ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – Augustana fell behind Carthage early this past Saturday and came back to take a brief lead, but surrendered a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns and dropped a 39-27 decision to the Red Men at Lindberg Stadium. Now 2-5 overall this season and 1-3 in the CCIW, Coach Steve Bell's Vikings hit the road on Saturday, October 31, taking on North Park at the Holmgren Athletic Complex in Chicago, Illinois. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:00 p.m.
 
Senior quarterback Sam Frasco (Prospect HS, Mt. Prospect, Ill.) has rushed for 945 yards this year and thrown for 1,429—the 8th-highest single season total in school history. With three games to play, he ranks ninth in career rushing at Augustana (2,408 yards), fifth in passing yards (3,575) and ninth in scoring (180 points). His 5,983 yards of total offense are currently third in Viking history, just 696 away from Ken Anderson's school record 6,679.
 
Frasco's top two targets this year have been senior Sean Fitzgerald (Providence Catholic HS, Manhattan, Ill.) and junior Danny Lattner (Fenwick HS, Riverside, Ill.). Both are moving up Augustana's single-season and career lists as well. Fitzgerald's 40 receptions in 2015 are tied for fifth-most in school history and his 85 career catches are currently tied for sixth. Lattner has 35 grabs this season, tied with Dave Markward for 10th-most as a Viking.
 
Defensively, junior middle linebacker Jack Asquini (Buffalo Grove HS, Arlington Heights, Ill.) has a team high 74 tackles, including eight for loss. Senior safety Frank Kalble (Hersey HS, Arlington Heights, Ill.) has 56 stops despite missing two games early this year. Junior corner Daniel Watson (Peoria HS, Peoria, Ill.) has 50 tackles, including a team-best 29 solo stops, and a team-high four interceptions. In league play, Kalble (11.0 per game) and Asquini (10.3) rank first and second in the CCIW in tackles and Watson leads the conference with three interceptions.
 
Coach Mike Conway's North Park squad sports identical 2-5 overall and 1-3 CCIW records this year as Augustana. The Chicagoland Vikings are coming off a 20-17 loss to Millikin in Decatur, Illinois this past Saturday. They're currently averaging 17.4 points and 322.0 yards of total offense per game while allowing averages of 29.1 and 442.9, respectively.
 
Quarterback T.D. Conway, a first team All-CCIW selection last season, has completed 160 of 309 pass attempts (51.8%) for1,742 yards and nine touchdowns with eighth interceptions. Anthony Burton (38 receptions, 439 yards, two touchdowns) and Devin Childress (32-543-4)—second team All-CCIW in 2014—have been his favorite targets. North Park's leading rushers are Kvonte Spearman (60 carries, 224 yards, no touchdowns) and Filo Langkilde (46-202-1).
 
Linebackers Chaun Maiava and Brendon Dull are Conway's leading tacklers, with 69 and 67, respectively. Maiava also has team highs of 11½ tackles for loss and six sacks. End Hunter Corrigan has 8½ tackles for loss and five sacks and linebacker Joe Butz has recovered three fumbles.
 
SERIES RECORD...
 
Augustana leads 50-3.
 

Year	Augustana	North Park	Results		Year	Augustana	North Park	Results
1962	22	6	W		1989	48	7	W
1963	26	0	W		1990	43	0	W
1964	45	0	W		1991	41	0	W
1965	20	14	W		1992	35	10	W
1966	19	0	W		1993	21	17	W
1967	13	10	W		1994	48	6	W
1968	42	48	L		1995	53	14	W
1969	20	2	W		1996	52	0	W
1970	38	6	W		1997	28	3	W
1971	12	23	L		1998	41	0	W
1972	21	12	W		1999	30	13	W
1973	21	14	W		2000	36	14	W
1974	38	12	W		2001	23	0	W
1975	20	12	W		2002	58	8	W
1976	27	7	W		2003	48	17	W
1977	24	0	W		2004	42	10	W
1978	34	14	W		2005	50	6	W
1979	19	12	W		2006	31	0	W
1980	25	10	W		2007	35	0	W
1981	38	6	W		2008	52	0	W
1982	35	6	W		2009	42	14	W
1983	35	16	W		2010	21	0	W
1984	47	6	W		2011	27	24	W
1985	21	7	W		2012	35	14	W
1986	55	7	W		2013	35	45	L
1987	69	0	W		2014	26	20	W
1988	27	0	W

 
 
LAST YEAR'S MEETING...
 
