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Bearcat QB Christopher named MIAA Offensive Player of the Week

Posted on October 24, 2011

For the second consecutive week a Northwest Missouri State quarterback was honored by the MIAA as Offensive Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 22 as selected by a conference panel.

Christopher threw for 406 yards after missing the two previous weeks helping the Bearcats cruise to a 52-28 win over Washburn. The senior completed 29 of 37 passes in the win and also led Northwest in rushing with 79 yards for 485 yards of total offense.

The Kearney native made big third down plays with his legs and arm to keep the chains moving against the Ichabods and also converted on fourth down twice. Christopher tossed three touchdowns and added another on the ground as he averaged 6.6 yards per carry.

The Bearcats who now stand at 7-1 on the season moved up to No. 4 in the latest AFCA Coaches Poll on Monday as well. Delta State held onto the top spot followed by Bloomsburg at No. 2. Pittsburg State moved up one spot to No.3 followed by the Bearcats as North Alabama rounds out the top five. Washburn fell to No. 12 as the only other MIAA team in the Top 25.

— NWMSU Sports Information —

Western-Northwest game to air on MIAA TV Network

Posted on October 24, 2011October 24, 2011

MIAA Commissioner Dr. Bob Boerigter announced Monday that Northwest Missouri at Missouri Western on Nov. 5 and Missouri Southern at Pittsburg State on Nov. 12 will fill the two flex slots on the 2011 MIAA Broadcasting Network football schedule.

“We had opted for the flex scheduling to try to bring forward games that had significant interest by fans,” Boerigter said. “These two games will have implications for not only the championship, but also for postseason play.”

Heading into the final three weeks of the regular season, Pittsburg State sits alone at the top of the MIAA standings with a 7-0 league record, while Northwest Missouri and Washburn are in a tie for second at 5-1 and Missouri Western is in fourth at 5-2 in conference play.

Kickoff for both the Northwest Missouri-Missouri Western and Missouri Southern-Pittsburg State games will be at 2 p.m. CT, and will be broadcast live on the MIAA Network.

2011 MIAA Football Television Schedule (all times central)

Saturday, Oct. 29: Truman at Emporia State, 2 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 5: Northwest Missouri at Missouri Western, 2 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 12: Missouri Southern at Pittsburg State, 2 p.m.

Broadcast Channels
KSMO-TV (Kansas City) available to 100% of the KC market. It is broadcast (over the air) on channel 62 and it is found on most cable systems (Time Warner, Comcast, etc.) on Channel 10.

Eagle Cable (western Kansas) — Channel 15

Cox KS Cable system — Channel 22

Cablevision (St. Joseph area) — Channel 20

Suddenlink (St. Joseph and Maryville) — Channel 8 (Maryville), Channel 64 (St. Joseph)

Mediacom (Columbia, Jefferson City, Springfield, etc.) — Channel 22

— MIAA Press Release —

Missouri’s game at Baylor will kick at 6:00 on FSN

Posted on October 24, 2011October 24, 2011

The contest between the Missouri and Baylor on Saturday, Nov. 5 in Waco, Texas has been selected for telecast on Fox Sports Net and will kick off at 6 p.m. CT. The selection was announced Monday morning by the Big 12 Conference as part of their weekly television picks.

Out of the seven Mizzou games so far, six have been televised. This will be the program’s second game on Fox Sports Net, with the first being the season opener against Miami (Ohio).

Missouri’s regular season finale against the Kansas Jayhawks on Nov. 26 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City has also been chosen for broadcast on FSN, and will kickoff at 11 a.m.

— MU Sports Information —

Big 12 hands out weekly football awards

Posted on October 24, 2011October 24, 2011

Seth Doege (Texas Tech), Shaun Lewis (Oklahoma State) and Tyler Lockett (Kansas State) have been named Big 12 Conference Football Players of the Week, as selected by a media panel. Doege (offense) was recognized for the second time this season. Lewis (defense) and Lockett (special teams) picked up their first career award. Lockett is the first freshman to receive a Big 12 weekly honor in 2011.

Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week

Seth Doege, Texas Tech, QB, Jr, Wolfforth, Texas

Junior quarterback Seth Doege helped lead Texas Tech to its first win over a No. 1-ranked opponent on the road with a 41-38 victory at No. 1/3 Oklahoma. The win snapped OU’s nation-leading 39-game home win streak. Doege finished the game 33-of-52 for 441 yards passing with no interceptions. He had four touchdowns through the air and another on the ground. Tech’s 41 points were the most given up by OU at home since 1997. The 441 yards passing are the most by any Texas Tech quarterback against the Sooners.

Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week

Shaun Lewis, Oklahoma State, LB, So, Missouri City, Texas

Shaun Lewis had nine tackles, an interception and a fumble recovery in No. 6/6 Oklahoma State’s 45-24 win at Missouri. His interception set up a touchdown and his fumble recovery stopped a Missouri drive in the red zone. OSU’s defense limited the Tigers to seven second-half points.

Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week

Tyler Lockett, Kansas State, WR/KR, Fr, Tulsa, Okla.

Tyler Lockett tallied 251 all-purpose yards in No. 12/12 Kansas State’s 59-21 win at Kansas. He became the first player in school history to return a kickoff for a score in consecutive games following his 97-yarder to open the second half. The true freshman also registered career-highs in both receptions and yards with five catches for 110 yards and a receiving touchdown. He became the first K-State receiver this season to surpass the 100-yard barrier.

— Big 12 Press Release —

K-State at Oklahoma State will be shown on ABC

Posted on October 24, 2011October 24, 2011

Kansas State athletics officials received word on Monday that the Wildcats’ game at Oklahoma State on November 5 will be televised by ABC at either 2:30 p.m., or 7 p.m. The exact game time will be determined on Sunday as ABC utilized a six-day option.

The selection marks the ninth straight week that a Wildcat football game will be televised and the third this season on ABC after the network picked up K-State’s games against Baylor and Missouri earlier this season.

The eighth-ranked Wildcats will host No. 9 Oklahoma on Saturday at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. Only a couple hundred general admission tickets in section 28 remain for the game and can only be purchased in person through the K-State Athletics Ticket office at Bramlage Coliseum. The office is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m., to 5:30 p.m., and the ticket booths at Bill Snyder Family Stadium open at 9:30 a.m., on Saturday.

The game against the Sooners will be televised nationally on ESPN beginning at 2:30 p.m.

— KSU Sports Information —

Kansas-Iowa State football game set for 11:30 kick on FCS

Posted on October 24, 2011

Kansas’ football game at Iowa State scheduled for Nov. 5 has been picked up by Fox College Sports, it was announced Monday. Kick off has been set for 11:30 a.m., at Jack Trice Stadium.

The Jayhawks appeared on Fox College Sports in their win over Northern Illinois in September and were on the network twice during the 2010 season, both home games versus North Dakota State and New Mexico State.

The Jayhawks lead the all-time series versus the Cyclones 49-35-6, including a 22-20-3 ledger in games played in Ames. ISU took last year’s meeting, 28-16, in Ames, but prior to that KU had won five-straight in the series, including back-to-back wins at Jack Trice Stadium in 2006 and 2008.

Kansas has appeared on television in five of its seven games in the 2011 season to date and will be appearing on the Jayhawk TV Network/Longhorn Network in this weekend’s game at Texas. The Jayhawks and Longhorns will hit the field at 6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 29.

— KU Sports Information —

Western golfers sit in 2nd after day one at Bulldog Classic

Posted on October 23, 2011

The Missouri Western women’s golf team is in 2nd place at the Truman State Bulldog Classic in Kirksville after firing a day one total of 336.

They are 15 strokes behind leader Nebraska-Omaha (321) and nine strokes ahead of Lincoln (345) who is in third place. Truman State sits in fourth with a 342. Shelby Stone is in a tie for first with UNO’s Rebecca Pollock firing 77s.

Casi Webb is in a tie for 7th with an 83 while Natalie Bird, Darcy Smith and Kristen Cooley fired 86, 90 and 93 respectively.

Western wraps-up their fall and the Truman State University Bulldog on Monday, October 24.

— MWSU Sports Information —

Kansas State moves up to No. 8 in latest BCS standings

Posted on October 23, 2011

Following its 59-21 win over Kansas on Saturday, Kansas State moved up in both national polls and found itself at No. 8 in the latest BCS Standings released Sunday night on ESPN.

The Wildcats (7-0, 4-0) checked in at No. 10 in this week’s AP poll and No. 12 in the USA Today Coaches poll. K-State has now made appearances in the rankings for four consecutive weeks for the first time since 2003, while it has reached the Top 10 for the first time since 2003.

The No. 8 BCS ranking is also the highest for a Wildcat team since being ranked No. 8 back in December of the 2002 season.

The Wildcats, one of only eight remaining undefeated teams in the country, host No. 9 Oklahoma on Saturday for homecoming.

— KSU Sports Information —

Missouri State’s Wooden earns weekly MVFC honor

Posted on October 23, 2011

The Missouri Valley Football Conference has named Missouri State quarterback Trevor Wooden (So., High Springs, Fla.) as its Offensive Player of the Week after the Bears’ starting signal caller led MSU to a 31-17 road victory over Western Illinois Saturday.

Wooden averaged 23.8 yards per completion and compiled 272 yards of total offense to orchestrate the Bears’ first win of the season. He scored MSU’s first touchdown of the night on a 14-yard run less than six minutes into the game to set the pace early and had completions of 57, 50 and 36 yards in the game to implement the MSU deep threat. He also posted a game-high and career-high 82 rushing yards on just 11 carries and averaged a team season-high 10.1 yards per play (27 plays for 272 yards).

