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BY TODD HEFFERMANTHE SOUTHERN

McAndrew Stadium’s73rd and final season endedwith another SouthernIllinois University playoffrun.

SIU (11-2) reached theFootball ChampionshipSubdivision playoffs for theseventh straight year andbecame the first team tosweep the Missouri ValleyFootball Conference, butended its season prema-turely in a lot of eyes. Thetop-ranked team in thecountry in The SportsNetwork poll earned theNo. 3 seed on SelectionSunday, but fell in thequarterfinals to sixth-ranked William and Mary,24-3.

“It was a momentumthing as much as anything,”said SIU linebacker BrandinJordan, one of 16 seniorswho played his last gameDec. 5. “We were on ourheels, and they did a goodjob of executing their gameplan. That was a big differ-ence. There was no onething to hang your hat on asto why they beat us. Theycame out and played well,and we didn’t do what weneeded to do to give our-selves a chance to win.”

Jordan finished an epiccareer in the maroon andwhite fourth all-time incareer tackles with 270. TheBuck Buchanan Awardnominee also finished thirdin SIU history in tackles forloss with 36.5.

SIU returned nine starterson its vaunted defense thisseason and led the MVFC insacks (36) and interceptions(23). The Salukis’ 23 inter-ceptions were the second-most in school history,behind the 43 the 1983national champions earned.Junior safety Mike McElroyled SIU with seven picks,

while junior cornerbackKorey Lindsey had six.

The Salukis became thefirst team in the two-yearhistory of the MVFC to go8-0 in the league, whichbecame even more impres-sive as SIU had to beat twoof the top teams on the roadto do it. SIU beat NorthernIowa, 27-20, at the UNI-Dome for the team’s firstwin in Cedar Falls, Iowa,since 1983. The Salukis thenbeat South Dakota State intheir first trip to Brookings,S.D., in convincing fashion,34-15, to wrap up theMVFC’s automatic bid tothe playoffs.

“It’s a journey that you goon with a group of guys,which is special, so not a lotof people get to experiencethat,” SIU coach DaleLennon said. “It’s a week-by-week adventure and alot of good times. Somevery challenging times.

McAndrew closes with spectacular season

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOA Saluki player watches during the waning moments of Southern Illinois’ win Sept. 26 over North Dakota State at McAndrew Stadium.

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSIU football coach Dale Lennon (left) leads the team in ‘Go Southern Go!’ after winning Oct. 17 at Northern Iowa.SEE SEASON / PAGE 27

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Injuries and the strengthof the opposition can neverbe completely forecast, butSouthern Illinois Univer-sity’s football team appearsto have a lot of pieces tomake another playoff run in2010.

SIU (11-2), which comesoff its seventh straightappearance in the FootballChampionship Subdivisionplayoffs, could return itsstarting quarterback, twofirst-team all-conferencedefensive backs and three ofeight linemen. One of thestrengths of the 2009 sea-son, the Salukis’ depth,could play a big part in the2010 playoff run.

“Any time you have a biggraduating class, it’s someother players’ turn to stepup,” SIU coach Dale Lennonsaid. “This is the beginningof the 2010 season. Eventhough we just finished the2009 season, for theyounger players, especiallythe players that have beenredshirted, this is the startof the 2010 season.”

Lennon declined tospecifically name the red-shirts he thought couldmake an impact next year,but was able to keep all butone freshman off the fieldthis year. Running backSteve Strother, who playedin 11 of 13 games, couldbecome the starter in springball.

Senior Richard White,who missed seven gamesbecause of injury, is expect-ed to have knee surgery inJanuary and will missspring ball. He could beback by the fall and chal-

lenge for minutes lost by thedeparture of MissouriValley Football ConferenceOffensive Player of the YearDeji Karim.

Senior-to-be Chris Die-ker, who missed five gameswith a broken clavicle, willlikely take the No. 1 quar-terback spot when springball starts, Lennon said.Redshirt freshman PaulMcIntosh, a member of theleague’s all-newcomerteam after leading SIU to sixwins, will challenge for thatspot, along with redshirtfreshman Kory Faulkner.

Faulkner, a 6-foot-4,205-pound righty, was theMissouri Class 3AOffensive Player of the Yearout of Saint Genevieve HighSchool, and threw for more

than 8,000 yards and 102 touchdowns. Anotherredshirt freshman may beone of the Salukis’ topreceiving threats, as 6-2John Lantz was a first-teamall-state pick by theChampaign News-Gazette,Chicago Tribune andIllinois Football CoachesAssociation. Lantz, aSacred Heart-Griffin HighSchool grad who could alsoreturn punts and kicks, setthe school’s receiving markand led the Cyclones to the2008 state title.

The Missouri ValleyFootball Conference champscould return two offensiveline starters and defensiveend Chance Coda on thedefensive front. Backupdefensive end Kyle Russo,

who had 25 tackles and sixsacks, was a member of the league’s all-newcomerteam.

SIU loses all four line-backers but returns twofirst-team all-conferencedefensive backs in KoreyLindsey and Mike McElroy.McElroy led the Salukiswith seven picks, whileLindsey had six. Lennonexpects both to be goodleaders for the defense nextseason.

“A lot of times, what hap-

pens when you have juniorsbecoming seniors, they’renot comfortable becomingleaders, but in Korey’s situ-ation, he kind of was one ofthe leaders on the defensiveside of the ball,” Lennonsaid. “We’ve got a numberof leaders coming back onthe defensive side, withMike McElroy, who knowswhat it’s all about, so hisexperience will be valuableto us.”

The team will open itsyet-unnamed stadium

Sept. 2 with Quincy, andthen play at Illinois for itsFootball Bowl Subdivisionfoe. The Salukis then hostSoutheast Missouri State,and begin the league seasonat Youngstown State. Roadwarriors this season, SIUgets six home games in2010, including dates withNorthern Iowa, SouthDakota State, WesternIllinois and Indiana State.

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closed on afootballseason inwhich theSalukismore thanlived up toexpecta-tions. A lotof peopleexpected

SIU to advance to thenational championshipgame. That didn’t happen.

However, on balance, thisseason cannot be construedas disappointing on anylogical level.

Rightly or wrongly, theSalukis were picked tofinish second in theMissouri Valley FootballConference in thepreseason poll. At the time,that seemed realistic.

Although the Dawgs hadvirtually their entirestarting defense returningand some high-profileoffensive players back,there were some questionmarks. The biggestquestion was who wouldreplace the dynamic LarryWarner at tailback.

Deji Karim was the heirapparent, but Karim’sexperience was limited to76 carries in 2007. A kneeinjury cost him the entire2008 season. In retrospect,that might have been thebiggest break the Salukisgot all year. There mightnot have been enoughcarries for Warner andKarim in 2008.

