11/12/2011
CUW football comes back to defeat Lakeland 28-23
Cheese Bowl comes back home!
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Score: CUW 28, LC 23
MEQUON,
Wis. -- Concordia University Wisconsin battled back
from a 17-7 halftime deficit to defeat Northern Athletics
Conference and arch-rival Lakeland College, 28-23, Saturday
afternoon at Century Stadium.
The win gave the Falcons a tie for fourth place in the NAC
standings with the Muskies with a 4-3 league record.
Benedictine
(6-1) and Concordia Chicago (6-1) wound up tied for the league
crown after Wisconsin Lutheran (5-2) defeated Benedictine 23-21
in another Saturday thriller to give the Eagles their first NAC
defeat.
The hard-hitting contest did not start out like it was
going to be a pleasant day for the Falcons.
Lakeland took the opening kickoff and drove all the way to
Concordia's 1-yard line before being stopped on 4th
down. CUW (4-6 overall) picked up one first down but then
a botched punt snap forced senior Bobby
May (Palm Beach, Fla.) to scramble and scuff a kick out
to his own 29-yard line.
This time the Muskies would not be denied. Eight plays
later Adam Miller dove in to make it 7-0 Muskies with 1:37 left
in the first quarter.
Things went from bad to worse when Lakeland recovered a
fumbled punt at CUW's 35-yard line early in the second quarter.
This time it took only three plays for the visitors to make it
14-0 after Kendrick Burk's 7-yard touchdown scamper.
CUW came to life on the ensuing drive, going 60 yards in nine
plays, capped off by junior Carlton
Austin's (Kingsford Heights, Ind.) blast into the end
zone. Freshman David
Gonzalez' (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) point after made it 14-7
Muskies.
Lakeland got the final score of the half when Broc Lawry booted
a 21-yard field goal after a clock-chewing 58 yard drive.
Trailing 17-7, head coach Greg
Etter's team found some holes in the Muskie secondary midway
thru the third quarter.
On the second CUW possession of the half, freshman Austin
Damaschke (Bristol, Wis.) completed a trio of tosses with
the final one being a 10-yard touchdown strike to junior Eric
West (Plymouth, Wis.).
Suddenly it was 17-14 and the Falcon crowd was on their feet.
Lakeland returned the "fumbled punt favor" two series
later, and it only took two plays for CUW to grab their
first lead. West grabbed a 15 yard scoring dart this time and
the extra point made it 21-17 Falcons.
The coffin nail came when senior Justin
Rogers (Milwaukee, Wis.) picked off a tipped pass and
sprinted 44 yards to paydirt to make it 28-17 CUW.
Lakeland came back within 28-23 on a long pass but failed on a
two-point conversion attempt.
CUW
was able to eat up the remaining time via the punishing running
of Austin and bring home the Cheese Bowl trophy.
The Muskies outgained the Falcons 299 yards to 243, but most of
that advantage came during the first half before the CUW defense
stiffened.
11/5/2011
Concordia Chicago interceptions lead to
31-14 win over CUW
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RIVER
FOREST, Ill. -- Concordia University Wisconsin (3-6
overall) had all the momentum and head coach Greg
Etter's Falcons could see victory within reach after cutting
an early 10-point deficit against arch-rival Concordia University
Chicago to 17-14 and moving into scoring position at the end of
three quarters.
The stage for an upset was set as CUW snapped the ball from the
Cougar 17 yard line. Suddenly everything turned sour as freshman
quarterback Austin
Damaschke's (Bristol, Wis.) short pass was intercepted and
returned 86 yards for a back-breaking score that made it 24-14
CU-C.
Lady momentum deserted the Falcon sidelines at that point and the
hosts went on to a 31-14 win that upped their season record to
6-2.
The Falcons scored first in this battle after an impressive
14-play, 77-yard opening drive that was capped by junior Carlton
Austin's (Kingsford Heights, Ind.) 1-yard scoring plunge.
CUC got three points back on a Danny Colapietro field goal on
the ensuing possession and then the Cougars took the lead on a
3-yard run just before the end of the quarter after a Falcon
turnover.
The second of three killer CUW giveways came midway thru period
number two when Damaschke's errant pass was returned 51 yards for
a touchdown by Malcolm Godwin to make it 17-7.
Unfazed, the Falcons retaliated via a 21 yard Damaschke to
freshman Garrett
Wenzelburger (Hartland, Wis.) touchdown aerial on the final
play of the first half to make it 17-14.
After a back and forth third quarter, CUW was poised to tie the
game or take the lead when Jamel Gray outdid his defensive back
teammate Godwin by racing 86 yards to the end zone with his own
"pick 6".
Now leading 24-14, the Cougars added a late score on Jake
Koehler's 1-yard run to account for the 31-14 final.
Austin led CUW with 79 rushing yards on 19 attempts and Damaschke
finished 18-for-37 for 196 yards, one touchdown, but suffered
the two critical interceptions.
The Falcons owned the stats column with 20 first downs and 316
yards of offense compared the the victor's 269 yards, but
speed kills and the Cougars of recent seasons have plenty of that
commodity on both sides of the football.
On
this day the CUW defense was exceptional, holding CU-C 140 yards
under their per game yardage average, essentially shutting down
the vaunted Cougar passing attack.
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