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came in<strong>to</strong> the game averaging 6.6 yards per rush as a team, was limited <strong>to</strong> 67 yards on 21<br />
carries (3.2/rush) in the first half.<br />
Salisbury junior wide receiver Juma Richards set up the Sea Gulls first score with a 64 yard end around<br />
that put the ball at the <strong>Whitewater</strong> 10. Three plays later junior quarterback Dan Griffin rushed for nine<br />
yards <strong>to</strong> put Salisbury on the scoreboard, trailing 17-7 with 8:27 left in the third.<br />
After an exchange of punts, <strong>Whitewater</strong> started on its 11. After two plays gained nine yards, Coppage<br />
broke up the middle and out-raced Salisbury defenders for an 80 yard score, the longest run from<br />
scrimmage in his career, <strong>to</strong>pping a 75 yard run in the 2010 Stagg Bowl against Mount Union. His<br />
previous long this season was 60 yards September 17 against Campbellsville. <strong>Whitewater</strong> led 24-7 with<br />
3:46 in the third quarter.<br />
Warhawk Junior defensive back Chris Pendergast (Hartland/Arrowhead) ended the Sea Gulls' next drive<br />
with an interception, his first of the year, at the UW-W <strong>12</strong>.<br />
The UW-W defense came up with another turnover the next time SU had the ball, with junior DB Ryan<br />
Wenkman (<strong>Wisconsin</strong> Dells/<strong>Wisconsin</strong> Dells) forcing a Griffin fumble that sophomore defensive end<br />
Loussaint Minett (<strong>Whitewater</strong>/<strong>Whitewater</strong>) recovered at the <strong>Whitewater</strong> 29.<br />
<strong>Whitewater</strong>'s offense followed that up with a ten play drive that included back <strong>to</strong> back 20+ yard rushes by<br />
Blanchard and Coppage <strong>to</strong> set up Kindler's 37 yard field goal with 8:43 left in the game, putting<br />
<strong>Whitewater</strong> ahead 27-7.<br />
Salisbury's next drive lasted two plays, the second a pick of a Griffin pass by junior defensive back Noah<br />
Timm (Two Rivers/Two Rivers), his team-leading seventh, which gave UW-W the ball at the Sea Gulls'<br />
16. Three Coppage runs, the last for six yards, put UW-W in front 34-7 at the 6:19 mark.<br />
The Sea Gulls mounted their best drive of the day as the clock wore down. They covered 80 yards in ten<br />
plays, 50 of them coming on four Tyler Curley rushes, the last of them a six yard score <strong>to</strong> make the final<br />
margin 34-14.<br />
Salisbury came in<strong>to</strong> the game leading Division III in scoring at 47.5 points per game, and with the <strong>to</strong>p<br />
rushing average at 364.8 per game. They finished Saturday with 244 yards on 45 attempts, 5.2 per<br />
carry. Sixty of those yards came on the last drive. Senior running back Randal Smedley came in<br />
averaging 91.0 per game and 6.8 per carry, and he wound up with 27 yards on 9 carries (3.0). The Sea<br />
Gulls were also averaging 23.8 yards per reception, on just eight attempts per game, but Griffin<br />
completed just 2-7 for 49 yards -- and his first two interceptions of the season. Junior DB Chris Everett<br />
<strong>to</strong>pped Salisbury with nine tackles.<br />
Coppage carried the ball 31 times for 213 yards, the ninth time in his career he's gone over 200 yards,<br />
including four times in postseason play, twice in 2010 and twice this year. Blanchard finished 11-17 for<br />
134 yards, and Huber led both teams with five receptions for 67 yards. Arnold <strong>to</strong>pped Warhawk<br />
defenders with eight tackles.<br />
The win increased <strong>Whitewater</strong>'s college football (all divisions) leading win streak <strong>to</strong> 43 games. That is the<br />
fifth longest in NCAA football his<strong>to</strong>ry, four short of Oklahoma's 47 game streak under Bud Wilkinson<br />
(1953-57). UW-W is 30-6 in NCAA in ten postseason runs, with 2011 the seventh in a row that the<br />
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