11/01/14—AUGUSTANA 26, NORTH PARK 20
 
Vikings ride ground game to 26-20 win over North Park
 
ROCK ISLAND, Ill.— Led by a career-high 178 yards from sophomore Brandon Price (Providence Catholic HS, Plainfield, Ill.), the Augustana rushing attack produced 367 yards Saturday and the Vikings won their third consecutive game, 26-20 over North Park at Lindberg Stadium. Augustana improved to 4-4 overall and 3-2 in the CCIW, while North Park fell to 1-7 on the year and 1-4 in the league.
 
Although the hosts relied on the ground game for most of the contest, they got on the board first on a 60-yard Chris Salazar (Providence Catholic HS, Plainfield, Ill.) to Kyle Frake (Central HS, Clifton, Ill.) touchdown pass on the very first play from scrimmage. Salazar found Frake along the left sideline and the senior wide out covered the final 40 yards for the score. Conner Murray's (Conifer HS, Morrison, Colo.) point after made it 7-0 Augustana after just 17 seconds of action.
 
After forcing a North Park three-and-out, the Vikings went 67 yards in eight plays to take a 10-0 lead on Murray's 28-yard field goal. Price carried five times for 51 yards, including runs of 15 and 32 yards on the drive.
 
North Park got on the board early in the second quarter. A 35-yard run by quarterback T.D. Conway keyed a five-play, 44-yard drive which was finished off when Conway connected with Victor Iniestra from three yards out. The point after was mishandled, keeping the score at 10-6.
 
That's how the half would end, as Augustana had two drives stopped in North Park territory late in the second quarter. Salazar was sacked at the 24 and lost a fumble with 4:12 remaining and his fourth-down pass from the 36 with less than a minute left fell incomplete.
 
The visitors took the second-half kickoff and Conway led them on a seven-play, 78-yard touchdown march to take the lead. Conway hit Devin Childress from nine yards out for the touchdown and Noah Moore added the PAT to make it 13-10 North Park. Price carried six times on the next Augustana drive as the Vikings went 66 yards in 11 plays to tie it with a 36-yard Murray field goal.
 
An Austin Chausse (Nokomis HS, Nokomis, Ill.) fumble set up North Park's next go-ahead score. It took the visitors just one play, with Conway and Childress hooking up again, this time from 23 yards, for a 20-13 North Park lead.
 
It didn't take long to Chausse to redeem himself though, as the freshman running back broke loose for a 49-yard touchdown run on the third play of Augustana's next drive. Murray's PAT bounced off the left upright, but fell through to tie the game at 20 with 2:15 left in the third.
 
North Park's next drive was thwarted when sophomore corner Daniel Watson (Peoria HS, Peoria, Ill.) gathered Bo Goshorn's (Romeoville HS, Romeoville, Ill.) deflection of a Conway pass at the Augustana one-yard line. Two possessions later, the hosts got the go-ahead touchdown. Starting from their own eight, Price and Sean Fitzgerald (Providence Catholic HS, Manhattan, Ill.) each had runs of 11 yards before Ben Hodges (St. Charles North HS, Elburn, Ill.) had a 61-yard burst down the right sideline to the North Park one. Hodges went into the end zone on the next play and Augustana led 26-20 with 7:41 to play. The drive went 92 yards in six plays. Murray's point after attempt again hit the left upright, but this time bounced out.
 
On North Park's next drive, freshman corner Travon Aldridge (Rock Island HS, Rock Island, Ill.) made a key play, running Childress out of bounds at the Augustana four-yard line following a 59-yard pass completion. The play was crucial, as the Viking defense pushed North Park back to the 10 before Conway's fourth down pass attempt fell incomplete. The visitors had their last hope extinguished on their next possession, when senior corner Ben Fornek (Batavia HS, Batavia, Ill.) intercepted Conway with a minute remaining.
 
Price finished with 178 yards on 29 carries. Chausse ran for 94 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries and Hodges added 85 yards and a score on seven attempts. Augustana attempted just one pass after halftime and none in the last quarter and a half. Salazar finished five of 11 for 93 yards with one touchdown and one interception. Frake caught three balls for 74 yards and a touchdown. In addition to his pick, Fornek led the Vikings with eight solo tackles and nine total stops.
 
Augustana travels to Naperville, Illinois to face 23rd-ranked North Central on Saturday, November 8. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:00 p.m.

 
LAST WEEK...
 
10/24/15—CARTHAGE 39, AUGUSTANA 27
 
Carthage scores twice in the fourth to defeat Vikings 39-27
 
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – After seeing a 21-3 lead evaporate Saturday, Carthage bounced back to score the game's final two touchdowns and defeat Augustana 39-27 at Lindberg Stadium. The Red Men improved to 3-4 overall and 2-2 in the CCIW, while the Vikings dropped to 2-5 overall and 1-3 in the league.
 
