back Will Castleberry, who came into the game as the nation's top-rated rusher with 173.2 yards per game, outgunned BC's Tyson Goings 176-68 to lead the Saints to victory. Castleberry scored on touchdown runs of 25 yards in the second quarter and 2 yards on TMC's final score. Saints quarterback Jesse Lowery added 82 yards on the ground, including a 48-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, and completed nine of 15 passes for 114 yards and a touchdown. Lowery hit Nick Yordy on a 15-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter for Thomas More's first score.

Moore led the Bluffton offense with 77 yards rushing and 138 passing. Goings, who entered the game ranked 6th in the country averaging 160.4 yards per game on the ground, was held to his 68 yards on 21 carries. Goings scored on a 3-yard run in the first quarter.

Westminster (Mo.) 35, Southern Nazarene 30
FULTON, Mo. – Chris Marshall found Andy Jahnsen in the end zone for a 3-yard touchdown pass with 18.7 seconds remaining as Westminster rallied in dramatic fashion for a 35-30 win over Southern Nazarene.

The touchdown pass, the fourth of the day by Marshall, completed a six-play, 71-yard Westminster drive and gave the Blue Jays (2-7) their second win of the year.  Southern Nazarene (4-4) had rallied from a 29-18 deficit to take a 30-29 lead with 1:10 left to play when Jason Kilmer ran 5 yards for his fourth touchdown of they day.

The two teams traded scores in the first half, with the game tied 15-all at halftime.  Westminster jumped out to a 22-15 lead in the third quarter, when Marshall connected with Ryan Brodecker for a 23-yard score.  SNU cut the lead to 22-18 going into the fourth quarter on a 27-yard Jeremy Box field goal.  

Westminster extended the lead to 29-18 on a 10 yard touchdown pass from Marshall to Jahnsen.  Kilmer's third touchdown of the game, a 10-yard run with 6:59 left made the score 29-24 Westminster and set the stage for the fireworks in the final minutes.

Marshall finished the afternoon 26-44 for 361 yards and four touchdowns.  He also ran the ball 18 times for 69 yards and a touchdown.  Brodecker had a career afternoon, catching nine passes for 176 yards and two scores, while Jahnsen recorded seven catches for 89 yards and two scores.  

Defensively, leading tackler Ryan Binkholder had just five stops, but he set the school single-season record for tackles with 85, breaking the previous mark of 83.

Kilmer finished the day with 294 yards and the four touchdowns on 29 carries.  The Crimson Storm outgained Westminster 523-456, but were hampered by 14 penalties for 153 yards.

Johns Hopkins 21, Franklin & Marshall 20
LANCASTER, Pa. – Quarterback David Makson passed 46 times, the third-highest amount in Franklin & Marshall football history, but it wasn't enough as Hopkins' Kevin Johnson ran for a game high 143 yards as the Blue Jays (5-4, 4-2 Centennial) defeated the Diplomats (0-9, 0-6) 21-20.

F&M got on the board first when Chad Strothers burst through the line on a 1-yard plunge and Steve Linebaugh hit a 17 yard field goal, the first of the year for F&M, for a 10-0 lead after the first half.

Hopkins answered back with 3:20 to go in the half when Donald Davis rushed 15 yards for the TD, but kicker Matt Andrade missed the extra point.
Makson then led the team down the field, including a season-long 53-yard pass to Justin Salton to set up a quarterback keeper for 1 yard into the end zone for a 17-6 Diplomat lead at the half.

However, the Franklin & Marshall third quarter sorrows continued as 24 and 6-yard TD passes from George Merrell to Zach Baylin and Will Baskett, respectively, gave Hopkins its first lead at 18-17.

A Bill Panfile interception of a Merrell third and 10 pass at 9:42 of the fourth set up a 36 yard F&M scoring strike which culminated in Linebaugh's second field goal of the day to put F&M 20-18 with 7:28 to play.

At the 3:42 mark, Andrade hit for the game-winning 32-yard field goal to hand F&M its ninth straight defeat.

