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Blanchard went 18-30 for 248 yards, no touchdowns or interceptions for the Warhawks. Menzel caught
five balls for 61 yards, Ford 5-62. Coppage rushed 21 times for 108 yards. Butterfield was 4-10 for 19
yards and one interception, and the rushing touchdown, and Lauters carried the ball 15 times for 89 yards
for UW-L. Sophomore linebacker Kyle Wismer (Spring Grove, IL/Richmond-Burton) had six tackles and
one tackle behind the line for Whitewater, with junior defensive lineman Anthony Dowery (Saint
Francis/Milwaukee South) contributing five tackles, a sack and a tackle for a loss. The Eagles had three
players in double figures in tackles, led by DB Jack Leahy’s 12 with three tackles for a loss. Fellow backs
jake Meckstroth and Matthew Buswell both had ten tackles.
The victory upped UW-W’s win streak to thirty-one games, longest in NCAA football -- any division.
Whiteawater’s last loss was to Mount Union in the 2008 Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl.
The Warhawks will be on the road again next week, traveling to Franklin, Indiana to face the hometown
Franklin College Grizzlies, who opened the season at Valparaiso University. Franklin is ranked 24 th in the
D3football.com preseason poll. UW-W and Franklin met last year, with Whitewater winning in a NCAA III
first round playoff game in Perkins Stadium.
Warhawk fans are invited to a special pregame tailgate hosted by chancellor Richard Telfer and director
of athletics Paul Plinske.
Whitewater’s first home game of 2011 will be September 17 at 12:00, with Campbellsville University
visiting Perkins Stadium. Tickets are sold in the University Center ticket office on the main campus mall
Monday through Friday during normal business hours.
#1 Warhawks Throttle #21 Grizzlies
9/10/2011
UW-Whitewater, ranked number one in Division III, used five consecutive possessions to score 35 points
in seventeen minutes to roll over #21 Franklin College 45-0 Saturday afternoon at Faught Stadium in
Franklin, Indiana.
The win ups UW-Whitewater’s win streak to 32 consecutive games, longest in any Division of NCAA
football. That string includes 18 straight non-conference wins.
The game started slowly, each team trying to establish identity, the Warhawks methodically running the
ball, Franklin throwing the ball out of a no huddle attack. Neither team put any points up early, but the
groundwork (no pun intended) laid by the offensive line paid off later as Franklin wore down.
Whitewater’s final possession of the first quarter began at 5:21 on their own 32. Six plays later, five of
them Levell Coppage (Oak Park, IL/Oak Park) rushes, senior quarterback Matt Blanchard (Lake Zurich,
IL/Lake Zurich) caught the Franklin defense biting on a play action pass to Steve Morris (Racine/Horlick)
for a 25 yard touchdown with 2:03 left in the quarter.
The Warhawk defense ended Franklin’s next drive prematurely when cornerback Jesse Hamilton
(Racine/Park) forced FC back Craig Reece to fumble, and safety Ryan Wenkman (Wisconsin
Dells/Wisconsin Dells) recovered it at the Franklin 29. UW-W used five straight runs to punch the ball in,
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