And if Karim had used uphis eligibility last year, whowould have been the Dawgsfeatured back this year?

In addition, the Salukishad to play at NorthernIowa and South DakotaState.

The odds of winning atthe UNI-Dome are roughlythe same as winning thelottery. It just doesn’thappen. And before SIU’s

visit to South Dakota State,no MVFC team had wonthere in two years.

Given all that, a secondplace finish seemedreasonable.

Of course, the ante wasupped considerably whenthe Salukis won at UNI.Suddenly, anything lessthan a conferencechampionship, and aseventh straight playoffberth, would have been adisappointment.

However, the team andfans had to reassess thefollowing week whenstarting quarterback ChrisDieker broke his clavicleagainst Youngstown State.Paul McIntosh, a redshirtfreshman, was inserted intothe lineup, and SIU didn’tmiss a beat.

With McIntosh at thehelm, the Salukis knockedoff Indiana State, SouthDakota State and MissouriState to run the Valleytable. After knocking offSoutheast Missouri in theseason finale, the No. 1ranked Salukis earned thethird seed in the NCAAtournament — a bitincongruous, but notshocking when oneconsiders the top seedswent to Montana andVillanova.

And despite the offensiveintrigue, this team thrivedon defense.

With playmakers like

Brandin Jordan, ChaunceyMixon, Marty Rodgers,Mike McElroy and KoreyLindsey returning, defensewas supposed to be thebackbone of this team. Theonly question involving thedefense was, would it liveup to its reputation?

The defensive unit took ahit in the first game of theseason, a 31-28 loss toFootball Bowl Subdivisionschool Marshall, whenMixon went down with abroken jaw. However, KyleWalker filled in admirably,minimizing the effect ofMixon’s loss.

That’s the way it was allseason: The defenserefused to budge.

Teams were able to movethe ball on the defense earlyin every game. You couldalmost sense the defensemaking adjustments withevery series. It was likewatching a vise tighten. Bythe end of the game, mostoffensive units wererendered immobile.

Living up to potential canbe difficult. This team didthat. They did it with grace.They lived up to theirbilling, and they did itgracefully … all marks of anoutstanding season.

LES WINKELER is the sportseditor of The SouthernIllinoisan. Contact him [email protected], or call 618-351-5088.

Salukis have plenty to be proud of

PAUL NEWTON / THE SOUTHERNSIU’s Paul McIntosh rolls to his right before passing duringthe Salukis’ win over Youngstown State on Oct. 24.

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As McAndrew Stadiumbecomes a track facility,now that it’s 73rd and final football season iscomplete, work continueson Southern IllinoisUniversity’s new gridironhome.

The yet-unnamed, $25.3million facility northeast ofSIU Arena nearly has the sixc o n c e s s i o n / b a t h ro o mbuildings completed, saidassociate athletic directorJason King, who is in chargeof facilities. The concretefloor of the press box will bepoured next week, Kingsaid. When the press box iscomplete, it will have 12suites, a club level, mediaroom, radio and coaches’booths on the second floorand a working elevator. Thestadium, team complex andrenovation to SIU Arena areall part of the $83 millionSaluki Way project, whichis scheduled to be complet-ed next year.

The typical weather inDecember, January andFebruary shouldn’t hinderSaluki Way’s progress, Kingsaid, as a lot of the new

additions have exteriorwalls.

“The good thing is, we’reat a point right now where ifwe have a rain day … thecontractors can go in andwork inside,” he said.“Weather is always going tobe a factor, but it’s not asmuch of a factor as it usedto be.”

Work on the grandstandsand seating bowl will beginin January for the 15,000-seat capacity facility. Thefootball stadium will have ahorseshoe shape with morethan 1,000 chairback seatsand a video-capable score-board.

The football stadium is

expected to open in August.SIU opens the 2010 seasonSept. 2 against NAIA schoolQuincy. The Salukis willhave six home games nextyear, including contestsagainst Northern Iowa andSouth Dakota State.

The renovations at SIUArena, which are projectedto cost $29.9 million, areexpected to be completedby October. Crews continueto work on some of the inte-rior projects, but have toput off replacing the standsuntil the end of the men’sand women’s seasons inMarch or April.

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOConstruction workers make progress on the west stands at SIU’s new football stadium.

Weather won’t slow Saluki Way

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOA crane moves supplies near the SIU Arena extension.

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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. ——Marshall spoiled an upsetbid by Southern Illinois,striking for three straighttouchdowns in the thirdquarter to hold off theSalukis, 31-28, in the seasonopener for both schools.

Southern followed itsblueprint for victory to theletter in the first half. Itplayed with poise and confi-dence en route to a 14-7halftime advantage. Scorescame on a touchdown runby quarterback Chris Diekerand a Dieker TD pass toMark Cheatham.

To the dismay of a boister-ous crowd of 24,012 — manyof whom expect theThundering Herd to make abowl run this season —Marshall could only muster alate second-quarter touch-down. That score was set upby Lee Smith’s recovery of afumbled punt at SIU’s 22.

The pendulum swungdramatically in the Herd’sfavor during the third quar-ter, however. Saluki turn-overs and penalties, plusMarshall’s hurry-up offen-se, were the main culprits.

Led by quarterback BrianAnderson, Marshall neededjust six plays and 90 sec-onds to tie the game at 14 onan Anderson-to-AntavioWilson 28-yard pass.

A busted play resulted in aDieker fumble on the firstplay of SIU’s next posses-sion, giving Marshall the ballat Southern’s 41. Andersonled another short touch-down drive that was cappedby a Terrel Edwards 11-yardrun.

“My whole theory is youmake the opponent earneverything they get,” SIU

coach Dale Lennon said. “Ifthey get a drive that is 70 or80 yards, and they take it 12plays on you, they earned it.You can live with that. Butwhen you make mistakesthat give them opportunitiesto score ... “

After a three-and-out bySouthern’s offense, Marshalldrove 59 yards in five playsfor a touchdown that gavethe Herd a 28-14 lead withfive minutes to go in thequarter. The drive was aidedby a pair of pass interferencepenalties against the Salukis.

“We said at halftime,‘Marshall is in there gettingtheir butts chewed, so weneed to come out with a

higher energy level,’” Salukilinebacker Ryan Patton asid.“But we just let Marshall takethe ball right down the field,and we just didn’t come outwith that energy.”

Trailing by 14, the Salukisdid mount a comeback —they simply ran out of time.

Mixing the power runningof Deji Karim with shortpasses, the Salukis drove 66yards in eight plays,as Diekerhit fullback John Goode for atouchdown that cut thedeficit to 28-21 late in thethird. Karim had 25 of hisgame-high 67 yards on thedrive.