Wooden ranks 15th among all Division I FCS quarterbacks in pass efficiency (154.42) and is 42nd in total offense (230.14). He ranks third in the MVFC in both categories. In seven starts in 2011, Wooden is 89-for-141 for 1,298 yards and 9 touchdowns in addition to 313 rushing yards and 4 ground touchdowns.

He is MSU’s first Valley Offensive Player of the Week since Jermaine Saffold claimed the honor for his efforts against Youngstown State on Oct. 2, 2010.

Wooden and Saffold lead the Bears into a homecoming clash with visiting South Dakota State this Saturday at 2 p.m. at Plaster Field.

— MSU Sports Information —

Griffon rolls up 632 yards as they blowout Truman

Posted on October 22, 2011October 22, 2011

The Missouri Western football team cruised to a 45-7 victory over the Truman State Bulldogs on homecoming at MWSU. The Griffons racked up 632 yards of total offense with 271 coming of the ground and 361 through the air. Western improves to a perfect 5-0 when rushing for over 200 yards in a game this season and the 632 yards is the first time a Griffon team has went over 600 yards of total offense since September 16, 2000 when they went for 620 against Missouri-Rolla. The Griffons improve to 6-2 on the season and 5-2 in MIAA play.

Two Reggie Jordan touchdowns in the opening half sparked the Griffons to a 24-0 lead after two quarters. Jordan opened up the scoring when he took a snap on a fake punt and scampered 64 yards for a touchdown with 3:24 to play in the first quarter. Jordan capped off a six play 80 yard scoring drive by the Griffons.

Jordan gave the Griffons a 14-0 lead catching a four yard pass from Travis Partridge with 10:46 to play in the second quarter. The touchdown capped off an 11 play 44 yard scoring drive for Western. Western kept up the pressure getting a 28 yard field goal from Greg Zuerlein and an 80 yard pitch and catch from Partridge to Tarrell Downing with under a minute to play giving the Griffons the 24 point lead. Downing had three catches for 131 yards in the half.

The Griffons dominated offensively accumulating 381 yards of total offense with 215 coming through the air. Partridge completed 10-of-17 for 168 yards and two touchdowns. His only blemish was an interception in the end zone on the opening drive of the game for Western.

Michael Hill rushed 17 times for 87 yards while Nic Burrell had six tackles leading the Griffons defensively. Shane Simpson had an interception in the half while Sean Tray Bryson got the Griffons only sack. Western held the Bulldogs to just 47 yards passing and to 0-of-5 on third down conversions.

The Bulldogs finished with 147 yards on 32 plays. They rushed 19 times for 100 yards with Donald Harvey gaining 63 yards on nine carries. J.B. Clark struggled throwing the ball completing 5-of-11 passes for just 24 yards. Richie Schumacher had 10 tackles for the Bulldogs.

The Griffons continued to play well into the third quarter scoring on two of their first three possessions. Western first scoring drive of the quarter was a five play 71 yard which ended with Hill plowing in from six yards out putting Western up 31-0. The Griffons scored again on their next possession when Partridge hit Derek Libby on a 60 yard pitch and catch giving Western the 38-0 lead after three quarters.

The two teams traded scores in the fourth as Western’s Jerrin Walton scored a 29 yard touchdown with 7:31 to play giving Western the 38 point victory. The Griffons have won four straight on the season and four straight over the Bulldogs.

Hill led the way on the ground rushing 22 times for 95 yards and a touchdown while Walton rushed six times for 47 yards and a touchdown. Partridge finished with career best 278 yards connecting on 15-of-24 passes with three touchdowns. Downing had five receptions for 171 yards and a touchdown while Libby had a career best three catches for 90 yards and a touchdown.

The Bulldogs finished with 291 yards with 158 on the ground and just 133 through the air. Harnish Ayora had 82 yards on 15 carries while Harvey had 65 yards on 10. Conrad Schottel completed 6-of-21 passes for 91 yards while rushing for the Bulldogs loan touchdown. Truman falls to 2-6 on the season and 1-5 overall.

Defensively the Griffons were led by Burrell with nine tackles with 1.5 being for a loss. Jeremy Weston and Simpson each had seven stops. Western recorded three sacks with Bryson, Oliver Pryor and Ben Pister all getting one.

Truman State was led by Schumacher with 15 tackles with six being solo. M.J. Kang had two sacks for the Bulldogs.

Western will hit the road for a non-conference match up on Saturday, October 29 when they travel to Bolivar, Mo. to take on the Southwest Baptist Bearcats in MIAA action. Game time is set for 2:00 pm from Plaster Stadium.

— MWSU Sports Information —