 He brushed heavily and hit as he threw his permit back. Makes the catch clean. Vincele drops back and wafts and passed over to the center. But he's got Gatlin opening. We're at Taylor Field on the campus of Lakeland College where today the muskies will play what is arguably the most important game in the history of the football program. Hello, everybody. My name is Mike Martin. Joining me is Director of Communications and Sports Information Director Dave Galli and Eddie. Dave, Lakeland has never been in the NCAA Division 3 Playhouse before they have a chance today. Yeah, they sure do, Mike. This college has had football since 1934. In 71 years, football teams never gotten a playoff berth before. Number of years they were in NAIA. 1997, they switched to NCAA. It's going to be a tall order, though, against Aurora University today. Lakeland comes in 5-0 in the conference, 6-2 overall. Aurora comes in 4-1 in conference. It's a game for first place in the conference. Yeah, if you look statistically, these two teams are ranked first, and one of the two of them was ranked first in almost every category statistically in the league. So the line of order for Lakeland is pretty simple. If they win the game today, they clinch the league's automatic playoff berth. If they lose the game, we're looking at probably a three-way tie at the end of the year. There's a very complicated tiebreaker that we'll explain later. But really, for the muskies, it's simple. Win and you're in the playoffs. They have some outstanding offensive players. And just before we went on, we were talking about the defensive side. But Ryan Mayuri had a great game last week. And actually, Lakeland had 541 yards rushing, second most in the NCAA Division III this year. So offensively, they're not challenged. Now, Ryan is a quarterback, is such a threat to do almost anything on the field. The challenge that he poses for the defensive side is they have so many different sets, and you don't know whether he's going to run out of it or throw out of it. So even if you put a spy on him, you're just not exactly sure what he's going to do. And he's incredibly talented. He's quite an athlete. And it confuses opposing defenses. Let's talk a little bit about the defensive side, because Lakeland is very tough on defense also. Over the last couple of weeks, the defense has played extremely well. Ryan Vanilou from Shevoegan Falls is nationally ranked in sacks. And it tackles for a loss per game, and David Benton is ranked nationally in sacks per game. We're going to step out. And when we come back, we'll have the opening kickoff and the starting lineup for today's game. Back at Lakeland College, where they're doing the coin flip. And let's step out. Let's do some of the starters for today's game. For Lakeland on offense, they'll be starting Ryan Mayuri at quarterback, Travis Jervis at fullback, Brandon Erdman at halfback. Erdman is number 46. Jervis is 34. Mayuri is number 8. Matt Martin, number 17. And MacArthur White, number 1, are the wide receivers. Martin is number 17. John Gilmore, number 81, had two touchdown passes last week. Will be the tight end. Ryan Holm, 77. And Byron Vandalin, number 69, are the tackles. Joseph Poole, Ryan Edder, are the guards. Edder is 78. Poole, 59. And Andrew Argall, number 54, is the center. Senior day today, Dave, and you had a chance to introduce those seniors for Lakeland College. Yeah, those kids have worked extremely hard over the last several years. I saw coaching change three years ago when Jim Zabrowski came in. Great job of really changing the attitude of this program. And these seniors were the ones that bought into it from day one. And it's got the program on the footsteps of going to a playoff game. Return for Lakeland was number 22, Nick Hunter. Hunter was hit immediately, got it outside the 10-yard line, but that's about all. Make it at about the 14. First in 10, Lakeland. And we're just underway. Alongside us is Dennis Samp. Played a little football out here. He's running the clock. First back up the middle is Jervis. Picks up a pretty good chunky yardage. Muskie's offensively all year long have been tough. They've got the number one scoring offense in the league at 36.4 points a game. And they've got the number one total offense in the league at 439.1 yards a game. So they're a load to deal with. That was Brandon Erdman on the carry. The up back in this set is Travis Jervis, 34. Erdman the deep back. Mayuri under center. Halfback, quarterback option. Mayuri keeps it. And he's got a first down. He's out over the 30 at about the 34-yard line. Defensively, Aurora has the number one scoring defense in the league. They're only allowing 17.1 points a game. So when you've got the number one scoring offense and number one scoring defense, Mike, something's got to give. Exactly. Well, good play. They mark it at the 32-yard line, 33. So pick up a 13 yards for Ryan. Three wide receivers, two off to the right. And off to Erdman, I believe that was. Not much going there. Brandon Erdman's really stepped in. Had a great year. Wasn't the starter at the beginning of the year, but for a freshman. Actually, that was Sean Lee. It was Sean. Well, Sean's really stepped up, too. Again, was not a starter at the beginning of the year. They had a lot of different ball carriers last week. Of course, it was a blowout. Well, Erdman and Lee, the last several weeks, have really been the two mainstays. And they've both done a great job just running attack with Mayuri, quarterback, and those two backs is something to deal with. Mayuri out of the shotgun this time, rolling. Rolling finds the receiver wide open over the middle. He's hit and dropped, making the grab was Eric Royal. But buying time with the rollout really paid dividends at that time. You know, the real key offensively, too, has been this offensive line. It's a senior laden line. It's an experienced group of kids. They give Mayuri time to throw when he needs it. They open up holes for these running backs. It's a really good group. Vandalin, Brian Vandalin from Monroe was an all-region pick last year. And kind of heads up that group. They've done a good job. First down for Lakeland. Handoff to Lee right up the middle. He stopped right at the line of scrimmage. No gain that time. That last play from Mayuri to Royal went for 11 yards. And it was out to the 47 or 48. Got a local boy, too, on that offensive line. Brian Ater, senior from Random Lake. Got a couple of local kids on the team. We'll be talking about Ryan Vandalin on the defensive side from Sheboygan Falls. This program has always had a lot of luck recruiting talented kids from the area who've come here and done extremely well. Got a couple of kids. Oh, Mayuri trips and falls. He's got his feet tangled. And the ball's going to be spotted way back at about the 42. You look like he just lost his footing in the grass there a little bit and maybe hit the top of a shoe. And Ryan was offensive player of the year in the league, offensive back of the year in the league last year. And we'll be one of the players that will be a front runner for player of the year in the conference this year. You mentioned about getting local talent out here. The basketball team will have a couple of local guys. Our fans will be extremely familiar with it. Shane Groobie and Peter Worth from North just talked to Shane this morning actually and things are going well. They're happy to be here and I know they're happy to be here. Well, Mayuri's got room but he decides to pitch it out and he makes a nice pass and a great catch by MacArthur White. Hit as the ball arrived and he hung on. Yeah, the coaching staff really feels like MacArthur can be a go-to receiver, a big player receiver. And he showed some of those skills right there. Ryan got the time again, rolled out a little bit, found MacArthur with the pass down the middle. First down, Muskies. 22-yard pickup. First and 10, Lakeland on the 39-yard line. They're on the move, Aurora having trouble. Sean Lee right up the middle picks up a few and we got a Lakeland player down. Hobbling up is big number 78, Brian Eder. Looks like he's going to be OK. Second down, pickup of a couple of yards for Lee. Muskies have had decent luck scoring in the first quarter. They're outscoring their opponents 65 to 31 in the first quarter this year. And getting on the board first today, I think, will be important. So it's always easier to play from ahead. Little flip pass up to Royal. He cuts it back. He's flipped by one defender. He's heading to the end zone at the five. Touchdown. No, they're going to rule them out of bounds. Inside the five, oh, I thought he was going to get in. Boy, now they've ruled it a touchdown. Now they have. Oh, that official was standing right on the sideline and didn't do anything. Didn't do anything, yeah. He didn't help us out at all. Well, they said MacArthur White was a big-player receiver and there he was. Here we're going to see it, Dave, little flip pass. Little flip pass to MacArthur White and boy. This cutback right here. Defense was a little confused. He cut back and he was gone. MacArthur's got great speed. Oh, yeah, the official right behind the guy standing on the line, signal touched on. That one, 34 yards or so. Kick is no good. And I'll tell you one thing that down the road could hurt Lakeland is their kicking game because every time it's been an adventure. That was a nine-play drive, 86 yards total, 24. On the football field, you've got to stay focused and not get distracted. The same is true on the road. So before your wireless phone becomes a distraction, take a timeout for safety. In bad weather or traffic, call later. Dial sensibly and use a hands-free device. You know, your wireless phone can be your best safety tool. To call for help, stop a crime, however you use it, remember, with wireless, safety is your call. Time at the kicking game and it's just one of those things where when you're kind of starting from scratch and you don't have one, getting one is going to take time. Well, one thing that a lot of the high schools have gone to, Dave, is picking up a soccer player to do the kicking. And that seems to have paid dividends for a lot of the high school programs. Problem here is on Saturday, soccer and football will play same days. So you're going to have to have the kids going to walk away from soccer and become part of the football team. And on the college level, it's a little more difficult because if you're getting recruited for soccer, you probably got play soccer. Yeah, exactly. Can't just quit. Doing the kicking was Billy Hughes, short kick taken at the 20, and hit and dropped was Danny McKinson, McKinnison, taken at the 20, got it out over the 30, about the 33 yard line. So it'll be first in 10, Lake Aurora. Lakeland on defense, number one total defense in the league. They allow 250 yards on average per game. Big weapon for Aurora is their quarterback. Horning, Andrew Horning, number 12. And Horning is under center. Give it to the first back through. On the carry was number 36. Spartans will go to the air. Part Dan L is number 26, Nick Paxson. Spartans will go to the air quite a bit. Horning on the year 99 of 160. He's completed 61% of his passes and has 1344 yards on the areas averaging 192 yards a game in the air. So the Spartans are not afraid, obviously, to throw the ball. Second down and three ball spotted right on the 40. Give it to the half back that time. The stop is made by Nick Hunter. Nick, one of those seniors, last year Nick was a running back. And this year, because of some changes on the defense, they decided to switch him to linebacker. Nick's got really great speed. And they felt with that speed, taught him some tackle techniques. And he's turned into a good linebacker in what is a really solid linebacking crew for this team. All right, Horning, ducks under center. It's third down and one, a short one. Lakeland coming in tough. They make the stop into the backfield. Good tackle made by number 40 for Lakeland, John Wagner. John's a freshman, has had a really outstanding year. Vandalou also in on that stop. He's had a really outstanding year. Vandalou is number seven in the country in tackles for loss, average per game. And Ryan from Sheboygan Falls. So that's that local factor kicking in. Vandalou was on the bottom of the pile. Vandalou Wagner on top. On the punch return for Lakeland was Mike Christian. Christian stepped in last week. Bile had a real tough time catching the ball. Dave and they switched to Christian. He stays with it again this week. Mike got his first touchdown catch of his career according to his parents earlier this year. He was going back to high school. And Mike, another one of those seniors, has been an impact player for the team this year too. First in 10, Lakeland, they have two wide receivers off to the right. Myiri straight back, looking over the middle. He's got a receiver who makes a catch all over the 45 yard line. I believe that was Cole Roller. That was 88. 