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1 MACMURRAY GAME NOTES AT GREENVILLE MACMURRAY OCT. 27, 2018 | 1 PM GREENVILLE HIGHLANDERS FRANCIS FIELD PANTHERS MACMURRAY AT A GLANCE THE WEEKEND IN REVIEW LOOKING BACK AT 2017 GREENVILLE AT A GLANCE Location...........................Jacksonville, Il. Location..............................Greenville, Il. Enrollment.........................................500 MacMurray captured a Homecoming win, defeating The defense nearly turned in a clean sheet as Enrollment.........................................930 President.........................Dr. Mark Tierno the MacMurray football team picked up a 19-6 President..................................Ivan Filby Athletic Director..................Justin Fuhler Iowa Wesleyan, 20-13. Bolstered by a TD from Asa Athletic Director..............Tom Ackerman Nickname.............................Highlanders Donaldson, the Highlanders scored in the final min- win over Greenville. Nickname..................................Panthers Colors..............................Scarlet & Navy ute to secure the win. Colors.............................Orange & Black Stadium.............................Freesen Field After a majority of the first half went scoreless, Stadium...............................Francis Field Sports Info Dir.................Marissa Smego Martin Luther -- the only other unbeaten team in the Marquez Ellison put the Highlanders ahead with Sports Info Dir.......................BJ Schneck SID [email protected] UMAC -- defeated Northwestern Friday evening, 21- three minutes before the half with a 9-yard run. [email protected] FOOTBALL PROFILE 6. A blocked PAT kept the score at 6-0 at halftime. FOOTBALL PROFILE Head Coach...............Robbie Schomaker Head Coach......................Chris Douglas In the third, Nathan Randall connected with Record at MAC...............34-42 / 8th year Greenville cruised to a 41-14 win over Crown. The Record at GRN...............27-31 / 6th year Career HC Record.......54-71 / 13th year Panthers racked up a whopping 529 yards of total Demetrius Curry for a 19-yard touchdown pass. Career HC Record..........27-31 / 6th year 2018 Overall Record......5-1 / 5-0 UMAC offense. The 2-point conversion failed, but the Highland- 2018 Overall Record......2-5 / 2-3 UMAC ers took a 12-0 lead heading into the final quar- 2018 SCHEDULE Westminster snapped a four-game losing skid with a ter. 2018 SCHEDULE DATE OPPONENT TIME ‘17 RESULT DATE OPPONENT TIME ‘17 RESULT 9/1 @ Rockford - L, 35-12 25-7 victory over Minnesota Morris. 9/1 @ Wartburg - L, 73-13 9/15 vs. Minn Morris - W, 41-0 Chazz Middlebrook gave the visitors breathing 9/8 @ Kalamazoo - L, 42-7 9/29 @ Northwestern - W, 15-13 St. Scholastica was shutout in a nonconference affair, room with a touchdown in the fourth. Noah San- 9/15 vs. Northwestern - L, 24-7 10/6 vs. Westminster - W, 19-14 35-0, to Thomas More. Thomas More has received doval converted the PAT for a 19-0 advantage. 9/22 vs. Martin Luther - L, 63-28 10/13 @ Crown - W, 27-21 9/29 @ Westminster - W, 24-20 10/20 vs. Iowa Wesleyan - W, 20-13 votes throughout the season in the D3Football.com 10/13 @ St. Scholastica - L, 47-13 10/27 @ Greenville 1:00 W, 19-6 Top 25 Poll. Greenville’s only score came in the final minute 10/20 vs. Crown - W, 41-14 11/3 @ Martin Luther 12:00 W, 54-28 of the game. 10/27 vs. MacMurray 1:00 L, 19-6 11/10 vs. St. Scholastica 12:00 W, 34-26 11/3 @ Iowa Wesleyan 1:00 W, 48-41 THE WEEK AHEAD 11/10 @ Minnesota Morris 12:00 W, 49-21 2018 LEADERS & STATISTICS Both teams compiled fairly even stat sheets, with Passing......................Randall - 1197 yds, 7 tds Four afternoon games are on the slate this weekend. MacMurray narrowly outgaining the Panthers, 2018 LEADERS & STATISTICS Rushing..................Donaldson - 333 yds, 2 tds Northwestern will have the conference bye week. 309-307. MacMurray was sacked five times while Passing.......................Mitchell - 564 yds, 2 tds Receiving.........Preston - 318 yds, 29 rec, 3 tds Greenville was sacked six. Rushing.......................Mitchell - 536 yds, 2 tds Tackles..................................O’Rourke - 55 tot St. Scholastica looks to rebound after a drubbing at Receiving...........Kranh - 278 yds, 16 rec, 3 tds Interceptions.............Blanchard & Goins - 1 int Tackles....................................Johnson - 52 tot Sacks......................Muhammad - 12.0 / 98 yds home when they travel to Iowa Wesleyan. Randall was 15 of 24 for 181 yards and a touch- Interceptions................................Bullar - 3 ints Points For...........................................22.3 ppg down. Curry led all receivers with eight recep- Sacks...............................Barigye - 3.5 / 18 yds Points Against....................................16.0 ppg Crown, still searching for their first win of the season, tions for 132 yards and a TD. Points For...........................................19.0 