Lindenwood Sports Essay

After earning nearly every First Team All-SEC lists in 2015, Zach Cunningham has been named to multiple 2016 preseason nominee lists including the Dick Butkus, Bronko Nagurski and the Denarik awards. His 16½ tackles for a loss and four forced fumbles were third highest among SEC players during the regular season. With 14 career starts in 23 games, Cunningham is the leader among the linebacker unit. He's also the Vanderbilt active career leader in total tackles (170), solo tackles (106), tackles for a loss (23), forced fumbles (five), and fumble recoveries (three).

After a Northridge penalty moved the ball to the two-yard-line, Gibson would go the final two-yards for another Newark Catholic score.The point after kick was missed. leaving this a,27-12 Newark Catholic lead.Gibson finished with 136 yards and three touchdowns on 23 carries. He looked like a man playing against boys in the the second half. A large part was because of the work of his offensive line, who seemed to play much better then they did in the opening half.

The game started out with Brady Carpenter moving the ball 18-yards on the games first play from scriommage, but he would be stripped by a defender and the ball was pounced on by,Sam Bending of Newark Catholic.

Quarterback Will Grier completed 12-of-18 passes for 202 yards. David Sills led the wide receivers with six catches for 96 yards.

Last night in Dayton, at Welcome stadium the Belmont Bison hosted the Bulldogs from Woodward high school, out of Cincinnati. Belmont has shown a very high octane running offense at times this season, while the Bulldogs has been up and down not only only offense but defense as well.

The Newark Catholic offense stayed on the bus through much of the opening quarter, but with 5.5 seconds left Tanner Lake hauled in a nicely thrown ball by, Hunter Chapman 6-5 / 215 and picked up 28-yards.

A kick from Anderson started the game, not long after, QB Lucas Smith runs a 18yd touchdown, starting the game out with a 7-0 Turpin lead. The Redskins’ Kyle Blaha soon persevered through the unforgiving Turpin defense and ran a 2 yd touchdown, evening out the score out 7-7. “Our offense and defense did well, but there’s always room for improvement.” Coach Kenter explained after Turpin gave up 21 points in the first half. “But I think this was one of better games of the entire season, the team really brought it.” Second quarter brought both the Spartans and Redskins 2 new touchdowns each and an exciting 65 yard pass Turpin touchdown, Smith to Will Hausfeld. Halftime stopped the intense game at a suspenseful score of 21-21.

Williams had a team-high 100 tackles, which ranked fifth in the MIAA and 22nd in the nation. Sixty-three of his tackles were solo stops, and he also had two pass breakups and two forced fumbles.

The Michigan defense so far this year has been nothing short of superb. In their first six games, the defense only allowed two rushing touchdowns and less than one-hundred total rushing yards a game. (Brouwer 1). Outstanding. As sports reviewer Chris Peterson proclaims in his review for gbmwolevrine.com, “[…] when you dive deep into the numbers, [it is] hard not to call Michigan football’s defense the best in the country” (3). With their great plays on defense frustrating opposing offenses game after game, Michigan has definitely rebuilt their defense. The defense is one of the main reasons why the team is national championship worthy. Another area that the team is working on is developing their fresh quarterback.

Last night on the campus of Slippery Rock University Fort LeBoeuf(4-5) faced Grove City(9-0) in a game that many figured was total mismatch, with the winner moving on to play next week, while the loser would be turning the pads in on Monday morning.

PVAMU took advantage of the GSU’s missed opportunity and marched down the field from the 24 yard line. Lee and the Panthers appeared to have the Tigers on their heels as they moved the ball to the GSU’s 33 yard line. From that point, Dawonya Tucker rush for 33 yards to the for a touchdown, Owen Hoolihan added the PAT with 5:08 left in the quarter to give the Panthers a 16-0 lead.

Sophomore Kyle Davis went 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBI for WVU. Freshman Kyle Gray went 3-for-3 with two RBI.

Thomas' 135-yard performance was one of the main reasons why Temple upset the Nittany Lions. The Penn State victory would be a launching pad not only for the Owls but for Thomas as well. Thomas went on to have five games of 100 plus rushing yards and scored a rushing touchdown in 10 straight games.

A Panther defensive lineman should have ambition. You must fight to win every play. Failure is not an option! YOU are responsible for putting doubt in the minds of our opponents!

nJonathan Harris leads the team with 3.0 sacks this season, and he has 4.5 tackles for loss. Drew Seers and CJ Bivens are also tied with Harris with 4.5 tackles for loss.