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Timm (Two Rivers/Two Rivers), his team-leading seventh, which gave UW-W the ball at the Sea Gulls'
16. Three Coppage runs, the last for six yards, put UW-W in front 34-7 at the 6:19 mark.
The Sea Gulls mounted their best drive of the day as the clock wore down. They covered 80 yards in ten
plays, 50 of them coming on four Tyler Curley rushes, the last of them a six yard score to make the final
margin 34-14.
Salisbury came into the game leading Division III in scoring at 47.5 points per game, and with the top
rushing average at 364.8 per game. They finished Saturday with 244 yards on 45 attempts, 5.2 per
carry. Sixty of those yards came on the last drive. Senior running back Randal Smedley came in
averaging 91.0 per game and 6.8 per carry, and he wound up with 27 yards on 9 carries (3.0). The Sea
Gulls were also averaging 23.8 yards per reception, on just eight attempts per game, but Griffin
completed just 2-7 for 49 yards -- and his first two interceptions of the season. Junior DB Chris Everett
topped Salisbury with nine tackles.
Coppage carried the ball 31 times for 213 yards, the ninth time in his career he's gone over 200 yards,
including four times in postseason play, twice in 2010 and twice this year. Blanchard finished 11-17 for
134 yards, and Huber led both teams with five receptions for 67 yards. Arnold topped Warhawk
defenders with eight tackles.
The win increased Whitewater's college football (all divisions) leading win streak to 43 games. That is the
fifth longest in NCAA football history, four short of Oklahoma's 47 game streak under Bud Wilkinson
(1953-57). UW-W is 30-6 in NCAA in ten postseason runs, with 2011 the seventh in a row that the
Warhawks have advanced to the NCAA III playoff semifinal round.
The Warhawks will face the University of Saint Thomas in the NCAA Division III Championship semifinal
match-up on Saturday, December 10, at Perkins Stadium, at 2:30pm.
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