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Football to host Winona State for senior day

Golden Bears aim for 7-4 finish with season finale against Warriors

11.14.19

By: Josh Deer
ST. PAUL, Minn. - This Saturday, Concordia-St. Paul football (6-4 NSIC, 4-2 South) will honor its senior class while hosting Winona State (7-3 NSIC, 3-3 South) with a noon kickoff at Sea Foam Stadium.

The Golden Bears feature 22 seniors who have helped the program move from five wins in a three year span to an 11-10 record over the past two seasons entering Saturday's tilt with Winona State. After a three-win improvement last season, this year's seniors have taken it up a notch to a 6-4 record, guaranteed winning season and playing for a seven win campaign. Further, the Golden Bears have protected their home turf with a 4-1 record at Sea Foam Stadium in 2019.

Saturday's game has an expected high of 41 degrees with cloudy skies and SSE winds at 10-20 miles per hour.

Last week, the Golden Bears picked up a victory while competing in the 500th game in program history and the 200th Northern Sun league game since joining the NSIC in 1999. Concordia established a college football program 50 years ago in 1969, and joined the NSIC 20 years ago. The 24-14 win over SMSU was Concordia's 19th winning season overall, ninth at the Division II level and fifth under head coach Shannon Currier, now in his eighth total year running the program (2000-03 & 2016-present).

FOLLOW ONLINE
All Concordia football games, home and away, will be streamed online as part of the NSIC's league-wide agreement with Presto Sports (formerly Stretch Internet). All CSP football games can be viewed in Concordia's online video portal.
 
Home games will be produced by UltimateX Displays, complete with a 15-foot by 8-foot MAX XL LED screen in the stadium that will replicate the webcast production in the stadium including numerous replays.
 
The broadcast is complete with the play-by-play call from Dan Flanagan, the voice of the Golden Bears since 2008. The St. Paul native is a graduate of Fordham University in New York, where he studied broadcasting including working as the voice of multiple Rams sports teams including basketball and football.

Watch the games in HD on your home TV as well through NSIC app widely available on Apple TV, Roku, Amazon streaming devices and more! Simply search "NSIC" on your streaming device, games are available for all Northern Sun members including all sports that are streamed live on each campus.
 
Games can also be followed with live stats and by keeping track of the NSIC live scoreboard.

[ listen online ] An audio-only feed will be available via WSU's radio broadcast on 89.5 FM KQAL out of Winona with Greg Off and Pat Broe calling the plays for the Warriors radio feed.
 
COACH CURRIER SHOW ON CSP BEARS PODCAST
[ listen online ] The Coaches Show with Shannon Currier hosted by Wally Langfellow of Minnesota Score returns for a second season in 2019. The show airs in the MSP radio market on 1440 AM KYCR following the Minnesota high school football game of the week, typically on Friday night in the 9 p.m. hour of each week. The show is also distributed via the CSP Bears Podcast and is available on most podcast subscription services such as Apple iTunes, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, Tune-In and more.
 
This week's guests include a pair of redshirt freshmen defensive linemen, Mark O'Reilly and Keegan Larson.
 
Subscribe to the CSP Bears Podcast, which will also return for a second year this fall. This year, the podcast will be co-hosted by CSP baseball alumni Andrew Shotwell and Alex LaPorte and will continue to tell the story of CSP athletics in an interesting and engaging way to help people get behind the scenes of various people associated with Concordia – including Comets and Golden Bears!

The first two podcasts of 2019-20 have been released, featuring athletics director Regan McAthie, followed by head esports coach Logan Hermes.

CSP MAKES FROGTOWN RADIO DEBUT IN ST PAUL
[ listen online ] Concordia continues to make a positive impression in the St. Paul community with local radio station WFNU (94.1 FM) starting a regular segment to air on Saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m. The first air time is set for September 21, but the station has started recording interviews for a podcast titled "Concordia-St. Paul Scoreboard" which is available on Spotify and Anchor. Follow WFNU Frogtown Radio's CSP connections at @ScoreboardCSP and @651SportsUpdate. This week's player interview was with freshman running back Darios Crawley-Reid.
 
DOWNLOAD THE CSP BEARS FAN APP
Also back for a second year is the CSP Bears fan app, provided by From Now On. The app features a customizable experience, users can select their favorite sports teams and select their affiliation (fan, student, alumni, etc) to receive tailored notifications. The app provides easy to follow live stats along with links to watch games live on their device. Keep up with the latest with the new 'news' feature which combines stories from cspbears.com with the social streams from CSP athletics.

