Nov. 5, 2007
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BELLINGHAM, Wash. -
UPCOMING GAME: Western Washington University Vikings (2-7, 1-6) vs. Minnesota State University Mavericks (4-6, 2-5) in a North Central Conference contest on Saturday, Nov. 10 (1 p.m.) at Civic Stadium (4,000 cap., FieldTurf) in Bellingham, Wash.
It is the final game for 11 seniors as the Vikings seek to avoid their first eight-loss season since 1983 (1-9).
Western is looking to snap a four-game losing streak, its longest since 2003. The Vikings have not lost five in a row since 1986.
Western dropped a 24-14 decision at Augustana SD last Saturday after leading by seven points at halftime. That followed losses to Western Oregon, 35-7, No.19 Central Washington, 24-7 in the fifth annual Battle in Seattle at Qwest Field before a crowd of 11,780, and at South Dakota, 24-10.
Western's only win in the last seven games was a last-minute 18-15 decision over St. Cloud State.
The Vikings began the season with arguably the toughest opening three games of any NCAA Division II team in the country. They debuted with a 28-21 victory at NCAA I-FCS UC Davis, then fell 45-10 at No.8 Nebraska-Omaha, and in their home opener, and lost 63-42 to No.2-ranked North Dakota in the highest-scoring game in school and NCC history.
Western followed that with a 22-14 setback at Minnesota Duluth.
The Minnesota State game is the last of the Vikings' two-year stay in the NCC where they have posted a 4-11 record.
Minnesota State has lost its last three games and five of its last six following a 3-1 start. The Mavericks posted victories over Central Missouri, 23-14; Peru State, 70-0; and Augustana, 26-16, all at home, with its only loss during that stretch being 41-14 at No.9 Northern Iowa.
The Mavericks then dropped back-to-back games to nationally ranked opponents, 45-15 at No.6 Nebraska-Omaha and 38-34 to No.2 North Dakota. They won 35-14 at Minnesota Duluth before losing to St. Cloud State, 27-13; at South Dakota, 34-23 and to No.17 Central Washington, 17-10.
Minnesota State is 3-3 at home this season and 1-3 on the road.
SENIOR SALUTE: Eleven Western seniors are playing in their final game Saturday. They are punter Corbin Anderson, outside linebacker Mike Braund, running back Tieba Bropleh, defensive end Ryan Conwell, outside linebacker James Day, wide receiver Casey Dell, defensive lineman Joel Nelson, middle linebacker Shane Simmons, wide receiver Brett Upchurch, outside linebacker Taylor Wade and outside linebacker Nick Warren. Bropleh, Conwell, Day, Dell and Upchurch are all four-year letter winners, with Anderson and Simmons both earning three letters.
SERIES HISTORY: Second meeting. Western won 35-31 at Mankato, Minn., last season.
RADIO: KBAI (930 AM-Bellingham) is broadcasting all Western football games live this season with sports director Doug Lange handling the play-by-play duties for the 12th consecutive season. The pre-game show with host Mark Scholten begins at 9:35 a.m. CT. The KBAI broadcast can also be heard on the Internet at wwuvikings.com.
All Minnesota State football games are carried live on KTOE Radio (AM 1420) with Casey Lloyd handling the play-by-play duties.
COACHES SHOW ON KVOS TV 12 WEBSITE: The Western Vikings Report-Football Edition will be available each week at kvos.com. KVOS also will air a pre and post season WWU Football Special.
WEBCAST INFORMATION: Viking football is back on the Internet for 2007. To listen to the live broadcast via the web, go to www.wwuvikings.com and follow the links. The web provides streaming audio of the KBAI 930 AM radio broadcast of Western athletic events. The audio stream is only available during event broadcast times.
2006 RESULTS: Western finished 5-6 overall, winning its last three games, and tied for fifth place in the NCC at 3-5. Minnesota State was 4-7 overall and placed eighth in the NCC at 2-6.
TICKET INFORMATION: Tickets for Viking football cost $12 for reserved seating, $10 for general admission adults, $6 for students and seniors and $3 for Western students. For ticket information, contact the WWU Athletic Department at 360-650-2583 (BLUE). Season tickets are available for $44.
