12-6 Book to Upload - Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks

RUSHING: Mt. Union (OH)-Nate Kmic 28-185; Pierre Garcon 1-9; Mike Jorris 4-6; Team 1-minus 2; Scott
Casto 1-minus 5. UW-Whitewater-Justin Beaver 30-125; Neil Mrkvicka 1-3; Jim Leszczynski 1-3; Justin
Jacobs 7-minus 3.
PASSING: Mt. Union (OH)-Mike Jorris 20-28-1-246. UW-Whitewater-Justin Jacobs 22-47-1-310.
RECEIVING: Mt. Union (OH)-Pierre Garcon 7-107; Nate Kmic 7-61; Scott Campbell 3-40; Brandon
Boehm 2-29; Scott Casto 1-9. UW-Whitewater-DerekStanley 7-99; Jim Leszczynski 5-93; Pete Schmitt 4-
65; Travis Reuland 3-36; Lance Douglas 2-5; Neil Mrkvicka 1-12.
INTERCEPTIONS: Mt. Union (OH)-Cameron Rose 1-18. UW-Whitewater-Steve Wegner 1-32.
Stadium: Salem Stadium Attendance: 4619
Kickoff time: 1:06 pm End of Game: 4:34 pm Total elapsed time: 3:28
Officials: Referee: Tom Essenberg; Umpire: Bob Holcomb; Linesman: Ed Steenbergen;
Line judge: Tim Schramm; Field judge: S. Hendrickson; Side judge: Jeff Stille;
Scorer: Dave Walters;
Temperature: 40 Wind: calm Weather: overcast
SACKS (UA-A): Mt. Union (OH)-Greg Brauer 2-0; Jesse Wells 1-0. UW-Whitewater-Ryan Kleppe 1-0.
TACKLES (UA-A): Mt. Union (OH)-Matt Kostelnik 7-4; Nick Barren 2-7; Robert McDavid 5-3; Cameron
Rose 6-1; Greg Brauer 4-3; Mike Gibbons 3-4; Jesse Wells 6-0; Ross Watson 5-1; Justen Stickley 2-3;
Matt Rees 2-2; Anthony Ursetti 1-2; Buddy Wolf 1-1; Chris Kappas 0-2; Mike Zimmerman 1-0; Chas
Yoder 1-0; Tony DeRiggi 1-0; Jason Lewis 0-1; A. Antonucci 0-1; Mike Manuchia 0-1. UW-Whitewater-
Robb Widuch 8-3; A. J. Raebel 4-3; Collin Price 5-1; Ryan Ogrizovich 3-2; Kyle Johnson 3-1; Eric
Kosterman 1-3; Ryan Kleppe 2-1; Jace Rindahl 2-1; Derek Brown 2-1; Alex Thompson 1-2; Andy Murray
2-0; Brent Allen 1-0; Joshua Jackson 1-0; Vic Wipperfurth 1-0; Matt Blaziewske 0-1; Nic Romeo 0-1.
2006
Salem, Va.--For the second straight season, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater fell short against Mount
Union College (Ohio) in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl for the NCAA Division III football national
championship.
Pierre Garcon scored two touchdowns in the second half and the Purple Raiders defense held the
Warhawks to three second half points as Mount Union emerged with a 35-16 victory in front of 6,051
spectators at Salem Stadium.
Purple Raider signal-caller Greg Micheli was named the game’s Most Outstanding Player, having led his
squad off the bench in Mount Union’s two quarterback system. Micheli set a new NCAA Division III
Championship record buy completing 18-of-22 passing for an .818 completion percentage. He threw for
202 yards and three scores, and also ran for 42 yards and one more touchdown.
The win for the Raiders marked the program’s ninth in 10 total visits to Salem, Virginia. This contest, the
34th Stagg Bowl, marked the only repeat performance in the contest’s storied history.
“This was a great football game today,” explained Mount Union head coach Larry Kehres. “We played
our best game of the season. We played more aggressive. I think we defeated a great team. We felt we
had to play that way because Whitewater is a great team and they brought out the best in us.”
“First of all I would like to extend on the behalf of my football program congratulations to Mount Union,”
mentioned UW-Whitewater head coach Bob Berezowitz. “They were a better football team than we were
today. Credit goes to Larry (Coach Kehres). He has always had an outstanding program.”
"I really feel for our team," Berezowitz continued. "We had a slogan of "Unfinished Business" for this
season and we would have liked to complete that, but our players have accomplished something the last
two years that no other Whitewater football team in history has done."
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