88. Martin Rengison. First in 10, Lakeland gets it way up here to the 47 yard line. That was a 21 yard pickup. The way they had their formation, Dave, they really opened up the middle and that's where they sent that receiver. Yeah, Rengison only with five catches on the air for 40 yards. Sean Lee on the carry. Pretty nice care. Pretty nice pickup that time. It'll be second down. Picks up a ball at three. They're giving him a four yard pickup, so we will too. Fairly important drive for Aurora, obviously. It's early, but to have the home team go up and the first place team in the league go up 14 to nothing at their place. Oh, that's huge. That would be a pretty big deficit to have to work from. It'll whistle on the field. Fall start. Fall start number one, yes, five mile away. Dead ball. Fall start in the offense, number one. Five yard penalty, still second down. Well, that flag on Lakeland will make it second down in 11. Aurora went to the playoffs last season. There was a three way tie for the conference title. Lakeland, Concordia, and Aurora will explain that tiebreaker in a minute. Very tight formation. Royal in motion. I hear you going deep. Royal trying to go over the receiver, but not in the ball away was Robbie Perry. And then we got a flag on the play. A lot of contact going on the line. A lot of contact when they went up in the air. I was going to say I couldn't go against either player. We'll see what happens. Looks like they're going to call it on Aurora. Team white, 15 from the previous spot. Passing interference on the defense. We'll take it. College, that's a straight 15 yard. That's a straight 15 yard penalty from the line of scrimmage. Of course, in the NFL, you would get the ball at the spot of the foul. And college, much like high school, it's a 15 yard penalty from the line of scrimmage. First in 10, Lakeland ball spotted just inside the 40. We'll call it to 39. My ear, he's still at quarterback where he's been all year. First back through is number 35, Paul Reesup. Paul's a sophomore from Appleton, full back. Picks up five yards on the play. Got a lot of guys involved in the running game today already, Mike. Yeah, first and second down in about five, royal in motion. Second back through is Lee, stays on his feet, pounds forward inside the 30. Near the 25, it's going to be another first down for the muskies. I think Sean's done such a great job all year of. He gets hit, and he stays on his feet, and he keeps moving forward. Sometimes backs when they get hit that first time don't necessarily go down. But you just got to keep moving, because you never know what's going to happen. Force the defense to bring you down. Lakeland on the move. They're on top, six to nothing. We're at 633 and counting in the first quarter. White in motion this time. And now we got a whistle again. And a timeout, Lakeland College. Yeah, my ear, he was back in the shot gun in that formation. And obviously somebody saw something they didn't like. While it was 626 remaining in the first quarter, Lakeland's up six to nothing. We'll be right back. Dave, I mentioned just before we went on the air that this is not only an important game for Lakeland College, it's an important game for TV8. Coming into today's game, we've had 10 broadcasts. And the TV8 so far is five and five. This game puts us over the top if Lakeland can win it. Well, I think the muskies are going to try to do their part would be my guess. Dennis Samp said the play clock was down to one second. And that's why Lakeland called a timeout to avoid the delay of game penalty. So it's first down at 10. Bouncing to the outside was Sean Lee. And he picks up a couple of hard earned yards before he's wrestled to the ground. Second down at about eight. Sean's from Michigan City, Indiana, Michigan City High School, South War. Only a sophomore, so he's got a couple more years left. Yeah, with Sean Lee at South War and Brandon Erdman running back at Freshman. My year he drops back and now he keeps it. No, just ready to make a cut. And again, his feet went out from underneath them. I think that the field might be a little soft out in the middle. And I don't know if there's you could get your foot in there, get your cleats in there. And it could be a little slippery out there. I think we're seeing a little bit of that already. Now Sean Lee at South War, Paul Reesop with South War. Brandon Erdman, Freshman running back. So there's an awful lot of talent going to be returning next year in the back field for the Muskeys. Flanked out to the left side is Royal and White. And off to Lee. He's got a little bit of a crease and we got a flag. I think we're going to get a holding call on Lakeland's Byron Vandalin off the sea. A preliminary signal was a holding call on Lakeland. Point of attack, holding a takedown. So we'll go. Should have got the name of that head official. Waiting for a call. Holding number 69 in the offense. The 10-yard penalty from the spot of the foul. Repeat third down. That's going to be a costly one, Dave. That'll make it third and long. Yeah, headed in the wrong direction for sure. Back outside the 30-yard line. Is it second or how it is third down? Third down in about 17 yards or so, or 18. Mary back on a shotgun. Yeah, balls at the 33. Short pass over the middle. Hunter picks up pretty good yardage, but I think he's going to be close to the first down, but I think he's going to be a tad short, we'll have to see. There you see the back slip out of the back field. Sean Lee's got out in the middle there. Made up the rest after the catch. Yep, and it is a first down for Lakeland. Ball spotted on about the 15, 16-yard line. I think it's just outside the 15-yard line. Lee up the middle, he's got some room. And Dragon a tackler down inside the five near the goal line. Lee really causing problems for Aurora right now. Boy, seems like at least early on here, the only people stopping the muskies are themselves on a couple of penalties other than that. Yeah, good blocking up front, and a good hard run. Ball is spotted inside the five at the four. Sean Lee, the deep back, he give it to him again right up the middle. You know, on this drive, and even in the first drive, Dave, they've just been overpowering the Aurora defenders inside. Well, I'll tell you, that line, the Lakeland offensive line, those are big kids. Take a peek here. Good shot by Brian Andrews right down the goal line. VanLens 6-3, 3-0-2. Quarterback sneak. No signal yet. Lakeland's calling touchdown. Now the official signal it. Brian Mayuri scoring that one on a quarterback sneak. Good push again up front by the line. Two possessions, two scores for the muskies, and obviously things are off to just about as good of a start for Lakeland as they could have hoped for in a big game against a really good opponent. Let's see how they do on this extra point. Snapping the setter good. The kick is good also. With 3-35 remaining in the first quarter, Lakeland on top, 13 to nothing. It starts in your own neighborhood. When you care enough to give your time to help someone still learning the way and getting involved in the needs of your community. Once you've helped bring a smile to someone's face and help brighten their day, you'll be hooked for life. The Major League Baseball Players Trust and volunteers of America are teaming up to make a real difference in the lives of the people in our communities. Join a winning team. See what you can do to help. Sean Lee has done a lot of the work. 90 carries, 39 yards. Mayuri with four carries for 18 so far. Billy Hughes is going to kick it off. Back deep is Troy Blazer, number one. Mayuri a perfect five for five passing with 108 yards. So the muskies are really mixing it up. Taking it as Danny McKinnison, and he gets it out over the 25 near the 30 yard line. So it'll be first and 10 Aurora from that spot. The biggest statistic, you know, quite simply, just look at the teams. Lakeland with 162 total yards, and Aurora with? Not much. 10. Well, Lakeland has dominated a time of possession so far too. Right. That pass by Horning is over the head of Joel Follyard. Put a little too much on it. He was open. Big drive for Aurora here, Mike. They really need to get on the board. Well, even if they don't get the points, just show that they can move the ball. Right. Lakeland has just dominated so far in the first quarter. Aurora comes out with two wide receivers out here to the right, to the left. You get a wing back on the left side. And off to the running back who slips by one tack or slips by another. He's through the line of scrimmage, and he's finally wrestled down inside a Lakeland territory. Travis Perrell on the carry. He's a leading rusher on the air. 83 attempts for 445 yards on the season. Three rushing touchdowns. Picks up a good block from his teammate, Aaron Harman, number 80. And it's going to be first in 10 Aurora at the 47. That pass is incomplete. Just a touch high. Looked like the same pattern they ran to this side. Intended receiver was Joel Follyard. A little more catchable than that. Passed a couple plays ago, but so far the Aurora passing game is not clicking. That's a good thing. That run by Perrell was a 24 yarder. Second down. Lakeland blitzing on this play. That time, Orning has his receiver on a little cut over the middle. Troy Blazer making the catch. Didn't fool the Lakeland defense too much. A lot of times you can get some big yardage off of that play. Pick up of about five yards. Makes a third down at five. Thanks, Andy. Like you said, Mike, important try for Aurora just to move the ball. And they're starting to move the ball a little bit. Reverse in the backfield. Oh, he doesn't have much room. He's going to get hit in the backfield and thrown down. Did not fool anybody on the Lakeland defense on that one. That's going to be a loss of five yards on the play. Try to reverse in the backfield. 17. Travis Perrell to Joel Follyard. Nothing doing. Nope, a swarm of muskies. Click that one. Went off the side of his foot a little bit. Yeah, look, he really didn't boot it very hard. Eric Guthrie doing the punting for Aurora. Not a good kick. Didn't even get it inside the 20 yard line. Ball is going to be spotted at the 24, first in 10 Lakeland. Well, last time they took possession, Dave, they got it at the 26 and marched at 74 yards for a score. Let's see if they can march at 76 this time. Well, here he faked the dive, kept it and pulled it out. Picks up a couple of yards. We talked a little bit about that tiebreaker situation. Last year, Aurora Concordia Lakeland all shared the conference title. Aurora beat Concordia. Concordia beat Lakeland. And so they all. It's a point thing, right? They all beat each other. That's where the losses came in. And that's what could happen today if Concordia wins and Aurora would win. My eerie looks like it's going to be intentional grounding, but referees don't call it. Essentially, what happens is they take a look in that situation. Oh, and there's a flag. Late. Well, there was no receiver in the area, and that's what led me to believe it might have been an intentional grounding situation. And the quarterback. Sure enough. Boy. OK, what you're going to take it. Pat, on the spot. Yes. You have it? All right. Quarterback. It's a spot foul. Loss of down. Springs up. Third down. This weekend. Conference game? One more conference game. And if Aurora would win today, and then everybody wins next week, there'd be a three-way tie between Concordia, Aurora, and Lakeland. Lakeland would get the playoff berth, which is an automatic berth for the conference champion. That's how that's where the playoff berth comes into play is the league champ gets an automatic spot in the playoffs. All right, we have a third down and 11. Not only a loss of yardage on the penalty marched off, but also a loss of down. My eerie straight back looking. Now he steps up, fires the pass to Erdman, but a little bit too high for Brandon. It goes incomplete. That'll make it fourth down. My guess is when Brandon saw Ryan running, he thought he was just going to take it. Ryan made a last second decision to dump it off. And tough situation. You lose that down, boy. And suddenly things change in a hurry. Oh, for sure. Lakeland will punt for the first time today. Billy Hughes, the freshman punter from Florida. Good snap, good kick taken at about the 48 by Blazer. And then he's wrestled down in Lakeland territory at about the 46. Big Nick Zeck on the tackle. Used up his final year of eligibility in basketball last winter. Redshirted as a freshman. So yeah, a nice little article on him in today's paper. The press has been, every week, they run a profile about Lakeland athletes. And Nick was in today, had a really tremendous athletic career here between football and basketball. Boy, I'll tell you. He could just dominate on a basketball court to go with his size and strength. 