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Griffon soccer team rallies to defeat Lindenwood in OT

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The Missouri Western women’s soccer team picked up its first MIAA victory of the season scoring two unanswared goals coming away with a 2-1 overtime victory against Lindenwood. Katie Kempf scored the game winner in the fourth minute of overtime helping the Griffons improve to 3-3 overall and 1-1 in MIAA play.

The first 25 minutes of the first half saw little offensive action, with just 13 total shots combined. The Griffons put three of nine on net, whileLindenwood managed two of four, with one goal.

The Lady Lions took the lead in the first half by a goal off the foot of forward Bailey Cody at the 27-minute mark. Cody collided with Missouri Western’s goalkeeper and recovered before the keeper, giving Cody the chance to put a shot on net, which resulted in her first goal of the season. The scoring would cease for the half with Lindenwood up 1-0.

The second half saw a quick goal by Missouri Western’s Abby Widrig at the 53-minute mark, tying the game up at one apiece where it would stand until the end of regulation.

Just over three minutes into the first overtime the Griffon’s Katie Kempf found the back of the net ending the game with a score of 2-1 Missouri Western.

The Lady Lions now hold a 2-2-1 record for the 2012 season.

The Griffons outshot Lindenwood 18-7 in the game with seven being on goal to the Lady Lions two. Widrig had three shots with all of them being on goal.

The Griffons return to MIAA action on Friday, September 21 when they host the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats in St. Joseph, Mo. Game time is set for 7:00 pm in Spratt Stadium.

— MWSU Sports Information —

Missouri Western women’s golf team in 5th after day one in Minnesota

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The Missouri Western women’s golf team sits in 5th place in the 16 team field after day one of the Wildwood Lodge Invitational firing a 321. The event is hosted by  Concordia-St. Paul and is being played at Tartan Lake Golf Course in Lake Elmo, Min. The Griffons are two strokes back of Nebraska-Omaha and Concordia-St. Paul both of which shot 319 and are five strokes back of second place Grand Valley State (316). The leader of the event is Augustana (S.D.) firing a 305.

Individually, the Griffons are led by Callie Wilson who fired a day one 75 which is one stroke back of leader Emily Kvidera of Augustana (S.D.). Natalie Bird is tied for 11th with a 78 while Shelby Stone and Casi Webb shot 84’s. Darcy Smith finished day one with an 87 while Anna Kloeppel played as an individual and fired a 92.

The final round of the event will be played tomorrow, Monday, September 17.

— MWSU Sports Information —

Northwest Missouri State soccer gets blanked at Truman State

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The Northwest Missouri State women’s soccer team fell on the road to Truman State 3-0 Sunday in MIAA action.

The Bulldogs came into the contest 4-1 with a lot of momentum and the Bearcats could not keep up.

The first half was a battle as Northwest was only able to manage 4 shots on goal. The Bulldogs took the lead at the 29 minute mark with a Trisha Shoemaker goal. Truman added one more goal with only seconds left in the first half to go ahead 2-0.

Northwest worked hard in the second half to get the goals back, but to no avail. Kristina Weishar put in her second goal of the game to put the Bulldogs ahead 3-0.

Northwest is now 3-2-1 on the season and 1-1 in MIAA play. They continue MIAA competition heading to Missouri Western Friday at 7 p.m.

— NWMSU Sports Information —

Partridge accounts for 5 TDs as Griffons rip Nebraska-Kearney, 38-14

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The 8th ranked Missouri Western football team used 28 unanswered points opening up a 35-7 lead late in the third which helped them to a 38-14 victory against MIAA newcomer Nebraska-Kearney. Quarterback Travis Partridge threw a career high four touchdowns and rushed for another helping MWSU to its fourth 3-0 start under Head Coach Jerry Partridge. The Griffons improve to 2-0 in MIAA play.

The Griffons got on the board first midway through the first quarter when Partridge hooked up with running back Michael Hill from 19 yards out capping a nine play 93 yard drive which was set up by a Mike Jordan’s first interception of his career. The Lopers responded early in the second quarter when running back Tommy Flanagan scampered 58 yards tying the score with 10:10 to play in the half.

The rest of the half would be back and fourth but the Griffons used an 87 yard drive which was capped by a 30 yard pitch and catch from Partridge to Derek Libby giving MWSU the 14-7 halftime lead.

At the half Missouri Western had 251 yards with Hill going 95 on 17 carries. In the air Partridge completed 10 passes for 143 and two touchdowns. David Bass led the charge defensively with six tackles, one sack and 1.5 tackles for a loss.

