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	2004 Concordia Football Line Score
	Cobbers vs. Tommies Teams 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Final Concordia 10 0 7 3 20 St. Thomas 0 3 0 0 3  Cobbers lead the series 34-27-0

Game 2: Concordia College Cobbers (0-0, 1-0) at University of St. Thomas (0-0, 1-0)
Location: O'Shaughnessy Stadium - St. Paul, MInn.
Kickoff: 1:00 p.m.
Radio: Live on "The Fan" 1280AM in the F-M area and on KSNB AM 950 in the Twin Cities. 
Internet:www.gocobbers.com
Tickets: Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students. There are no advance ticket sales for any regular-season games. Football tickets go on sale and the gates open at noon for 1 p.m. kickoffs. There is ample room for standing-room admission, and no fans are turned away for football. 
Series: Concordia leads series, 34-27-0
Rankings: Concordia is currently ranked 23rd in the latest Don Hansen Football Gazette poll; St. Thomas is unranked.

St. Thomas head coach Don Roney is starting his seventh season at the helm of the Tommies. He has complied a 35-17 record in conference play in his first six seasons. Roney led the Tommies to a 7-3 record in 2001 and third-place MIAC finish. That followed a 6-4 record in 2000 and 7-3 records in each of his first two seasons, including a second-place tie in the MIAC race at 7-2 in both 1998 and 1999. Roney was named UST’s 28th head coach in 1998, replacing five-year head coach Mal Scanlan. 

Dietz is a two-time All-MIAC performer who led the Cobbers in tackles in 2003 and was recently named the Most Electrifying Defensive Player of the Game in the team's opening win over NCAA DII MSU-Moorhead. Ubbelohde led the MIAC in tackles last season and reeked havoc on opposing offenses all year long. 

St. Thomas' Andrew Ubbelohde is 28th in solo tackles, Luke Rezac is 9th in sacks and John Kaiser is 29th in tackles for a loss. 

Team wise, Concordia is 16th in overall defense (182.0 yds/game) and 21st in scoring defense (7.0pts/game). St. Thomas is 13th in rushing defense (42.0 yds/game) and 15th (176.0 yds/game) in overall defense. 

The Tommies scored first in the game when Nick Whitehead scampered 21 yards for the game's opening score. The St. Thomas "hands" team fumbled the exchange from center and the extra point attempt failed.

Concordia countered by scoring on their first four possessions of the game to take a 28-14 lead with just over five minutes left in the first half. The teams then traded fumbles before the half expired.

In the third quarter, St. Thomas scored first as Justin Kostner rumbled across from 3 yards out to make the score 28-20 with 7:41 left in the quarter. The Tommie kicking game once again failed to make the conversion and the Cobbers continued to hold an eight-point lead.

The final score of the game came right before the end of the third quarter. Paul Nelson scored the only non-Hinderks TD for the Cobbers with only 33 seconds left on the clock. The Cobber kicking game came down with the St. Thomas extra point flu and missed the point after to keep the final score at 34-20.

Defensively, Concordia was led by Tanner Radermacher who had 10 tackles. Eric Svobodny broke up three passes in the defensive backfield. 

The Cobbers have won the last two games in the series by a combined total of 97-41. The big chunk of points came in the 2002 game when Concordia rolled to a 63-21 win. That game marked the highwater mark for points scored by a single team in one game in the series. The 84 combined points also set the record for most points combined by both teams. Before the 2002 tilt, the Tommies had won four straight and 9 of the previous 11, dating all the way back to 1990...The longest winning streak in the series by either team is 10 games. The Cobbers rattled off a 10-game string from 1963 until 1976. The end of the streak came in the last game of the '76 season when St. Thomas won 6-0. The six points scored is the lowest total for both teams in a single game in the series...Concordia has shutout the Tommies on six different occasions in the series, while St. Thomas has blanked the Cobbers only three times. The last shutout in the series came back in 1978 when the Cobbers won 14-0...The first game in the series was played back in 1931. The Cobbers won that inaugural battle 7-0. The 1931 Cobber team was the first in school history to win the MIAC championship. 

Cobber Individual Offense
200 Yards Rushing
By Cobbers: 1995 vs. St. Olaf College, Kyle Odermann, 214 yards
By Opponent: 2001, Gustavus, Andy Traetow, 209 yards
100 Yard Receiving Game
By Cobbers: 2004 vs. MSU-Moorhead, Andrew Passanante, 168 yards
By Opponent: 2003, St. John’s, Blake Elliot, 132 yards
300 Yard Passing Game
By Cobbers: 2003 vs. St. Olaf College, Ryan Hebrink, 304 yards
By Opponent: 2003, Menlo College, Frank Borba, 333 yards
4 Touchdowns Rushing
By Cobbers: 1995 vs. St. Olaf College, Kyle Odermann 
By Opponent: 1998, MSU-Moorhead, Tony Duerr (5)
4 Touchdowns Receiving
By Cobbers: 1987 vs. Hamline, Terry Horan 
By Opponent: ?

