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Four Gateway Teams in Top 11
Saturday, May 9th, 2009 |
For the first time in Gateway history, four league teams are ranked among the top 11 in a national top-25 poll. Western Illinois stands at No. 2, while Southern Illinois moves up a spot to No. 7, Western Kentucky holds at No. 9, and UNI moves up a notch to No. 11.
A battle of two Gateway top-10 schools takes place this week as unbeaten Southern Illinois faces Western Illinois in Macomb. It will mark the 10th time in league history that two top-10 Gateway teams have faced each other.
Twenty-four of the poll’s 25 teams will be in action this week, with two matchups between a pair of ranked teams featured on the
Weekly Football Notebook - Oct. 12
Saturday, May 9th, 2009It’s Homecoming in Normal, Ill., and the Illinois State-Western Kentucky game
is part of the Gateway Television Network. Mitch Holthus, Richard Baldinger and
Scott Warmann will call the action from Hancock Stadium, beginning at 2:30 pm
CDT.
The game will be seen live on the Hilltopper Sports Satellite Network and
will be joined in progress at 3 pm by [...]
Gateway Players of the Week - Oct. 11
Saturday, May 9th, 2009This week’s Gateway Players of the Week are RB Travis Glasford and LB Lee Russell of Western Illinois; DE Kyle Mitchell of Indiana State; PK Matt Lange of Western Kentucky; PK Brian Wingert of UNI; and C Elmer McDaniel of Southern Illinois.
Offensive
RB Travis Glasford, Western Illinois
So., 5-11, 190, Miami (Fla.) Southridge High
Glasford tied a Gateway [...]
Weekly Football Notebook - Oct. 5
Saturday, May 9th, 2009Two league schools have their Homecoming games on Saturday, Oct. 11. Southern Illinois hosts Illinois State in Carbondale, while UNI entertains Indiana State. Western Illinois opened its Gateway season last weekend with a 33-28 Homecoming win against Western Kentucky.
Winning Ways
Entering games for Oct. 11, all eight teams in the Gateway are .500 or better. The [...]
Gateway Players of the Week - Oct. 4
Saturday, May 9th, 2009This week’s Gateway players of the week are QB Joel Sambursky of Southern Illinois; DB Travis Washington of Western Illinois; P Brian Claybourn of Western Kentucky; and OL Will Sanders of Youngstown State.
Offensive
QB Joel Sambursky, Southern Illinois
So., 6-0, 195, Liberty (Mo.) High
Although he only threw for 173 yards (while completing 12-of-20 passes with zero interceptions), [...]
League Season Begins Oct. 4
Saturday, May 9th, 2009The Gateway’s 2002 co-champions and playoff participants had a classic battle in front of 18,263 fans with No. 2-ranked Western Illinois scoring 26-unanswered points to beat defending national champs and No. 5-ranked Western Kentucky, 33-28.
Meanwhile, Southern Illinois moved to 5-0 for the first time in 12 years with a 37-14 win at Indiana State. Youngstown [...]
Four Teams Ranked - Sept. 29
Saturday, May 9th, 2009For the second-straight week, four Gateway teams dot the I-AA Top 25, as Western Illinois (2), Western Kentucky (6), Southern Illinois (11), and UNI (16) represent the conference this week in the Sports Network/CSTV poll.
Additionally, all eight Gateway members are receiving mention for the second-straight week, making this the latest in a season where all [...]
GFC Ends Near-Perfect Non-League Slate
Saturday, May 9th, 2009The Gateway Conference went 5-2 in its final non-conference regular-season weekend of the year, giving the Gateway a 25-10 record against non-league foes in 2003. Eight of the 10 losses came at the hands of I-A schools.
UNI’s 43-10 thrashing of No. 11 Northwestern State highlighted Saturday’s action, while Southern Illinois remained perfect at 4-0.
UNI 43, [...]
Four Gateway Teams Dot Top 25
Saturday, May 9th, 2009Illinois State joined the list of three previously ranked Gateway teams as the Redbirds climbed into the Top 25 this week after beating No. 18 Eastern Illinois in Charleston, Ill., on Saturday. The Redbirds are No. 23 this week.
Western Illinois remained at No. 2; Western Kentucky is No. 3; and Southern Illinois (idle last week) [...]