ppg Yards For...........................................374.7 ypg Points Against....................................40.4 ppg Yards Against....................................283.3 ypg will host Westminster. Yards For...........................................339.1 ypg Defensively, Cory Farneti recorded a team-high Yards Against....................................431.9 ypg Martin Luther puts their perfect conference record on 13 total tackles. Both Cooper Bowles and Javon the line at Minnesota Morris. Muhammad had a stellar day on the line, as they SERIES HISTORY turned in three and four TFLs. BEGAN: 1988 OVERALL: GRN leads, 17-13 MacMurray will travel to Greenville with hopes to win STREAK: MAC, 3 games their sixth straight game. LAST 10: GRN, 7-3 Chris Douglas vs. Greenville: 3-4 Robbie Schomaker vs. MacMurray: 2-3 2 NEWS & NOTES AT GREENVILLE PHOTO OF THE WEEK MAGIC 8 BALL • Senior Javon Muhammad, #8, is putting together an impressive final campaign • With 3.9 TFLs/game, he currently leads all divi- sions in the NCAA • Additionally, his 2.0 sacks/game rank him first in all divisions • If that wasn’t enough, he is tied for 35th in Divi- sion III in passes defended WALK THE LINE • MacMurray’s offensive line currently leads the UMAC in sacks allowed (10) • On the other side, the defensive line has tallied a conference-leading 22 sacks 2018 UMAC Defensive Leaders LIGHTS, CAMERA, ‘MAC’TION • A busy weekend is in the cards for the Highland- er athletic teams • Volleyball hosts Spalding on Friday for Senior Night, then closes out their season at Eureka on Saturday • Men’s and women’s cross country will race at the SLIAC Championships Saturday morning • Both men’s and women’s soccer will travel to Thomas Lazenby (5) and Devonta Preston (83) celebrate with Derrick Derr after Derr’s 19-yard TD catch against IWU Principia for a SLIAC doubleheader • Women’s wrestling competes at the Adrian Open THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY a pleASAnt surprise on Saturday • Sophomore quarterback Bobby Tedesco stepped • Sophomore Asa Donaldson has played a key role up last weekend when an injury forced him under in the offense this season WITH A WIN, MACMURRAY WOULD... center • Donaldson scored the go-ahead touchdown with • Remain unbeaten in the Upper Midwest Athletic • Tedesco threw for 103 yards and a touchdown, 39 seconds left in the win over Iowa Wesleyan Conference and picked up 37 yards with his legs while adding • He also forced a second overtime at Crown with • Win its fourth straight over the Panthers a TD a 55-yard touchdown run • Win at least six games in a season for the fourth • The Greenville game will be the sophomore’s consecutive year first career start 3 AT GREENVILLE AROUND THE UMAC AT GREENVILLE 2018 UMAC STANDINGS 2018 UMAC COMPOSITE SCHEDULE SCHOOL CONF ALL AUGUST 31 OCTOBER 6 Martin Luther 5-0 6-1 St. Olaf 49 at Crown 14 Martin Luther 28 at Iowa Wesleyan 21 MacMurray 5-0 5-1 Westminster 14 at MacMurray 19 SEPTEMBER 1 Crown 33 at 4-1 4-3 Minn. Morris 37 St. Scholastica MacMurray 12 at Rockford 35 Northwestern 7 at St. Scholastica 14 Northwestern 3-3 3-5 Gustavus 32 at Martin Luther 20 Greenville 2-3 2-5 Central 49 at Northwestern 3 OCTOBER 13 2-3 2-5 Minn. Morris at UW-River Falls 41 MacMurray 27 at Crown 21 Minnesota Morris Greenville 13 at Wartburg 73 Westminster 12 at Martin Luther 28 Westminster 2-3 2-5 Cornell 27 at Iowa Wesleyan 21 Minn. Morris 17 at Northwestern 20 Iowa Wesleyan 1-4 1-6 Greenville 13 at St. Scholastica 47 0-6 0-8 SEPTEMBER 8 Crown Northwestern 3 at Claremont-Mudd Scripps 14 OCTOBER 19 Crown 14 at Presentation 42 Martin Luther 21 at Northwestern 6 Martin Luther 28 at Rockford 24 2018 UMAC Defensive Leaders Westminster 0 at Millsaps 35 OCTOBER 20 St. Scholastica 29 at Mayville State 33 Crown 14 at Greenville 41 TOTAL TACKLES TACKLES FOR LOSS Greenville 7 at Kalamazoo 42 Thomas More 35 at St. Scholastica 0 J. Jones CWN 77 J. Muhammad MAC 23.5 Minn. Morris 0 at Valley City State 48 Minn. Morris 7 at Westminster 25 Q. McGregor CSS 73 N. Gehlen UMM 11.5 Iowa Wesleyan 6 at Eureka 38 Iowa Wesleyan 13 at MacMurray 20 G. Obitz UNW 70 D. Gensmer MLC 11.0 J. Senger CSS 68 K. Brassow MLC 11.0 SEPTEMBER 15 OCTOBER 27 H. Orozco CWN 65 M. Luna UMM 9.0 Northwestern 24 at Greenville 7 St. Scholastica at Iowa Wesleyan 12:00 Minn. Morris 0 at MacMurray 41 Westminster at Crown 12:00 SACKS INTERCEPTIONS Iowa Wesleyan 10 at Westminster 35 Martin Luther at Minn. Morris 1:00 J. Muhammad MAC 12 B. Arndt MLC 4 St. Scholastica 46 at Crown 20 MacMurray at Greenville 1:00 D. Gensmer MLC 5.5 J. Hatt UNW 4 J. Duffy CWN 5.5 J. Herrewig MLC 3 SEPTEMBER 22 NOVEMBER 3 K. Brassow MLC 5 B. Bullar GRN 3 Iowa Wesleyan 7 at Minn. Morris 13 MacMurray at Martin Luther 12:00 F. Cerar CSS 5 6 tied with - 2 Westminster 20 at St. Scholastica 23 Northwestern at Westminster 12:00 Martin Luther 63 at Greenville 20 Greenville at Iowa Wesleyan 1:00 Northwestern 38 at Crown 18 Minn.