Trailing, 31-21, the Salukisgot the ball back with 3:35

remaining thanks to a dra-matic fourth-and-1 goal-line stand, in whichEdwards-Maye was flat-tened by Patton and line-backer Brandin Jordan for aone-yard loss. Jordan, a pre-season candidate for theBuck Buchanan Award, ledthe defense with 12 stops,including a sack, two tacklesfor loss and a forced fumble.

Southern then mounted itsbest drive of the day, march-ing 91 yards behind the rightarm of Dieker and a couple ofquarterback scrambles.When Dieker plunged intothe end zone on a five-yardscamper with 1:55 remain-ing, it cut the deficit to 31-28.

SIU failed to recover anonside kick by KyleDougherty, and Marshall ranthe clock down to 30 secondsbefore giving the ball back toSIU at its own 19. Dieker’sdesperation pass to JeffEvans on the game’s finalplay fell incomplete.

SIU 7 7 7 7 — 28Marshall 0 7 21 3 — 31

Scoring SummaryFirst Quarter

SIU — Dieker 1 run (Dougherty kick), 0:21.Second Quarter

MAR — Slate 10 pass from Anderson (Rantanamornkick), 3:15.SIU — Cheatham 2 pass from DIeker (Dougherty kick),0:26.

Third QuarterMAR — Wilson 28 pass from Anderson (Rantanamornkick), 13:23.MAR — Edwards-Maye 11 run (Rantanamorn kick),10:07.

MAR — Slate 15 pass from Anderson (Rantanamornkick), 5:21.SIU — Goode 4 pass from Dieker (Dougherty kick),1:54.

Fourth QuarterMAR — Rantanamorn 32 FG, 11:33.SIU — Dieker 5 run (Dougherty kick), 1:40.

Team StatsSIU MAR

First Downs 20 23Rushes-Yds 28-105 36-72Passing Yds 206 316Comp-Att-Int 22-38-1 27-36-1Punts 4-45.5 3-36.7Fumbles-Lost 2-2 1-1Penalties-Yds 8-60 6-45

Individual StatsRUSHING—SIU: Karim 16-67, DIeker 8-24, Strother

2-8, Evans 1-3, Allaria 1-3. MAR: Ward 14-54, Edwards-Maye 15-28, Edmonson 1-4, Slate 2-0, Anderson 4-(-14).

PASSING—SIU: Dieker 22-37-1—206. MAR:Anderson 27-36-1—316.

RECEIVING—SIU: Morris 6-69, Allaria 4-38,Strother 3-25, Cheatham 2-20, Evans 2-20, Karim 2-16,Goode 2-6, Kernes 1-12. MAR: Walker 10-119, Slate 9-114, Wilson 3-44, Bonner3-26, Wilson 1-8, Smith 1-5.

— SIU Media Services

GAME 1, SEPT. 5: MARSHALL 31, SIU 28

Season starts with hard-fought loss

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOMarshall’s Michael Janac (above) stops SIU running back Deji Karim during the teams’ game in Huntington, W.Va. Marshall’s Cody Slate (right, 85) celebrates with Chuck Walker afterscoring a touchdown during the Thundering Herd’s season-opening victory.


CARBONDALE — Seniorrunning back Deji Karim seta new school record for themost rushing yards percarry, and Southern Illinoisracked up the second mostoffensive yardage in programhistory as the Salukisdefeated Southwest Baptist,59-7,at McAndrew Stadium.

SIU (1-1) finished thegame with 699 yards of totaloffense. Karim averaged 21yards on his 10 carries, shat-tering the old school recordby almost seven yards acarry for a back with at least10 attempts.

“The guys were hungryand they wanted to playtonight,” SIU coach DaleLennon said. “You know,you just finish a game, andyou lose and you feel likeyou had a chance to win andthen you have to sit a week. Idon’t think that they over-looked Southwest Baptistand I feel that we reallyneeded to win the gametonight and the guysresponded.”

Much of the offensiveoutburst came on theground. Of the 699 totalyards, 435 of it came by therun, which is the seventh-most in a Saluki game.Fullback Lucien Walkeradded 78 yards on 14 carriesand Richard White added 53yards on 11 carries.

Not to be surprised,Southern Illinois producedbig plays all night long. OfSIU’s eight touchdowns inthe game, four of themwent for 39 yards or more.

Karim led the Dawgs with290 all-purpose yards andthree touchdowns. His 61-yard touchdown run early inthe third quarter was thelongest run of his career. Herushed for a career-high210 yards with two touch-downs, and he returned akickoff 82 yards for SIU’sfirst score of the game.

Junior quarterback Chris

Dieker completed 14-of-17passes for 243 yards and heaccounted for three scores,two passing and one rush-ing. Dieker’s 82.4 comple-tion percentage was thefifth-best in school histo-ry.

Junior wide receiver JoeAllaria had a career night.He set new personal bestswith seven catches for 144yards and scored onetouchdown on a 77-yardpass from Dieker.

The Bearcats were led byquarterback Steve Gachette,who finished the game with210 yards passing and 63

rushing. However, he threwthree interceptions, two ofwhich went to junior KoreyLindsey.

Southwest Baptist cameout swinging and took thegame’s opening drive 78yards in for the score.Gachette completed 6-of-7passes on the drive, whichhe capped off with an 18-yard TD pass to CharlesJohnson.

SIU would not be flus-tered and countered with aflurry. Karim started it byreturning the ensuing kick-off 82 yards for the score.SIU’s secondary unit took

exception to Gachette’sefforts on the first driveand intercepted him thenext two times SBU had theball.

SW Baptist 7 0 0 0 — 7SIU 17 21 7 14 — 59


SBU — Johnson 18 pass from Gachette (Jolly kick),12:40.SIU — Karim 82 kickoff return (Dougherty kick),12:30.SIU — Dougherty 21 FG, 7:51.SIU — Allaria 77 pass from Dieker (Dougherty kick),3:50.

Second QuarterSIU — Evans 39 pass from Dieker (Dougherty kick),13:10.SIU — Karim 6 run (Dougherty kick), 11:12.SIU — DIeker 1 run (Dougherty kick), 0:06.

Third QuarterSIU — Karim 61 run (Dougherty kick), 14:31.

Fourth QuarterSIU — Walker 4 run (Dougherty kick), 14:56.SIU — Wilkins 3 run (Dougherty kick), 5:56.

Team StatsSBU SIU


Individual StatsRUSHING—SBU: Gachette 15-63, Everson 8-33,

Duhaney 5-23. SIU: Karim 10-210, Walker 14-78,White 11-53, McIntosh 8-45, Govan 4-42, Wilkins 3-12, Dieker 2-(-2).

PASSING—SBU: Gachette 26-47-1—210. SIU:Dieker 14-17-0—243; McIntosh 2-3-0—21.