CIVIC STADIUM: Western is in its 46th year of playing home games at Bellingham's Civic Stadium. The Vikings have a 122-88-7 (.578) record at that facility which was built in 1961. Last year, Western finished 3-3 at home after having a 1-3 record at Civic Stadium in 2005, its first losing mark at home since 1990 (2-3). The Vikings are 1-2 at home this season.
VIKING REPORT: A season that began with a road victory over a NCAA I-FCS opponent ends with Western looking to stop the bleeding. The 2-7 Vikings are hoping to avoid their first eight-loss season since 1983 (1-9) and their first five-game losing streak since 1986.
Western has scored just 38 points during its four-game losing streak, having tallied 20 or more points just twice this season. The Vikings have been held scoreless in the first quarter in their last six contests.
Making things even more difficult is that junior quarterback Adam Perry will not play after injuring his shoulder on a touchdown run near the end of the first half of the Augustana contest. In nine games, he passed for 1,587 yards with seven touchdowns and just four interceptions.
Replacing Perry will be junior Tony Gardiner, who has seen limited duty, connecting on five of 15 attempts for 19 yards with two interceptions.
Sophomore running back Craig Garner, who missed the St. Cloud State game with a bruised knee, has run for 823 yards and seven touchdowns on 207 carries (4.0 apc), ranking fifth in the NCC in rushing at 102.9 yards a game. He has run for 100 or more yards in eight of his last 12 games. Garner had a career-high 192 rushing yards against North Dakota, tying a school record with four touchdowns.
The receiving corps is led by junior Travis McKee with 40 catches for 367 yards and three touchdowns. Sophomore Rick Copsey has caught 24 passes for 323 yards and one touchdown.
Leading the Western defense is senior middle linebacker Shane Simmons, a 2007 second-team D2football.com preseason All-American and a second-team all-NCC pick last year. He tops the NCC in tackles and ranks third nationally with 113 (12.6 avg.). Simmons forced a fumble in the dying seconds of the St. Cloud State game to preserve the victory.
Senior punter Corbin Anderson is averaging 36.6 yards on 55 boots, including a school-record effort of 79 yards against UC Davis when he was named NCC Special Teams POW.
MINNESOTA STATE REPORT: The Mavericks feature a wide-open offense that throws three times more than it runs. They lead the NCC and rank second nationally in passing offense with a per game average of 371.1 yards.
Triggering the attack is senior quarterback Ben King, who recently became just the 14th signal-caller in NCAA II history and the first in the NCC to throw for 10,000 career yards. He leads the country in total passing yards with 3,667 and passing yards per game at 366.7. King has completed 299-of-515 attempts (58.1 percent), 23 for touchdowns with 19 being intercepted. He has thrown for 300 or more yards seven times this season and nine during his career.
Six different receivers have caught 30 or more passes for Minnesota State, led by junior Damian Turner with 56 catches for 756 yards and two touchdowns. Junior Chris Nowlin has 50 catches for 721 yards and four touchdowns, senior Troy Chappell 41 catches for 349 yards and one touchdown, freshman Omaar Balton 38 catches for 457 yards and two touchdowns, sophomore Donte Shackelford 36 catches for 541 yards and seven touchdowns, and senior Jeff Fielder 34 catches for 386 yards and two touchdowns.
Shackelford, Minnesota State's top rusher, has just 160 ground yards on 35 carries, three for touchdowns.
Senior placekicker Jason Tompkins has booted 30-of-31 PATs and 3-of-5 field goals, and freshman punter Gerard DeWet is averaging 38.2 yards on 47 kicks.
Last week at Central Washington, Minnesota State was held to a season-low 10 points, not scoring for the first three quarters.
The Maverick defense is allowing 362.3 yards per game, but has made 69 tackles for loss, 26 of them quarterback sacks.
Junior free safety Blake Freeze is the team's leading tackler for the second straight year with 78 stops, including 10.0 tackles for minus-43 yards. Sophomore end Randy Earl has 8.0 quarterback sacks for minus-56 yards and senior end Grant Smith 6.5 sacks for minus-45 yards.
