Alright, these aren’t as immediate as they could be, thanks to the server problems we had last night. Thankfully, we found out this morning that the issues were not related to the amount of traffic on the site, but a memory problem on the machine.
Carthage continued to struggle on offense. The Redmen can skate by another two weeks because they face Benedictine in Week 3 and have a bye in Week 4 but Millikin starts off the CCIW portion of the schedule in Week 5, followed immediately by North Central and Augustana.
Speaking of Augustana, the Vikings looked pretty good on Saturday at Catholic. The final score is somewhat misleading — it was 49-7 when Augustana put the second string in and Catholic’s first string scored three times. Catholic looks like it’s on the road to recovery, however. The Cardinals moved the ball somewhat consistently between the 20s but threw two picks in the end zone and missed a field goal.
Principia needs to go back to the drawing board on special teams with three failed conversions in a 20-18 loss to Trinity Bible. (Been a while since anyone’s used those words.)
Lost in the shadow of the numbers put up by Earlham, Manchester and Washington and Jefferson yesterday was the offensive onslaught by St. John Fisher. The Cardinals posted 672 yards of offense and got three touchdowns apiece by Mark Robinson (one was 86 yards) and Noah Fehrenbach (one was 55 yards) in beating Rochester. That’s pretty good from an offense that looked like it had been simplified last week for Nick Suchyna’s first career start.
Along with Carthage, worried about Albright (34-33 win at Ursinus), Hampden-Sydney (allowed 40 points to Gettysburg) and Wheaton (23-16 win against Gustavus, which has lost 12 of its past 14 games).
Don’t overlook: Fitchburg State beating Curry in an NEFC crossover game pitting last year’s two division champs. It’s Curry’s second loss in 23 regular-season games. … North Park starts off 2-0 for the first time in goodness knows how long. In Kickoff, remember, we projected they would actually win a conference game. … Of course, we also thought Puget Sound would play nine games. … John Carroll had eight takeaways against Hope (six picks, two fumble recoveries).
The scores that jumped off the page for me were Union 35, Springfield 7 and MSJ 49, RHIT 7 … along with those ones you mentioned for Albright and H-SC.
Cal Lutheran beating PLU was interesting, but the SCIAC’s Redlands lost at Whitworth.
W&L forced 7 turnovers and beat Alfred. Wooster, Alma and Adrian won big, Bethany followed up a big win with a loss, but Methodist and Moravian bounced back from losses.
Wittenberg is 0-2. So is Allegheny, up to those same lose-a-close one tricks. Good thing Coach Matlak is already bald or he’d be pulling his hair out.
The ODAC has three 0-2 teams and the IBFC has four.
Just a few of the off-the-top of my head thoughts from the Week 2 scoreboard.
OK, back to watching the NFL.
Keith,
In regards to PLU….
I think you’re seeing both Willamette and PLU in rebuilding years and with no shot at the playoffs this year. I think that Whitworth has legit shot at a pool B slot. Puget Sound is the big question. If they can take advantage of PLU and Willamette having down years then the Loggers might be in the mix.
I figured I’d join the fun…
On the other side of that Albright game, you have to feel for Ursinus. They had a 13-0 lead in week 1 and a 24-0 lead in week 2 and lost. Hopefully they get a win against La Salle this week before opening Centennial play, which hasn’t been kind to them.
Since the Liberty League board provides me with comedy relief throughout the week, kudos to RPI’s Jay Bernardo who had a 99-yard touchdown run against Endicott. Bernardo can tell his friends he shares an NCAA record with Gale Sayers, who turned the trick for Kansas, and likely several other dudes.
From the “What a difference a week makes” file, WPUNJ beats Wilkes in week 1 then gets clocked by WCSU 35-0. Meanwhile Wilkes shuts out Widener, picked second in the MAC coaches poll.
Wow. I posted something, noticed an error and it was fixed like 120 seconds later.
Those copy editors at USA Today run a tight ship…
Yeah, I figured I’d save you from the confusing posts that followed but that’s ok. 🙂
I’ll throw another one….Newport News winning its first ACFC game ever knocking off Frostburg State 21-3 (0-14 heading into it).
Now though, an angry Brockport team makes the 10-hour ride to Newport News
How about one for consistency.
Salisbury vs. Brockport
Dustin Johnson ran for 126 and 2 TD’s and threw for 126 and 2 TD’s.
I just read that Earlham quarterback Justin Rummell had to hobble on the field for the Quakers’ final two offensive drives. Luckily, both were one-play drives, resulting in long touchdown passes.
CLU beating PLU was huge for the Kingsmen. If they beat Oxy in 2 weeks, lookout SCIAC. They’re heading to the playoffs.
Big if though, isn’t it?
Lost 24-7 at home in ’04.