RECEIVING—SBU: Johnson 10-102, Paige 6-40,King 4-53, Everson 2-7, Austin 2-6, Duhaney 1-1,Manuma 1-1. SIU: Allaria 7-144, Morris 3-46,Cheatham 3-26, Evans 1-39, Kernes 1-11, Karim 1-(-2).


GAME 2, SEPT. 19: SIU 59, SOUTHWEST BAPTIST 7

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A SPECTACULAR SEASON

DEJI KARIMSaluki tailback Deji Karim’s 2009 season

will go into the record books as one of thegreatest offensive efforts in SIU footballhistory. Relatively unknown coming intothe season, Karim’s name will forever bementioned among SIU’s all-time greats.

Karim’s name will be found in the SIUrecord books next year in a multitude ofcategories:

No. 1 — All-purpose yards, season, 2,339.Yards per carry, game (minimum 10

attempts) 21.0 (210 yards on 10 carries) vs.Southwest Baptist

Longest run from scrimmage, 93 yardsvs. Illinois State

No. 2 — Yards per carry season, 7.1Longest run from scrimmage, 92 yards

vs. Western IllinoisNo. 3 — Rushing yards, season 1,694

rushing yards, season rushing yardsYards rushing, game, 273 vs. Illinois StateMost 100-yard rushing games, season, 9Yards per carry, game (minimum 20

attempts), 9.75 vs. Illinois State

Most points, season, 120Most touchdowns, season, 19No. 4 — Most consecutive 100-yard

rushing games, 5No. 5 — Most touchdowns, career, 26No. 6 — Most 100-yard rushing games,

career, 10No. 7 — Most rushing attempts season,

240No. 13 – Most points scored, career, 162

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSIU’s Deji Karim runs against Eastern Illinois.

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSIU’s Deji Karim looks to run downfield during the Salukis victory over Illinois State on Oct. 10.


CARBONDALE —Behind a strong defensiveeffort, No. 8 SouthernIllinois was able to win itseighth straight MissouriValley Football Confer-ence opener with a 24-14victory over North DakotaState.

The two teams cameinto the game ranked inthe top six nationally inscoring offense, but it wasa clean game controlled bydefense and field position.

The Salukis (2-1, 1-0MVFC) held the Bison (1-3, 0-1) to just 14 pointsafter they had averaged40.3 points coming intothe game. Senior line-backer Kyle Walker hadthree of SIU’s four sacks inthe game. He entered thecontest with just twocareer sacks.

North Dakota State onlymanaged just 14 points offits 324 yards of totaloffense. Southern Illinoisnever trailed in the gameand kept the Bison at bay,despite having the ball for15 minutes less thanNDSU.

“They were having suc-cess moving the ball, butwe didn’t give up any bigplays,” SIU coach DaleLennon said. “Overall, I’mvery proud of our defenseand how they kept theircomposure. Things didn’tnecessarily go our way,but our guys just hung inthere. It was a well-playedgame on both sides.”

The Saluki special teams

had a big hand in the victory. Punter ScottRavanesi backed the Bisonback up toward their goalline all night long. Heaveraged 46.4 yards oneight punts and three weredowned inside the NDSU20-yard line. Kicker KyleDougherty added a 44-yard field goal in thefirst half.

The nation’s top tworushers in terms of yardsper game were featuredSaturday. NDSU’s PatPaschall finished with 150yards rushing on 28 car-ries, but never found theend zone. SIU’s Deji Karimhad 96 of his 127 yards inthe second half and scoredone touchdown. His 35-yard run early in thefourth quarter set up SIU’slast touchdown, a seven-yard Chris Dieker-to-Joe Allaria pass.

Dieker finished with 186yards on 10-of-23 passingwith two TDs. His 61-yardpass to Jeff Evans early inthe second quarter startedthe scoring.

Allaria led all receiversin the game with sixcatches for 90 yards andthat one score.

Senior linebackerBrandin Jordan and juniorfree safety Mike McElroytied for a game-high 10 tackles. Jordan record-ed his 300th career tac-kle in the game, becomingthe 13th Saluki ever to doso.

SIU senior safety Marty

Rodgers had an intercep-tion late in the fourthquarter, which was theonly turnover in the game.

N. Dakota St. 0 7 0 7 — 14SIU 0 10 7 7 — 24

Scoring SummarySecond Quarter

SIU — Evans 61 pass from Dieker (Doughertykick), 10:25.NDSU — McNorton 1 run (Bibeau kick), 5:36.SIU — Dougherty 44 FG, 2:41.

Third QuarterSIU — Karim 23 run (Dougherty kick), 8:54.

Fourth QuarterNDSU — Ebel 0 blocked FG return (Bibeau kick),13:19.SIU — Allaria 7 pass from Dieker (Doughertykick), 8:16.

Team StatsNDSU SIU


Individual StatsRUSHING—NDSU: Paschall 28-150, McNorton

12-37, Voigtlander 2-15, Mertens 11-12, Prelvitz 1-3,Bibeau 0-2.. SIU: Karim 23-127, Dieker 3-6, Walker1-5, Goode 1-3, Strother 2-1.

PASSING—NDSU: Mertens 9-23-1—105. SIU:Dieker 10-23-0—186.

RECEIVING—NDSU: Holloway 5-63, Washington1-25, Paschall 1-8, Brown 1-7, McNorton 1-2. SIU:Allaria 6-90, Evans 2-70, Morris 1-14, Kernes 1-12.


GAME 3, SEPT. 26: SIU 24, NORTH DAKOTA STATE 14

Defensivedomination

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSIU’s Kyle Walker (above) gets one of his three sacks againstNorth Dakota State quarterback Nick Mertens during theSalukis win over North Dakota State on Sept. 26. SIU’sBrandon Williams (right, 6) and Brandin Jordan take downNorth Dakota State running back Pat Paschall.

Monday, December 14, 2009 The Southern Illinoisan


CHRIS DIEKER

Although juniorquarterback Chris Diekerplayed just half theseason, he passed for 1,326yards. That total allowedhim to move up the chartsin several careercategories.

Dieker will begin hissenior season with animpressive place in the

SIU record books:No. 2 — Lowest

interception percentage,career, 2.61

No. 5 — Completionpercentage, game(minimum 10 attempts),82.4 percent, 14-of-17 vs.Southwest Baptist

No. 6 — Completionpercentage, season, 58.4

percent, 101-of-173No. 8 — Career

completions, 288Career attempts, 573Career touchdowns, 26Passing efficiency,

season, 136.1Lowest interception

percentage, season, 2.89No. 9 — Career passing

yards, 3,421

PROVIDEDSIU’s Chris Dieker passes during the Salukis’ win Oct. 17 at Northern Iowa.

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MACOMB — Deji Karim’stwo touchdowns and 282all-purpose yards led No. 8Southern Illinois to a 30-10victory over Western Illinoisto give the Salukis their400th victory in programhistory.