Sophomore Kelvin Rodgers is averaging 26.5 yards on 26 kickoff returns, including a 99-yard return for a touchdown, 10.9 yards on 24 punt returns and has intercepted two passes.
Next year, Minnesota State is moving to the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
VIKING NOTES: Middle linebacker Shane Simmons, a second-team preseason D2Football.com All-America, is the first Viking to reach the century mark in tackles since Mark Spencer was credited with 126 in 1997. The school record of 164 was set in 1977 by Jim Sterk, now the director of athletics at Washington State ... Simmons has had double-figure tackles in 12 of the 14 games he has played the last two seasons with eight and nine stops in the other two. He had a career-high 18 stops versus Minnesota Duluth, earning NCC co-defensive Player of the Week honors. Last year, Simmons was leading NCAA II in solo tackles per game (9.8) until having his season end after five games because of a shoulder injury ... Western's four-game winning streak snapped by Nebraska-Omaha was the Vikings' longest since 2002 when they opened with four wins ... Western quarterback Adam Perry and punter Corbin Anderson were NCC co-offensive and co-special teams Players of the Week, respectively, for their performances in the Vikings' 28-21 win at NCAA Division I-FCS UC Davis on Sept. 1. Perry, who passed for 362 yards, the seventh-highest total in school history, also was named the College Sports Report National Division II Football Performer of the Week.
WWU INJURY REPORT: Starting offensive guard Chris Miller (knee) and quarterback Adam Perry (shoulder) both suffered season-ending injuries in the Augustana game. Wide receiver Casey Dell was lost for the season with a lacerated spleen injury suffered in the Central Washington game. Defensive end Nick Rocco also will miss the last two games as he is having surgery on his hand following an injury in the Western Oregon contest.
NCC PRESEASON POLL: Western was picked to finish ninth among nine teams in both the 2007 preseason North Central Conference coaches and media polls. Defending co-champion North Dakota was the first-place pick in both polls.
HEAD COACHES: Robin Ross (Washington State, 1977) is in his second year (7-13) as head coach at Western and has three decades of coaching experience. He was the defensive coordinator for two of the finest Viking teams in school history in the mid-1990s.
Ross has spent most of his career as an assistant at the NCAA Division I-A level. He also coached in the National Football League, being the linebackers coach with Oakland for two seasons, helping the Raiders have the ninth-ranked defense in the NFL in 2000, when they were 12-4 and reached the AFC Championship Game.
In 2005, Ross was linebackers coach at Oregon State University, where the Beavers led the PAC 10 in run defense, allowing 108.0 yards per game. He spent the previous four seasons as special teams coordinator and tight ends coach at University of Oregon. The Ducks won the 2001 PAC 10 championship, finishing second in the ESPN Coaches Poll after defeating Colorado in the 2002 Fiesta Bowl. He was also at Oregon as an assistant during the 1997 and 1998 seasons.
Ross came to Western in 1994 and in his first season the Vikings led the NAIA Division II in scoring defense, allowing just 11.5 points a game and five times holding opponents without a touchdown. Western, which posted its first national playoff victory that season with a 21-2 triumph at No.1-ranked Linfield, ranked third nationally in rushing defense at 76.0 yards a contest and fifth in total defense (260.3) with 42 takeaways (26 interceptions, 16 fumble recoveries).
In 1995, Western finished 9-1, going 9-0 for the first undefeated regular-season for the school in 57 years and being ranked No.1 nationally in NAIA II for five weeks. The defense allowed 13.7 points a game, ranking seventh nationally in that category.
Immediately prior to coming to Western, Ross had been defensive coordinator at Iowa State University from 1987 to 1993. He has also been a defensive coordinator at Fresno State University (1996) and University of Cincinnati (1984 and 1985).
Ross, 53, began his coaching career at Long Beach State University in 1977. A graduate of Washington State University, where he also spent one season as a defensive line coach, Ross was a second-team all-PAC-8 pick as an offensive lineman. He was a 10th round draft pick of the San Francisco 49ers in 1976, and spent one preseason with the Seattle Seahawks.
Ross, who is the 13th head coach in the 96-year history of Western football, is a graduate of El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, Calif.
