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