FB: Northwest Conference

[Retired Old Rat]

Where is Bluenote?

[cawcdad]

11, a huge thanks for alll the updates during the game. Looks like the salty D is going strong
I saw a first for me today, the Menlo punter had a -5 yd punt!!!

[wc2viking]

Per the Willamette website: Bearcats 21-17 over Loggers.

[gordonmann]

Shoot.

So close to landing my first super-ridiculous pick of the year.

[bluenote]

ROR...I actually go to the game 
TuxGuy sits 2 rows up from me and was yelling his brains out the entire game. Talked with Wildcat11 before the game, good to see Frosty at the game also! He had on the sweats and everything!!! Lutes played hard but were outmatched today. Game seemed closer than the score for about 3 quarters...

[Tom Brady]

I guess this is where I will post my Menlo comment.  The score from today looked like the "game" they played with Jerry Rice the other day on tv.

[Retired Old Rat]

Bluenote, I hadn't seen any posts from you.  Guess I wasn't paying attention.   

Check this out for some beautiful fall football at St. John's:


Fall in Minnesota 1

Fall in Minnesota 2

[OregonCityCat99]

Great game from the 'Dome today. The Cats took the best from the Lutes. PLU is young and will be back to normal in a couple of years, but this looks to be the year again for Elliott and company.

Hard to compare but.....................is "The Haze" just as valuable as Blake Elliott was for SJU a few year's back?

[Gig Harbor Cat]

Great job today Cats.  Enjoyed the effort.  Saw several highlight reel hits by the salty D. The best is yet to come for the Cats.  They are right on schedule in my book.  I had todays game at 63-10 Cats.  This becomes a tough number to hit when the Lutes played ball control O.  They gameplanned as well as possible on O.  They can move the ball, just not in the red zone.
Good to see D-Train and Mrs D-Train at the game.
MOJO slept all the way home,  too much tailgate action for the hound doggie.  I think it was the rib bones that did the trick.

Thanks to everyone that hosted tailgates it was well done again.  See you next time.

GO CATS                   GHC

[NWCprops]

The conference is taking shape with an expected Wildcat win...over PLU.  Cats win by 4 TD's, even when they don't play that well.  But, as I posted earlier...Willamette is the thorne in the side of the rest of the contenders..and UPS found out today.  The young Bearcats never quit and won in the last minute on the road 21-14.  In Legrand the Rats were beat'in by the Mountaineers.....seems like Whitworth is prone to surrendering points (much like last year)..they could get into a piss'in match with the Bearcats as well.  Lewis and Clark was getting beat 36-0 in the third quarter in LA vs. Chapman..this will bring an end to a sad tale of a season for the Pioneers.  

[wildcat11]

Great job of the Linfield defense with coming up with great play after great play today.  Hazenberg was the Linfield spark all day long.  Haze had 140 yards total on the day (running, receiving, punt return, and kick returning), had a TD catch and a pick on defense.  Number 3 was everywhere.

PLU has some fine younger skill players and will be back to "PLU" form soon. 

UPS......I thought this was the year that they were suppose to make their move?  Looks like Willamette's tough schedule payed off for the young Bearcats.

Whitworth....I know that EOU is an improved program but that loss has to sting.  It has to sting even worse with the showdown with Linfield next week.

[D O.C.]

Went to the Lewis and Clark game Saturday night (Chapman) to pay my respects to the program of the likes of Jack Head and John Jauqua.

Interesting...one of those "only in D3 Football things": struck up a conversation with a clipboard in the empty stands and it was the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps coach Rick Candaele who plays Lewis and Clark in their final game next week. He coached his team that day against La Verne (loss) and was out that night 30 miles away scouting by himself.
He had praise for Jauqua and Head too since he played against them when he was at College of Idaho in the '60's NAIA NWC.

The real interesting part was when he told me that he came to CMS from University of California at Santa Barbara (22-8/4 yrs) 13 years ago CMS had suffered (I believe) 22 losing seasons and he only had 28 PLAYERS his first year.
Sound familiar?

Lewis and Clark got down 0-13 and had a 4th and 3 at the Chapman 12 yard- line after moving the ball 45 yards or so. Instead of trying to punch a program death knell 4 yards for a first down they had the field goal go awry and that was all she wrote.
Those who play Chapman better have some smart and strong DE's and OLB's or they might get burnt.

[criswyly]

Looking at the stats, it looks like Locey had a balanced attack game plan and stuck with it even though the first half was tight.  I missed the first half of the webcast due to internet problems and finally got back just about when Armstrong had his long interception return.

I am wondering how PLU managed to move the ball effectively but couldn't put it in the end zone....I keep hearing about our salty D...but 400 plus yards doesn't "sound" too salty.  Were we failing to get good pressure on Maine's and he was able to run around to buy time until is receiver was open?  Sounds like a tough day for the Cat defense to me or was Maine's just that good?

[cawcdad]

Tom Brady, did you go to the Menlo game? If so, where were you?

[CamCat]

Top Cat 1

The view from your sky box was great yesterday. Thank you again for the inivitation to join you and Wildcat "64 for another great Wildcat game.  The halftime smorgasboard they serve up there is just too much for me to handle, however.

Gig Harbor Cat,

I'll keep you posted on how you and your clients can participate in the upside gain in the S & P 500, and or the Nasdaq 100 with no downside risk.  Even though we live in a Nanny state where the gov't is there to protect us there is still a way we can participate.

But the real question is who have we got to protect us from the gov't?

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