Karim had 18 carries for157 yards and the two scores.His 92-yard touchdown runon SIU’s first offensive playof the game set a new schoolrecord. He also added acareer-long 42-yard recep-tion and a 69-yard kickoffreturn in the game.

SIU’s 20-point win gavethe Salukis their eighthstraight victory over theLeathernecks (1-3, 0-1MVFC).

“It was a good win for ustonight,” SIU coach DaleLennon said. “In the firsthalf, the offense came outand did what they had to do,and in the second half, thedefense closed out the gamefor us.

“It wasn’t the prettiestwin for us, but what I toldthe team in the locker roomis that we’ll take a win on theroad any day.”

Western Illinois quarter-back Matt Barr came intothe game ranked No. 9nationally in passing with274.7 yards per game, butonly had 90 yards beforeleaving in the first half witha thumb injury. SIU’sdefense held backup quar-terback Wil Lunt to just 7-of-14 passing and 50yards while sacking himfour times.

The Salukis outgainedWIU 368-243 and forcedthree interceptions, two byMike McElroy and one byLance Caldwell.

Quarterback Chris Diekerwas 14-of-24 in the gamefor 154 yards and one touch-down.

Karim, the nation’s No. 2rusher, had 217 all-purposeyards by halftime as theSalukis had four scoringdrives in the first 30 minutesthat all lasted less than threeand a half minutes.

Junior kicker KyleDougherty connected on allthree of his field goalattempts, two of them from43 yards.

Southern’s defense,

which only allowed theLeathernecks to complete42 percent of their passes,was led by safeties MartyRodgers and McElroy.Rodgers tied for the game-high with eight tackles andMcElroy had six stops to gowith his two picks. Caldwellregistered his first careersack in the game to go withhis first interception.

Things looked good rightfrom the start. On SIU’s firstoffensive play of the game,Karim took the handofffrom Dieker 92 yards in for

the score.After a Dieker fumble on a

sack, Western Illinois got a30-yard field goal fromBrian Egan at 4:30 of thefirst quarter to get theLeathernecks on the board.

Despite the hiccup on thefumble, Karim kept theSalukis going. He returnedthe kickoff after WIU’s fieldgoal 69 yards to theLeatherneck 26 and then,four plays later, he scored ona three-yard run to put SIUup, 14-3, after the first quar-ter.

Western Illinois got itsfirst touchdown of the gameearly in the second quarterafter a 13-play, 74-yarddrive. Dre Gibbs scored forthe Leathernecks on a two-yard run at 11:39.

Dougherty put the Salukisup 17-10 with a 43-yardfield goal a little more thanthree minutes later. It cameon a seven-play, 46-yardscoring drive that was keptalive early thanks to a 42-yard Dieker-to-Karim passon a third-and-10 fromSIU’s 28-yard line.

The Dawgs added 10 morepoints before halftime totake a 27-10 lead into thelocker rooms. Fullback JohnGoode caught his secondtouchdown pass of the sea-son from Dieker on a seven-yard reception at 3:58 andDougherty hit a 37-yardfield goal with just secondsleft in the half.

Southern Illinois gotanother Dougherty fieldgoal on its first drive of thesecond half. This one wasonce again from 43 yards,and it came after a 10-play,four-plus minute drive.

After giving up 188 yardsin the first half, the Salukidefense tightened up in thesecond half. In the thirdquarter, Western Illinois hadminus-four yards of offense.

Three of SIU’s four sackscame in the second half.

SIU 14 13 3 0 — 30WIU 3 7 0 0 — 10


SIU — Karim 92 run (Dougherty kick), 12:22.WIU — Egan 30 FG, 4:40.SIU — Karim 3 run (Dougherty kick), 2:41.

Second QuarterWIU— Gibbs 2 run (Egan kick), 11:39.SIU — Dougherty 43 FG, 8:13.SIU — Goode 7 pass from Dieker (Dougherty kick),3:58.SIU — Dougherty 37 FG, 0:03.

Third QuarterSIU — Dougherty 43 FG, 8:49.

TTeeaamm SSttaattssSIU WIU


Individual StatsRUSHING—SIU: Karim 18-157, Strother 9-34,

McIntosh 2-14, Walker 2-9, DIeker 6-0. WIU: Gibbs20-84, Gabelmann 9-38, Barr 2-2, Lunt 4-(-21).

PASSING—SIU: Dieker 14-21-1—154. WIU: Lunt 7-19-2—50; Barr 7-14-1—90.

RECEIVING—SIU: Evans 4-31, Morris 3-18, Allaria2-48, Karim 2-41, Cheatham 2-9, Goode 1-7. WIU:Senatus 6-45, Crump 2-28, Speight 2-7, Rideau 1-22,Morgan 1-16, Gabelmann 1-12, Warner 1-10.


GAME 4, OCT. 3: SIU 30, WESTERN ILLINOIS 10

Dawgs run away from Leathernecks

PROVIDEDSIU’s Deji Karim runs downfield after passing the Western Illinois defense during the first half of the teams’ Oct. 3 game.



SCOTT RAVANESI

Scott Ravanesi was morethan a punter for theSouthern IllinoisUniversity football teamduring the past four years.He was a weapon.

Ravanesi closed hiscareer as the all-timeleader in punting average.Ironically, the quality ofteams SIU fielded duringRavanesi’s careerhampered his pursuit ofsome records — he didn’thave to kick nearly asfrequently as many of hispredecessors and hefrequently kicked frombetter field position.

As a result, he had tosacrifice distance foraccuracy. He compensatedwell. The senior kickerplaced a remarkable 18punts inside the 20-yardline this season.

Ravanesi’s standingamong SIU puntersincludes:

No. 1 — Career average,42.56

Longest punt, 83 yardsvs. University ofMassachusetts

No. 2 — Season average,45.78 (2007)

No. 4 — Season average,43.29 (2008)

No. 5 — Most attempts,career, 191

Most yards, career, 8,129No. 6 — Season average,

42.4 (2009)

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSIU’s Scott Ravanesi prepares to hold during an extra-pointattempt in the Salukis’ win Sept. 19 over Southwest Baptist.

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CARBONDALE — Anelectric first half full of bigoffensive plays was toppedby two huge Saluki defensiveplays that allowed No. 6Southern Illinois to win itsninth straight MissouriValley Football Conferencegame with a 43-23 victoryover Illinois State onHomecoming.

Southern Illinois, led by273 rushing yards and threetouchdowns by senior run-ning back Deji Karim, hasnow won 15 straight confer-ence home games. Karim’syardage on the ground wasthe third most in a game inschool history.

Korey Lindsey’s intercep-tion against two openreceivers on a flea-flickerearly in the fourth quarterallowed SIU to extend itsthree-point lead. Then RyanPatton forced a fumble on asack with the Redbirdsinside the SIU 30 in thefourth quarter, allowing theDawgs to finish the gamewith 20 unanswered points.

