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seven conference championships in a row also ties the Warhawk wrestling team, which won seven titles
between 1974 and 1980, for the longest streak by any UW-Whitewater intercollegiate sport.
UW-Whitewater, 8-0 overall and 5-0 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and ranked
number one in the Division III polls, defeated UW-Stevens Point 31-16, 4-4 and 2-3, at Perkins Stadium
Saturday as Warhawk senior tailback Levell Coppage (Oak Park, IL/Oak Park) made several record book
entries. The Warhawks extended their college football leading win streak to 38 games, including 25 in a
row at home and 22 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The 38 game streak moves
Whitewater into sixth place for the longest win streak in NCAA history, passing Augustana (1983-85), and
Yale (1890-93, 1987-89).
Coppage, with 245 yards on 29 carries against the Pointers, has rushed for 1,101 yards this season, the
first back in UW-W and Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference history to rush for 1,000 yards all
four years of his career. It also gives him 6,776 yards in his career, replacing former Warhawk Justin
Beaver as the school and WIAC career rushing leader. And it moves Coppage into third place in the
NCAA III record book for career rushing. The 245 yards is his season high, topping the 168 he gained
against UW-Platteville, and marks the sixth time in his career he has rushed for at least 200 yards. His
most recent 200+ game had been a 299 yard performance in the 2010 Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl.
UW-SP totaled 204 yards in the first half, but just 297 in the game as the Whitewater defense held the
Pointers scoreless the last forty minutes of the game.
Whitewater received the opening kickoff, and three plays later the Warhawks led 7-0 on a 47 yard run by
Coppage at 13:38..
Point responded with an eight play 73 yard drive, the last yard coming on a Ben Wetzel run to make it 7-6
at 10:45. Jered Fohrman missed the PAT, which would prove to be a factor later in the game when the
Pointers had to look for two scores.
UW-W came back on the next possession, marching 73 yards on six plays, with Coppage gaining 54 of
those on three carries. Coppage broke the career rushing record with his fourth carry of the day, covering
46 yards. Eric Kindler (Germantown/Germantown) made it 14-6 at 8:16.
The ping pong match continued, with the Pointers holding serve (yes a mixed metaphor), covering 56
yards in eight plays to set up a Fohrman 42 yard field goal with 4:32 still remaining in the first quarter and
UW-W in the lead 14-9.
With prospects of a Houston-Rice look alike game looming, Whitewater made it 3-3 on possessions, with
Matt Blanchard (Lake Zurich, IL/Lake Zurich) hitting Tyler Huber (Mukwonago/North Prairie) with a 57
yard pass for a 21-9 lead with 3:40 left in the quarter.
UW-SP provided the only scoring of the second quarter, with Mitch Beau passing to Theo Maglio for 29
yards with 10:32 to cut their deficit to 21-16.
And that was it for Stevens Point. Whitewater’s defense did not allow the Pointers to score in the last
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