Box Score

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – A record-setting day by senior quarterback Sam Frasco (Prospect HS, Mt. Prospect, Ill.) wasn't quite enough to lift Augustana to a victory Saturday, as Albion rolled up 733 yards of total offense to claim a 60-49 win at Lindberg Stadium. Frasco rushed for 218 yards and four touchdowns and threw for 251 yards and three scores, breaking Ken Anderson's school record for total offense in a game by 10 yards. The Vikings dropped to 1-1 on the year, while the Britons improved to 2-0.
 
Frasco's 41-yard scoring burst down the left sideline with eight minutes remaining gave the hosts a 49-46 lead, but Albion responded with a four-play, 85-yard drive capped off by a 28-yard Dominic Bona-to-Kyle Winchell touchdown pass to go back up 53-46. After Augustana was forced to punt on the ensuing possession, Mike Czarnecki scored the 16th and final touchdown of the game, breaking several tackles on a 58-yard scoring jaunt with two minutes left. Frasco's fourth-and-10 scramble on the Vikings' final possession came up a yard short of a first down and the visitors were able to run out the clock.
 
Chris McCall's 48-yard return of the opening kickoff set Albion up in great field possession and Bona guided the Britons 45 yards in five plays for a touchdown and a 6-0 lead. Colin Parks took it in from two yards out. On Augustana's opening drive, Frasco completed four short passes to the left side before hitting senior Kyle Frake (Central HS, Clifton, Ill.) on a hitch-and-go for 61 yards and a touchdown. Jacob Stytz's (Minooka HS, Channahon, Ill.) point after gave the Vikings a 7-6 lead.
 
The teams then traded touchdowns, with Bona hitting McCall from 23 yards out and Frasco scoring on a 15-yard run. Bona added touchdowns runs of his own of 17 and seven yards to put Albion up 27-14 with 6:28 left in the half. A 49-yard Frasco touchdown run drew Augustana within 27-21 and that remained the score as the teams went to halftime.
 
Both teams went three and out to start the second half before the scoring onslaught resumed. Frasco hit junior Danny Lattner (Fenwick HS, Riverside, Ill.) down the right sideline for a 45-yard touchdown and a 28-27 Viking lead. Parks' one-yard run put the Britons back on top 34-28 and Frasco answered with a one-yard touchdown run for a 35-34 Augustana advantage. Bona hit McCall with a 12-yard scoring strike, but his two-point conversion attempt fell incomplete and Albion led 40-35 after three quarters.
 
Frasco and Bona traded touchdown passes to start the fourth quarter. Lattner corralled a 37-yard toss from Frasco and 43 seconds later, McCall scored for the third time, taking a short Bona pass 52 yards to the end zone for a 46-42 Briton lead with 10:51 to play.
 
Frasco's 218 rushing yards on 24 carries represent the ninth-highest single-game total in school history and second-most ever by a Viking quarterback. His 251 passing yards came on 17 completions in 24 attempts. He threw one interception—ending a streak of 170 consecutive pass attempts without a pick—and three touchdown passes. His 469 yards of total offense bettered the 459 (410 pass and 49 rushing) that Anderson accounted for against North Park on November 2, 1968.
 
Junior Brandon Price (Providence Catholic HS, Plainfield, Ill.) augmented Coach Steve Bell's ground attack with 88 yards on 21 carries. Augustana rushed for 338 yards on 53 carries. Lattner and senior Sean Fitzgerald (Providence Catholic HS, Manhattan, Ill.) each snared six Frasco throws. Lattner's receptions went for 116 yards and two touchdowns and Fitzgerald's grabs totaled 51 yards. Frake had three catches for 71 yards and a score.
 
The Vikings were called for 14 penalties in the contest, totaling 147 yards.
 
For Albion, Bona connected on 25 of 36 passes for 370 yards and four touchdowns. He added 86 yards and two touchdowns on nine rushing attempts. Czarnecki ran for 181 yards and a touchdown on 19 carries and Parks had 96 yards and two scores on 18 rushes. Mikal McCoy caught six passes and McCall five for a team-high 106 yards and three touchdowns.
 
Augustana plays its first road contest on Saturday, September 19, traveling to the Rock Bowl in Dubuque, Iowa to face Loras at 1:00 p.m.