Jeff Jamrog (Nebraska, 1987) is in his fourth year (16-27) as head coach at Minnesota State. In 2004, he coached the Mavericks to a 6-5 mark, the program's first winning season since 1994. Jamrog spent four years as an assistant at Nebraska (2000-03), the Cornhuskers playing in the national championship game in 2002. He also spent three years at New Mexico (1997-99) as defensive coordinator, was the defensive coordinator at Nebraska-Omaha for three years (1994-96) and worked as the inside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator at South Dakota from 1990-93. He served as a graduate assistant at Nebraska in 1988 and 1989.
LAST WEEK'S GAME:
Nov. 3 at Sioux Falls, S.D. - Augustana 24, Western Washington 14
Augustana College scored a pair of third-quarter touchdowns to overcome a seven-point halftime deficit and went on to defeat Western, 24-14, in a NCC game Saturday at Howard Wood Field.
Augustana, also the Vikings, completed its season 4-7 overall and 2-6 in the NCC. It was the first home victory this season in five games for Augustana.
Western held a 14-7 lead at halftime, and kept that lead when cornerback Anthony Rosso intercepted a pass in the end zone early in the third quarter. But on the following Augustana possession, running back Joe Clark scored his second touchdown of the game on a 2-yard run on fourth and goal, capping a 10-play, 55-yard drive.
Later in the period, a short punt into the wind gave Augustana the ball at the Western 42, and shortly after, quarterback Tyler Schulte connected with Joe Klumper for an 18-yard score, giving Augustana a 21-14 lead with nine seconds left in the quarter.
Ryan Grossman added a 24-yard field goal with 3:06 left in the game to provide the final margin. Western had three possessions in the fourth quarter, and reached their own 40 on all of them but never crossed midfield.
Western, which has scored just 38 points in the last four games, had a season-low 172 yards of total offense, including just 53 through the air, as starting quarterback Adam Perry was injured late in the first half.
After a scoreless first quarter, the sixth straight time Western had not scored in the opening period, Western reached the scoreboard five minutes into the second quarter. A 78-yard Corbin Anderson punt rolled all the way to the Augustana three. The Western defense held, and Augustana fumbled the punt attempt, giving Western the ball on the 9. On the next play, running back Craig Garner (So., Tacoma/Lakes) ran into the end zone.
Augustana responded just 46 seconds later as Clark slipped a series of tackles and sprinted for a 61-yard touchdown, evening the score at 7-7.
Western took the halftime lead with a 12-play, 43-yard drive. Perry completed passes to four different receivers in the drive, then finished it off himself with a 7-yard scramble into the right corner of the end zone. It was his final play of the day, as he suffered a shoulder injury that kept him out of the second half.
Perry was 5-of-13 for 39 yards. Backup Tony Gardiner was 4-of-11 for 14 yards. Garner was the biggest weapon in Western's offense, rushing for 91 yards on 23 carries.
Clark rushed for 108 yards on 18 carries for Augustana, and Jeremy Huber added 92 yards on 16 carries, including a critical 54-yard run on third-and-five to set up Grossman's insurance field goal in the fourth quarter. Schulte, normally a wide receiver pressed into quarterback duty because of an injury to regular starter Daniel Millus, was 11-of-21 passing for 97 yards.
The 53 yards passing were the fewest for Western since having just 36 in a loss at Linfield in the 1992 NAIA Division II playoffs.
Middle linebacker Shane Simmons had 11 stops for Western and also recovered a fumble.
LAST YEAR'S MEETING:
Nov. 11 at Mankato, Minn. - Western Washington 35, Minnesota State 21
Sophomore quarterback Adam Perry made his first career start a successful one, throwing for two touchdowns and running for the go-ahead touchdown early in the fourth quarter as Western closed out its season with a 35-21 victory over Minnesota State, Mankato, in a NCC game at Blakeslee Stadium.
The triumph was the third straight for the Vikings. Western scored the go-ahead points in the fourth quarter of all five victories.
Minnesota State completed its season 4-7 overall and 2-6 in the NCC, having a two-game winning streak snapped. Quarterback Ben King completed 36-of-64 passes for 335 yards with three touchdowns and an interception, setting a school record for pass attempts in a game. Tyrell Smith had a school-record 11 receptions for 91 yards.