6-5-2-70. Carroll right up the middle. And that'll probably be the final play of the quarter. Aside from being such a big guy, he's got really good quickness, really good feet, anticipates well, which makes him a great basketball player and a great defensive lineman. Balls inside the 45. That is the end of the quarter. As we start second quarter action, it'll be Lakeland 13, Aurora Nothing. Wisconsin, life's so good. Call 1-800-432-TRIP or visit travelwisconsin.com. Those kids weren't camera shy, were they? No, no. We'll be careful they'll be taking our job. That might be a good thing, though. Could be. All right, we got second down for Aurora, second and seven. Carroll got three yards in that first carry right up the middle. Not much going there. That was number 36 for Concordia Chris McAndrew. It's going to make a third down and five or so. Ball spotted just outside the 40 yard line. We'll call it the 41. Aurora has three wide receivers on this set, two off to the right, horning at quarterback, inside handoff, and Lakeland not fooled at all. They hit that running back in the backfield. And it's tough play to run. You got Lakeland defenders. Van Der Lu on the bottom of the pile again. Lakeland defenders have already penetrated the line and get that delayed handoff. And boy, that guy didn't stand a chance back there. Aurora forced upon again. Lakeland's defense really done the job the last several weeks. I always said I thought the best teams are the teams that have the best defense. This football is such a game. Oh, boy. Nice Lakeland bounce. Nice Lakeland bounce. And the Aurora players couldn't get it downed. I think it really started for the Lakeland team, especially. It went over Concordia. Lakeland was down 14 to nothing after 1 quarter. They wanted 17 to 14, correct? 117 to 14. But one of the important things was after that first quarter, the defense settled down. Concordia runs a lot of misdirection. And really, the Muskies just needed a quarter to kind of see what they were doing, react to it. They only had 40 yards total offense in the second half of that game. And I think it's really set a tone for all the games since then. My area rolling to his left makes a good pass out to Royal, who makes a good catch. And then he's hit and dropped immediately. But nice pickup for Lakeland. They tried to go back and run around and get a couple extra yards. And Aurora wasn't going to have anything to do with that. Actually, it's just short of the 30, called the 29. Pick up a five yards. I thought they got a little more. But when he ran back, he gave up some yards. Yeah. I think he said he knew he had a guy on his back. He was going to run around him. White in motion. My area hands it off to Lee. He slips through the line of scrimmage. And he just falls down. Why? Looked like he was going to go. I think that feels a little soft out there. I think you could see that leg. His right leg looked like it. Let's see the replay here. Yeah, it almost looks a little scary. His right leg just slipped a little bit. And otherwise, with Sean's speed, he might have been gone. Sean, a big White Sox fan. So he was pretty happy. Thrilled with the World Series outcome. Oh, we got a flag in the backfield. Well, Lee battles down to the 45, or up to the 45, I should say. But the hold will bring it back. I don't know, like that fans don't care for the call, Mike. No. Neither do we, but we're not quite as boisterous. Arm outside with a hold. All right. 59. We'll go back, OK. Pat, this will be from the flag. Holding on the office, number 59. 10 yards from the spot of the foul. Still first. So the muskies will, once again, operate. That's a 10 yard penalty. It will make it first in 20. Operate out of a penalty situation. That just means you get to get a few more stats, that's all. Exactly. Mary, out of the shotgun rolls right. As is receiver, I think that was White Royal, number 10. It was White, maybe. Yeah, it was because of White. They were both over there. They should have a rule about that, Dave. What's that? You can't have a guy number 10, number 1, on the same side of the field. Got to split them. Pick up of nine, makes it second and 11. Good news for Lakeland, you get a holding penalty like that, but it's on first down. You've got the yardage to make up. Running it up the middle was Lakeland. They didn't get a lot. And I didn't catch, get to that ball carrier. He's either Lee or Jervis, I'm not sure which one. Well, we'll give it to Jervis. He hasn't carried yet. Ball spotted right on the 40. It's going to be third down in about nine or eight. Big play for Aurora right here. You're down 13 and nothing. You've got Lakeland in a third and long. You want to be competitive. You've got to stop the opposition. Mary, over the middle. He's got his receiver. White makes a good move. He's going to go all the way at the five. Touchdown, Lakeland. We just made a great move after catching the ball. Number 38, Austin Deere was back there for Aurora. Thought he was going to go one way. MacArthur juke him a little bit, went the other way. Deere fell down, and all that was in front of MacArthur was real estate. 60 yard touchdown pass. Boy, what a lift for Lakeland. You're in a third and long situation. You hit that big pass play. MacArthur got behind the defense, had one guy to beat. That was nice. Threw it right over the defenders. The option of taking the 15 unsporting number 82 of blue, the 15 hour penalty of miss from the kickoff. Chezzy, his kick is blocked. Well, a punt is, the extra point is no could. So it stays 19 to nothing. And as much as I like the 19 to nothing lead, David, I don't like this. Kicking adventure. 92 Marcus God can, I think, got in there and hit it. True leaders are really going to town. That should be us, Dave. I could maybe do one, maybe. The way the Lakeland's defense is playing right now, it looks like a fairly safe lead, but you never know. There's a whole lot of game left, and this isn't Aurora team that scored a share of points. You know what you mentioned? You mentioned earlier that Lakeland trailed Concordia 14 and nothing, it came up with a win. So you're exactly right in what you say, the game. And it was the road team that had the lead in that game. So if you're Lakeland, you just, the thing of it is you're up 19 to nothing. It's a big game. There's a big pot of gold at the end of the game if you win it. I don't think the Muskeys will start celebrating too early, though. This team has been pretty focused all year long. The one thing that really gives them an edge is the defense that they play. The defense that they play, and this team does have a good running game. They don't have to go through the year. Mayuri arguably at times is their best running back on the field, and they're going to be able to run some clock, especially in the second half if they've got that big lead, and just control the flow of the game, keep the ball out of Aurora's hands. Kenenson again on the return, gets it out to about the 35, where he's hit and dropped by Brent Woodruff. So it'll be first in 10, Aurora. You know, I look at color code, these sheets, David, and you look at this. There's very little red in the first quarter. It's almost all blue, which is Lakeland's color. And hopefully that'll continue throughout the second quarter. Yeah. Aurora's feeling a little blue out on the field, right? They look at that dark blue Lakeland uniform. Vandalou coming in on the Blitz. Well, we've got a flag, so we'll get a hornet racing to the outside. He's got room to roam. He's going to get near the first down before he's chased out of bounds. But David called it. There's a flag back on the 30 yard line. It's going to come back. Let them tell us. You just see Vandalou edging up to the Linus. We're going back, right, guys? Holding. Number 65, the offense. 10 yard penalty from the previous spot. Still first down. Obviously with the big 60 yarder touchdown play. Well, and also the other touchdown was a touchdown pass. White's at four catches for 124 yards and two TDs already. Yeah, most that's a. That first one was, yeah, it was to White. He had the 33 yarder and now the 60 yarder. 60, so big breakout day, at least statistically, for McArthur and White. Surely the top rusher 10 carries for 48 yards. Mayuri with the rushing touchdown. Mayuri 8 to 9 through the year, 181 tall, two TD passes. Andrew Horning at quarterback. Parrows alone setback. Horning rolling to the left. And then being hit and dropped. Good speed showing out there by number 97. Now, you're not going to outrun David Benton. I'll tell you that. Just a tremendous athlete. Probably five weeks ago it was a home game. Running back got through the line. It was about 30 yards downfield. David, defensive lineman, senior from Ohio, tracked the kid down and tackled him about 30 yards from the line of scrimmage. Just a tremendous athlete. Great kid does some mentoring with middle school students in Sheboygan. And I think he's looking to stick around here. Horning lost the ball. Lakeland comes up with it. Horning was just running with it, David, and it slipped out of his hands. It's like maybe the ball bumped against his knee. There you get a great shot at David Benton. I think Benton recovered it, too. Opportunistic saw it. Boblin right in front of him and picked it up. What a killer turnover for Aurora. Let's watch how the ball, he loses the ball. He's flushed out of the pocket. Well, I didn't see anybody get their hands in there. 13 from Lakeland, who is Blaine Hornus, freshman linebacker, was right behind him. But I think he just lost control of the ball. Well, here he back, looking deep. He's got Gilmore back there, but also back there was the defender, Jarell Davidson, and he makes the interception in the end zone. So Aurora will get it right back. Lakeland going for a jackpot on first play, and Aurora Stephens comes up with a big play. Boy, Aurora needed that one, Mike. Exactly. Keeps them a little bit in the hunt. They do trail it with 8.51 remaining until halftime, 19 to nothing. Lakeland has scored on two big passing plays, a 33-yarder and a 60-yarder to MacArthur White. And Mayuri had a two-yard quarterback sneak for the third score. All right, first and 10 Aurora, ball spotted on the 20-yard line after the interception in the end zone. Hornings straight back, fires over the middle. I think he was looking for his tight end, Nate Fincham. But Fincham had fallen down, and then Hornings just had to get rid of it. Defensive line doing a great job of pressuring. Hornings just not having time, I don't think, to get back there and set up for his passing game. One thing that Lakeland did a lot early in the game last week against Concordia of Illinois was Blitz, and boy, they just couldn't handle that. So far, the Aurora offensive line seems to be struggling with Lakeland's defensive line. It's a talented group. Zack Benton, number 74, Shane Shrempf, who was coming off a season-ending injury last year. Peril gets drilled in the backfield, stepping up to make the stop was Nick Hunter. And Peril gets nothing. He loses yardage. Then that linebacking crew with Vandalou, Hunter, Hornings. He just got really good quickness, Wagner. The old guys and the young guys, Hunter and Vandalou, are seniors. It's nice to have some of those young guys. But Wagner and Hornings are freshmen, and they've learned a lot, I think, from Vandalou and Hunter. Lakeland fans in that shot look pretty happy the way things are going. Steven Johnson, 50, getting some playing time today. He's another freshman. Vandalou right up the middle gets the sack. Boy, I'll tell you. He got hit pretty good coming through, but he just slipped right by that blocker and made the play. Michael's defense right now just has Aurora going in the opposite direction. Ryan Vandalou, watch him come in there. It gets blocked, goes right through the blocker. Muskie's defense dominating right now. Muskie's in general just dominating. Aurora having a really hard time getting on track in an awfully big game for both teams. Christian's going to let it bounce. Get away from it. And the ball is going to be spotted at the 38 yard line. First and 10, Lakeland. Great field position. Great field position. Boy, up 19, you punch one in here. And Aurora is going to be in a world of hurt. They're in a world of hurt right now. Yeah, it's true. But we like that. First and 10 for the Muskie as they have it on the Aurora, 38 yard line. Sean Lee is a deep back. They give it to him. Apardon me, that was Erdman. Erdman started the game in the backfield. And then he played just a couple of plays. And then they got Lee in there for most of the first quarter. And now Erdman is back in there. Other night, Thursday night, Lakeland had a coach Zabrowski sponsored football 101 for women program. Yeah, I saw that in the paper this morning too. Had 17 women sign up for a two and a half hour seminar. That sounds like a good place for a single guy to be. Erdman gets it up near the 30. I think the neat thing about it was there were a lot of moms whose sons play high school football. And it was an opportunity for them to learn a little bit more about the game. White captain, we'll go. 71 blew the hold, 10 yards from the previous spot, still second down. Fifth or sixth, at least. But Jim and some of his assistants walk through the basics of football, basics of offense, basics of defense. There are a lot of really good questions from the people who are there. And I know they had said they, once that I talked to came away, really feeling like they knew a lot more about the game. My ear, he takes it on a quarterback keeper. He picks up pretty good yardage down inside the 40. That was a call play, like anyway. Now, Ryan's got, there's so many different looks and so many different sets. And Ryan's got a lot of options out of him. For opposing defenses, the tricky thing is you just never sure what he's going to do. Is he going to pass? Is he going to keep it? Is he going to hand off to somebody? Because he's so multi-dimensional, he can do so many different things to hurt you. Third down and eight. Second back through is Erdman. And he barrels forward inside the 30, close to the first down. That's real close to the first down. He might have got it, depending on the spot. You have it. See good blocking up front, hard running by Brandon Erdman. And he's got the first down. 10 yard pickup by Erdman. Erdman a freshman from Menominee, Michigan. 