Karim became just theninth back in SIU history torush for 100 yards in fourstraight games. His 93-yardtouchdown run in the firstquarter was one yard fartherthan his school record 92-yarder he had at WesternIllinois. It was his second200-yard rushing game ofthe season.

“Deji was pretty impres-sive,” SIU coach DaleLennon said. “It’s just one ofthose things that when youhave a player like that offen-sively, it makes it difficult todefend.”

The Salukis had 613 yardsof total offense in the game— the fourth most in school

history. Junior quarterbackChris Dieker threw for acareer-high 274 yards andtwo scores that were bothover 40 yards.

Illinois State quarterbackMatt Brown, a Marionnative, had 321 yards passingwith two TDs and two inter-ceptions. Geno Blow had 84yards rushing and theRedbirds had 428 yards oftotal offense.

Kyle Walker led the SIUdefense with seven tackles,while Lindsey and senior

safety Marty Rodgers eachhad six.Patton’s sack was theonly one in the game for theDawgs and Mike McElroyintercepted a pass after thegame had been decided.

In the same fashion as theprevious game, Karim start-ed the scoring with a hugetouchdown run. This week,his 93-yarder at 7:27 gavethe Salukis a 7-0 lead.

Illinois State’s Zach Kutchwas able to get a 25-yardfield goal before Karimstruck again. With 27 sec-

onds left in the first quarter,Karim bounced through theleft side of the line and out-ran the Redbird defense tothe goal line for a 31-yardtouchdown. That put SIU up13-3 after a missed point-after attempt.

Junior kicker KyleDougherty put the Salukisup 16-3 with a 33-yard fieldgoal at 8:12 of the secondquarter.

The Salukis had theRedbirds backed up on athird-and-11 on their ensu-

ing drive. Brown foundTyrone Walker past the SIUsecondary. He caught thepass near the SIU 40-yardline and took it in for an 81-yard score.

That play gave IllinoisState enough momentum tohalt the Salukis on the ensu-ing drive and set up a 33-yard Kutch field goal tocut SIU’s lead down to three.However, Dieker put an endto ISU’s run, momentarily,and SIU took a 23-20 half-time lead.

Early in the fourth, IllinoisState had a flea-flickercalled and SIU bit on the run.The Redbirds had two openreceivers down field, butLindsey was able to make anincredible interception.

Three plays later, Karimfound the end zone for thethird time on a 21-yard runto put SIU up by 10.

llinois State 3 17 3 0 — 23SIU 13 10 3 17 — 43


SIU — Karim 93 run (Dougherty kick), 7:27.ISU — Kutch 25 FG, 3:55.SIU — Karim 31 run (Dougherty kick), 0:27.

Second QuarterSIU— Dougherty 33 FG, 8:12.ISU — Walker 81 pass from Brown (Kutch kick), 7:07.ISU — Kutch 33 FG, 2:13.SIU — Cheatham 54 pass from Dieker (Doughertykick), 0:59.ISU — Salem 14 pass from Brown (Kutch kick), 0:28.

Third QuarterISU — Kutch 33 FG, 9:52.SIU — Dougherty 45 FG, 7:12.

Fourth QuarterSIU — Karim 21 run (Dougherty kick), 11:10.SIU — Dougherty 27 FG, 4:27.SIU — Kernes 42 pass from Dieker (Dougherty kick),2:17.

Team StatsISU SIU


Individual StatsRUSHING—ISU: Blow 15-84, Gordon 5-23, Brown

2-0. SIU: Karim 28-273, Strother 4-30, Walker 3-22,Dieker 7-19, Allaria 1-(-3).

PASSING—ISU: Brown 28-44-2—321. SIU: Dieker15-26-1—274.

RECEIVING—ISU: Salem 14-114, Walker 4-112,Graves 2-19, Blow 2-10, Cline 1-34, Venson 1-20,Gordon 1-12, White 1-4, Mose 1-1, Ericksen 1-(-5).SIU: Allaria 5-37, Evans 4-91, Morris 3-46, Cheatham1-54, Kernes 1-42, Karim 1-4.


GAME 5, OCT. 10: SIU 43, ILLINOIS STATE 23

SIU gives fans happy Homecoming

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSIU’s Korey Lindsey (above) leaps for an interception in frontof Illinois State’s Eyad Salem in the fourth quarter Oct. 10.SIU’s Marc Cheatham (above) avoids Redbird defenders ChrisGarrett (25) and Jermaine Malcolm for a touchdown catch.


CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Anopportunistic fifth-rankedSouthern Illinois footballteam ended an 11-game los-ing streak in Cedar Falls,Iowa, by beating No. 2Northern Iowa, 27-20, infront of a record crowd of17,190 at the UNI-Dome.

There had been four previ-ous Missouri Valley FootballConference games betweentop-5 teams, and SIUbecame the first to beat theteam ranked higher.

SIU’s win over the sec-ond-ranked Panthers was itsfirst win against a teamranked that high since beat-ing No. 1 Western Kentucky

on Oct. 27, 2005. It was alsoSIU’s seventh win in pro-gram history over a top-5team.

“I told our team after-wards in the locker roomthat it was just game No. 6,but it was a heck of a gameNo. 6,” SIU coach DaleLennon said. “We had agreat defensive effort.”

Steven Morse’s fumblerecovery on a fumbled puntset up Deji Karim’s one-yardtouchdown run to putSouthern Illinois up, 20-13,with five minutes to play.Senior cornerback BrandonWilliams added a touch-down on an interception

return at 2:48 that ended upbeing the winning points, asUNI was able to score in thefinal two minutes to cutSIU’s lead down to seven.However, wide receiverMarc Cheatham recoveredthe Panthers’ onside kick tosecure the victory for SIU.

The Saluki red-zonedefense deserves as much ofthe credit as anybody in thevictory. Excluding the lasttouchdown in the final min-utes, Northern Iowa had theball inside the Southern 10-yard line four times, butwas only able to score threetimes and totaled just 13points.

Junior safety MikeMcElroy intercepted a passfrom wide receiver D.P.Eyman on a trick play late inthe third quarter that endedone of UNI’s possessionsdeep in Saluki territory.

Karim rushed for morethan 100 yards for the fifthstraight game, becomingjust the sixth Saluki ever todo so. He finished the gamewith 125 yards on 24attempts with one touch-down, and added one catchfor 48 yards.

Senior quarterback ChrisDieker led an efficientoffense and made some keyplays for the Dawgs. He fin-

ished the game completing16-of-29 passes for 174yards with one touchdownand one interception.

The Saluki defense heldNorthern Iowa to nearly 100yards less than its average.Panther quarterback PatGrace only completed 13-of-28 passes for 219 yards.

