Maroons Defeat Macalester on Late Touchdown



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Oct. 17, 2009 - Football
Maroons Defeat Macalester on Late Touchdown

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Junior quarterback Marshall Oium (Temecula, Calif./ Great Oak) threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to junior wideout Clay Wolff (St. Louis, Mo./ Christian Brothers) with 15 seconds left in the game to rally the University of Chicago football team to a 28-24 win over host Macalester College Saturday afternoon.

Macalester (2-5) took a 24-21 lead in the final minute of regulation when Jon Elliott recovered a fumble deep inside Chicago territory and returned it six yards for the score with :46 to play.

Freshman Dee Brizzolara (Aurora, Ohio/ Aurora) returned the ensuing kickoff 43 yards to the Macalester 38-yard line. After an incompletion, Oium connected with Brizzolara twice for 15 yards before finding Wolff in the end zone for the winning touchdown.

Macalester advanced to near midfield on its final drive, but junior cornerback Steve Tsilimos (Lisbon, Ohio/ Anderson) intercepted a pass deep inside Chicago territory to preserve the Maroons' third consecutive road victory -- a feat never before accomplished during Chicago's modern era football era (since 1969).

Chicago (3-2) trailed 16-7 after three quarters, before regaining the lead 21-16 on a 2-yard Oium run with 13:54 left in the fourth period and a 9-yard run by sophomore tailback Francis Adarkwa (Wheaton, Ill./ Wheaton-Warrenville South) at the 5:29 mark.

After a scoreless first quarter, the Scots opened the scoring on a Nathan Coppersmith 33-yard field goal early in the second stanza. The teams then traded touchdowns during the final five minutes of the second quarter. An 11-yard scoring strike from Oium to Wolff put the Maroons on top 7-3 but a 12-yard Elliott run with 1:12 to go in the period gave Macalester a 9-7 lead at the half.

Macalester scored the only points of the third quarter when Jake McDonnell took a short pass from Trevor Miehe 86 yards for the score.

Oium completed 24 of 47 attempts for 269 yards and two touchdowns with one interception, while Miehe was 19 for 29 for 256 yards with one touchdown and one pick.

Adarkwa finished the day with 143 yards on 29 carries. Brizzolara caught nine passes for 130 yards.

McDonnell had 142 yards on six receptions for the Scots.

Chicago returns home next Saturday, Oct. 24, to host Denison University at 1 p.m.

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