SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Concordia-St. Paul (4-5 NSIC, 1-4 South) dropped its road finale 24-7 at Augustana (4-5 NSIC, 2-5 South) on Saturday afternoon at Kirkeby-Over Stadium.

Concordia finishes its road schedule with a 3-2 record despite the loss. The Golden Bears will play the final two games of the 2013 season at the Metrodome in Minneapolis in the 31-yard facility's final year. Next week's game is November 9 at 2 p.m., with the season finale against Winona State on November 17 at 1 p.m.

Concordia senior Zach Moore set the career sack record in the loss as his 1.5 sacks in the game give him 31.0 in his four years, surpassing Matt Woodford's former mark of 30.0 (1996-99). Moore also had 2.5 tackles for loss, forced a fumble, had five tackles, a pass breakup and a hurry.

The Vikings stopped the Golden Bears on the game's opening drive, and then scored on their first possession on a 44-yard touchdown run by Trey Heid.

Concordia responded with a long drive including a pair of third down conversions to get to the Augie 6-yard line. But the Golden Bears went backwards and found itself with a 4th-and-Goal from the 18 with a failed snap exchange on a field goal attempt costing the team points on the key early game drive.

The drive was impressive despite the lack of points, spanning 17 plays and 66 yards over 8:19 of game time.

Concordia's defense kept the team in the game, though, as the score remained 7-0 until the break. But Concordia's offense was only able to get into Augie territory the one time in the half as the Vikings also had a key interception at midfield to keep the momentum.

In the second half, after Concordia's defense forced a 3-and-out to start the third quarter. But on 1st-and-10 from their own 23, Concordia was intercepted with Ben Skelly returning it 29 yards for a touchdown in a game-changing play.

Concordia would get the ball into Augustana territory twice in the remainder of the third quarter, but was unable to convert a 3rd-and-7 on the Augie 46, and missed a 36-yard field goal in the Augie red zone with 3:36 to play in the quarter following junior Abdullah Asad's interception. Asad had actually returned the INT for a touchdown before a holding penalty took the points off the board.

Asad led the defense with 10 tackles and added a half tackle for loss.

Early in the fourth quarter, a big punt return by Augustana put the Vikings on the Concordia 19-yard line and four plays later the Vikings turned it into a 3-score game, 21-0 with 9:33 to play in the contest.

The Vikings added a field goal for a 24-0 lead later in the quarter.

With 3:12 to play, Concordia had it's best drive of the day set up by a 40-yard run by senior Ronald Zollicoffer and capped off by a 12-yard touchdown strike from junior James Peterson to junior Cordell Smith.

Zollicoffer finished the day with 11 carries for 83 yards, averaging 7.5 per carry. Junior Tre Spears carried a game-high 22 times for 81 yards as well as the Golden Bears had success in the running game with 45 attempts for 176 yards.

For the game, Concordia's defense held Augustana to 270 yards and just 3-of-11 on third downs. The Vikings rushed for 152 yards but Concordia held them to just 118 through the air.

Concordia's offense output was similar but the lack of a passing attack affected Concordia much more as the Golden Bears had 44 yards through the air on 19 passing attempts including two interceptions, one of which was returned for a touchdown.

The Golden Bears won time of possession, 31:38 to 28:22, but lost the turnover battle, committing two while forcing one.

Big plays on special teams also helped Augustana in field position, with 20.4 yards on average on five punt returns and a 47-yard kickoff return along with the pick-six and interception at midfield on defense.

Concordia countered by returning five kickoffs for an 8.2 yard average.