The Lopers had 177 total yards with 110 coming in the first quarter. Flanagan had 91 yards on 14 carries and caught three passes for 17 yards. Sam Kuck and Ryan Lendrum led the defense with six total tackles apiece.

In the third quarter the Griffons kept up the offensive pressure scoring touchdowns on its first three possessions. Tyron Crockom made a nice run after catch for a 20 yards touchdown reception giving MWSU the 21-7 lead with 10:34 to play in the third. Partridge then hooked up with tight end Reggie Jordan for his fourth touchdown pass of the game from 11 yards out giving the Griffons the 28-7 lead with 7:12 to play in the third.

The final touchdown came on a 42 yard rush from Partridge putting the Griffons up 35-7 late in the third. The Lopers put one more touchdown on board before the game was over while MWSU kicker Taylor Anderson connected from 27 yards out giving the Griffons the 24 point victory.

MWSU finished the night with 549 yards of total offense with 351 coming on the ground. Hill finished with 160 yards on 24 carries and now needs just 57 to become MWSU’s all-time leading rusher. He also needs just 10 carries to become the Griffons all-time leader in carries.

Partridge completed 15-of-26 passes for 198 yards and four touchdowns. Tyron Crockom had 46 yards on four catches while Kyle Knox had 70 yards on three catches.

The Lopers had 320 yards of total offense with 193 coming on the ground. Flanagan had 106 on 16 carries with one touchdown while Daniel Rankin had 52 yards on five carries. Kuck led the way defensively with 11 tackles for UNK. The Lopers fall to 0-3 overall and 0-3 in MIAA play.

The Griffons had four players with seven tackles (David Bass, Jordan Nicholas, Ben Pister and Austin Baska). Bass had three unassisted tackles and four assisted.

MWSU returns to action on Saturday, September 22 making its first road trip of the season. The Griffons will take on the Fort Hays State Tigers with kickoff scheduled for 7:00 pm.

— MWSU Sports Information —

Bearcats bounce back with big win against Fort Hays State

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The No. 13 Northwest Missouri State football team bounced back Saturday to rout Fort Hays State 48-10 at Bearcat Stadium in MIAA football action.

Northwest (2-1, 1-1) rolled to 543 yards of total offense as Tyler Seals and Brady Bolles combined for 255 yards passing and 140 yards on the ground. The duo also added three touchdowns; two through the air from Seals and one rushing from Bolles.

Not to be outshined by the offense, the Northwest defense held Fort Hays State (0-3, 0-3) to only three points before a fourth quarter touchdown run. The Bearcat defensive line was impressive as well, sacking the Tigers twice and adding six quarterback hurries.

The Bearcats raced out to an early lead as Seals marched the Bearcats 59 yards in nine plays connecting with Jordan Simmons on a jet sweep for the game’s first score. Seals would finish 12-of-19 for 146 yards and two touchdowns in his first collegiate start.

After a Fort Hays State field goal the Bearcats would break the game wide open scoring five more times before the half to take a 34-3 lead into the locker room.

James Franklin scored from 9-yards out to complete a 14 play 83-yard drive just before the end of the first quarter. Franklin carried nine times for 77 yards, his highest total of the season.

Northwest scored again at the 12 minute mark in the second quarter, as Bolles raced 23-yards cutting across the field for his first collegiate touchdown. Bolles would give the Bearcats their first 100-yard rusher of the season as the redshirt freshman ran for 111 yards and threw for 109.

Todd Adolf added two second quarter field goals including a 48-yarder that tied his career high at the end of the first half.

The Northwest offense dialed back the play calling in the second half, but would get the first special teams touchdown of the season late in the third quarter. Brian Dixon recovered a blocked punt at the FHSU two-yard line extending the Northwest lead to 41-3.

The Bearcats still have not lost back-to-back games since 2001 as they bounced back from last week’s disappointing loss. The win also moves the Bearcats winning streak inside Bearcat Stadium to 12 games, which is tied for the fourth longest streak in Northwest history.

Northwest will travel to Nebraska-Kearney for the first time for the first of three consecutive meetings with new MIAA members. Kickoff from Kearney is set for 4 p.m.

— NWMSU Sports Information —

Berkstresser fills in for Franklin as Mizzou holds on to defeat Arizona State

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Corbin Berkstresser ran for a score in his first career start at quarterback in place of injured James Franklin, and Missouri’s defense forced four turnovers to ease the pressure on the redshirt freshman in a 24-20 victory over Arizona State on Saturday night.

