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Football falls 24-21 to Coe on late pass
9/10/2005 12:00:00 AM | Football
Sophomore QB Andy TeKippe hit junior WR Jonathan Rife on a 38-yard scoring pass with 43 seconds to play as visiting Coe (2-0) rallied for a 24-21 win over St. Thomas (0-1) in non-conference football play Saturday in O'Shaughnessy Stadium.
Rife, whose only other reception went for four yards, got well beyond the coverage down the left sideline. TeKippe's long pass into the wind was on the mark for the go-ahead score.
The Kohawks won their sixth in a row and avenged a 21-12 loss to St. Thomas from last season. They outscored the Tommies 17-0 in the second half. Coe junior RB Ashton Northern had 183 yards of offense, including a 62-yard scoring run in the first five minutes.
UST, which was hurt by 10 penalties for 93 yards, had four possessions in Coe territory in the second half but failed to score. In its best chance, UST led 21-17 and had a 1st-and-10 at the Coe 13 with 6:00 left, but a sack and three incompletions turned the ball to Coe.
The Toms held Coe on downs at midfield with 1:40 to play, but Coe regained the ball 21 seconds later as it used two timeouts and stopped the Toms on three downs and forced a punt.
A 15-yard penalty on a fair catch gave Coe the ball at its own 28-yard-line with 1:19 to play.
TeKippe, one of three Coe quarterbacks to share snaps on the day, led his team on a 72-yard, six play scoring drive with just one time out.
St. Thomas completed a 34-yard pass to senior J.J. Kirby at Coe's 41 in the final 30 seconds. After three incompletions, Tommie freshman PK Eric Taylor came up 10 yards short on a game-tying 58-yard field goal with a strong wind at his back with :02 left.
Coe had a 382-379 edge in total offense, and both teams had a blocked punt and one interception.
Coe's Michael Herzberger made one of two field goals and kicked all three PATs. TeKeippe completed 12-of-26 passes for 200 yards and Northern rushed 16 times for 128 yards and caught four passes for 55 yards.
UST freshman RB Jake Casey rushed 29 times for 119 yards and one TD. Junior WR P.J. Theisen caught seven passes for 98 yards. Junior QB Ryan Jansen completed 17-of-33 passes for 216 yards and two TDs.
Late in the first quarter, UST senior DT Ben Kessler blocked a punt and teammate Mike Hara recovered at the Coe 4-yard-line. That set up a go-ahead TD by UST as Jansen hit Joe Lepsche with a 4-yard scoring pass with :07 left in the first quarter.
Theisen's diving catch at the Coe 2-yard line late in the first half set up a 1-yard TD pass from Jansen to Billy Schreiber on 3rd-and-goal with 31 seconds left in the first half for a 21-7 halftime lead.
Defensively, UST senior Andrew Ubbbelohde was in on 17 tackles (3.5 for losses) and had two break-ups; Kessler added one sack and soph Pat Sommerstad had an interception. For Coe, Brant Pfantz was in on 14 tackles (10 solo) and Tyler Staker had a pickoff and eight tackles.
Both teams are on the road to open conference play next Saturday -- UST at Concordia-Moorhead and Coe at Central.
