St. Nobert 42, Wartburg 35 OT

DE PERE, Wis. - St. Norbert stopped Wartburg's Lamar Harvey short of the goalline in overtime to perserve a 42-35 come-from-behind victory over the Knights Saturday at Minahan Stadium.

The Green Knights (1-0) scored on the final play of regulation, a 8-yard pass from Rob Berger to Jeremy Gezella, and scored first in overtime on Berger's fourth touchdown pass of the game, a seven-yard strike to John Weninger.

Berger accounted for 443 yards of total offense for St. Norbert (317 passing, 126 rushing).

In addition to his four touchdown passes, Berger also scored on runs of six and 29.

The game was tied five times.

Wartburg (0-1) got 151 yards rushing from Harvey.

But on first and goal from the six in overtime, Harvey was 1, 2, 1 and no gain on the final play.

Nick Yordi passed for 200 yards and two touchdowns for Wartburg. Todd Sampson and Matt Gustafson had touchdown receptions.

Wartburg hosts Augsburg next Saturday at 7 p.m. in its home opener.

Wartburg 7 14 7 7 0 - 35

St. Norbert 7 7 7 14 7 - 42

First quarter

SNC - Rob Berger 6 run (Roger Nault kick), 10:46.

WAR - Lamar Harvey 4 run (Marcus Williams kick), 7:06.

Second quarter

SNC - Logan Krueger 32 pass from Berger (Nault kick), 13:36.

WAR - Todd Sampson 14 pass from Nick Yordi (Williams kick), 9:26.

WAR - Reese Thompson 6 run (Williams kick), 1:31.

Third quarter

SNC - Jeremy Gezella 40 pass from Berger (Nault kick), 12:54.

WAR -Matt Gustafson 35 pass from Yordi (Williams kick), 9:50.

Fourth quarter

SNC - Berger 29 run (Nault kick), 9:44.

WAR - Levi Helbling 22 run (Williams kick), 6:51.

SNC - Gezella 8 pass from Berger (Nault kick), 0:00.

Overtime

SNC - John Weninger 7 pass from Berger (Nault kick).

TEAM STATISTICS

War SNC

First downs 26 26

Rushes-yards 54-287 32-210

Passing yards 219 317

Passes 15-27-0 28-38-0

Return yards 12 56

Punts-avg. 6-43.2 4-29.2

Fumbles-lost 0-0 2-2

Penalties-yards 11-100 6-40

Time of possession 29:24. 29:14

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

Rushing

WARTBURG - Harvey 28-151, Thompson 15-66, Yordi 7-41, Helbling 1-22, Alex Boom 3-7.

ST. NORBERT - Berger 16-126, Weninger 10-63, Todd Sheedy 5-23.

Passing

WARTBURG - Yordi 14-26-0-200 yards and two touchdowns; Dustin Broshous 1-1-0-19 yards and no touchdowns.

ST. NORBERT - Berger 28-37-0-317 yards and four touchdowns.

Receiving

WARTBURG - Helbling 3-55, Sampson 3-50, Jason Roskam 3-22, Matt Gustafson 2-44, Thompson 2-31, Matt Wickert 1-9, D.J. Looft 1-8.

ST. NORBERT - Gezella 12-179, Brian Peterson 5-26, Weninger 4-46, Sheedy 3-15, Logan Krueger 1-32, Adam Nitsche 1-11, Mike Dickman 1-4, Jack Dempsey 1-4.

n Mary 48,

Upper Iowa 31

BISMARCK, N.D. - Upper Iowa couldn't sustain its first-half offensive momentum Saturday as the University of Mary rallied past the Peacocks with a 28-point second half.

Upper Iowa (1-1) led 24-20 at halftime on the strength of two interceptions, one of which the Peacocks coverted into a touchdown, two Ben Curran touchdown passes and Curran's 2-yard TD run.

However, Mary (1-1) cut into a 24-14 deficit on Henry Lau's second TD pass of the half with just 19 seconds on the clock. Jamal Lomax gave Mary the lead 4 minutes into the second half with a 40-yard run, and Lau extended it to 41-24 with two long TD passes.

Lau finished with 369 passing yards, Terry Newsome turned five catches into 128 yards and Lomax ran 29 times for 189 yards to lead the Mary offense. Upper Iowa's Curran passed for 324 yards while his twin brother, Nate, led the defense with a team-high 12 tackles, including eight solos.

Upper Iowa 10 14 0 7 - 31

Mary 7 13 21 7 - 48

First quarter

UIU - Otdoerfer 3 pass from Curran (Price kick), 13:54

Mary - McCleary 1 run (Thibodeaux kick), 11:33

UIU - FG Price 32, 6:43

Second quarter

Mary - Martin 8 pass from Lau (Thibodeaux kick), 14:54

UIU - Davis 13 pass from Curran (Price kick), 11:29

UIU - Curran 2 run (Price kick), 1:19

Mary - Steffan 20 pass from Lau (kick failed), :19

Third quarter

Mary - Lomax 40 run (Thibodeaux kick), 11:08

Mary - Martin 20 pass from Lau (Thibodeaux kick), 5:39

Mary - Newsome 47 pass from Lau (Thibodeaux kick), :48

Fourth quarter

UIU - O'Neal 1 run (Price kick) 13:44

Mary - Leday 23 pass from Lau (Thibodeaux kick), 9:16.

Att. - 3,215

TEAM STATISTIcS

UIU Mary

First downs 22 24

Rushes-yards 35-82 36-191

Passing yards 345 369

Att-Comp-Int 30-45-2 22-40-2

Return yards 15 84

Punts-avg. 4-45.2 5-39.0

Fumbles-lost 2-1 0-0

Penalties-yards 7-49 7-73

Time of possession 30:07 29:53

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

Rushing

UPPER IOWA - Otdoerfer 12-41, O'Neal 4-15, Williams 1-12, Curran 10-10, Epsteen 7-6, Team 1-minus 2.

MARY - Lomax 29-189, McCleary 3-5, Lau 3-minus 3, Team 1-0.

Passing

UPPER IOWA - Curran 29-42-1, 324 yards; Hovden 1-3-1, 21 yards.

MARY - Lau 22-40-2, 369 yards.

Receiving

UPPER IOWA - Otdoerfer 8-47, Hubbard 6-81, Williams 5-66, Davis 3-44, Reddick 2-23, Baldwin 2-22, Schaeffer 1-35, Parker 1-20, Moser 1-6, Epsteen 1-1.

MARY - Newsome 5-128, Martin 4-40, Lomax 3-18, Steffan 2-57, Darrah 2-40, Gilbertson 2-27, Costello 2-26, Leday 1-23, Gatling 1-10.