Missouri (2-1) built a 17-point cushion in the third quarter in front of a sellout crowd of 71,004, the school’s first for a non-conference game since Notre Dame in 1984. The Tigers held on late a week after fizzling late in a 21-point loss to No. 7 Georgia that spoiled the school’s SEC debut.

Marion Grice scored on a pair of fourth-quarter runs that cut the deficit to four for Arizona State (2-1), which had a fumbled snap on the second extra-point kick.

Kendial Lawrence scored on a pair of short runs, and T.J. Moe was strong overall with eight catches for 88 yards and a 43-yard kickoff return to open the game for Missouri.

Missouri kicker Andrew Baggett made a 46-yard field goal early but missed from 37, 45 and 48 yards.

Kenronte Walker made two big plays late, a pass deflection on fourth and goal from the 2 to turn it over on downs and an end-zone interception and 49-yard return to clinch it in the final minute.

Missouri had quarterback suspense until just before kickoff with Franklin the final starter announced, followed by intrigue when Berkstresser took the field while Franklin wore a cap and headset on the sideline, nursing an elbow injury. It was the first start missed by the Tigers’ No. 1 quarterback since coach Gary Pinkel’s first season in 2001.

Brad Smith didn’t miss a start in four seasons, Chase Daniel made it three years in a row and Blaine Gabbert started every game two years. Franklin had made 15 consecutive starts and warmed up without obvious discomfort prior to the game, throwing several passes of 20 or more yards while watched closely by offensive coordinator Dave Yost.

Berkstresser, who subbed in the season’s first two games, got plenty of help early as Missouri built a 17-0 lead. He cost the Tigers a scoring opportunity in the second quarter, throwing into coverage on Brandon McGee’s interception at the Sun Devil 3.

The Tigers got touchdown runs from Berkstresser and Lawrence on a pair of 18-yard drives off turnovers, with Kip Edwards recovering a fumble and intercepting Taylor Kelly on consecutive possessions.

Arizona State had 27 total yards before putting together a 66-yard drive near the end of the half fueled by quick hitters and capped by D.J. Foster’s 33-yard score on a screen pass from Kelly that took advantage of an overzealous pass rush.

ASU punter Josh Hubner fumbled a snap late in the third quarter, recovering the ball after it slipped through his hands and rolled over the top of his head. He still managed to kick the ball, and the desperation 11-yard effort gave Missouri possession at the Sun Devils’ 33. Lawrence had a 14-yard reception to the 2, then ran it in from the 1 for a 24-7 lead.

— Associated Press —

Western volleyball gets swept by Emporia State

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Missouri Western Volleyball played a close contest against MIAA foe Emporia State, but lost 3-0 to fall to 7-4 and 1-2 in the MIAA.

The Griffons led throughout the first set, taking a 24-22 advantage. The Hornets came back off of two attacks by Sydney Hartman and took a 25-24 lead. The Griffons fought back and had two attacks themselves to take the one-point lead, but couldn’t hang on as Emporia won the next three points and won the set 28-26.

MWSU and ESU swapped points through the 2nd set. The game was tied at 10 before the Griffons took an 18-13 lead. The Griffons let the set slip out of their hands though, as the Hornets won 25-23.

The Hornets jumped out to an 11-5 lead in the 3rd set, but the Griffons fought back to take a 14-13 lead. Emporia wouldn’t give the set up however, and took the final set 25-20 to sweep the Griffons 3-0.

Melissa Cairns led with 10 kills. Sarah Faubel finished with 13 digs and Stephanie Hattey ended the game with a team-high 20 assists. The Griffons had 39 team kills.

The Hornets were led by Katie Deutschmann, who had 27 assists. Mogan Buckner had 14 kills and Paige Vanderpool finished with 20 digs.

Up Next: The Griffons take on Central Missouri Friday night at 7 p.m. and Lindenwood Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m.

— MWSU Sports Information —

K-State pulls away late from North Texas for 35-21 victory

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Bill Snyder saw it coming all week in practice.

The missed tackles. The dropped passes. The lousy blocking, terrible execution and distressing lack of focus gave the Kansas State coach trepidation with North Texas coming to town.

If not for another gutsy performance by Collin Klein, and a 96-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Tyler Locket, the No. 15 Wildcats might have been saddled with an embarrassing defeat before heading into next Saturday’s showdown against fifth-ranked Oklahoma.

Instead, they managed to eke out a 35-21 victory on Saturday night.

”If you don’t prepare yourself well then most anything can happen,” Snyder said afterward. ”It was the attitude we took into the ballgame. There wasn’t anything else to blame it on.”