On defense, Hopkins Nolan Ivers led all tacklers with 14 stops, while F&M was led by linebacker Peter Mohoric who totaled 12 tackles, including a sack for six yards.  Centennial Conference sack leader Chris Gallino added to his total by getting to Merrell for an eight yard loss, his eighth sack of the 2000 season.

On the sidelines, Johns Hopkins head coach Jim Margraff tied longtime head coach Ray Van Orman (1920-1935) for the all-time career record for wins by a JHU football coach at 60. Last year, Margraff moved into third place on the all-time Centennial Conference victory list with a 35-33 win over F&M and became only the third coach in conference history to amass 40 Centennial victories with a 35-0 pounding of Swarthmore on September 16, 2000.

F&M or Gettysburg (0-9, 0-6) will earn its only win of the year next week when they face each other in Gettysburg. 

Lewis & Clark 33, Willamette 30
SALEM, Ore. – Willamette’s Jesse Ward missed a game-tying 31-yard field goal attempt as time expired Saturday, allowing Lewis & Clark College a 33-30 victory over the Bearcats in a Northwest Conference football game in McCulloch Stadium.

The come-from-behind win snaps a 13-game conference losing streak for Lewis & Clark (3-5, 1-3) dating back to 1997 and gives the Pioneers its second straight win on the road after ending a 10-game losing streak on the road last week with a win at Colorado College.

The loss is the second in as many weeks for the Bearcats (3-6, 0-4) who finish out the season next Saturday at league-leading Linfield.

Willamette took a 3-0 lead on Ward’s 20-yard field goal in the first quarter, but fell behind as the Pioneers reeled off 18 unanswered points. Quarterback Trent Thompson scored the first touchdown on a 5-yard keeper, followed by a 9-yard pass to Jeff Scheid. The two hooked up less than a minute later following a muffed Willamette kickoff return and the Pioneers found themselves in unfamiliar territory, up 18-3. The Bearcats made the halftime score respectable as Bucky Rivera hit Rob Schoepper with a 10-yard touchdown pass with 43 seconds left in the half.

A pair of long touchdown runs by Mark Van Ronzelen and Andrew Ecklund gave Willamette a 23-18 lead at the end of the third quarter, but Lewis & Clark answered early in the fourth on a 13-play, 84-yard drive, capped by a 1-yard dive by Anthony Azadeh. Thompson hit Brian Schott for a 2-point conversion and the Pioneers regained the lead, 26-23.

The Bearcats, which turned in their most balanced offensive attack on the year rushing for 292 yards and passing for a season-best 248, regained the lead midway through the fourth quarter when Rivera hit a diving Steve Nass with a 13-yard strike in the corner of the end zone. Ward’s PAT made it 30-26. Willamette, which out gained Lewis & Clark 540-321 in total offense, looked to be able to hold the Pioneers out of the end zone when Thompson was shaken up and had to leave the game on third down with 1:49 left deep in Bearcat territory. 

Back-up Brian Schott took his place and made his one play count, drawing a pass interference as his pass to intended receiver Jason Hill drew a flag. Getting the ball spotted on the Willamette 2-yard line, Thompson threw his third touchdown pass on the day, a bullet that Hill juggled but was ruled to control in the end zone for the go-ahead score.

Willamette made it exciting, driving to the Lewis & Clark 17 before Ward’s field goal attempt sailed wide right.

With the win, Lewis & Clark reclaims the Wagon Wheel, a turn-of-the-century Conestoga wheel that has been given to the winner of the annual contest since 1949. Willamette has kept the Wagon Wheel since winning the 1993 game in Portland.

Wheaton 42, North Park 34
WHEATON, Ill. – Wheaton and North Park put on an offensive show as the teams combined for 927 yards of total offense in a 42-34 Wheaton win. North Park accounted for 547 yards of offense and Wheaton 380. North Park (3-6, 1-5 CCIW) ran for 341 yards and had the ball for 37:16 of the game, while Wheaton held onto the ball just 22:44. 