Perry completed 14-of-25 passes for 215 yards with two touchdowns and an interception, and also was a threat running, picking up 49 yards on 10 carries. He had runs of 11 and 19 yards on the go-ahead drive, setting up a 6-yard scramble that gave the Vikings a 28-21 lead with 13:20 to play.
Running back Craig Garner added an insurance score with a 5-yard run on the following possession. Garner rushed for 166 yards and two touchdowns on 27 carries, his fourth consecutive 100-yard game since becoming a starter.
Minnesota State reached the Western 30 on the next possession, but King then threw four consecutive incomplete passes, and the Viking offense picked up four first downs to run out the clock.
Western had a 434-369 edge in total offense, rushing for a season-high 219 yards. Its 35 points also was a season best. The Vikings had a 258-121 advantage in yardage in the second half.
Wide receiver Kellen Alley had four receptions for 53 yards, including two critical catches in the fourth quarter, one a 19-yard grab to set up Garner's touchdown and the other for a first down on a third-and-6 play early in the final game-clinching drive.
Minnesota State opened the scoring on its first possession of the game. An interception by Allen King gave the Mavericks the ball at the Western 49, leading to an 11-yard touchdown pass from King to Tory Chappell just 5:50 into the game. The extra point was blocked.
Western responded almost immediately as Garner burst down the right sideline for a 43-yard touchdown, capping a seven-play, 81-yard drive that gave the Vikings a 7-6 lead.
The Vikings extended the lead late in the second quarter, going 65 yards in just five plays. Perry was 3-of-4 for 61 yards in the drive, including a 24-yard touchdown pass to Casey Dell.
But the Mavericks tied the score at 14-14 on the next possession on a 4-yard pass from King to Joshua Bryant and a subsequent 2-point pass to Bryant. King completed seven passes in the 14-play, 80-yard drive, and for the second quarter, was 16-of-25 for 133 yards.
Western recovered an onside kick to open the second half, and quickly took advantage of it, as four plays later Garner took a screen pass from Perry, eluded an initial wave of defenders and sprinted for a 30-yard touchdown.
Minnesota State responded with a 41-yard pass from King to Chris Nowlin to tie the game at 21-21 with 9:50 left in the third quarter, but Western's defense stiffened after that, holding the Mavericks to one first down on each of the next three possessions.
Steve Davis, playing outside linebacker for the second time after starting the first nine games at strong safety, led the Western defense with 13 tackles. Free safety Todd McClellan had an interception late in the first quarter, his fifth in the last three games. He finished the season with six, the most for a Viking since Orlondo Steinauer had 10 in 1995.
Western last ended a season with three consecutive victories in 2003. Davis was named NCC co-defensive Player of the Week for his performance.
VIKINGS ARE FOOTBALL-ONLY MEMBER OF NCC: Western is a football-only member of the North Central Conference, one of the nation's most prestigious NCAA II alignments. The Vikings, along with arch-rival Central Washington, begin playing a full slate of eight NCC games last fall. The two schools had been competing as part of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. The NCC, founded in 1921, currently has nine members in all, the others being Augustana SD, Minnesota Duluth, Minnesota State Mankato, Nebraska-Omaha, North Dakota, St. Cloud State MN and South Dakota. This is the final year of the NCC, which placed three teams in the 2006 national playoffs, as two schools are leaving NCAA Division II for Division I-FCS after this season.
WWU FOOTBALL RETURNS TO GNAC IN 2008: Western will move to a new five-team football alignment as part of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference beginning in 2008. The Vikings, who already compete in the GNAC in five men's and seven women's sports, will return to the loop for football after a two-year absence. They won GNAC gridiron titles in 2001 and 2003.
Humboldt State, located in Arcata, Calif., and Dixie State in Saint George, Utah, will join Western and its fellow GNAC members Central Washington and Western Oregon in the GNAC football league. Humboldt State and Dixie State, currently members of the California Collegiate Athletic Association and the PacWest Conference, respectively, will be granted affiliate membership in the GNAC for football and the football conference will operate under the auspices of the GNAC. Neither the CCAA nor the PacWest sponsors football.
The new league will involve all five NCAA Division II schools in the West that sponsor football. The schools will play a home-and-home format, providing eight conference games each year.