Of course, Snyder was also quick to credit North Texas.

The Mean Green (1-2) scratched and clawed their way within 14-13 late in the third quarter before Klein hit and Tramaine Thompson for their second touchdown. John Hubert tacked on a TD run moments later, and Klein’s fourth-quarter score allowed the Wildcats (3-0) to escape.

Albeit with a far less impressive showing than last week’s 52-13 romp over Miami.

”North Texas is better than people think, first of all,” said Klein, who passed for 230 yards and accounted for three scores. ”There was a lot of emotion coming off a big game, but the great teams are the exact same no matter who the opponent is.”

Evidently, the Wildcats are still in search of greatness.

”There probably isn’t anything that doesn’t need vast improvement,” Snyder said. ”It’s taking something for granted. We didn’t practice well Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.”

North Texas nearly made them pay for it, too.

Derek Thompson was 25 of 28 for 208 yards and a late TD pass for the Mean Green, who converted the 2-point conversion to get within two touchdowns with 2:31 remaining in the game. An onside kick was recovered by the Wildcats, though, allowing them to run out the clock.

”My football team came here believing that we could win, not hoping that we could win,” said North Texas’ Dan McCarney, who regularly faced the Wildcats when he was the coach at Iowa State.

”I didn’t sense any hope that we could go win a game. I sensed in our preparation and from watching on the sidelines this team really believed we could win the game,” McCarney said. “But we weren’t good enough to do it tonight.”

Still, North Texas held its Big 12 opponent to 143 yards rushing – Kansas State entered the game sixth nationally at better than 300 yards per game – while holding the ball an astonishing 37 minutes, 4 seconds, which prevented the Wildcats from getting into a rhythm.

Kansas State ran six offensive plays in the first quarter.

”We ran the ball well when we needed to, and we kept our defense off the field,” Derek Thompson said. ”Like I said, unfortunately we just didn’t execute when we needed to.”

They were executing early in the game, though. Brelan Chancellor capped an 11-play, 55-yard drive with a 6-yard scoring run midway through the first quarter for a 7-0 lead.

That’s when Lockett fielded the ensuing kickoff at his 4-yard line. He started up field, angled to his left and found a seam down the sideline for his third career kick return touchdown, pulling the Wildcats into a 7-all tie without their offense having to take the field.

”That was major,” Snyder said. ”That was probably the difference in the game.”

The game was still tied when North Texas ended a promising drive with a blocked field goal attempt. The Wildcats capitalized on the miscue, moseying downfield in five plays before Klein went over the top to Tramaine Thompson, whose 38-yard touchdown catch gave Kansas State the lead.

The Mean Green had a chance to pull even on the first drive of the second half, using nearly half of the third quarter to move 88 yards. Antoinne Jimmerson’s short TD run capped the 14-play drive, but the extra point was wide right and Kansas State clung to a one-point lead.

Klein hit Thompson a few minutes later, this time from 21 yards, and Hubert and Klein tacked on their fourth-quarter TD runs to finally allow the Wildcats – and the purple-clad faithful – to start looking ahead to next weekend’s showdown at Oklahoma.

Just in case they hadn’t been already this week.

”Across the board, I didn’t think we played like we were capable of playing,” Snyder said. ”We were hanging on by the skin of our teeth most of the game.”

— Associated Press —

Kansas comes up short as TCU wins Big 12 debut

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Everybody warned TCU coach Gary Patterson that his Horned Frogs had better bring their best every weekend when they finally joined the rough-and-tumble Big 12.

They hardly brought their best to Kansas on Saturday.

It hardly mattered, either.

Casey Pachall threw for 335 yards and two touchdowns, both of them to Brandon Carter, and the 16th-ranked Horned Frogs overcame four turnovers in a 20-6 victory over the Jayhawks.

”We’re just glad to get our first Big 12 win,” said Patterson, who grew up in Rozel, Kan., and played for Kansas State before beginning his highly successful coaching career.

”We feel fortunate to get out of here with a victory.”

Carter finished with eight catches for 141 yards, and Waymon James added 99 yards rushing for the Horned Frogs (2-0, 1-0), who nevertheless pushed the nation’s longest win streak to 10 games by beating up on the team picked to finish last in the conference in preseason polls.

Dayne Crist led the Jayhawks (1-2, 0-1) with 303 yards passing, but he was also intercepted once, fumbled as he was heading into the end zone in the fourth quarter, and missed several third-down throws that prevented Kansas from capitalizing on the TCU turnovers.

