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| Rhodes athletics photo by Allison Bowen |
A handful of playoff teams entered Saturday with their playoff
chances resting on Saturday's performance, and for the most part,
they delivered.
Rhodes pulled off perhaps the shakeup of the day with an
emphatic 49-30 victory over No. 19 Millsaps, which entered Week
11 9-0 and probably out in front among Pool B candidates. Freshman
tight end Charles Schneider caught two touchdown passes as the Lynx
built a 21-6 lead, and quarterback Blake Box ran for three TDs in
the win. The Lynx earned the SAA title and finished 8-2, on the
edge of the Pool B picture themselves.
- Full Week 11 scoreboard
- Brooks breaks NCAA rushing mark
- NCAA selection show, 6 p.m. ET Sunday
Wash U. held Chicago to 228 yards of offense in a 17-7 win, and
the
Bears finished 8-2 with a case for a Pool B bid. Texas
Lutheran turned a 14-all game into a 63-14 rout of Howard
Payne, and finished with an 8-1 record.
Framingham State left no doubt, as Melikke Van Alstyne ran
for 138 yards and three touchdowns, and Travis Hayes had seven
catches for 121 yards and two scores in a 36-0 win over Worcester
State. Likewise, Wesley gave carries to nine backs, and Jamar Baynard
had 123 of the Wolverines' 324 rushing yards in a 47-0 win over
Alfred State.
Among the teams in the running for at-large bids in Pool C, No. 10
UW-Platteville rallied from a 16-7 deficit and Zach Litchfield
kicked a 37-yard field goal as time ran out to beat No. 8
UW-Oshkosh, 17-16. No. 9 John Carroll fell, 42-34, to Mount Union,
but like Platteville heads to Selection Sunday with a 9-1
record.
Tate
Musselman had two touchdown catches and linebacker Chris Simms had
12 tackles as No. 14 Illinois Wesleyan beat Elmhurst, 24-10, to
wrap up the regular season 9-1. Idle Pacific Lutheran remained at
8-1, while Pacific nearly threw the NWC for a loop before losing to
No. 2 Linfield, 28-22.
Jensen Gebhardt threw a touchdown pass to Goose Goborn 92
seconds in, and Thomas More cruised past Mount St. Joseph,
59-13, in The Bridge Bowl. Sean Hildebrand ran for a touchdown and
caught another as Wabash beat DePauw, 38-21, in the Monon Bell
Game.
John Babin caught a 41-yard touchdown pass from Tyler Hughes to push
Cortland State past Ithaca, 28-24, in the Cortaca Jug game.
Hampden-Sydney stopped Randolph-Macon's Will McGhee on a two-point
conversion attempt in the final two minutes to preserve a 28-26 win
in The Game.
Brendan McGlynn scored from 2 yards out with 2:58 left to
earn RPI a 31-28 win over Union in The Dutchman Shoes rivalry.
St. John Fisher scored 41 unanswered points in the second quarter
in a 48-13 Courage Bowl victory over Alfred.
Michael Lahey threw for three touchdowns and ran for 119
yards as Chapman beat Cal Lutheran, 37-27, and finished
8-1.
Jack Kaiser ran for three touchdowns in St. Thomas's 45-22
win over St. Olaf. The Tommies, who made the Stagg Bowl last
season, finish the regular season 8-2. Concordia-Moorhead got 305 yards passing and two TD runs
from Griffin Neal in a 38-31 win over Gustavus Adolphus.
Trey Yocum had a 50-yard touchdown run among his 33 carries for
247 yards as Monmouth won the Bronze Turkey game, 37-10 at
Knox. Bryce Pardoe caught a 10-yard touchdown pass to lift
Carnegie Mellon over Case Western Reserve, 35-32.
Methodist wrapped up an 8-2 season by outlasting North
Carolina Wesleyan, 69-62. In a game that featured 1,315
combined yards from scrimmage, Blake Scott's 14-yard touchdown
catch with 23 seconds left was the decisive score.