From that point on, the offense stumbled through the rest of the game failing to put any additional points on the board with a drive ending on a Matlick interception, followed by an offensive sequence capped off on a 40-yard field goal that was blocked by Ripon. Head football coach Chad Braun had this to say when asked about failed opportunities to put points on the board, “I told our guys, obviously they’re going to be disappointed because you know we had an opportunity to put up a lot more points than what we did today. But it’ll be a goodlearning experience for our offense, not everything is going to go our way all the time but our guys have great character they’ll learn from it and comeback, but by no means am I disappointed with our guys, they played hard and we’ve just got to clean up some of our execution a little bit.” The Scots defense was dominant all day though holding the Red Hawks offense under 300 total yards of offense as well as forcing and recovering a fumble.
Monmouth took care of business to open conference play with a 28-0 win at April Zorn Stadium as they keep their sights set high moving deeper into the conference schedule. The next game will be away from home as the Scots will travel to Lake Forest for another Midwest Conference showdown.
Tate Heiple
Contributing Writer