Humboldt State, Central Washington, Western and Western Oregon previously competed in the GNAC in football between 2001 and 2005. The GNAC, however, dropped its sponsorship of football following the 2005 season when Central and Western elected to move their football programs to the NCC and Humboldt State left the GNAC to become a member of the CCAA.
Dixie State is currently in its second season as a NCAA Division II member.
NEXT GAME: Season over.
WWU TEAM CAPTAINS FOR MINNESOTA STATE GAME: Shane Simmons, Rick Copsey, Ryan Conwell, Corbin Anderson
PROBABLE TWO DEEPS
WESTERN WASHINGTON
OFFENSE
TE 86 Logan Cullen (6-3, 245, Jr.-2V, Anacortes, WA) 83 Zach Hekker (6-4, 240, So.-TR, Bothell, WA/Weber State)LT 56 Nick Bassett (6-4, 275, Fr.-RS, Gig Harbor, WA/Peninsula) 72 Russell Piette (6-4, 290, Fr.-RS, Vancouver, WA/Columbia River)LG 76 Scott Allanson (6-4, 280, Jr.-SQ, Everett, WA/Jackson) 72 Russell Piette (6-4, 290, Fr.-RS, Vancouver, WA/Columbia River)C 66 Dan Trask (6-3, 275, Jr.-1V, Aberdeen, WA) 69 Dincer Kayhan (5-8, 320, So.-SQ, Gig Harbor, WA)RG 78 Phil Hayes (6-4, 330, Jr.-2V, Renton, WA/O'Dea) 57 Zach Myers (6-2, 295, Jr.-SQ, Sammamish, WA/Skyline/CWU)RT 68 Chris Corey (6-4, 285, Jr.-1V, Federal Way, WA/Decatur) 63 Jason Paull (6-3, 270, So.-SQ, Vancouver, WA/Mountain View)(H) 88 Umi Grant (6-0, 175, Jr.-TR, Oakland, CA/Pacific Hills-L.A.) 85 Cody Oakes (6-2, 205, Fr.-RS, Bremerton, WA/Central Kitsap)WR 18 Travis McKee (6-5, 210, Jr.-2V, Bothell, WA) 14 Rocki Sandusky (6-1, 160, Fr.-GS, Ferndale, WA/UNLV)WR 4 Rick Copsey (5-8, 185, So.-1V, Camas, WA) 84 Blake Ferguson (5-9, 180, So.-TR, Seattle, WA/Issaquah/WSU)RB 20 Craig Garner (5-6, 160, So-1V., Tacoma, WA/Lakes) 17 Tyler Roberts (6-0, 200, So.-1V, Friday Harbor, WA)QB 8 Tony Gardiner (5-10, 195, Jr.-SQ, Bothell, WA) 12 Chase Lamoreau (6-2, 190, Fr.-RS, Brewster, WA)(FB)42 Matt Clark (6-1, 225, Jr.-1V, College Station, TX, A&M Consolidated) 38 Jeff Twining (6-0, 225, Fr.-RS, Shoreline, WA/Seattle Prep)
DEFENSE
LE 58 William Jackson (6-1, 265, So.-1V, Seattle, WA/O'Dea) 36 Jake Youngren (6-1, 215, So.-1V, Mount Vernon, WA/Mount Vernon)T 71 Junior Aumavae (6-2, 310, Jr.-2V, Palmer, AK/Palmer) 79 Don Thomas II (6-0, 255, Fr.-RS, Kent, WA/Kentwood)T 55 Shea Thorstad (6-0, 265, Jr.-1V, Stanwood, WA/Adams State) 96 Justin Mundell (5-9, 225, So., Maple Valley, WA/Tahoma)RE 99 Ryan Conwell (6-5, 250, Sr.-3V, Kent, WA/Kentwood) 36 Jake Youngren (6-1, 215, So.-1V, Mount Vernon, WA/Mount Vernon)LB 40 Taylor Wade (6-0, 205, Sr.-1V, Mukilteo, WA/Kamiak) 54 Nick Warren (5-10, 210, Sr.-1V, Bellevue, WA)LB 9 Shane Simmons (6-1, 230, Sr.