MEQUON, Wis. - MLC's defense knew it had a tough test on Saturday afternoon against Concordia University-Wisconsin's high-octane offense.
The Knights were unable to slow CUW down in a 48-13 road loss to slip to 0-2 to start the season. The Falcons mustered an eye-popping 556 total yards to go along with their six touchdowns. CUW punted just twice.
Falcons quarterback Roman Funk threw for 347 yards and five TDs. Jack Bradley had 154 receiving yards and three touchdown catches.
MLC on the other hand struggled to move the ball, amassing 239 total yards.
Brady Turriff threw for 174 yards and, as in week one, found most of his success through
Jude Pederson, who had 106 yards receiving that included an acrobatic one-handed touchdown grab.
Benjamin Vasold caught the second touchdown of the game.
The Knight had just 65 rushing yards.
Defensively, most of the team's leaders came in the defensive backfield as they tried to slow the CUW passing attack. Safeties
Carson Burow and
Trevor Hueske had 12 and eight total tackles, respectively. Corner
Jasper Lawrenz made 11.
Ethan Melso also made 11 total tackles, including a tackle for loss.
Freshman
Gabriel Nottling once again showed his big leg in the punting game, booming four punts for more than 50 yards.