Augustana trailed 21-3 with less than six minutes to play in the first half when a Carthage muffed punt set up a Viking scoring opportunity. Michael Daniels (Geneseo HS, Geneseo, Ill.) came out of the pile with the ball to give his team possession at the Red Men 19. Five plays later, senior quarterback Sam Frasco (Prospect HS, Mt. Prospect, Ill.) scored from five yards out and Jacob Stytz's (Minooka HS, Channahon, Ill.) points after cut the deficit to 21-10.
 
Carthage's Lance Unland finished the next possession with a 42-yard field goal with just six seconds left in the half to give the Red Men a 24-10 lead going into the locker room.
 
The Vikings took the second half kickoff and promptly scored to get within a touchdown. Again, it was Frasco finishing off a five-play, 63-yard march with a 29-yard scoring run. Another key play on the drive was a 33-yard Frasco to Ryan Hennessey (Oswego HS, Oswego, Ill.) completion on third-and-11. Stytz's PAT made it 24-17, Carthage.
 
Stytz further cut into the margin, nailing a 26-yard field goal with 5:38 to play in the third quarter and Augustana grabbed its first lead early in the fourth. The Vikings took over at their own 26 following a Red Men punt and went 74 yards in nine plays for the go-ahead score. Frasco had a 34-yard completion to junior Danny Lattner (Fenwick HS, Riverside, Ill.) and a pair of 13-yard runs before hitting senior Sean Fitzgerald (Providence Catholic HS, Manhattan, Ill.) with a three-yard touchdown pass with 12:59 left in the game.
 
Carthage answered emphatically however, sandwiching touchdown drives of 63 and 65 yards around an Augustana three-and-out. Sam Calderaro regained the lead for the Red Men, taking a pass from Ethan Olles into the end zone from 34 yards out with 9:30 to play. Tristan Peterson added important insurance with a one-yard scoring burst with 2:41 on the clock. Connor Calvert intercepted Frasco in the Carthage end zone to end the Viking's final possession.
 
A muffed punt by Augustana set up the first Red Men score. Peterson finished off a 10-play, 44-yard drive with a one-yard touchdown run and a 7-0 Carthage lead at 5:13 of the opening quarter. A bad Viking punt snap less than two minutes later led to the next Red Men touchdown. It took just three plays for Carthage to go 10 yards. Olles hit James Cobbs from nine yards out go up 14-0.
 
Stytz got the hosts on the scoreboard with a 25-yard field goal on the second play of the second quarter, but Olles responded by leading his team on a five-play,  61-yard scoring drive. Javier Rhoades hauled in a tipped ball for a 36-yard touchdown pass to finish off the march.
 
Frasco finished with 82 yards and two touchdowns on the ground. He completed 13 of 25 passes for 188 yards and another score. Fitzgerald caught six passes for 57 yards and a touchdown. Junior linebacker Jack Asquini (Buffalo Grove HS, Arlington Heights, Ill.) led the way defensively with a season-high 16 tackles. Senior safety Frank Kalble (Hersey HS, Arlington Heights, Ill.) and freshman linebacker Cassin Wolfe (Bettendorf HS, Bettendorf, Iowa) chipped in with 14 and 10, respectively. Sophomore corner Travon Aldridge (Rock Island HS, Rock Island, Ill.) broke up four passes.
 
Next Saturday, October 31, Augustana travels to Chicago, Illinois to face North Park at 1:00 p.m.
 

2015 AUGUSTANA VIKINGS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE/RESULTS

DATE	OPPONENT	SITE	TIME/SCORE
September 5	Mount St. Joseph (Austin E. Knowlton Classic)	HOME	W, 42-39
September 12	Albion (Family Weekend)	HOME	L, 49-60
September 19	Loras	Dubuque, Iowa	L, 52-56
October 3	*Elmhurst	HOME	W, 9-3
October 10	*Wheaton	Wheaton, Ill.	L, 14-31
October 17	*Illinois Wesleyan (Homecoming)	HOME	L, 7-21
October 24	*Carthage	HOME	L, 27-39
October 31	*North Park	Chicago, Ill.	1:00 p.m.
November 7	*North Central (Senior Day)	HOME	1:00 p.m.
November 14	*Millikin	Decatur, Ill.	1:00 p.m.

* - College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin game
 
2015 CCIW STANDINGS

School	CCIW	Overall
Illinois Wesleyan	4-0	7-0
Wheaton	4-0	7-0
North Central	3-1	4-3
Carthage	2-2	3-4
AUGUSTANA	1-3	2-5
Millikin	1-3	2-5
North Park	1-3	2-5
Elmhurst	0-4	3-4