Wheaton senior running back Brian Pastermack ran for 120 yards on 18 carries. It marked the fourth consecutive game that Pastermack has run for 100 yards or more. Sophomore quarterback Josh Anderson passed for 182 yards on 13-23 passing with three touchdowns. Senior wide receiver Jeremy Amos caught eight of those passes for 188 yards and two touchdowns. Sophomore Jonathan Wills had two touchdown catches with 52 receiving yards.

Senior linebacker Brett Wyss tallied 11 total tackles (five solo) and a fumble recovery. J.D. Leman made 10 total tackles (4 solo). Senior Jamie Busch had eight total tackles with three quarterback sacks (minus-28 yards). Senior linebacker Greg McMillin had six total tackles with three sacks (minus-16 yards).

North Park's senior running back Darnell Rios ran for a school-record 232 yards on 28 carries with three touchdowns. Junior running back Mike Rice ran for 132 yards on 13 carries with one touchdown. Viking quarterback Dana Anderson passed for 180 yards with one touchdown on 16-27 passing.

Wheaton (7-2, 5-1) started the scoring barrage when Amos caught a 48-yard pass from Josh Anderson with 9:43 left in the first quarter. The touchdown toss capped an eight-play drive of 87 yards. Rios got North Park on the scoreboard with a 73-yard touchdown run with 8:35 left in the first quarter. The Vikings took a 12-6 advantage when Rice scored on an 81-yard touchdown run with 6:10 left in the first quarter. 

With 9:46 left in the first half North Park attempted a 35-yard field goal that was blocked by Pastermack and recovered by junior defensive back Bryan Ittersagen who returned it 82-yards for a touchdown. Pastermack's fourth blocked kick of the season gave Wheaton a 13-12 lead. Wills made it 20-12 in favor of Wheaton when he caught a 25-yard touchdown pass from Anderson with 7:23 left in the first half. Wills' touchdown was set up when Wheaton stopped a Viking fake punt attempt on the North Park 24-yard line. 

Rios tied the game at 20-20 with an 11-yard run. The Vikings owned a 28-20 advantage at halftime as Michael Fields caught a 13-yard touchdown pass from Dana Anderson.

Wheaton tied the game at 28-28 with a four-yard touchdown run with 7:35 left in the third quarter by Josh Anderson that capped a 14-play drive of 91 yards. North Park again took the lead at 34-28 when Rios reached the end zone in a 23-yard touchdown run. 

Wheaton took the lead for good at 35-34 when Amos caught a 6-yard touchdown pass from Josh Anderson that capped a 10-play drive of 55 yards. Jon Wills gave Wheaton a 42-34 cushion with a 9-yard touchdown catch that capped a seven-play drive of 56 yards.

Upper Iowa 48, William Penn 14
OSKALOOSA, Iowa – William Penn held a 14-7 lead after the first quarter but never saw the end zone again in a 48-14 loss to Upper Iowa University. Both teams are now 2-7 overall.

The Peacocks scored first off a 4-yard touchdown run by Mike Hatten 27 seconds into the game after the Statesmen fumbled the opening kickoff. Jeff Moody knocked the extra-point attempt in for a 7-0 Upper Iowa advantage.

Torain Howard caught a 9-yard pass from Javian Thornton at the 8:15 mark to put the Statesmen on the board. The kick by Eric Lenox failed as Penn narrowed the gap to 7-6. Five minutes later Howard ran the ball in from 34-yards out for six and then carried the ball in for the two-point conversion to push the Statesmen ahead 14-7.

In the second quarter with 4:39 to go Wes Morrow picked off a Penn pass and returned it 20 yards for a score. Moody's kick was good and the score was knotted at 14-14 at the half.

In the third quarter Lu Hearns returned a punt 70 yards for a touchdown for the Peacocks and Moody's kick gave Upper Iowa a 21-14 lead. With 2:56 to go in the third Melvin Colvin ran the ball in from 2 yards out for a score but the kick failed.