5'10", 175. Fake to the first back. Well, if it was supposed to be a quarterback option, Erdman got himself out of position. He got ahead of the quarterback. He should have been hanging back more. My area just had to keep it. And Aurora did a nice job of recovering and limiting the damage on that one. Pick up of two yards by Ryan Myrie. Myrie was in Saginaw at their program. It's a Division II school, which is where Randy Ori, who used to coach at Lakeland, coaches. Quick swing pass. No, he fakes it. Myrie does slips by one tackler, runs it right up the gut, and gets a first down. Got some financial aid issues at Saginaw, and was thinking about going back home to Sterling Heights to go to community college. But Randy called back to Lakeland and said, I think I've got a quarterback for you. And thank you, Randy Ori, because you certainly did have a quarterback for us. Two-year starter now, and this year we'll contend for conference player of the year honors. First and 10 at the 17. Erdman right through the middle. Touchdown, Lakeland. Nice hold by the offensive line, and Erdman just blasted through it. Well, he got off the ball really quick that time, David. And now it is just all Lakeland. I don't think they could have scripted this one out any better. Dark right. Wow, we. Very good blocking up front. Really, the offensive line has done a great job all half. Now this is a line that really buys into the concept of, they're rewarded when the muskies get in the end zone. Here's a look at it. Got a lead blocker. Great hole right up the middle. Erdman found it, and was not coming down. Erdman now three carries for 28 yards, and a touchdown. They're going for two on that. And I think Erdman is going to come up just short. So the two-point attempt is going to be no good. Lakeland up to 299 yards. Oh, flag comes in real late. There must have been some unsportsmanlike conduct going on as they're unpiling. A little bit of yapping. Somebody was jawing at somebody. Muskies up to 299 yards of total offense, Mike. And we've still got four minutes to go on the quarter. Wow. Aurora's sitting at 21 yards of total offense. Well, the officials are talking it over. And the head official was doing some writing in his book. That's never a good thing. When they write your name down, you're in trouble. You? Time of possession. Mike, Lakeland's had the ball for 16-26. Aurora's only had it for 9-13, so. Almost a two-to-one advantage. Almost a two-to-one advantage there. Well, it's always nice when your team is winning. And I'll tell you, Lakeland, the two times we've been out here last week and this week, they've just looked outstanding on both sides of the ball. Last week, it went up against a little bit softer opponent, team at the bottom of the league in Cordia, Illinois. They're struggling with numbers right now and with talent. But I'll tell you, this week with Aurora, this is one of the top teams in the conference. The team that was in the playoffs last year and did not lose much talent off of that squad. Everything is going Lakeland's way right now. I know what I'm talking to coach Zabrowski on Thursday night at the football for women event. And he said the kids have been really focused this week. They understand what they're playing for. But beyond that, they understand they just got to go out and play football. And if you play the game away, you're taught to play it, and you do the things that they've got set up, then the rewards are going to come at the end. You can't focus on the rewards. You've got to focus on playing well. This group has bought into that philosophy. It's paying off to the tune of 25 zip right now. We're still 421 till halftime. In a way, the defense has stepped up. They might stop Aurora again and have a chance to score some more. Blazer trying to get around the corner and pick up some positive yardage. And he does, but he was running like a man that was a little bit afraid of getting hit. And I don't blame him. Tough situation for Aurora right now. Where do you begin? I guess you've got to take it one drive at a time. The one thing they haven't been able to do is critical for them to get on the scoreboard before they got to go into the halftime locker room. One thing they haven't been able to do is establish any kind of a running game. And that's put a lot of pressure on the horning, then he has to drop back and pass. Now Lakeland's defensive line. And as a result, their linebackers are really dominating the line of scrimmage, which is causing all kinds of problems. And the pass is knocked up in the air and blocked. And I don't know if you watch Vandalou, he's teeing off just about every time coming on a blitz. That was tipped by David Benton, where right now I got to think horning is just seeing a blue wall, a navy blue up there. Benton playing a basketball, Dave. Played for a year, or maybe two, and then just decided to focus on football. Obviously, it's really paid off for him. He's a criminal justice major, I think has thought a little bit about going into mentoring, counseling. And as I said, he's done a little bit of that through horning on a screen pass. And again, goes incomplete. And Lakeland is just swarming all over the Aurora offense. They aren't giving him anything to do. Worked a little bit with Larry Samet, who serves with me on the Sheboygan School Board. Larry is a Lakeland alum. And called me one day looking for some students that could serve as mentors and role models to some troubled middle school students. And David was one of the kids that we passed along. And I think he's working on his second or third young person right now that he's working with. And I know he's had him out on campus a few times. And it's worked out really well. That's a great program. Pass is complete. All to Joe Follyard. Tyrese Warner, defensive back right there on the play. I think too now, Mike, it seems like whenever Spartans do make a play, Lakeland defense is right there. That pass went for about seven or eight yards. So it is going to be fourth down. Kick is just away. Christian was going to come up and pick it off. But he left it bounce. And Aurora gets a little bit of a hop, not much. It'll be first in 10 Lakeland at about the 38 with 3-14 left. And this is exactly what I was hoping for, Dave, that they get the ball back with a chance to score again. To be honest, by the worst field, it's the worst field position they've started with in the last several plays. And it's pretty good. If you're the muskies now, boy, you think about punching another one in here before the half. Really salting this one away. Get this thing up over. Look at this margin of the lead over up over 30. And boy, it's going to be pretty tough. Large group of muskies right in front of us, the defensive unit being talked to. Chris Creek, defensive coordinator, has been with Jim for a while now and just does a really, really good job. Chris, if he wants to. Oh, a little flea flicker action. He's got a receiver out there. White can't make the catch. Coming over to knock the ball away was Jarell Davidson. Davidson made the interception into the end zone. Davidson kind of won the lone bright spots for Aurora today. Just did a nice job of playing the ball. Anticipated, got a hand up there. Actually, if he throws that a little bit farther. Could lead White right into the end zone. Right, where White doesn't have to come back for it. I think Davidson could have got to it. As it is, it's an incomplete pass. And it'll be second down and 10 for Lakeland. Davidson 6-1-1-75, White 6-3. So White has a little bit of a size advantage. But Davidson got up in his face on that one, got a handle of the ball. And off to Erdman through the middle. He's got it opening. He slips by two tacklers still on his feet and is knocked out of bounds near the 30 yard line. What a nice run by Erdman. We're going to have a fly. And I've got a flag in the backfield here. Who that's going to be on. Muskies are saying it's on Aurora. And it is. There you see Erdman slips by one tackler, two tacklers, before he's finally knocked out of bounds. Great run by Erdman right there. Really aggressive. And if you're Lakeland right now, you're feeling really good out there. Every play, getting big yardage, making a little bit more and more difficult for Aurora to do anything. OK, Erdman got it to the 31. That make it a 31 yard pickup. And then tack on the penalty yardage. The worst coach is going to have to whip up a heck of a half. It'll go block in the back. Number 73, the defense. 10 yard penalty from the spot. First down, blue. Ball is all the way down to the 20 yard line. So you get the big run, and then you get the big penalty yards tacked on at the end of that. And suddenly Lakeland again knocking on the door of the end zone. Actually going to make that a 32 yard run, Dave. Erdman alone set back. Lakeland has wide receivers. Two to the right, one to the left. Draw played by Erdman. He's dragged down just inside the 20, making the stop was Sean Carlson. He's played by Carlson there. Penetrated through the few times that Aurora's defense today has been able to bring one of Lakeland's runners down near the line of scrimmage. Actually, they're going to spot that ball right on the 20 again, so give Erdman no gain. Dennis punching in all new numbers, and I'm writing over the pin marks I made. Fake to the first back. Myiri keeps it, gets down inside the 15 yard line. Takes up about six yards or so. Good awareness by Aurora's defense to recognize the fact that the first back through did not take the ball. Third down and about four yards to go for Lakeland. We have 150 and counting to halftime. Lakeland on top 25 to nothing, trying to punch one more in. Big play here for the Aurora defense. Boy, you want to keep Lakeland out of the end zone to have even a chance in the second half. Erdman through. He's got the first down. He's down inside the 10 near the nine. Just some bruising running today by Erdman. It's going to be first and goal. They're spotting it, I think, on the nine yard line just inside the 10. Well, I'll tell you, if they want to pound it up the middle, I think they can get it in. 130 and counting until halftime. Myiri dropping back, flips it out to Jervis. He's knocked out of bounds inside the five. Nice little safe pass. Nice little safe pass to Jervis Jervis, the senior. We're going to spot it right at the five, so a four yard pickup. Jervis from Ashland. He's a Washburn High School graduate. He was one of those seniors that you announced. He was. Really close group on and off the field, hang out together a lot, a lot of them live together. Erdman up the middle on touch, touchdown again. What a great day Erdman has had. That offensive line has created some fantastic holes for him. And once he gets through, he is a load to bring down. Well, Lakeland got exactly what they wanted to stop when Aurora got it with a little over three minutes left, and then they had enough time to just take it into the end zone. There you saw that Erdman touched on again. He's had two scores this quarter. If you're Aurora, Mike, where do you begin at halftime? Try to keep it respectable, I think. His kicking kind of reminds me of my short game in golf. That extra point is no good again, but with 116 remaining until halftime, Lakeland on top, 31 to nothing. Who is the only first team all-American in Lakeland history? I would say it's Pat Kern. Put my money on Pat Kern. Jeff Oguiego? You got that wrong, Andy. Get it right. I want to check the media guide right here. Check the media guide. We don't believe you. I think that Jeff Oguiego went to San Diego State. He wasn't even here at Lakeland. But that's just a wild guess. I can't remember if I. Yeah, he was after me in high school, I think. No. He was, whoa, nice kick by Billy. He was into the end zone. And Aurora will have to take it at the 20. I don't see that very often. Kickoffs out of the end zone. All-American list is on the website. I don't know. I don't think maybe it's in the media guide. So I guess we'll have to. Andy knows how to work a computer, so he does. So he might be right. That's when they had, well, when Kern played, I think Tim Seifert from Sheboygan North was in the backfield. And Paul Mackey from Coler was a quarterback. Some great teams back then. John Tomey was a head coach. John is still around. Comes to a number of Lakeland games. Comes to a number of area football games in general. Moose Woltzen was AD, an assistant coach. Assistant football, huh? Assistant football. Wowee. Now that I didn't know. I thought he was just basketball. No, I don't know how much he assisted. Pat Kern was honorable mention and second team all-American in the late 60s. OK, Andy. OK, OK, we believe you. Should know better than to argue with a guy who knows how to work a computer. He has thoroughly researched the North South. Mike Murphy was the pulling guard on. Five-yard penalty. Still a second. 