Cobber Individual/Special Teams:
Kickoff Returned for a Touchdown
By Cobbers: 2003, vs. St. Olaf College, Bobby Clark, 85 yards
By Opponent 2002, Bethel College, John Kilde, 91 yards
Punt Returned for a Touchdown
By Cobbers: 2002, vs. Hamline, Bobby Clark, 70 yards
By Opponent 1997, Bethel College, Kirk Midthun, 70 yards
Extra Point Blocked
By Cobbers: 2003 vs. Augsburg, Josh Vickerman
By Opponent: 2003, Hamline University
Field Goal Over 40 Yards
By Cobbers: 2003 vs. Carleton College, 40 yards, Brian Halverson
By Opponent: 2003, Bethel College, Paul Tschetter, 52 yards
3 Field Goals
By Cobbers: 2004, vs. MSU-Moorhead, Brian Halverson
By Opponents:  1998, Augsburg College, Martin Hlinka (4) 

Cobbers vs. Tommies News and Notes

Cobber News and Notes
Charity Begins at Home
Thanks to three touchdowns in the Concordia's opening game victory over MSU-Moorhead, and an extra donation of $200 from the Cobber Athletic Department, the Concordia College football team was able to donate $500.00 to the Moorhead Healthy Community Initiative’s (MHCI’s) Richard Thompson Memorial Scholarship Fund. 

Moorhead Healthy Community Initiative scholarship program awarded over 500 scholarships to Moorhead students to participate in out-of-school activities such as football, hockey, track, arts programs, day and overnight camps, and dance classes last year. 

Oh Yes They Call Them the Streak
Two Concordia football players added to their successful streaks they carried over from last season. Senior wide receiver Andrew Passanante (Hawley, Minn./Hawley HS) and junior kicker Brian Halverson (Fargo, N.D./Fargo North HS) have picked up where they left off in 2003. 

Passanante has now surpassed the 150-yard receiving mark in his past three games. In the final two games of the 2003 season, he totaled 199 and 167 yards, and then in the opening game of the ’04 campaign he caught seven passes for 168 and grabbed a touchdown pass. 

Halverson has now connected on his past eight field goal attempts. He had a string of five straight at the end of last year and made three against the Dragons on opening day. The three field goals in one game tied a school record for most field goals in a single game. 

Good Beginnings
The Concordia College football team has started the season 1-0 for only the seventh time in the past 20 years. It is the second straight year Concordia has opened with a win. The longest winning streak to open a season in the past 20 years is eight games. The 1988 Concordia team went 8-0 at the beginning of the year and finished the season by winning the MIAC title. The best start for a Cobber team under current head coach Terry Horan was last year when they went 2-0.

Tommies News and Notes (from the St. Thomas SID)
Amazing Grace
St. Thomas has seven players from Totino-Grace High School, and that group hails from six different hometowns. The T-G grads includes four starters and at least one second-teamer. Dustin Peltier (DB), Brock Norman (C), Sam Friederichs (LT) and freshman Graham Gmach (LG) are starters, while Mike Hara (DT) is a second-teamer who will play a lot. . Gmach is one of three members of T-G's 2003 state champion team on the UST roster, joining RB John Azman and LB Nick Engbloom . Azman scored four TDs in the 2003 championship game.

Father Figure
St. Thomas junior DT Ben Kessler (Janesville, Wis./Craig HS) has a 4.00 gpa and is considering entering the seminary after graduation. In 2003, he was first-team Academic All-District and had five sacks in his final three games; had nine tackles vs. St. Norbert and 10 vs. Augsburg. In two seasons he has 68 tackles, eight sacks, three fumble recoveries.

Last Hurrah
For the eighth consecutive year, a Kaiser brother from Mora, Minn., will open the season in the UST football starting lineup. Fifth-year senior DE John Kaiser was injured in the 2003 season-opening loss at St. Norbert as the streak of at least one Kaiser in the UST starting lineup peaked at 61 games. John sat out the season with a medical hardship, thus he will play again in 2004. His brother Greg was the Tommies' starting QB from 1997-1999; Andy was a four-year starting DL from 1998-2001. Both Andy and Greg were Co-SIDA Academic All-Americans, and John (3.72 gpa) was a 2002 first-team Academic All-District.

Look Back 
One good nugget from 2003 -- NCAA champion St. John's scored 72 touchdowns in its 14-0 roll to the national title. But the Johnnies managed only one TD (with three field goals) in their comeback 15-12 win over the Tommies Nov. 1. The Toms are the lone team to hold the Johnnies under 20 points since 2002, covering 28 games.