The Peacocks scored three more touchdowns in the fourth for the victory. Hatten scored on a 24-yard run, Tinsley Baker had a 71-yard run and Morrow returned his second interception back for a touchdown from 32 yards out.

Upper Iowa collected 295 yards of offense and held Penn to 171 yards in the game.

Howard finished with 85 yards rushing, 17 yards receiving and two touchdowns and Thornton ended with four completions on 14 attempts for 31 yards. Thornton also threw two picks and Howard returned two kickoffs for 37 yards.

Quarnail Arnold returned four kickoffs for 87 yards including a long return of 29 yards. Bill Bolen had 10 punts for 336 yards, a 33.6 average per punt.

Gabe Washington was the tackle leader with 11. He had six solos, five assists and one tackle for a 6-yard loss.

Dustin Dobbins had nine tackles including four solos and one for a two-yard loss and Isaac Hrovat had eight solo tackles. Four tackles were for a total loss of 30 yards including two sacks for a loss of 15 yards. He also had one
fumble recovery and one forced fumble.

Brian Benford finished with three solo tackles, three assists and two pass breakups. Dyllon Marsolf had two unassisted tackles, four assists and one tackle for a loss of 1 yard. He also returned an interception 15 yards and had one pass breakup.

UW-River Falls 52, UW-Platteville 7
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. – UW-River Falls, who had averaged 575 yards and 48 points during the month of October, kept up its red-hot attack into November in beating host UW-Platteville 52-7.

The Falcons (6-3 overall, 5-2 WIAC) rolled up 616 yards of offense, including 605 on the ground. Five different players scored rushing touchdowns, including two each by Nick Scribner, Mark Shepherdson and Billy Lowe. Scribner led all rushers with 182 yards, while Andrew Kruger added 111.

UWRF led 24-0 after one quarter and made it 31-0 one play into the second. The Pioneers (2-7, 1-6) then went 61 yards in seven plays, capped by Aaron Mack's 3-yard touchdown pass to Reggie Davis for the only UWP score of the day.

The brightest note for UW-Platteville was that Troy Gagner caught 9 passes for 123 yards and in the process broke the school record for receiving yards in a season. The senior from Rice Lake now has 50 catches for 859 yards, surpassing the 782 yards Jerry Schliem gained in 1966 on 53 receptions.

UW-Stout 14, UW-Whitewater 13
WHITEWATER, Wis. – There is no question now who is the 2000 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion as UW-Stout completed their worst-to-first finish with a thrilling 14-13 win over UW-Whitewater to finish WIAC play with a 7-0 record. But the Blue Devils came within a fingertip of seeing their solo title slip away.

After Stout (9-0 overall) jumped out to a 14-7 lead late in the fourth quarter, the Warhawks held the Blue Devils to a punt, and started from their own 38. With the Warhawks' starting quarterback knocked out of action, backup Reggie Stauss led a drive with 1:53 left in the game. Stauss connected on a pair of passes to the Stout 24, then tailback Chad Wurth rumbled in for the score.

Wurth, who is also the placekicker, was injured on the play and the Warhawks' pass attempt for the go-ahead score fell incomplete.

With the hands team on the field for the anticipated onside kick, the kick went out of bounds. Justin Fjeldstad took a knee three times and Stout got the 14-13 win.

Nothing came easy for either team. The Blue Devils' Jamie Spielman had a 35-yard interception return in the first half that set up a Kevin McCulley 23-yard field goal to give Stout a 3-0 halftime lead. Spielman also recovered a fumble in the first half, but Stout could not convert.

McCulley gave Stout a 6-0 lead in the second half with a 35-yard field goal, but Whitewater (5-5, 3-4) took a 7-6 lead in the third quarter when starting quarterback Randy Borgardt engineered a 72-yard drive in five plays, completing passes of 36 and 26 yards to Steve Tenhagen, then got the score himself on a 4-yard run.

Stout answered back with about 10 minutes left in the game when Luke Bundgaard scored to pull ahead 12-7. The Blue Devils went for a two-point conversion and Stout converted for what would prove to be the winning points when Fjeldstad hit tight end Brian Johnson in the end zone.