70. They might be best served to take a kneel down as silly as it sounds. Seriously, you know, Lakeland with their all their. Well, I think they took one time out. So they've got enough time outs to do some damage here. I'll tell you, that's one of the few times this particular play was one of the few times I didn't notice Lakeland Blitz. They just played it straight up. Peril on the carry. You know, and then if you're the Aurora runner, you kind of want to say, oh, you almost want to stay in bounds. While they start the clock, it's at under 10. Five. And that's going to do it. We're at halftime where Lakeland College has just played dominating football on both sides of the ball to the tune of a 31-0 lead over Aurora University. The time is coming. There's no escape from the day you retire. And will you be ready financially? Are you ready, dear? You still can be with investments like an IRA or a retirement plan at work. It's never too late. But start now, because if you wait until making a grave mistake, you may wind up working forever. 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Lakeland already 353. 168 lows on the ground on 29 carries, 185 through the air. Ryan Meiery, Lakeland's quarterback, 9 to 12 for 185 and two touchdowns. MacArthur White, four catches for 124 and two scores. Eric Royle with two catches for 18 yards. Rushing Brandon Erdman, eight carries for 72 with a pair of scores. Sean Lee, 10 carries, 48 yards. And Meiery's got nine carries for 41. On the other side, Aurora, 27 total yards, Mike. The guys were saying, if you factored in the penalty yardage, they'd have had negative yardage. So it's been a long first half for the Spartans. One of those 27 Travis Perle, nine carries, 25 yards rushing. So he's got the bulk of them. Yeah. Blazer on the return and not much. Before we get too far into the second half, I want to mention the crew. Brian Andrews on the field camera. Jackie Kramer's up on top. Kerry Colitzer is spinning the dials. He's the head guy in the truck. Andy McKillip is assisting him. Andy sometimes thinks he's the head guy, but he's not. I'm Mike Martin and alongside me, there's a good shot of Jackie. Good job up there, Jackie. She's got a sore finger, I think, from playing volleyball. Either that or talking back to the coach. Anyway, alongside me is Dave Galli and Eddie. And in making a stop, David Benton again for the sec. We ran to the first half. Absolutely nothing going for Aurora. Lakeland's defensive line, really penetrating and just shutting Aurora down. Had a chance to see Benton. He had his pads and everything off. Apparently, maybe some discomfort with a dislocated shoulder that he had suffered earlier in the season. He doesn't look like a real big guy. Only goes to 10 according to the program. But I tell you, incredibly athletic, and David really. Parle looked like he had a little bit of running room. Gets it up to the 20. David worked extremely hard this past off-season lifting, took advantage of the new fitness center that we built here on campus, and separated his shoulder in the season opener. And everybody at Lakeland kind of held their collective breast because he's such a key to our defensive line. But aside from that, you just don't want to see a good kid like David, who's worked that hard, get his season cut short by an injury. He missed a couple of games, was able to get back by the start of the conference season. And has paid really big dividends for the muskies all season long. He had two tackles for long. Is this second? Yeah, second. A pair of sacks, because he had one at the half, and he just picked up one. Penalty on Aurora moves the ball back even farther. It's going to remain second down. Ball spotted at the six yard line. Horning back. Oh! Almost picked by a couple of different muskies there. Tyrese Warner. Had a shot. And I think number 99, Joshua Bell, sophomore defensive lineman, had a little more hops, could have maybe picked that thing as well. I get another flag on the play. 97. Encroachment on the defense number 97. Five yards from the previous spot. Still, second down. Call made by her head official, John Blum. And he pulled up some national stats for Lakeland. They ranked number 26 when it comes to total offense out of 228 teams. That's pretty doggone good. And number 16 in total defense. In on the stop was Ryan Vandalou. And a fumble, Lakeland recovers it. Boy, oh boy. Making the recovery was Shane Shrimp. Worst case scenario for Aurora right there. Vandalou has been tormenting the backfield the whole game. Pops the ball loose, and all of a sudden Shane Shrimp, as we talked about, missed last season with an injury. And it's been another great player on that defensive line, who has just really, really dominating that line of scrimmage today. First and goal on the five yard line. Split out wide left is Rodney Ellison. And off to number 37, Aaron Berry. He gets it inside the five near the goal line. Short. Boosberg to the local product. Second down from the two, pick up a three by Berry. We're going to see a lot of different people in the ball game this half. Jervis is the up back. Myiri on a keeper looks like he's going to be just short. Myiri picks up one. That'll make a third and goal from the one. And you get a good shot of the defense collectively. A lot of smiles on those faces. They've done the job today. They really have. What a worst case scenario for Aurora. You want to get out and get a nice drive to start the second half. And not only are you getting a sack and then a fumble. You turn the ball over late in your territory or deep in your territory. You know, nothing went right. They had the sack. They had the penalty. And then they lost a fumble. Myiri, Berry's got it. He's into the end zone easily. Off left tackle. Another touchdown for Lakeland. I think it's pretty safe to talk to anybody on both sidelines. And no one would have ever predicted that this game would have turned out like this. Well, Lakeland is just completely dominating. They're taking advantage of every Aurora mistake. I don't know if you saw that last replay, David, but the left side of the line just collapsed the defense. And then Jervis came through and cleaned up a linebacker, a defensive back. And Berry went in untouched. So as much as Lucezi is going to try and pop this one through. And he does with 12-25 remaining in the third quarter. Lakeland on top, 38 to nothing. As much as Lakeland's defensive line is dominating Aurora's offensive line, that's how much. The reverse is happening. Lakeland's offensive line is really dominating the line of skills. Do you know how many kids are risking their health by eating unhealthy foods, stuffing themselves and not getting any exercise? Thank goodness you got here just in time. Where's the problem? In there. 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But the important thing, I think, for Lakeland was to win that game here today, final home game, senior day. Next week's game is down at Greenville. And Greenville is a team that's beaten some people this year. I don't think you wanted to go down there having to win a game. That would have been just that much more pressure to put on the team. I was just looking at the schedule and where this all pans out. They're going to be at Greenville next Saturday in a 12 o'clock game, actually. And Greenville is three and two in conference. They're playing Concordia of Illinois today. And based on their record, Greenville should have another win. They're a decent club and would make them four and four on the year and four and two in conference. Greenville's given, they gave Concordia of Illinois a good game. Concordia of Wisconsin, I'm sorry. And to go down there, that's an overnight trip for Lakeland. Greenville's down by St. Louis. Ooh, that is a long trip. Horning Rowling finds the receiver open right at the 40 yard line. Making the catch was Joe Folliard. By the first really good pass completion the Roars had in almost the whole game, Mike. Well, Horning was only two for seven in the first half. So right now, I think he's three for eight. He just got down there was a flag on the flag. This is all coming back. Take care of that. Really. United the offense. He's a ten yard penalty. Still first down. It seems like for them right now, it's one step forward and about four steps back. Ball is going to be spotted back on the 15 yard line. That's where it is. Way back there. Ball was spotted on the 15. It was second in about 25 or 20. Nothing doing on the run right there. Yeah, just a couple of yards. It's going to be second down. Spartans coming in. Rushing offense, only sixth in the league. And they're going up against the second best rushing defense in the league. So rushing yards are going to be hard to come by against this defensive line. To the second back through. And he picks up just a couple. Well, I'll tell you, the one Lakeland guy that got really pushed out of there was Nick Hunter, but took two big offensive linemen to do it. Yeah, Nick pound for pound. One of the stronger kids on the team, I think coaches said he could deadlift about 575, which is hard to believe. I know Zach can bench 510. There's some really, really strong kids on this team. Third down in about 15. Vandalou coming on the Blitz. Ball is knocked down. It was 75, Nick to Zach. Zach mentioned him. We haven't called his name a whole lot, but do you know he's been a factor in the middle of that line? Zach typically gets doubled and has all year long. People know he's out there and they're trying as much as they can to take him out of the play. But of course, when you double somebody. Leave somebody else open. Either somebody else open or a single man-on-man matchup. Whistle. I wonder if we're going to get a timeout by Lakeland. And I thought that's why they called it. The reason they call a timeout is they had too many guys on the field. And rather than take the penalty and call a timeout, which was a good move. So David, let's talk a little bit about Lakeland basketball boys and girls. We mentioned a little bit about the men's team. I know the girls team lost some really good players from last year. They did. The interesting thing I think for the Lakeland women is going to be there's a number of players back from season-ending ACL injuries. Christy Till. That's right. They lost three of them last year. They lost three. Christy Till, a senior, Connie Thousand, who was a sophomore, and Jenna Bame, who was a sophomore. They'll all be back this year. And of course, you never know how they'll react coming off of injury. And then you'll have, it's hard to say both men and women's side how we're going to be. I think there's a lot of opportunity there. There's a lot of new faces in both programs. And I know they're both hard-added. The women had a scrimmage today and the men had one tomorrow. Christian comes up and makes the catch right at the 40-yard line. He's been back there all day. And Aurora has punted quite a bit. But that's actually the first ball he's handled, I think. A lot of them, I think, have been off the side of the foot or kind of those wobbly kicks that as a returner, you just kind of want to stay away from. Are there any kids coming in as freshmen that you can think of that are going to either team? Trying to remember. Men have a kid, Matt Rogers, from Rochelle, Illinois, who was a member of the All-Star team, state All-Star team down in Illinois, played in the bigger school division, who had a great career at Rochelle, who could do some things at the four spot for the men. I think if it is for Lakeland, it's been so busy. Others, Mark Holzman, just went into the Hall of Fame a couple of weeks ago. Mark is the principal at Howard's Grove High School and went into the Lakeland Hall of Fame for baseball and basketball, speaking of basketball. Yeah. Mark and his wife, Sean, both Lakeland alums. Why are you back going deep? It's got white out there. Another good defensive play made by Jarell Davidson, number two. He's back there. I tell you, it's been a busy fall for Lakeland. You've got the football team knocking on the door of going to the playoffs. Women's volleyball, Thursday, wrapped up. It's fifth straight conference title, and they'll serve. They'll be home. They'll have home court advantage throughout the conference tournament. My area steps up, going deep again to white. Oh, can't make a one-handed grab. Pass goes incomplete. Boy, it looked like that ball hung up there just a little bit, and it was just out of MacArthur's reach. As I look at the flags, it is blowing from south to north. So those passes should be helped by the wind. Fourth down. Interesting that they'd go deep right away. Yeah. Tried to cash in. Obviously saw something in the backfield that they wanted to cash in. Yeah, that was just a little out of MacArthur. Looks like MacArthur might have pulled up just a little bit, too. It looked like the very first play that they ran, that Jervis run, where they only gained one. They had probably eight or nine guys in the box. Just