”We were really close on a bunch of plays,” said Charlie Weis, who is 0-2 against teams from the Football Bowl Subdivision in his first season at Kansas. ”It wasn’t like the first two games, now. There were some plays we made and there were some plays we definitely left out there.”

Sounds a lot like Patterson’s assessment of the game.

Pachall fumbled three times for the Horned Frogs, and Matthew Tucker also coughed up the ball, each time as TCU was trying to cap off a drive with a touchdown.

The Jayhawks have forced 12 turnovers through their first three games.

”We came out a little flat,” Pachall said. ”We were just shooting ourselves in the foot. We felt like they couldn’t stop us, but at the same time, we were stopping ourselves.”

TCU rolled up 487 yards of offense, and its defense kept the Jayhawks out of the end zone – and scoreless the second half. So despite the turnovers, the Horned Frogs still managed their 25th straight conference victory going back to their membership in the Mountain West.

Not that beating up on college football’s big boys is anything new.

TCU had won 16 of its past 20 games against schools from automatic BCS-qualifying conferences, including a stretch of five straight against Big 12 schools. Among the victims have been Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Iowa State – all schools that they’ll be facing in coming weeks.

”Everybody said, ‘When you go into the Big 12, you have to play your best ballgame every day to win games,”’ Patterson said. ”I’m not sure if we did that.”

Their first series was one example.

The Horned Frogs effortlessly marched inside the Kansas 10, only to have a fumbled snap go scooting past Pachall. The Jayhawks recovered and drove the other way, and Ron Doherty’s field goal with 8:45 left in the first quarter gave them a 3-0 lead.

TCU marched right down field again, gaining big yardage with each play, but this time Pachall fumbled while attempting a pass and Kansas jumped on the ball.

Turns out the Jayhawks are good at giving away possessions, too.

Crist threw an interception on their first play from scrimmage, and Pachall pushed his streak to 13 straight completions to start the season when he found Carter for an 8-yard touchdown pass.

Pachall’s streak ended at 14 straight on the Horned Frogs’ next drive.

Doherty and his TCU counterpart, Jaden Oberkrom, atoned for missed field goals earlier in the second quarter by each making good before halftime. That left TCU clinging to a 10-6 lead.

Things finally unraveled for Kansas in the third quarter.

The Jayhawks were forced to punt on their first two possessions, and TCU made them pay by finally finishing off a drive. Pachall completed six consecutive passes – one of them 33 yards to Carter to convert on third down – before hitting his favorite target from 25 yards out.

Pachall unloaded the pass to avoid a blitz, but the 5-foot-11 Carter managed to pull down the jump ball over cornerback Tyree Williams, and then tiptoed down the sideline for the score.

”The defense played very well today, but the offense came out in the second half and didn’t do well,” Kansas running back Tony Pierson said. ”The defense carried us this game.”

Oberkrom added a 27-yard field goal later in the third quarter, and the Horned Frogs dominated the fourth quarter – despite two more fumbles costing them points – to wrap up the victory.

”We just have to get our minds right,” Pachall said. ”We know how well we can perform and that wasn’t our normal way of performing.”

— Associated Press —

NWMSU volleyball rolls to 3-0 win over Missouri Southern

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Northwest Missouri State continued its hot play as the Bearcats dispatched of Missouri Southern 3-0 Saturday night in MIAA volleyball action.

The Bearcats not only swept a struggling Missouri Southern team, but beat the visiting Lions handily in three sets 25-16, 25-18, 25-18. Northwest saw its record improve to 7-4 overall and 3-0 in the MIAA for the first time in over 15 years as the Lions stay winless at 0-10 and 0-2 in league play.

Northwest used a solid combination of offense and defense hitting .316 as a team. It was the first time all season the Bearcats have hit over the .300 mark as a team.

Sophomore Brooke Bartosh continued her hot start to the 2012 campaign, leading the way with 14 kills and an amazing .476 hitting percentage. Bartosh has finished with double figure kills in six of her last seven matches helping Northwest go 5-2 over that span.

Abby Graves also finished with double figure kills adding 12 and a .550 hitting percentage.

Dallas Gardner continued to pace the offense for Northwest with 26 assists.

The Bearcats neared the .400 mark in sets two and three as they ran past the Lions in set one 25-16. Northwest would close out the match 25-18, 25-18 to stay perfect in league play.

Northwest continues its home stand as they host Fort Hays State Wednesday. Tipoff from Bearcat Arena is set for 7 p.m.

— NWMSU Sports Information —

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