FB: Upper Midwest Athletic Conference

[AO]

At the half it's Northwestern 39 and Trinity Bible College 0

so far so good for the doubleheader attempt.  Trinity is running the ball a lot, which I'm sure everyone appreciates to keep the clock running.  Trinity is having some success running it, so why not?

[AO]

Final Score from game 1 of the doubleheader

Northwestern 59
Trinity Bible      0

[cwm1276]

Rockford 49, Maranatha Baptist 18
Next week trinity in Rockford, Rockford's offense is getting beat up so I figure the score 70 to 6.

[mizzou_mafia]

Good coverage by ESPN on its website of this past weekend's doubleheader:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2185866

[Pat Coleman]

Indeed. For some reason Northwestern's biggest fan doesn't feel like posting on the UMAC board, only the MIAC board, so that link has been discussed a bit over there already.

[mizzou_mafia]

Indeed. For some reason Northwestern's biggest fan doesn't feel like posting on the UMAC board, only the MIAC board, so that link has been discussed a bit over there already.

Yeah, I can understand him taking it elsewhere with this board hardly getting any feedback on it, but it's too bad he didn't post it here right away for any lurkers that would be interested in it.  Good coverage in Around the Region today too. 

Me, I've tried to stay away from the MIAC board...I spend enough time perusing the big scrolling boards in the South region...throw in the MIAC board and I think I'd have to cut my work hours back to part-time to keep up.

[sfury]

In this week's Sports Illustrated, Steve Rushin's column is about the Northwestern doubleheader. Northwestern fans should definitely enjoy it. Online it's only available to subscribers, but it'll be in the magazine this week.

[phoenix83]

Does anyone have any thoughts on DomeDay matchups in the UMAC?  What are the probable match-ups and winners?  I think Northwestern will beat Westminster in the championships game.  I don't think Westminster can slow down Northwestern's O.

[AO]

It's looking like this for Dome Day

8am the #3 seeds Maranatha and UM-Morris

11am  #5 seeds Trinity and Principia

2pm #4 seeds Crown and Blackburn

5pm #2 seeds Rockford and Martin Luther

8pm #1 seeds Northwestern and Westminster

These appear to be pretty solid matchups that should produce some close games.

[Pat Coleman]

Anyone have Rockford/TBC or Crown/Martin Luther from today?

[cwm1276]

63-0 Rockford, beaten up Rockford switched out defensive freshmen for running backs.
see link
http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051015/SPORTS14/510150312/1001/SPORTS

[UMAC_Commish]

The dome day is set for October 28th:

8am the #3 seeds Maranatha and UM-Morris

11am  #5 seeds Trinity and Principia

2pm #4 seeds Crown and Blackburn

5pm #2 seeds Rockford and Martin Luther

8pm #1 seeds Northwestern and Westminster

Dome Day website is    http://nwc.nwc.edu/index.php?id=2744

[tbcfootball]

I would like to give a shoutout to our Trinity Bible College football team and let them know that the school and community has the utmost respect for them.  The year started out looking bright, with 30 players and the most talented team and coaching staff that Trinity has fielded in a long, long time.  Things went down hill a week after our boys defeated Principia, however. 

Through several season ending injuries and many dismissals from the team, the lions are now suiting up 16 players.  Of the 16, Trinity only has 5 original starters on offense and 4 original starters on defense.  Almost every single player is going both ways and many are having to play out of position (including a 165 lb. d-back turned starting center) but our players and coaches are doing the best they can to represent the school in the best way possible.

The scoreboard will once again be in the opponent's (Martin Luther) favor this weekend, but I want our guys to know that we all respect your courage of going out and giving it your all every week.  For the first time since Jesse Godding left for SAGU five years ago, TBC is actually recruiting football players.  The coaching staff is hitting the recruiting trail hard and hopefully Trinity will be able to bring in the type of players that will get the program going in the right direction.  The core of 20-25 guys that are still a part of the team is a good start.   With only six guys that aren't freshmen, maybe some of these young guys will develop into solid college football players in the coming years.   

Good luck to all UMAC teams this week.  I hope everyone can have an injury-free week before Dome Day where everyone can bring their A-game next weekend!

[Ralph Turner]

Condolences to the Rose Family and all of those at UM-Morris who knew Rick Rose.  Such exuberation does not usually exact such a toll.  That is very sad!

[coocooforcoekohawk]

What a tragedy at UM-Morris.  My condolences.