The concordia-st. Paul football team dropped to 1-1 on the season with a 56-24 loss at the university of central missouri, who evened their record at 1-1 on saturday afternoon at walton stadium in warrensburg, mo. In front of 5.638 fans.

concordia took an early 7-3 lead with 9:05 to play in the first when kole goodchild (sr., qb, west bend, iowa) hooked up with calvin simon (r-fr., wr, shakopee, minn.) for a 66 yard touchdown pass. The td strike capped a six play, 80 yard scoring drive that lasted 2:54.

simon had his breakout performance with five receptions for 122 yards and two touchdowns. Goodchild also had a productive day with 305 passing yards and two touchdowns while completing 21-34 with one interception. tyrone ruffin (jr., wr, plymouth, minn.) had his second-straight 100 yard effort with four receptions for 113 yards and a 48 yard touchdown.

their lead would be trimmed to 7-6 early in the second quarter with ucm's second field goal.

just over six minutes later, the mules would reclaim the lead with a glen millner 11 yard touchdown run following a golden bear fumble. They needed just two plays to storm 27 yards to take a 13-7 lead.

concordia would never lead again as central missouri scored 20 second quarter points to take a 23-7 lead into halftime.

in their season opening win at augustana, concordia relied heavily on rushing offense and shutting down the run on defense, rushing for 138 yards while allowing a school record -12.

week two was a different story as the bears rushed 25 times for -4 yards while allowing ucm to carry the ball 43 times for 212 yards.

eric clinton (sr., rb, burnsville, minn.), who rushed for 125 yards last week for his first 100 yard performance, was shut down to just 20 yards on nine attempts.

concordia would cut the deficit to 23-14 in the second half when goodchild hit ruffin for a 48 yard touchdown.

the bears passed for 367 yards in the loss with three touchdowns and two interceptions. Four different players threw at least one pass.

central missouri scored the next 26 points to put the finishing touches on the bears, taking a commanding 49-14 lead.

the bears got back on the scoreboard when antwon williams (sr., wr, key west, fla.) hit simon for a 15 yard touchdown pass and stephan bjerke (so., k, stillwater, minn.) drilled a 26 yard field goal with 2:43 to play to put the score at 56-24.

concordia's defense was led by jordan frain (sr., lb, treynor, iowa) who had 13 tackles, one sack, 2.5 tackles for loss and two pass breakups.

duy huynh (jr., lb, apple valley, minn.) added nine tackles, four for loss while tj prunty (jr., db, st. Paul, minn.) contributed eight tackles.

concordia returns to action next saturday, september 15 when they travel to northern state to open their northern sun slate for a 1:00 game in aberdeen, s.d.

box score - central missouri 56, csp 24