The Warhawks outgained Stout, gaining 212 yards by passing and 113 by rushing. The Blue Devils picked up 120 yards in the air, 134 by rushing, 70 of them coming by Bundgaard, who needs 12 yards to snap the school record of 1105 rushing yards in a season.

The Warhawks' Wurth led all rushers with 87 yards. Tenhagen pulled in four catches for 96 yards, while tight end Chris Korff had six grabs for 61 yards.
For the Blue Devils, Bundgaard carried 24 times for 70 difficult yards. Eric Baker had 52 yards. Abraham Cruz hauled in five passes for 63 yards.

The game marked the first time Stout had claimed the conference title since 1965 and only the 11th time in the last 36 seasons a WIAC team has gone undefeated and untied in league play. The win also gave the Blue Devils their first win over Whitewater since 1985 and matched Stout's longest ever winning streak and their most wins in a single season.

Stout finished the 1999 season 2-8, 1-6.

Trinity Bible 27, Rockford 20
ELLENDALE, N.D. -- Rockford built an early 13-0 lead, then saw Trinity Bible score the next 27 points behind Pat Ringler's 139 yards rushing, as the Lions handed the Regents a season-ending 27-20 setback at Trinity Bible Stadium Saturday.

The setback ends the Regents' season at 1-9, while the Lions improved to 3-6.

The Regents used three first-half fumble recoveries and a short punt to open a 13-7 lead at intermission.

Rockford College drove 35 yards in four plays after a short Lion punt to put the first points on the board. Marcus Howard (12 carries, 41 yards) scored on a 5-yard run with 10:22 left in the first period and James Goudreau added the PAT for a 7-0 advantage.

Paul Kelly forced a Derrick DeBoef fumble late in the first quarter and Kyle Connell picked up the loose ball and returned it 44 yards to the Lion nine. Two plays later, Howard scored his second touchdown of the day and fifth of the season. Goudreau's point after failed, but the Regents led 13-0 with 13:06 left in the half.

Rockford had chances to add to their advantage in the first quarter, but Goudreau couldn't connect on field goal attempts from 40 and 37 yards out.
The Lions cut the lead to 13-7 when Matt Waring caught a 16-yard pass from Derrick DeBoef with 10:57 left on the clock. The six-play, 62-yard drive consumed 2:09 of the second period.

The Regents had one last opportunity to score before intermission. But after driving 50 yards in nine plays, Rockford College was stopped on downs at the Trinity Bible 32.

Waring was on the receiving end of another scoring toss from DeBoef, this time from 6 yards out, as the Lions took their first lead of the contest, 14-13, with 10:38 remaining in the third quarter.

Rockford punter Andy Clark had a punt blocked later in the period and Trinity Bible turned it into a score one play later when DeBoef connected with Dustin Morgan with a 23-yard scoring toss. Mike Christian's point after gave the Lions a 21-13 advantage with 2:53 remaining in the third quarter.

The Regents came back, taking the ensuing kickoff and moving 47 yards in 10 plays. But the drive stalled at the Lion 18 when Peterson's fourth-down pass fell incomplete.

After falling behind 27-13 on a one-yard scoring jaunt from T.J. Smith, the Regents cut the advantage to 27-20 with 1:49 remaining when they drove 80 yards in 12 plays. Bob Peterson, who completed 21 of 38 passes for 203 yards, hit Jason Olson for a 14-yard gain to the four and Terrence Pirtle (13 carries, 35 yards) scored on the next play.

The Regents attempted an onside kick, but the Lions recovered to preserve the win.

Trinity Bible outgained Rockford 384-288, and recorded 167 yards on the ground to the Regents' 85. Mike Naymola was the leading receiver for Rockford with seven catches for 80 yards. Olson added 63 on six grabs and Pirtle and Travis Rhodes each caught two passes.

Steve Crawford led the Rockford defensive charge with 14 tackles. Dennis Domsky added eight and Mike Roscoe seven, including three for losses.