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[gbpuckfan]

Carroll leads Lake Forest 15-7, 3rd quarter

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October 2, 2010
St. Norbert 48, Monmouth 2
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MONMOUTH, Ill. - St. Norbert College forced seven turnovers en route to its third consecutive blowout win with a 48-2 Midwest Conference victory over Monmouth College at April Zorn Memorial Stadium.

The Green Knights (3-2, 3-1 MWC) have outscored their opponents 174-28 in their last three games following an 0-2 start. Monmouth, the two-time defending MWC champion, likely saw its title hopes fade at 2-3, 2-2.

St. Norbert led 13-0 at halftime before a 28-point third quarter deluge broke the game open. The Green Knights scored three defensive touchdowns in the third quarter, and had three scores overall within a 1-minute span late in the period.

Austin Arts' 22-yard interception return with 11 minutes 14 seconds left in the third quarter gave St. Norbert a 20-0 advantage. Rob Berger hit a wide-open Adam Gruett on a 26-yard touchdown pass with 1:34 left in the period. Josh Holzhaeuser had a 28-yard interception return at the 1:16 mark and Justin Baker a 41-yard interception return with 34 seconds left to balloon the lead to 41-0.

The three defensive touchdowns were short of a school record, one shy of the four St. Norbert recorded in a 48-28 win over Carroll University on Oct. 15, 2005 at Minahan Stadium.

St. Norbert dominated time of possession, holding the ball for 39:19, including 21:03 in the second half. The Green Knights ran 54 times to just 20 passes, and outgained the Scots 460-176. Monmouth had 50 net rushing yards, and four of its eight first downs in the game came on its first two possessions.

John Weninger, who had touchdown runs of 1 and 2 yards, had an outstanding all-purpose afternoon. Weninger rushed 31 times for 126 yards and two touchdowns, and also caught six passes for 104 yards.

Berger completed 16 of 20 passes for 231 yards and two touchdown with one interception. Berger has boosted his season completion percentage to 63.5 percent (66-for-104) with 13 touchdowns and six interceptions.

Monmouth was led by Matt Shepherd's six receptions for 61 yards. Quarterbacks Brik Wedekind and Matt Borzillo combined for five interceptions, the first time in seven years a St. Norbert opponent has been intercepted that many times. Wedekind was 7-for-12 for 49 yards and two interceptions, while Borzillo was 6-for-11 for 77 yards with three interceptions.

[gbpuckfan]

Final
Lawrence 21
Illinois College 45

[badgerwarhawk]

Carroll game is a final 15-7
Grinnell beat Beloit 24-21

[The Roop]

15-7.............................. Was it a baseball game. Nope, couldn't be, Lake Forest doesn't have baseball.

Bucs D gives up 24 in the 1st half and nothing in the 2nd. Has the offense arrived yet ?? Nice win for Grinnell though.

[bballer1280]

Beloit 21
Grinnell 24
final

Things are changing at Grinnell College.  This is just the start of change as GC is improving on the gridiron and in other areas athletically, too.

[The Roop]

Nice first step in the right direction for the other Pioneers.

[SNCOLDAD]

Well back from Monmouth. Trip was good. Roads dry. and no traffic.  

Now for the game. Aw. Never mind. What can one say when the refs call about 30 penalties against one team in the 1st half and maybe 1 against the home team. I do have to say that this crew was one of the worst I have seen in a while. So with that being said, I wonder what the score could have been with decent referees?

What is the deal with the Lake Forest - Carroll game?

Grinnell, congrats. ( and thanks )  

And I do want to say that you all should check out the St. Thomas Tommies against the Johnnies today. SNC might have played against a Stagg Bowl team in our first game this year. The Tommies are GOOD.  

GO GREEN KNIGHTS    NICE WIN

[scottie]

....and now we see that chests made out of a knight's armor can still puff out.   

The article above seems to be omitting at least a few things: 1.) that the refs were horrible and the score really should have been in the triple digits on one side and negative figures on the other  , and 2.) that, um, there was at least one slight personnel issue on the other side of the ball  .   At any rate, since there was no ScottieSightingtm I'll leave the rest of the commentary to those who attended.   

Congrats to the Green Knights and DAD on a successful trip to the Maple City.  Good luck at Whitewater!   

[SNCOLDAD]

scottie, I am sure you tried to find us for tailgating. But that lovely school has tailgating only a mile away behind a car dealer. Your own fans are more pissed off than us.

And yes. The chest is out a little. Almost as much as the stomach.   I fully expected it to be closer. But this team was on a mission it appears. And thanks for acknowledging our starting fullback was out injured. 

This week I may not be the Voice of Reason very much. I will try to get back on track.   

[BoBo]

And I do want to say that you all should check out the St. Thomas Tommies against the Johnnies today. SNC might have played against a Stagg Bowl team in our first game this year. The Tommies are GOOD.  

IMO, I'm not sure winning by 1 in OT against a 2 loss SJU (atfter 5 games) team puts the Tommies in the Stagg Bowl just yet...but all things being equal, it is a monkey off their back. Just a lot of football yet to be played.    One week at a time DAD!!

[SNCOLDAD]

BoBo, I saw later that it was 1 point. But I think you will agree winning in front of 16,000+ at the Johnnies is at least worth an extra 6 or 7 points. But I will say that the Tommies will give UWW a run for their money at the very least.

[Redmen09]

572 yards rushing yesterday by the Hawks.  572 yards of total offense yesterday by the Hawks.  Nice job on a new school record for rushing yards

[BoBo]

BoBo, I saw later that it was 1 point. But I think you will agree winning in front of 16,000+ at the Johnnies is at least worth an extra 6 or 7 points.

I don't agree with that. But since, according to your statement, you do, don't you think it would be worth more to the Johnnies playing at home in front of 16,000+...on homecoming? Either way, there's only anecdotal evidence out there to make that kind of statement in the D3 world. What is relevant is that with the regular season not even 1/2 completed, it is far too early to be even talking about such hypothetical situations. The only thing I know for sure is, if I'm a quality team, you turnover the ball to me 4 times (like UST did against SJU), I will bury you on the spot, every time - plain and simple.      UST dodged a bullet on Sat. That won't happen against a really good team, IMO.

[Moncolfan]

All I can say is OUCH! Hard to believe that a team  could have a worse offense game than the Bears did last night but the Scots sure did on Saturday. The score would have been closer if we just took a knee every time and punted.  But congrats to Dad and St. Norbert's. But c'mon  crying about those penalties after winning 48-2? Most of them were procedure calls anyway with a couple of obvious holds. The one I will give you was that offensive pass interference call.... that was really bad. As far as what would the score have been??? Anything that kept MC's offense off the field helped us! and finally I know you've been to Ripon before, so thse guys could not have been the most biased officials you've ever seen.