12-6 Book to Upload - Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks

Special Note
The winner of the annual Whitewater-Platteville game earns bragging rights in the George Chryst
Game. Chryst, head coach at UW-P from 1979-1992 and athletic director 1981-90, was widely respected
in the coaching fraternity. An offensive and defensive play er of the game, for each team, will be honored
in Chryst’s name following Saturday’s game.
What’s Coming Up
The Warhawks will travel north to UW-River Falls to take on the Falcons in a Wisconsin Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference matchup Saturday, October 8 at 1:00 pm. Tickets are available through the UW-River
Falls athletic department or at Ramer Field on game day. Call 715-425-3900 for more ticket
information. All the fireworks won’t be on the field at UW-W’s next home game, an unusual date, Friday
October 14 at 7:00 with UW-Stout visiting Perkins Stadium. A fireworks display will follow the
game. Tickets for UW-W home games are sold at the University Center ticket office Monday-Friday during
normal business hours
Warhawks Keep Pick-Axe with Win Over Pioneers
10/01/2011
Number one UW-Whitewater defeated UW -Platteville 34-14 Saturday before 10,632 fans at Perkins
Stadium in Whitewater, Wisconsin, running the nation’s longest win streak to 34 games. The win is also
Whitewater’s seventh straight over UW-P. UW-W is 4-0 overall and 1-0 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference. Platteville is 3-2 and 1-1 in league play.
Whitewater’s first drive ended with an interception, Platteville’s Nate Breiby picking off Matt Blanchard
(Lake Zurich, IL/Lake Zurich) in the end zone for a touchback. It was Blanchard’s first pick since the
Warhawks’ last regular season game in 2010 (Blanchard missed last year’s playoffs because of an
injury), a string of 66 passes over five games.
Platteville took the ball on their 20 and used six plays to jump in front 7-0. A pass from junior quarterback
John Kelly to Ryley Bailey covered 47 yards to put the ball at Whitewater’s 24, and two plays later Kelly
hit Paul Reit for the 26 yard score with 5:49 left in the first quarter.
Whitewater took the next kickoff and used ten plays, eight rushes by senior tailback Levell Coppage (Oak
Park, IL/Oak Park) and a Blanchard to Coppage pass to consume 5:21. Coppage pushed over from the
two for the tying score with 0:23 in the first.
In the second quarter UW-W mounted another drive, this one covering 92 yards in 12 plays, with
Blanchard and Tyler Huber (Mukwonago/North Prairie) connecting with 0:59 left in the half to put
Whitewater in front 14-7.
Platteville made the most of the fleeting time remaining. The Pioneers pulled a play out of the sandlot
(“you’re the bottlecap, and you’re this stick”), Kelly throwing a lateral to running back Chad Roscoe and
Roscoe hitting a wide open Reit for the 35 yard score with just 0:14 left in the half as the teams entered
the lockerroom tied 14-14.
The tie marked the first time UW-W had not led at the intermission since a 7-7 tie at North Central College
in the NCAA III playoff quarterfinals December 4, 2010.
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