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).