trickled into the end zone. Punt by Josh Schramm takes a Lakeland bounce. Unfortunately, of course, that might have been an Aurora bounce, bounce into the end zone. Aurora bounce, right. Aurora will get it at the 20. Well, you're saying it's been a busy fall. Volleyball just wrapped up their fifth straight conference title. Who's the volleyball coach? That's Chad Schreiber. Chad is a. We're on camera, Dave. Are we? At least I am. There we go. There's Dave. Good shot, Brian. Best one all day. I know about that. Chance of Sheboygan Falls native, our volleyball coach. Horning back. All picked off. Number 52 for Lakeland is in for a touchdown. Another freshman. Brent Miller, a freshman. Freshman from Manasia. Boy, I'll tell you. You think about this Lakeland team. And you say, boy, you know, David Benton, Nick Zach, Ryan Meier, you kind of senior dominated. But they've got an incredible play out of their freshman, especially on the defensive side of the ball. And you saw it right there. Stepped into the passing lane, picked it off. And there was nothing but real estate in front of him. Taken right at the 25. So it's a 25 yard interception return for a touchdown. And another Lakeland touchdown. Muskie's number two in the league in turnover margin at a plus six. Aurora came in, actually, number one in the league at turnover margin. But nothing going right for Aurora. Chezzie's kick is up and good. 45 to nothing now with 9-20 remaining. That's really something. My guess is that the followers of this conference in a few hours when this score gets posted on the web will look at that and shake their heads and think, boy. What's going on? I did not. It's a website, d3football.com. And if you're a Division III fan, you know a bit. Those guys do a great job. But it's d3football.com. And they have different kind of postboards for the various conferences and stuff. And there was a lot of trash talk going back and forth between Lakeland and Aurora fans this week on the board. And everybody expected a close game. And I think the players and the coaches would have agreed with that. I think if they combine to do 45, it means they only have to do about seven each. For Lakeland, obviously, if this continues, then you're looking at closing out the season next week. This win would clinch the playoff spot. That was great of a record, as it would clinch. They would clinch at least a share of the conference title today. That'd be two years in a row. If they win next week at Greenville, that gets them the conference championship outright, then they would get a bye week, actually. And then the playoff game would be on the 19th of November. I was going to say they've got a great record. There'll be a 7 and 2 after today. And yet that's not the best record a Lakeland football team has ever had. A number of years ago, Lakeland went 12 and 0, I believe. It was 10, actually. 97. 10 and 0. Huskies went 10 and 0. The playoff system was different. Well, that was the first year that Lakeland and the Alliance of Adger Conference members were in the NCAA and playing as NCAA schools. And what happens is when you make the switch from NAIA to NCAA, there's at least a year or two, and there's some rules that govern it, but there's some year or two where you don't get an automatic birth. You have to wait for that. And since that was the first year that the league was in the NCAA, they didn't have the automatic birth under the playoffs. So the muskies would have had to have gotten in as an at large. And that's what they were hoping for. And they did not. That 10 and 0. This year, it apparently isn't going to matter. Nope. When did A&E are in? I know there was a lot of disappointment that year when you go undefeated. And they had a good team, obviously. The team ran a run and shoot at Mark Novara as their quarterback. And he still holds most of the passing records in school history. And they would play, used to call it Kentucky, Kentucky fast break offense on the football field. What a stick in the middle of the line. Paxson, I believe. No, it wasn't Paxson on the carry. Number nine, I think it was Rodney Ellis. Pardon me. Kevin Ryan. Right now you've got looks to be that second team defense is in there. You know, at 45, nothing. They're hungry. Yeah, you're going to let those kids show what they can do. Third down. Quick snap on the carry was Dan DeBuscher. That's number 33. And how many first downs at the first one of the game? They had one. One in the first half or one early. That's their second one. Wow. That's hard to believe. That really is. Second first down of the game. And we're in the middle of the third quarter. Ball spotted on the 36 yard line. DeBuscher again on the carry. Second down. See, they're not happy when they throw the flag and they're not happy when they don't. Pick up of about two yards on that carry. Makes it second and eight. I feel like it's a gorgeous day out here, but the only problem with that is the lady bugs think it's a gorgeous day, too. Yeah, really, they're all over me. Fortunately, they're just bugs. Another handoff by Paxton. And I've checked that. Ball carry was DeBuscher again. They're getting a little something going here on the ground against this group of Lakeland defenders. See, he's got 75 Zack back in there. Vandalou's back in there. That was one of the longer runs of the day, about a five yarder. Third down. Warning, still at quarterback. It's being rushed hard. Vandalou is held, but no call. And the pass back to the middle of the field was intended for Ryan, but... Almost picked by Tyrese Warner back there, made a good play on the ball, just caught himself falling backwards. You need a little more hang time. Four's down. And if you're Aurora Mike, you know, you keep your starters in, I mean, you know... You want to break the shutout. Really tough situation here. Obviously, you'd like to get on the board, but you don't really want to get by hurt. You got one more game. Your season's going to be over after next week. Christian didn't call a fair catch, and he made it and was tackled immediately by Danny McKinnison, called his name mostly when he's been returning kickoffs. But anyway, it'll be Lakeland's ball, first and 10. Ball right on the 30-yard line. I think we're going to have a new quarterback. No, they're going to keep my area in for a few series. Oh, yeah, there he is. Trotting in a little bit late. Brad Wilk is the backup sophomore. I think we'll see him before this game is over. I think Sean Lee is back in the backfield for the Muskies. Saw a lot of action early on. Hey, they had a kid out here last year, for sure. I think he was a freshman running back. Kind of had a straight-up running style. It was pretty quick, but I don't think he's back here this year. Marcus Denham? Yeah. Had some injury issues this year, and is still in school, still with the team, and probably will be back next season. At least that's the hope. So you factor in Sean Lee, Erdman, Resup. You bring a kid like him back, and then there's a young man, Shannon Fitzgerald, who's gotten a lot of action on the JV level, and who I believe got a lot of action last week. Had a fair of rushing touchdowns. Flag flies in late to see what that's all about. It's going to be a face-mass call on Concordia's Jarell Davidson. But the Muskies are really stacked in the backfield for next season already. You know, you hate to lose those 16 seniors, but when you look at the number of underclassmen that are making contributions, that's huge. Let's hear what they call it. First of all, face-mass penalty, number two of the defense, automatic first down, 15 yards from end of the run. That'll help the drive immensely. Especially some of the skill positions. Lakeland's going to be in great shape as far as returnies go. You know, some retooling to do on the two lines. Good shot of Ryan Vandalou there from Sheboygan Falls. Probably got a good shot to be an all-American candidate this year with some of the numbers that he's put up. He's got to be a happy camper, not just for his career, but for his high school head coach, then he's just picking up his 12-earth win. Right. Myeri on a keeper, cuts it up. He's tackled near the 50, probably just short of the first down, but he picks up nine yards. They can have to retool that offensive line a little bit next year. Well, Ryan Holmback at a tackle. Joe Pool at a guard, they'll build around them. Both have really nice years this year. Defensive line, I'll lose. Zach, David Benton, they'll have Josh LaBelle and Shane Shrimp back. Then they'll have Hornus and Wagner back at the linebackers, and they both have had great freshman years. Wide receivers wide, left and right. Myeri on a fake handoff, keeps it. He's got the first down, gets it down inside the 40. The 30, he's broken loose. One man to beat, he beats him. He's at the five, dies for the end zone. Touchdown, Lakeland. Great job by Myeri on that last tackle. I think 14 hit him, thinking he was just gonna go down and all Ryan really did was absorb the blow. 14 was the one that fell down, and Ryan just stood there and shook him off and headed into the end zone. When you tackle somebody, you gotta wrap him up, you can't just hit him. Whoa, a lot of guys faked out there. Nice fake, and then watching this last tackle attempt, he hits him out, and then you really didn't give him much of a handoff. Andy, that's the one I scored in Oshkosh. That's just how it happened. The guy slid by me and I got it into the end zone. Do you have any tape to prove that? The Chessies kick us up in good, and now the score is 52 to nothing. That's hard to believe. Got a 28-year-old black male, got three gunshots, one to the chest, one upper chest, one lower chest, one center, leading a lot. There are two paths a child can take. For over 25 years, we've been helping children choose the right one. Communities and schools, helping kids stay in school and prepare for life. There we go, the cheerleaders are trying to get that 52 in there. We're in there, keep today, boy. Nine divided by 52 would make it about five apiece, or six, somewhere in there. Lakeland up to 414 total yards of offense. Aurora at 36 yards of total offense. Keepers. Two first downs for Aurora, 19 for the Muskeys. Aurora the odds in Vegas. I don't know. My area is now at nine of 14 passing for 185, and he's got 12 carries for 102 yards, so he's up to 287 total yards. I don't know, there's a weird-looking bug in our booth, and it's not making me happy. So if you don't hear me anymore, it means I left. You know, we're right by the Grether Woods out here. There's a big forest on campus, if you haven't been out here. Hey, they still catch muskies out of the pond? Oh yeah? Check that out, Dennis. That's it, hit it over by David. Yeah, that's all right. You see all kinds of weird things out here. Bugs and otherwise. Well, lady bugs are plentiful. Yeah. A couple of years ago, it was the yellow jackets. We're really bad. We haven't had too much of a trouble with them the last couple of years. And off the peril, and he gets it up near the 30. It's going to be stopped just short of it. I guess it's 52 to nothing, so we're talking about bugs and... Yeah, exactly. Whatever to fill at time. Starting seniors out, I think, and a crowd, a Lakewood crowd on their feet. Give them a standing ovation. Pretty nice to be able to pull them with 302 left in the third quarter, because this one is pretty much in the bag. You got that right. Second down and nine peril picked up a yard. Warning still at the controls for the Spartans. Quick release. I had to get rid of that quick because he was under pressure and the pass was a little too high. Applying that pressure was Everett Wood. It's obviously a significant win because they're gonna make the playoffs for the first time, but significant for this group of seniors, I think, to get them there. I don't think this group had doubts after that whitewater game, but I think they were shell shocked. I think this group, in talking to the coaching staff, was just putting a little too much pressure on itself and they had to go back to doing what they do best, which is just playing good football. There's a nice shot of Nick Hunter, 22, Brian Ader, 78, Nick Zeck, three of the seniors. Whoops. They're gonna help make Lakeland. Lakeland's football program makes some history today. Well, what are they gonna call this? David Benton. Warning was under center, David, and you backed out, I think, to change the call or make some adjustment and Lakeland stepped across the line and they called the penalty on Aurora. So the breaks just continue going Lakeland's way. Down to 235 and counting in the third quarter. By the way, how are things with you? I know that your communications director when John Weber left, he also picked up SIDs at a lot to your plate. He does, but you know, it's a nice pass down the middle to big number 86, Nate Fincham. First down. And that's by far Aurora's biggest offensive play of the game. He's added something to my plate, but you know, it's been a good time. Of course, you know how much I enjoy sports. You know, it used to be a sports rider at the Cheboygan Press and get an opportunity to interact with kids out here more because you get to follow the sports teams and be part