RECORD SETTING CAMPAIGN
The 2019 Golden Bears have been rewriting the football record books, a notable achievement for a program in its 51st season:
  • *Quarterback sacks, 14, vs MSU Moorhead
  • Tackles for loss, 22, vs MSU Moorhead
  • Fewest rushing yards allowed, game (-97), vs MSU Moorhead
  • Career sacks record, 36.5, Chris Garrett
  • #Career fumbles forced record, 15, Chris Garrett
  • Most FG made in game, 5, Danny Laudet, at St. Cloud State
  • Most pts in game by PK, 15, Danny Laudet, at St. Cloud State
  • Longest punt, 82 yards, Danny Laudet, at Wayne State
  • Most TFL in game, 6.5, Chris Garrett, vs MSU Moorhead
  • ^1st in career punt average, 39.88, Danny Laudet
  • 2nd-most sacks in game, 5.0, Chris Garrett, vs MSU Moorhead
  • 2nd-most tackles in game, 19, Gabe Nkumu, at Minot State
  • 3rd-most tackles in game, 18, Jake Portz, at Upper Iowa
  • 3rd-most TFL in career, 48.5, Chris Garrett
  • 3rd-most FGM in season, 16, Danny Laudet
* - ties NCAA DII single-game record
# - establishes NCAA DII career record
^ - career/season averages subject to change

TEAM STATS IN THE NCAA TOP-50 RANKINGS (166 TEAMS)
  • 2nd - most sacks/game (3.9) - 1st NSIC
  • 7th - most fumbles recovered (12) - 1st NSIC
  • 8th - fewest penalty yards/game (41.8) - 3rd NSIC
  • 20th - fewest penalties/game (5.3) - 3rd NSIC
  • 24th - blocked punts (2) - 3rd NSIC
  • 25th - fewest fumbles lost (5) - 4th NSIC
  • 28th - most tackles for loss/game (7.8) - 4th NSIC
  • 43rd - turnovers lost (14) - 3rd NSIC
  • 46th - turnover margin (0.40/game) - 5th NSIC
  • 47th - kickoff return defense (18.2) - 9th NSIC
  • 49th - scoring defense (22.1) - 8th NSIC
INDIVIDUAL STATS IN THE NCAA TOP-100 RANKINGS SERIES HISTORY: WINONA STATE 17, CONCORDIA 4
The Warriors have won the last four meetings with Concordia after the Golden Bears snagged back-to-back wins in 2013 and 2014. Prior to that, CSP's two victories came during its NSIC Championship seasons in 2003 and 2005.

Concordia is 1-7 against Winona State at home, and 0-4 against the Warriors at Sea Foam Stadium, last hosting the Warriors in 2017, a 28-10 loss with WSU ranked #13 in the country at the time.

Currier holds a 1-6 career record against WSU, is 0-1 at Sea Foam Stadium against the Warriors and 1-2 against WSU in St. Paul with the 23-20 overtime win in 2003 at Griffin Stadium helping secure the program's first NSIC title.

LAST MEETING, 2018: WINONA STATE 24, CSP 20
Last year in the season finale in Winona, the Golden Bears fell 24-20 on the road. Concordia led 20-17 with the ball in WSU territory but couldn't convert a 4th-and-2, getting sacked at the WSU 47 yard line. With 36 seconds to play in the game, WSU scored the go-ahead TD on 3rd-and-goal from the 8-yard line.

Trailing 14-0 late in the second quarter, Marcus Haskins had his first of two INTs to stop Warrior scoring threats. Quarterback Maxon Hutton converted a 10-play, 82-yard drive with an 11-yard TD strike to Jake Shepley with 32 seconds left before the break.

A sack by Chris Garrett in the half's closing seconds was his first of 3.5 on the day and the single-season record breaking sack. He finished the year with 16.5 sacks.

Hutton added a 22-yard TD to MJ Williams to take CSP's first lead late in the third quarter as the defense continued halting the Warriors on their home field. Jonas Schenderlein added a 56-yard field goal with 12:19 to play to put CSP ahead 20-17. It was Schenderlein's school record tying 42nd career field goal made and extended his record of 50-plus yard field goals to 10.

Hutton finished the game 16-of-32 for 153 yards and two TD passes, adding 23-114 on the ground. But he was sacked three times and intercepted five times by the Warriors. Lajuan Preston added 15-97 rushing as CSP held a 216-60 rushing advantage.

Owen Burke completed 17-of-28 for 242 yards and two TDs with his two INTs while John Rumpza completed 5-of-9 for 44 yards and a TD for the Warriors.

ABOUT THE WARRIORS
After winning five straight games to put themselves back in the playoff picture, Winona State fell by one point at home on senior day to Augustana, 26-25 with the Vikings scoring the go-ahead touchdown with 41 seconds left. WSU led by 10 early (10-0) but the lead changed hands five times from late in the second quarter until the finish.

John Rumpza completed 17-of-31 for 182 yards with a TD and an INT while the Vikings held the Warriors to just six rushing yards on 17 carries. WSU allowed Augie to gain 314 yards through the air with three combined passing TDs and one INT while the Vikings also rushed for 236 yards to compile a 550-to-188 advantage in total offense and 25-to-9 in first downs.
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