SIU 3 3 7 14 — 27UNI 0 10 0 10 — 20


SIU — Dougherty 45 FG, 3:17.Second Quarter

UNI— Anderson 1 pass from Grace (Hallgren kick),13:08.SIU — Dougherty 27 FG, 6:52.UNI — Hallgren 21 FG, 0:44.

Third QuarterSIU — Morris 17 pass from Dieker (Dougherty kick),9:19.

Fourth QuarterUNI — Hallgren 26 FG, 11:55.SIU — Karim 1 run (Dougherty kick), 5:06.SIU — Williams 21 interception return (Doughertykick), 2:48.UNI — Hord 3 pass from Grace (Hallgren kick), 1:50.

Team StatsSIU UNI


Individual StatsRUSHING—SIU: Karim 24-125, Dieker 10-44,

Walker 1-6, Strother 1-1. UNI: Law 20-123, Anderson6-20, Grace 6-13.

PASSING—SIU: Dieker 16-29-1—174. UNI: Grace 13-28-1—219; Eyman 0-1-1—0.

RECEIVING—SIU: Allaria 6-44, Evans 3-23, Morris2-30, Robertson 2-16, Karim 1-48, Kernes 1-8, Goode1-5. UNI: Oordt 4-57, Hord 3-52, Herring 2-76, Eyman2-32, Anderson 1-1, Law 1-1.


GAME 6, OCT. 17: SIU 27, NORTHERN IOWA 20

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSIU’s Kyle Walker (left) and Scott Ravanesi tackle Northern Iowa’s Varmah Sonie on the opening kickoff in the first quarter of the Salukis’ win Oct. 17 in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Salukis flatten No. 2 Northern Iowa


CARBONDALE — No. 3Southern Illinois won its11th straight Missouri ValleyFootball Conference gameand its 17th straight regular-season home game with a27-8 victory over Youngs-town State.

Their 11th-straight MVFCvictory tied with WesternIllinois’ 11-consecutivefrom 1997-98 for the sec-ond most in league history.

SIU starting quarterbackChris Dieker was knockedout of the game late in thefirst quarter with an injury,but redshirt freshman PaulMcIntosh did a good job fill-ing his void to lead theSalukis to the victory.

McIntosh completed 10-of-14 passes for 133yards and he led SouthernIllinois with 81 yards rush-ing on 12 carries. His 86-yard touchdown to JoeAllaria on his first pass ofthe game was the secondlongest in school history.

Allaria caught a five-yardout, and after eluding adefender, he outraced theYoungstown State defenseto the end zone for the firstscore of the game.

“That was probably one ofthe turning points in thegame,” SIU coach DaleLennon said of the 86-yardscore. “When Joe (Allaria)caught the ball, I didn’tthink he could break it loose,and then to see him beateveryone to the end zonewas good. Paul McIntoshdid a great job coming in andhe gained the confidence ofthe offense.”

Senior running back DejiKarim was held under 100yards rushing for the firsttime since the season open-

er. However, he did eclipse1,000 yards rushing on theseason and became the thirdfastest Saluki to reach 1,000yards in a year.

Youngstown State had346 yards of total offense,but only 50 on the ground.Penguin quarterback Bran-don Summers led YSU with296 yards passing on 30-of-45 attempts with onetouchdown and two inter-ceptions.

Junior cornerback KoreyLindsey led the Dawgs with12 tackles, two interceptionsand half a sack. He movedup into third place in school

history with 13 career inter-ceptions. SIU had four sacksin the game. Senior line-backer Brandin Jordanaccounted for 1.5 of those, togo along with his six tacklesand three quarterback hur-ries.

Bryce Morris and Allariaboth had five receptions,and Allaria’s 108 yardsreceiving gave him his sec-ond 100-yard receivinggame of the season. Karimadded three catches for 24yards to give him 91 all-pur-pose yards, his lowest out-put of the season.

SIU’s special teams got

the ball rolling after a score-less first quarter. FredWright blocked BenNowicki’s punt at thePenguin 11-yard line andRashad Graham picked it upfor SIU and carried it downto the 2.

Two plays later, fullbackJohn Goode scored his firstcareer rushing touchdownon a one-yard plunge to giveSouthern Illinois the 7-0lead at 13:39 of the secondquarter.

McIntosh, who came inlate in the first quarter forthe injured Dieker, then gotSIU a 14-point lead with his

first pass of the game.That’s when he foundAllaria for the 86-yardtouchdown.

The Penguins had achance to get on the score-board late in the secondquarter, but Stephen Blosemissed a 25-yard field goal,allowins SIU to take a 14-0lead into halftime.

YSU 0 0 0 8 — 8SIU 0 14 10 3 — 27


SIU — Goode 1 run (Dougherty kick), 13:39.SIU — Allaria 86 pass from McIntosh (Doughertykick), 9:27.

Third QuarterSIU— Karim 2 run (Dougherty kick), 8:52.SIU — Dougherty 44 FG, 1:35.

Fourth QuarterYSU — Pitts 56 pass from Summers (Pitts pass fromSummers), 9:55.SIU — Dougherty 45 FG, 6:17.

Team StatsYSU SIU


Individual StatsRUSHING—YSU: Smith 9-49, Cook 4-28, Brown 5-

14, Summers 6-(-41). SIU: McIntosh 12-81, Karim 20-67, Walker 4-11, Strother 2-2, Goode 2-0.

PASSING—YSU: Summers 30-45-2—296. SIU:McIntosh 10-14-0—133; Dieker 5-6-0—35.

RECEIVING—YSU: Jones 11-96, Pitts 7-102, Barnes7-54, Brown 1-18, Berassa 1-13, Banna 1-12, Rogers 1-1. Smith 1-0. SIU: Allaria 5-108, Morris 5-29, Karim 3-24, Cheatham 2-7


GAME 7, OCT. 24: SIU 27, YOUNGSTOWN STATE 8

McIntosh emerges as a new leader

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOYoungstown State’s Andre Elliot (left) sacks SIU’s Chris Dieker during the Salukis’ win Oct. 24 over the Penguins. SIU’ Paul McIntosh (right) runs against YSU.


TERRE HAUTE, Ind. —No. 3 Southern Illinoisallowed just 90 yards of totaloffense in a 33-0 victoryover Indiana State for its 12thstraight Missouri ValleyFootball Conference win.

The Salukis’ seventhstraight win moved theirrecord to 7-1 overall and 6-0 in conference play.The shutout was SIU’s firstsince Oct. 18, 2008, atYoungstown State, whenthe Dawgs won by the same33-0 score.

“Overall, I’m verypleased with the day,” SIUcoach Dale Lennon said. “Iwas concerned coming intothe game because IndianaState is an improved teamand has been closing thegap this year. Right now,I’m happy we got win No. 7,and we’ll continue to go onand try for No. 8.”

