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EDWARDSVILLE &#8211; The games keep getting bigger for the Wilkes University football team.On Saturday at Schmidt Stadium, the Colonels had yet another important contest with a chance to secure a postseason berth for the first time since 2010 in a matchup of the two of the top teams in the MAC.Unfortunately for the team, it will have to wait one more week.Wilkes hurt itself with turnovers and penalties and lost to Stevenson 42-21. To assure a postseason bowl game, the Colonels (7-2 overall, 5-2 MAC) will have to beat crosstown rival King&#8217;s in the regular season finale. Even if the Colonels don&#8217;t win that game, there&#8217;s a good chance they will earn one of four bowl games for the conference with help from other teams in the MAC.Wilkes turned the ball over five times and only committed two penalties, but they were costly with one taking a touchdown off the board and another being a pass interference setting up a Mustangs (7-2, 6-1) touchdown.&#8220;You turn the ball over five times you don&#8217;t really deserve to win the game,&#8221; Colonels Coach Jon Drach said. &#8220;I think our kids fought really, really hard. It was a one-score game going to the fourth quarter. They were able to be resilient and really continue to dig in in the second half and put themselves in position to be in the game when they probably shouldn&#8217;t have been against a good football team.&#8221;Quarterback Jose Tabora had a big game for the Colonels with 143 rushing yards and three scores on the ground, while throwing for 63 yards. With the performance, Tabora eclipsed Boo Perry&#8217;s school record for total offensive yards in a career that was set in 1993. Tabora currently has 6,994 total yards with at least one more game left.&#8220;He&#8217;s done a great job. He&#8217;s a tough, tough kid and he&#8217;s harder on himself than anybody,&#8221; Drach said about Tabora. &#8220;He knows he didn&#8217;t play his best game today. But he continues to grow and continues to improve. He wants the ball in his hands in critical situations and it&#8217;s something that you gotta admire a little bit when he goes out and has a one of the best halves he&#8217;s ever played. Then in the second half, he really capitalized on things we wanted to do in the run game. And he really put us in a situation to be back in the game in the second half.&#8221;The game started off terribly for Wilkes as the opening kickoff was fumbled. Stevenson recovered and immediately found the end zone on the first play from scrimmage on a 28-yard pass from Ryan Sedgwick to Keenan Franz just 12 seconds into the game. That was the first of five first-half turnovers for Wilkes with three of them leading to touchdowns.It didn&#8217;t take long for the Colonels to tie it up at 7-7 taking less than 2 minutes for Tabora to break off a 63-yard touchdown run to make the score 7-7 with 13:10 left in the first quarter.The Colonels took advantage of a pair of Mustangs turnovers in the second half and cut the deficit to seven at 28-21 after the first play of the fourth quarter.But they couldn&#8217;t overcome their own mistakes. On the Mustangs&#8217; next drive, they received a pass interference penalty inside the red zone that setup a score that gave them a 35-21 lead with 6:05 left.Wilkes&#8217; defense also had a nice afternoon. Despite allowing 42 points, the team only allowed one scoring drive that was longer than 60 yards as the Mustangs took advantage of the short field position. The Colonels defense combined for four sacks, two forced fumbles and an interception.&#8220;The only time they really scored was when we gave them short fields, whether it was special teams giving them short fields or the offense,&#8221; Drach said. &#8220;When they had to drive the entire length, they rarely did it. Against good football teams you can&#8217;t give them short fields.&#8221;Stevenson 42, Wilkes 21Stevenson`21`7`0`14`&#8212;`42Wilkes`7&#8217;0`7`7`&#8212;`21SCORING SUMMARYFirst quarterSTE &#8211; Franz 28 pass from Sedgwick (Campbell kick) 14:48WU &#8211; Tabora 63 run (Pollack kick) 13:10STE &#8211; Lyles 11 pass from Sedgwick (Campbell kick) 9:49STE &#8211; Sedgwick 1 run (Campbell kick) 4:3Second QuarterSTE &#8211; Franz 7 pass from Sedgwick (Campbell kick) 11:37Third QuarterWU &#8211; Tabora 7 run (Pollack kick) 9:16Fourth QuarterWU &#8211; Tabora 2 run (Pollack kick) 14:55STE &#8211; Rutkowski 4 run (Campbell kick) 6:05STE &#8211; Joppy 3 run (Campbell kick) :13Team statistics`STE`WUFirst downs`21`16Rushes-yards`37-110`29-219Passing yards`269`63Total yards`379`282Passing`21-27-1`9-21-2Sacks by-yards lost`1-4`4-29Punts-avg.`4-20.8`1-32.0Fumbles-lost`2-1`3-3Penalties-yards`10-79`2-20INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSPASSING &#8211; STE, Sedgwick 21-27-1-269. WU, Tabora 9-21-2-63.RUSHING&#8212; STE, Joppy 17-87, Johnson 10-54, Sheehan 1-6, Rutkowski 1-4, Lee 1-(minus-5), Sedgwick 7-(minus-36). WU, Tabora 16-143, Sheals 13-76.RECEIVING&#8212; STE, Franz 6-99, Lyles 6-78, Lee 5-62, Diorio 2-18, Joppy 2-12. WU, O&#8217;Donnell 3-29, Nelson 3-26, Jones 1-8, Harrison 1-2, Sheals 1-(minus-2).INTERCEPTIONS &#8211; STE, Pitts 1-8, Manassa 1-0. WU, Schneider 1-0.MISSED FG&#8217;S &#8211; WU, Pollack (28, blocked)Widener 41, King&#8217;s 21Widener outscored King&#8217;s 21-0 in the decisive second quarter, as the Monarch football team dropped a Middle Atlantic Conference contest at Leslie C. Quick Jr. Stadium.King&#8217;s quarterback Tyler Moore finished 17-of-31 with two touchdowns and 139 yards, while Jordan Downes finished with 139 yards on the ground, including one rushing score. Downes added three catches as well for 14 yards, and Brandon Cohen was King&#8217;s leading receiver with six catches for 47 yards and the two touchdowns.Albright 20, Misericordia 10Albright jumped out to a 20-0 lead on host Misericordia and then held on for the victory.Malik Bootman had two touchdown runs and Will Dogba added another as Albright (1-8) scored once in the first quarter and twice in the second.Michael Gawlik scored on a 29-yard run late in the second quarter to close to gap to 20-7 at halftime. However, the Cougars (4-4) could only manage a 24-yard field goal the rest of the way.<style>
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