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Titans Off To Best Start Since 1935

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A long punt return and a pair of key defensive stops lifted the UW-Oshkosh football team to a 23-20 victory over UW-Stevens Point on Saturday (Oct. 22) at J.J. Keller Field at Titan Stadium.

Trailing by five points with less than seven minutes remaining, UW-Oshkosh's Andy Heiman (So. • Clintonville) returned a UW-Stevens Point punt 67 yards to the Pointers' one-yard line, setting up a one-yard touchdown run by Tyler Jandrin (So. • Casco) with 6:42 left to play.

UW-Oshkosh's defense then came up with several big plays, stopping the Pointers on a third-and-15 play from the Titans' 49-yard line with 4:29 left and forcing four straight incomplete passes in the final 83 seconds to preserve the victory.

The win gives UW-Oshkosh a 6-1 overall record, the best seven-game mark for the Titans since 1935. The victory also clinches UW-Oshkosh's first six-win season since 1976. After a 13-10 overtime loss to UW-River Falls on Oct. 1, UW-Oshkosh has rallied in the fourth quarter to win three straight WIAC games. Prior to Saturday, UW-Oshkosh hadn't won three consecutive WIAC contests since 1988.

UW-Oshkosh gained a season-high 512 yards of offense as Joe Patek (So. • Cedarburg) completed 21 of 36 passes for a career-best 362 yards and two touchdowns. Both of Patek's touchdown passes went to Nick Kilton (Sr. • Waukesha), who totaled three pass receptions for a career-best 155 yards. Andy Moriarty (So. • Mequon) had his fourth 100-yard rushing game of the season with 27 carries for 122 yards. He also caught five passes for 98 yards.

UW-Stevens Point (2-5/1-3 WIAC) opened the scoring when Ben Zimmerman blocked a punt at the Titans' seven-yard line and Luke Frisch recovered. Two plays later, Cody Childs rushed four yards for a touchdown to give the Pointers a 7-0 lead at the 7:54 mark of the first quarter. UW-Oshkosh countered the score on the first play of the second quarter when Patek threw a 54-yard touchdown strike to Kilton. Following a missed extra point, the Pointers held a 7-6 lead at the 14:53 mark of the second period.

The Pointers extended their lead to 14-6 when Childs finished off a nine-play, 72-yard drive with a two-yard touchdown run at the 10:13 mark of the second quarter. UW-Oshkosh made the score 14-9 when Lucas Raschke (So. • Clntonville) drilled a 27-yard field at the 7:09 mark of the period. UW-Stevens Point, which had won its three previous meetings with UW-Oshkosh, went to halftime leading 14-9 as Raschke missed a 32-yard field goal just before the break.

UW-Oshkosh took a 15-14 lead when Patek passed 55 yards to Kilton for a touchdown on a third-and-11 play with 8:36 left in the third quarter. UW-Stevens Point answered UW-Oshkosh's score by grinding out a 49-yard drive in 12 plays, capped by a one-yard touchdown pass from Brett Borchart to Childs. Both teams missed extra points and the Pointers led 20-15 with 2:56 remaining in the third quarter.

Following Jandrin's eventual game-winning touchdown, UW-Stevens Point drove to the UW-Oshkosh 44-yard line on a 20-yard pass from Borchart to Adam Spoehr. The pass would be Borchart's final pass completion of the game as he finished with six straight incompletions.

Following a UW-Stevens Point punt with 4:29 left in the game, UW-Oshkosh converted a third-and-20 play as Patek found Kilton for 46 yards to the Pointers' 32-yard line. However, UW-Stevens Point's Peter Prusinski intercepted a Patek pass three plays later to give the Pointers the football at their own 34-yard line with 1:23 remaining. The Pointers comeback ended following four incomplete passes by Borchart.

UW-Stevens Point totaled 293 yards of offense. Borchart completed 13-of-29 passes for 168 yards, while Child rushed 13 times for 48 yards. Jacob Dickert caught four passes for 76 yard to lead the Pointers.

Defensively, UW-Stevens Point was led by Dan Robinson's game-high nine tackles. The Pointers also received eight from both Brandon Czys and Jared Flesch. Ryan Neff (Jr. • Merrill) paced UW-Oshkosh with seven tackles, including three for a loss. The Titans also benefited from the six tackles of Rob Fett (Sr. • Appleton), Jason Manikowski (Jr. • Cudahy) and Ryan Schaffner (So. • Germantown).