-2V, Kent, WA (Kentlake/Idaho) 46 Andre Davis (6-3, 235, Fr., Seattle, WA/Franklin)LB 11 James Day (5-10, 195, Sr.-3V, Vancouver, WA/Mountain View) 43 Caleb Jessup (6-0, 215, So.-1V., Kenmore, WA/Inglemoor)LC 28 Anthony Rosso (5-11, 185, Jr.-2V, Walla Walla, WA/Walla Walla) 89 David McMurray (5-10, 160, Fr., Granite Falls, WA/Lake Stevens) 2 Anthony Zachary (5-11, 195, Fr., Spokane, WA/Ferris)FS 7 Zach Schrader (6-1, 190, Fr.-RS, Issaquah, WA/Skyline) 13 Maurice Jones (5-9, 185, Jr.-1V, Tacoma, WA/Spanaway Lake)SS 22 Allan Denton (6-1, 190, Fr.-RS, Los Angeles, CA/Upland) 30 Danny Cumming (6-0, 190, So.-1V, Friday Harbor, WA/Friday Harbor)RC 16 C.J. Green (5-8, 185, So.-SQ, Federal Way, WA) 1 Jabari Mu'ied (5-10, 160, Fr., Redmond, WA/Redmond)
SPECIAL
K 10 Ace Younggren (6-0, 195, So-1V, Snohomish, WA/Snohomish) 26 Josh Lider (6-2, 185, So., Bellevue, WA/Sammamish)P 45 Corbin Anderson (6-0, 205, Sr.-2V, Veradale, WA/University/EWU) 26 Josh Lider (6-2, 185, So., Bellevue, WA/Sammamish)H 8 Tony Gardiner (5-10, 195, Jr., Bothell, WA/Bothell) 19 Brett Upchurch (6-1, 175, Sr.-3V, Sammamish, WA/Eastlake)LS 99 Ryan Conwell (6-5, 250, Sr.-3V, Kent, WA/Kentwood) 56 Nick Bassett (6-4, 275, Fr.-RS, Gig Harbor, WA/Peninsula)SS 56 Nick Bassett (6-4, 275, Fr.-RS, Gig Harbor, WA/Peninsula) 99 Ryan Conwell (6-5, 250, Sr.-3V, Kent, WA/Kentwood)PR 4 Rick Copsey (5-8, 185, So.-1V, Camas, WA/Camas) 84 Blake Ferguson (5-9, 180, So.-TR, Seattle, WA/Issaquah/WSU)KR 4 Rick Copsey (5-8, 185, So.-1V, Camas, WA/Camas) 20 Craig Garner (5-6, 160, So.-1V, Tacoma, WA/Lakes)
MINNESOTA STATE
OFFENSE
TE 88 Jeff Fielder (6-5, 260, Sr., Salina, OK/Bakersfield College) 82 Mike Brunner (6-5, 245, Fr., Merrill, WI/Wausau East)LT 77 Adrian Battles (6-4, 285, So., Milwaukee, WI/Vincent) 76 Matt Trinko (6-8, 300, Fr., Oak Creek, WI/Oak Creek)LG 64 Mike Zeidler (6-3, 290, So., New Berlin, WI/ Eisenhower) 71 Eric Spiekerman (6-8, 395, Fr., West Bend, WI/West Bend East)C 62 Jake Droessler (6-3, 300, Jr., Storm Lake, IA/Storm Lake) 61 Matt Weber (6-4, 280, Fr., Oregon, WI/Oregon)RG 68 Andy Schoonover (6-4, 310, So., Boyceville, WI/Boyceville) 66 Ben Porth (6-5, 280, Fr., Gretna, NE/Gretna)RT 70 Jeremy Clark (6-4, 300, Fr., Waukesha, WI/Waukesha) 76 Matt Trinko (6-8, 300, Fr., Oak Creek, WI/Oak Creek)WR 6 Damian Turner (5-10, 185, Jr., Vidalia, GA/Vidalia/Rock Valley College) 31 Ryan Cross (5-11, 195, So., Faribault, MN/Faribault)QB 12 Ben King (6-1, 215, Sr., Marshfield, WI/Eastern Illinois) 15 Ryan Fick (6-0, 195, So., Davenport, IA/Benttendorf)SB 80 Chris Nowlin (6-0, 190, So., Alvin, TX/Alvin) 11 Nick Haley (5-11, 190, Sr., Manhatten Beach, CA/El Camino JC)RB 1 Troy Chappell (6-0, 195, Sr., Sacramento, CA/Sacramento City College) 32 Ernest Walker (5-10, 225, So., St. Paul, MN/Arlington)WR 81 Omaar Balton (6-2, 180, Fr., Milwaukee, WI/University School) 86 Marcus Hansen (6-6, 185, Jr., Cascade, WA/Mendocino College)
