Final in Jackson with Millsaps getting the upset of MC, 31-21.

Still one game on the schedule tonight with Southwestern at Centre.

Quote from: MCScots2013 on October 18, 2025, 04:30:19 PMSick to my damn stomach.

Bunch of self inflicted wounds on that last drive with those holding penalties, and then miss the field goal.  Let's see if the Majors can run out the clock.

 

Quote from: tigerguy on October 18, 2025, 03:39:03 PMEdit: 734 yards of offense! WOW. Will need to check where that output ranks for them all time in a single game.

That went about like I expected.

Maryville has cut the score down to a two-score deficit against Millsaps with a score at the 8:30 mark in the 4Q for 31-21 score. The Majors are trying to run clock trying to get a drive going and then turn the ball over with 6:46 remaining.  This will be interesting.

Berry opened it up on my Tigers in the 2nd half, 44-71 at the 2:00 minute warning

Quote from: Ron Boerger on October 18, 2025, 09:39:09 AMAs always, Hansen seems to underrate Maryville and I'll take them by another TD.  Berry seems likely to win by more as well. 

Games in progress:
Stats feed says Millsaps up 24-7 on Maryville at the half.
Berry up 16-0 on Sewanee at the half.
No update on Trinity/Rhodes.

Final from Valhalla: Berry 29, Trinity 6.

Results from day games so far:

Maryville wakes up in the second half for a 33-13 win over Centre

Southwestern holds off Sewanee for 39-31 victory. Hurts a bit to see our kids put the effort out and not be able to get the win.

As of the last update of the stats page, Milsaps was up 31-19 on Rhodes in the 3Q.   Rhodes stat tracker really doesn't do well in keeping up with game.

Early games moving towards halftime:

Sewanee scores late in the second to make the score 21-19 in favor of Southwestern in Georgetown with a few seconds left in the 1H.  Given the lack of updates on the stats page, I'm assuming that game has gone to the half.

Centre and Maryville are tied at 13 each at the half in Maryville.

Millsaps leads Rhodes 14-0 middle of the 1Q per Rhodes stat page but that page tends to be very laggy behind the game.

A win in Georgetown would be a very good thing.    I'm with Ron: all depends who comes out hot early in the  game.  It will be interesting to watch Maryville over the next two games as both Centre and Millsaps are looking for some respect.

I'm not sure I would agree with Hansen about Trinity at Berry.  The Vikings need that win to overcome the CMU loss and being home team may just give enough a boost for them to push Trinity.

Quote from: nineohnine on October 04, 2025, 04:47:45 PMWasn't able to watch the Trinity game very closely today. Anybody care to share their analysis? Along with any of the other SAA games today?

Things went pretty much as expected with Trinity, Berry, and Maryville dominating their games.  Millsaps/Centre was a bit of a barn-burner.

Quote from: MCScots2013 on October 04, 2025, 04:27:27 PMSeries is now tied at 17 all. Maryville beats Sewanee 40-7.

Sewanee definitely showed some fight. They don't roll over, that's sure.

I was only able to catch portions of the game but it went like I figured it would go.  We need to do some work on the defense side of the game.

Quote from: MCScots2013 on September 28, 2025, 04:43:54 PMNext Saturday against Sewanee is Maryville's chance to even that all time record. It's 17-16 Sewanee at the moment with a 4 game win streak for my Scots.

I'm glad to see the Scots in the league as there was some pretty chippy contests back when MC was a D3 Independent and we regularly scheduled each other.  My admittedly biased opinion is that Maryville is a much better fit with the SAA schools than what you had in the USA South.  And I think y'all bring a lot to our league in the other sports in the conference.

My hope is Saturday's game is a lot more competitive than our recent experiences against the Scots. We're coming off a good win against one of y'all's former conference mates at NC Wesleyan and we matched up pretty evenly with Brevard even if the final score wasn't in our favor.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on September 28, 2025, 09:34:12 AMI don't know if SW@TU is a trap game, but the two schools are natural rivals given proximity and history, and the Pirates will want to atone for the last two years where they lost by a combined score of 97-7. 

The temptation is look ahead is always there but Coach Urban and staff are the sort of coaches that will emphasize thinking one game at a time with their players.

I take Hansen's oeuvre with a very large grain of salt.  But this week's predictions might be close to the mark.

Quote from: awadelewis on September 27, 2025, 04:21:15 PMWelp, Maryville dodged a bullet against UPike,  winning 33-30.

That's was actually 34-30 as the stats didn't update after the Scots kicked the extra point.  I only caught the last few minutes of that broadcast but the Maryville announcing crew made it sound like the Scots didn't play well at all.  Be interesting to see what they bring to The Mountain next week.

I think the game to watch next week is Trinity at home against Southwestern.   Makings of a trap game in that one with TU traveling to Berry the following weekend.

Rhodes isn't looking good at all this season.  I've not seen enough of Centre and Milsaps to get a feel for those teams.

Welp, Maryville dodged a bullet against UPike,  winning 33-30.

It feels odd, and strangly pleasant, to hear someone mentioning Sewanee as even an outside contender for a playoff spot. 

Maryville is going to be a wild card this season.  They don't appear to have been stretched any by their first two non-conference opponents and UPike has struggled this season against three NAIA teams that have received votes or been ranked in the NAIA polls.  Be interesting to see if the Scots can do the same to them.

I'm thinking we won't get clarity about the conference championship until the last two weeks of the season when Maryville travels to Berry and then hosts Trinity.