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Beau led the Pointers with 18 rushes for 53 yards, and he was 13-31 passing for 223 yards. Wide
receivers Mike Mullins, 8 for 66, and Maglio, 4-102, were his primary targets. Senior defensive back Joe
Mleziva led both teams with 15 tackles, and senior linebacker Curtis Crump added ten.
UW-W will travel to Eau Claire to face the Blugolds Saturday for a 3:00 kickoff. UW-W will close out the
regular season at home November 12 at 1:00 with UW-La Crosse visiting Perkins Stadium. For home
game ticket information visit the ticket office in the University Center on campus Monday-Friday during
normal business hours, or call 262-472-2222.
Seventh Consecutive Title is All Whitewater
11/5/2011
UW-Whitewater earned sole possession of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
championship, the Warhawks’ seventh straight, with a 37-22 win over UW-Eau Claire at Carson Park in
Eau Claire Saturday afternoon. The win moves UW-W’s NCAA (all divisions) best win streak to 39
games, tying the University of Washington (1908-1914) for the fifth longest streak in the history of college
football.
A major theme for the day was set in the opening drive of the game. Eau Claire took the opening kickoff
and piled up yards down the field. The drive stopped, abruptly, when UW-W defensive back Noah Timm
(Two Rivers/Two Rivers) picked off an Austin Neu pass, Timm’s fifth interception of the season, at the
Whitewater goal line.
Starting on the two, UW-W went 98 yards on 13 plays to draw first blood with a ten yard pass from Matt
Blanchard (Lake Zurich, IL/Lake Zurich) to Luke Menzel (Sheboygan Falls/Oostburg). Levell Coppage
(Oak Park, IL/Oak Park) provided the big play of the drive, a 45 yard run that put the ball on the Eau
Claire 35. Coppage carried the ball nine times for 79 yards on the drive that ended with Eric Kindler
(Germantown/Germantown)’s PAT with 4:25 left in the first quarter.
Eau Claire’s second possession was much like the first, this time marching from their own 18. And Neu
ended the drive again, this time with a 17 yard scoring pass to Joel Sweeney, with Josh Albrecht’s kick
tying the score at 7-7 with 14:10 left in the second.
Whitewater’s next drive was stalled by three penalties.
Neu and Timm hooked up again, in a negative way for the Blugolds, midway through the second quarter
as Timm picked up his WIAC leading sixth interception, making the pick at the EC 24 and returning it to
the 9. Three plays later Blanchard had his second TD toss of the game, for five yards to Cory Robinson
(Cambridge/Cambridge) with 7:01 on the clock. Kindler’s kick gave the lead back to Whitewater, 14-7.
The Blugold offense again mounted a drive, starting from their 31 and advancing to the WW 26. Halted
by a sack, an incompletion and a Neu scramble to avoid a sack that resulted in no gain, Albrecht came on
for a field goal attempt. Timm, EC’s defensive nemesis, blocked the kick to retain the Whitewater lead at
14-7 as the teams went into the locker room.
Steve Morris (Racine/Horlick) took the Eau Claire second half kickoff 65 yards, Whitewater’s longest kick
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