of it. Is your office in the New Wengeries? My office is over in the main administrative building because the director of communications is really about 80% of my position and the SID is about 20% and then I have a couple of full-time grad assistants who do a great job. They really do the day-to-day, week-to-week work. I was gonna say, are those guys, it would be pretty hard to make it. It wouldn't happen. We meet every week and talk about what's going on, and we've got Mitch Cappell running the stance today for football. Chuck Masarillo's over running the stance for soccer today, because we got a home soccer game. But those guys want to go into that for a career and you start off as a grad assistant and you kind of cut your teeth and pay your dues and work hard. Do all the grunt work. That's right. But then I have a big crew of student workers as well. Oh, breaking through as the busher. He's on it loose. He's down to the 20 inside the 15 and he's hit and dropped right near the 10 yard line. Another big play by Aurora. We talked about that long pass play to Fincham. That was a 26 yarder. And then we get a holding call. So that long run by the busher is going to come back. Now, the only thing left in question here is, is there going to be a shutout or not? And if they keep making mistakes like that, there probably will be. It was a penalty on Aurora, so that long play is going to be negated. Boy. Now, this is kind of one of those when it rains and pours kind of games. In a way, you might as well get it over with. This game, come back next week. Finish up strong, play hard. Even though they've clinched the playoff birth, there's still something on the line for Lakeland. If they win next week, they'll finish the conference season unbeaten and win the conference title outright, which they haven't done since 98. They shared it last year. For this senior group in particular, it'd be nice for them to win it outright. Second down at about 18, pass out to the wing area, but not much. You really can't say enough about the job that Jim Zabrowski and his staff have done at turning this program around. They took over a program that just had issues. There was the kids, I think, had a hard time buying into the system. There was talent here, but for some reason, it just wasn't translating out onto the field. I think what Jim got them to do was visualize being successful. And once they could visualize it, it started happening on the field. The talent started paying off on the field. I think sometimes, too, Dave, when you run a program or an offense where you really stress only one facet of offense, which was passing prior to Coach Jim, that makes it tough to recruit running backs. And I think in the game of football, running backs are so important to get a balance. I know Jim believes in running the ball. And if you can run the ball, you're going to be successful. The other thing he got was the linemen on both sides to really commit to the weight realm. And the concept of controlling the line of scrimmage. And if you can control the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball, you're going to have success. And there's no better way to prove that than to look at the tape of today's game, because Lakeland has completely dominated the line of scrimmage on both sides. Got that right. And you get those defensive linemen tying up the offensive linemen. And all of a sudden, you get a linebacker blitzing boy. He's wide open coming through. And that's where Vandalou's gotten a lot of his sacks throughout the year, really, not just today. Right. In many ways, the offensive line opens up holes for running backs. But people don't think about it that a lot like that. The defensive line is really up. Those linebackers are kind of the running backs of the defense. They're opening up holes for those linebackers to penetrate and make plays. Lakeland's done that all year. Erdman back in the game. And that'll be the final play of the third quarter. At the end of three quarters of play, Lakeland on top by a comfortable 52 to nothing score. His first gov.gov. Brand new student loan applications on the site, baby. This calls for a celebration. Well, we're obsessed with getting you government information. What are those? Government surplus cars for auction. You posted those online last time. No, you did. I'm posting them online this time. Just log on or email us and get what you need. First gov.gov. Ready to start fourth quarter action. They let the seniors take the field. And then they brought them off. I don't know. I think they're going to let them run a play. Probably or two. And then they're going to let them come off and get some applause. It's second down and about six yards to go. Erdman tripped as he got the ball. I think he could have got a lot more yardage. But he goes down. It's kind of like that Ali's phantom punch of sunny listing. Wilk's now going in for Ryan Meiery. So Meiery comes out of the game. I don't think we're going to see him anymore today. Great way for Ryan and his classmates to go out. Wilk number five. We saw a little bit of him last week. Brad's from Illinois. He's a sophomore. He's kind of the heir apparent at starting quarterback. Knows he's got to work hard this summer. Brad works for me up in the communications office. Great kid. I keep him running around with messages. Keep him in shape. Hit his legs ready. Yeah. Seniors have really taken a brat. He's just a likable kid. And he lives with Nick Hunters, roommates, Travis, Jervis, Vandalou. Those guys all live together in the suites. And it's... Sounds like trouble to me. It's an interesting crew. I'll tell you that. They're done. We did a photo shoot over there for residence life. And they had a pretty good time with it. You know, it's a good group of guys. I'll tell you, they know how to have fun. And what's life if you don't know how to have fun? Oops. Boy, a lot of movement. One, two, three, four different Lakeland musky guys took off early. Three of them wide receivers and one was a tackle. Well, that's the part of the game where the officials have got to be thinking, whew. Werners had a nice game. Had a great year as a junior. He'll be back next year as a senior. Just so many players forward to coming back next year. This is certainly a group that has a strong senior class, but will have some tremendous athletes to build around for next year. And it looks like they'll be coming back having had a taste of the playoffs, which is always nice. Yep, that is really nice. Third and 16, little screen pass by Wilk is complete to Christian. Short of the first down. Fourth down. Rare punt by the muskies. Pick up about nine yards on the play. Blazer is back deep for the Spartans to receive this punt. Billy Hughes doing the kicking. Taken right at the 40. That was not Blazer. That was Kevin Ryan. Now it's going to be a parade of new names on both sides of the ball. I'll trade you. I'll do color. That's why you get the bigger paycheck. The big bucks. And the notoriety that goes along with it. What notoriety? What is that anyway? Notoriety. By the way, the construction over at Jefferson is going along really well. That's good. I know School Board is pretty interested in that. Fumble ball is loose. Lakeland comes up with it. Dan DeBuscher had it and then kind of stumbled down and lost the ball as he was falling. The good news about all that construction with the Sheboygan schools, two good things. One, it's on time and two, it's in budget. Two most important issues. It looked like hard to tell. There's a big pack in there. Knock the ball loose. Ball is going to be spotted inside the 50, so we'll call it the 49. I go to these every other week. They have a meeting regarding construction and what they've accomplished and what they're looking to do within the next two weeks. And one thing they say each meeting is 27th of March. We've got to have it done so they can move in. On the carry was Paul Reesop, number 35. Pick up maybe one yard. Now is Lakeland done with any significant construction projects for a while? Well, for a while. We just got the Ware Center addition done, which added a new gym, new fitness center. We just got done with North Hall, which is the college's ninth residence hall, 96-bed facility. We filled that this year. Those were part of a $15 million campaign that the college called a legacy for Lakeland. A couple of years ago, I gutted and redid the interior of the science building. And the neat thing about that is we've got some undergraduate science students who are doing some really neat research with organisms here on campus. They were able to present some of that research down at Marquette. What are you doing there on ladybugs? There's enough of them. Wilk, rolling, being pressured. He got around the corner. Now he throws, but it's going to be well short of any intended receiver. We have a DNA sequencer, and they've been able to actually do some work with DNA on campus, which for those students... It sounds like it's way beyond my capacity. DNA you and I know did not arrive. That's about it. I wanted to give a little credit to running back. It's Gerald. He had to carry a little earlier in the drive and mention his name. It's going to be fourth down. And Billy Hughes in to do the kicking. Actually, I had a couple scores last week, if I'm not mistaken, when you guys were out. And he's had, I know, a couple big games on the junior varsity level, so he'll be fighting for varsity playing time next season. Hughes' punt is not very good, pretty wobbly. And then it takes an aurora bounce, and it's finally downed at about the 38-yard line. So I don't even know if that was about a 10- or 11-yard punt. First in 10 aurora, we have 11-12 remaining in the game. Lakeland on top, 52-0. And they've just been dominating action. Matter of fact, it's been so dominating we're having trouble finding things to talk about. I believe we have a new quarterback in for aurora. Is it still, oh, you're right. Drew Sturkel. Freshman quarterback, so Spartans realize that this is an opportunity for them as well to get some playing time for the underclassman and start looking ahead to next year. They'll finish up their season next week, and they will be done. Jermaine James, just in that shot, Jermaine's a senior, one of two seniors on the Shiers-Mens basketball team, from Indiana. Brother Dominic James, the much-heralded freshman point guard at Marquette, will be taking Travis Deener's spot. Travis Deener off to the pros. Oh, mix up in the backfield, and Sturkel is sacked, looking to hand it off, and the back wasn't there. He could sense a little bit of panic in his feet. Yeah, that's a... Freshman quarterback saying, hey, can somebody take this ball? Because right now I don't really want it. That makes a third down. Third down ball, it's seven or eight yards to go. Ball spotted on the 41. A couple of wide receivers in front of us. Be the left side for Aurora. Sturkel rolling, looking, throwing. Pass is intercepted. 52. I think that's the second interception of the game. Nice game for Brent Miller down. Just a fresh one. Second interception of the game for Lakeland. Again, just a matter of watching the quarterback read the route, throw it a little short. Throw it a lot short. I was just thinking the exact same thing. The only difference with this one is Miller didn't get much of a return. Nice shot of Brent, nice game. First and 10 ball on the 45. Will pulls it out, pitches it out to Fitzgerald. And there's a scrum on the field. Who's got it? Aurora. A late pitch by Wilk. Fitzgerald had it for a second, then dropped it when he made his cut. And Lakeland loses it. You're going to see it. Late pitch, but a good one. Then Fitzgerald started to tuck it in, and he lost it. Wait, now you just want to... I think if you're both teams... You just want to get the clock down as quick as you can and get the heck out of here. Lakeland, you want to start the celebration. Aurora, you want to... Get on the bus, Gus. Get the heck out of here. Sturkel hands it off to the busher. He goes right up the middle, down to the 45. First and 10, Aurora. One of only a few first downs. I don't think they have five yet. It's hard to imagine how the Lakeland defense could have dominated this game statistically more than it has. You know, when I look at that... Dan, the busher, is that how you pronounce it? Yeah, that's how I would. Probably a little bit different, but it sounds pretty comfortable. Dave, the busher... Nashada, Nick Hunter, senior. We'll be playing his final home game. Ball on the 39 yard line. Six yard pick up by the busher. He's had a pretty nice game in the second half. Yeah, he really has. Oh, he's hitting the backfield that time and sacked. So you can get the number of that defender. Number 50 for Lakeland. That's Stephen Johnson. Stefan Johnson. Another freshman. Third down loss of about three on the play. Wow. It's kind of been the story of the game for Aurora. We said it before, about one step forward and four steps backward. They just can't... They cannot get any forward momentum going. Really, football is pretty simple. You just want to move the ball down the field. Chip away at him. They have not been able to do that. That pass is going to be way over the