DEFENSE
LE 96 Randy Earl (6-5, 280, So., Racine, WI/J.I. Case) 89 Michael Robinson (6-6, 250, Fr., Wausau, WI/Wausau East)T 91 Spencer Dickinson (6-3, 270, Sr., New Ulm, MN/New Ulm) 98 Andrew Franklin (6-2, 275, Jr., St. Paul, MN/Arlington)NG 67 Chris Brunkhorst (6-4, 285, Jr., Rochester, MN/Lourdes) 93 Brad Diel (6-3, 285, So., Mankato, MN/East)RE 99 Grant Smith (6-2, 260, Sr., Farmington, MN/Rochester Community and Technical College) 52 Telema Bobmanuel (6-1, 250, Sr., Brooklyn Park, MN/South Dakota)OLB 8 Blake Freese (6-3, 200, Jr., Eden Prairie, MN/Eden Prairie) 36 Kevin Klug (6-2, 210, So., Caledonia, MN/Caledonia)MLB 43 John Jones (6-0, 225, So., Oregon, WI/Oregon) 44 Trey Roemhildt (6-2, 225, So., Waterville, MN/Waterville-Elysian-Morristown)WLB 49 Matt McQuiston (6-1, 200, Fr., Oakdale, MN/North St. Paul) 42 Dan Fehlberg (6-1, 210, Fr., Champlin, MN/Champlin Park)LCB 2 Kelvin Rodgers (6-1, 175, So., East St. Louis, IL/East St. Louis) 35 Bryce Kinniry (5-11, 175, R-Fr., Waterville, MN/Waterville-Elysian-Morristown)RCB 21 Thaddeus Gibbs (6-1, 195, Sr., Laurel, MS/Jones County JC) 23 Steve Robinson (5-10, 180, So., Milwaukee, WI/Winona State)FS 24 Ryan Weinzierl (6-0, 190, Jr., Savage, MN/Burnsville) 27 Jesse Graves (5-11, 180, So., Mankato, MN/East) 29 Brian Ficcadenti (5-10, 175, So., White Bear Lake, MN/White Bear Lake)SS 18 Mike Hinton (6-2, 210, Sr., Burlington, NC/Hargrave) 25 Adam Behrends (5-10, 185, Jr., Benttendorf, IA/Ellsworth CC)
SPECIAL
K 16 Jason Tompkins (6-0, 180, Sr., Frazier Mountain, CA/College of the Canyons) 17 Ben Spencer (6-2, 180, So., St. Paul, MN/Cretin-Derham Hall)P 97 Gerard DeWet (6-1, 200, Fr., Utich, MN/Lewiston Altura) 17 Ben Spencer (6-2, 180, So., St. Paul, MN/Cretin-Derham Hall)H 31 Ryan Cross (5-11, 195, So., Faribault, MN/Faribault) 12 Ben King (6-1, 215, Sr., Marshfield, WI/Eastern Illinois)LS 56 Ryan Pentimalli (6-1, 255, Sr., Oak Creek, WI/North Dakota State College of Science) 61 Matt Weber (6-4, 280, Fr., Oregon, WI/Oregon)PR 2 Kelvin Rodgers (6-1, 175, So., East St. Louis, IL/East St. Louis) 18 Mike Hinton (6-2, 210, Sr., Burlington, NC/Hargrave)KR 2 Kelvin Rodgers (6-1, 175, So., East St. Louis, IL/East St. Louis) 3 Donte Shackelford (5-11, 185, Jr., Omaha, NE/Iowa Central)
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