head of the intended receiver, Danny McKinnison. Fourth down in eight, Mackinson. Mike Christian back again. Take this punt from Guthrie. Good spiral on that kick. And it rolls into the end zone. I think the field is tilted to the north. Anything that bounces heads north. Anything that bounces going to the south, still heads north. If you're Lakeland now, you just want to sustain a drive, run some clock and get ready for the overnight trip next week down to Greenville. And as I said, there'll be a week off. Most conferences will finish up actually that week that Lakeland is off. The state schools finish up that week and then the playoffs open actually on the 13th. They would have to play because state schools are in the same division. No, actually the state schools would advance far enough. The North division and how they do that exactly I haven't looked that much into it but I think there's a good chance that Lakeland won't play a UW school and I know that might not make a lot of sense but they're just in different divisions. The NCAA splits them up into four divisions geographically and the state schools actually are in the West division just because of numbers. But eventually McKenzie broke loose through the line of scrimmage and he's finally knocked down in Aurora territory but Shannon Fitzgerald I mean had a great run right up the middle. He's had some great runs the last couple weeks. Are you going to see it makes a good cut there? And then it's just open field. Sunday the 13th actually the playoff field gets announced live on the ESPN news and we'll see its name up there. Find out where they play and who and all that good stuff. Yeah really. That was a 29 yard gain by Fitzgerald and then Wilk on a keeper gets it up over the 45 down near the 40. Now if you're Lakeland just keep the ball on the ground run out the clock down to 550. It's second down and about three. Clock is down to a 535 first back through his number 24 Brent Woodruff and he picks up the first down. We said it before I think the rest of the league is going to see this score this afternoon and think oh my goodness what the heck happened there. Now you mentioned about those different regions that they place the teams in you know as they move through the tournament or the playoffs they could eventually play each other down the road. I believe so and they see how that tournament bracket shakes out but you know usually they seed the different regions and then there are some large spots in there and if you're Lakeland right now you don't get too worried about that stuff you just be thankful that you're in. You know it starts with getting in. The basketball team did it a couple years ago. Finally got over the hump, got in. Had a couple of disappointing losses in Lake Michigan conference tournament championship games that could have got him in and then they finally got over the hump. I think last year was a little disappointing for Lakeland. They lost the tiebreaker. Will broke through fake the dive to the full back and kept it off the right tackle right end and he showed good quickness on that run Dave. Shades of Brian Mayuri there. First and 10 Lakeland. Clock stops as they reset the ball. It's at the 25. That was a 12 yard pickup by Will. Brad with a different build than Mayuri. Mayuri's kind of more of a Steve McNair type quarterback build who can roll you over and Brad with more of a traditional build for a quarterback. Fitzgerald was going to take it off to the left and then cut it back to the middle of the field and picked up a good chunky yardage from about 6 yards on the play. Ball spotted just inside the 20. Injury time out. Maybe not. Coach Sebrowski's birthday today. That's about as good of a present as they could have gotten him. Really? Third season for Jim and I'll tell you he's done an outstanding job. He was an offensive coordinator at Millican down in Decatur before that served a great assistant spot at Southern Illinois down in Carbondale and has just he and his staff have instilled a different kind of feeling into this program and obviously it's a good football team but on and off the court these kids carry themselves in a positive manner they're gentlemen and if you can say those kinds of things in addition to being talented athletes that's kind of what it's all about. As a matter of fact it's a good thing you mentioned that because I just watched the movie last night Coach Carter and that's the exact same thing that he tried to instill in those city kids. The idea of it, it's not just basketball it's how you carry yourself the programs that they do. Fitzgerald barrels over people he's down inside the ten near the six another first down for Lakeland. Jim's worked with the Sheboygan area school district and they have a reading partners program we have a bunch of those football players that go into the elementary schools. They were over the Jefferson last year. They read to the kids and they've matched up with big brothers and big sisters of Sheboygan County and football players serve as lunch buddies and with some of the kids and so between those two things there's a community service component of the program as well which is fantastic. Fitzgerald right up the middle touchdown Lakeland Shannon Fitzgerald goes eight yards for another score and Lakeland has got it up to 58. You got a couple of the seniors here on the sidelines I think they're plotting they've kind of got their eye on the all sport containers trying to figure out which somebody is about to get I think Jim's going to get a birthday bath here pretty quick. Now the thing of it is you can't do it too soon because then the HUD coach just gets mad because they celebrate too soon. You got to have this set up a couple of players go and talk to them get his attention off of it and then the other ones They got one bath this year down at Concordia. The kick was good but there were penalty flags we'll have to wait and see what they come up with. Penalty was on Lakeland I'll also give Lechezzi a chance to kick a little longer. A little extra practice Yeah. Is that him out there or is it a different guy? Is it 84 or 94? That's 94. Okay, Lechezzi. Here we go. Looks like we got a hand on it. VanLond and Zach have got the They got him. Nice shot Brian. Big hug from Travis Jervis Let's get a replay of that Kerry. That's great. That's great. That's a happy group right there. With the 214 remaining there you see it, Lakeland on top. 58 to nothing. When this group started camp back in August that was the goal was to get to this point at the playoff birth. They got a little water for Coach Creek defensive coordinator. They got him pretty good too. The goal was to get to the playoffs this year. There was no question. That's Coach Z. And they achieved that goal and I think it started to concord when they got the win down there on their homecoming. That was a huge win right there. And you know the way they wanted spoke volumes. Down 14-0 and then you shut them down, stay in the game, keep your head up and you win the game. That's the first time they beat Concordia in five years. I know we had a game out here I think it was two years ago and they played Concordia and Lakeland just got hammered. Concordia had a good team and they just ran the ball up and down the field and Lakeland just didn't have the physical strength to stop them. That's probably one of the biggest changes I think that you talked about it a little bit too is the fact that Lakeland with the running game when Jim came in here he stressed Lakeland used to stress the passing game Jim came in stressed the running game showing the line of scrimmage getting stronger on the offensive and defensive lines making a commitment in the weight room and on some level it sounds pretty basic but it wins football games and football is a strength and speed game and if you got stronger guys it's going to make a big difference. The busher makes a good cutback move he's got big yardage he's going to be wrestled down by another big pickup by Aurora. Now as a defense you want to hunker up that pride and don't want to go see them get in the end zone. 33 yard pickup for number 33. They're not done with the water on the sidelines yet. They want to get Coach Concella. They're holding them down. Most of it went on the grass they had a great time trying. The busher again on the carry picks up positive yardage. Carry I think we need one more camera and do a split screen. There's more action right now on the sidelines I think than on the field. Nice shot of Coach Zabrowski with his assistance Corey Roberson plays some pro ball on the arena level. Right up the middle not much there for Aurora. Third down in about four. Lakeland on top under a minute 42 seconds and rolling the busher breaking tacklers he gets it down to the 20. It'll be interesting to see if Aurora uses some time out to try and get a score before the end of the game. The clock is stopped at 31 until they reset the down markers. I think they're just going to probably let the croc run. It's a good opportunity for them to try to do some two minute drill stuff. At this point you just want to get out of here. Really. Clock is running down to 15. Deep pass and incomplete. Even if that ball would have been caught the receiver would have been out of the end zone. The intended receiver was Danny Mackinson. There. Even the ladybugs are getting in on the first fly I've seen all day. Yeah. They're up badly outnumbered. Eight seconds left. Drew Sturkel getting some instructions from the sideline trots back into the huddle. Aurora has two wide receivers in the lead. Should be the last play of the game barring the penalty. Sturkel back. Looking, looking, looking under pressure. He's going to get sacked and thrown down by Mike Narrett. Fitting way to finish the game with a quarterback sack for a defense that completely dominated the game today. We're going to step out for a minute. When we come back we'll have some statistics for you Dave and myself and then we'll wrap this ball game up. Applied energy in a forward direction equals human look emotion. What does this all mean, doctor? What is this all about? This concept might actually change the way we get from point A to point B. I felt like Einstein inventing the telephone. I give you the human foot. Get up, get out, get moving. A message from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. If I could reach the spot. Lakeland College in area C was a 58 to nothing whitewash of Aurora University of Illinois. Lakeland dominated action. They rushed for 312 yards and 52 carries. Had 194 yards passing a 10 of 16 from the quarterbacks for a total of 506 yards. Aurora on the flip side had only 116 yards a total offense Dave. It was a total domination on both sides of the ball by the muskies. Most of those came late. The yardage by Aurora only had 18 total yards with nine minutes to play in the third quarter. Most of those came actually they only had 36 total yards with two minutes to go in the third quarter. They gained the bulk of those in that last quarter when the second and third string kids were in. A quarterback for Lakeland Mayuri finished 9 of 14 in the game 185 through the air with a couple touchdowns on the ground. He was leading rusher 12 carries 102 for a pair of touchdowns. So Mayuri finishes the day with 287 total yards and accounts for four touchdowns and that's kind of been the story offensively all year long because Ryan does what he wants to because he's able to other teams defensively just have so much trouble with him. Brandon freshman 10 carries 76 yards and two scores Shannon Fitzgerald 9 carries for 56 and Sean Lee 12 carries for 43 yards Fitzgerald with a TD receiving Eric Royal had McArthur White I'm sorry 4 catches for 124 TDs early that really set the tone for this ball game. Had a 33 yarder in the first quarter and then that's 60 yarder in the second quarter and that did set the tone for the game and that's going to just about do it for us. This is our final football broadcast of the season. First of all before I sign off here I want to congratulate Lakeland for making the playoffs. We won't be following them throughout the playoffs but it'll be interesting to see how they do and they'll be able to follow that in the paper. A great job by the crew Brian Andrews on the field camera Jackie Kramer up on top Kerry Coulter spinning the dials assisted by Andy McKillop my partner today Dave Galli and Eddie great job Dave really offer a lot to the broadcast with your knowledge of the players and the system out here. My name is Mike Martin saying thanks for watching everybody stay tuned to TV8 the football is done but basketball will be starting up and plans are in the works as we speak getting a football coaches show together and we'll have that on and then of course we'll have a number of high school games and college games out here at Lakeland and UW-Shabuigan that will be broadcasting so keep tuned to TV8 for that that'll do it for us out here at Lakeland College again it was Lakeland 58 Aurora Illinois nothing thanks for watching everybody we'll see you down the road step aside please not you I don't think so No United Church of Christ no matter who you are or where you are on life's journey you're welcome here