Redshirt freshman quar-terback Paul McIntoshthrew for 159 yards andrushed for another 57 withtwo touchdowns on theground in his first careerstart. He completed 15-of-22 passes without an inter-ception against theSycamores (1-8, 1-5 MVFC).

The Salukis outgainedIndiana State by 270 yardsand had a pair of intercep-tions to extend their streakto nine straight games withat least one pick.

Senior running back DejiKarim had a game-high 87yards on 15 carries with onetouchdown in a light day ofwork for him. Wide receiv-er Bryce Morris had acareer-high 80 yardsreceiving as well as ablocked punt that BeauHoffman returned fouryards for a touchdown late

in the second quarter.The first quarter was

uneventful for the mostpart. Late in the period, theSalukis got the ball at theSycamores 44-yard lineafter a punt return fromMike McElroy. It took theDawgs 10 plays, but justafter the turn of the quar-ter, Karim scored on a

four-yard run on a fourth-and-2 for the first points ofthe game.

Four minutes later, McIn-tosh capped off an eight-play, 91-yard drive with atwo-yard touchdown run.

Morris blocked BraulioMartinez’s punt after theSalukis held the Sycamoresto a three-and-out. Senior

wide receiver Beau Hoffmanrecovered the ball at the 4-yard line and walked infor the score to give SIU a21-0 lead. That score wouldhold going into the half.

SIU 0 21 10 2 — 33Indiana State 0 0 0 0 — 0


SIU— Karim 4 run (Dougherty kick), 14:10.

SIU — McIntosh 2 run, (Dougherty kick) 8:11.SIU — Hoffman 4 blocked punt ret., (Doughertykick) 2:22.

Third QuarterSIU — McIntosh 2 run, (Dougherty kick), 9:32.SIU — Dougherty 30 FG, 0:55.

Fourth QuarterSIU — Briggs saftey, 14:57

Team StatsSIU INS

First Downs 20 6Rushes-Yds 44-161 35-40Passing Yds 199 50Comp-Att-Int 17-25-1 8-19-2Punts 4-41.8 10-31.4

Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0Penalties-Yds 6-55 6-46

Individual StatsRUSHING—SIU: Karim 15-91, McIntosh 8-57,

Strother 6-14, Walker 5-16. INS: Brown 18-43,Hardy 1-9, Craig 1-6.

PASSING—SIU: McIntosh 15-22-0—159,Brenneisen 1-2-1—20, Allaria 1-1-0—20. INS:Roberts 7-18-2—52, Stutzriem 1-1-0— (-2).

RECEIVING—SIU: Allaria 5-29, Morris 4-80,Robertson 2-40, Cheatham 1-15, Harruff 1-14,Kernes 1-8, Walker 1-6, Smith 1-4, Karim 1-3. INS:Kent 3-22, Jones 2-14, Gates 1-9, Kraemer 1-7


GAME 8, OCT. 31: SIU 33, INDIANA STATE 0

Salukis smother, shut out Sycamores

APSIU’s Deji Karim dives into the end zone to score during the Salukis’ 33-0 win Oct. 31 over Indiana State in Terre Haute, Ind.


KYLE DOUGHERTY

Junior kicker Kyle Dougherty was amajor part of SIU’s success during2009. Already a fixture on the careercharts, Doughtery solidified himselfas one of the premier kickers in SIUhistory this year by setting the newsingle-season mark for field goals,19.

Dougherty’s record-breaking kick,a 46-yard effort, resulted in the onlypoints SIU managed to put on theboard against William and Mary inthe final game played at McAndrewStadium.

Dougherty’s current recordsinclude:

No. 1 — Field goals, season, 19No. 2 — Field goals, career, 49No. 4 — Most points, season, 110Most points, career, 303No. 6 — Most PATs, season, 53No. 7 — Longest field goal, 49

yards vs. South Dakota StateUniversity

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSIU’s Kyle Dougherty kicks off (above) during the Salukis’ win Nov. 21 over Southeast MissouriState. Dougherty (below) does a drill to improve leg strength during practice Aug. 25.



BROOKINGS, S.D. — No.3 Southern Illinois domi-nated No. 9 South DakotaState in a 34-15 victory tosecure at least a share of SIU’s fifth MissouriValley Football ConferenceChampionship and its sev-enth-straight playoffappearance.

The win was the 13thconference victory in a rowfor the Salukis, as they tiedNorthern Iowa’s MVFCrecord for the most con-secutive league victories.Southern Illinois has nowwon eight-straight gamesthis year and stands at 8-1overall and 7-0 in the con-ference.

“I thought our coachingstaff and players had a verygood week of preparationand our players did a greatjob of executing today,”SIU coach Dale Lennonsaid. “We took advantageof every opportunity theygave us today. It’s a goodwin, but at the same time itis game No. 9, and now wehave to move on to gameNo. 10. We can’t afford tolose our edge and can’t betoo satisfied with whatwe’ve accomplished sofar.”

South Dakota State cameinto the game with thenation’s top scoringdefense and only allowed89 yards rushing a game,but the Salukis had a fieldday on offense. Deji Karimbecame the first runningback to rush for more than100 yards against theJackrabbits this season, ashe had 127 yards on 21 car-ries. SIU as a team rackedup 280 yards on the groundand 388 of total offense.

The Saluki defense held

SDSU to 14 yards rushingand had six sacks against aJackrabbits offensive linethat came into the gamewith just nine sacksallowed in their first eightgames. SDSU finished with342 yards of total offense,but 154 of that came in thefourth quarter after thefinal outcome was prettymuch set in stone.

Lance Caldwell had apair of interceptions forthe Dawgs, as they havenow picked off a pass in 10straight games. Hereturned one of his picks 75yards for a touchdownright before halftime, thefifth longest interception

return for a touchdown inschool history.

Redshirt freshman PaulMcIntosh put up goodnumbers in the win. Hethrew for two touchdownsand had 184 yards of totaloffense (108 passing, 76rushing). Jeff Evans andJohn Goode were therecipients of his twotouchdown passes andjunior kicker KyleDougherty made a pair offield goals.

The Salukis meant busi-ness right from the get-goand scored on four of theirfirst five possessions.Defensively, they had fivesacks in the first half and

held the ’Rabbits to just130 yards on 47 plays in thefirst 30 minutes.

Southern Illinois forcedSDSU to go three-and-outon the game’s openingdrive, thanks to a sack byBrandin Jordan.

That set up SIU’s firstpossession, where KyleDougherty hit a season-long 49-yard field goal tostart the scoring.

After a couple moresacks by Kyle Walker and the Saluki defense,Southern Illinois got theball back and drove 70 yards on eight plays fora touchdown late in thefirst quarter. McIntosh

passed out to Joe Allaria,who caught it and took it in 21 yards for a touch-down.

The play was ruled a lat-eral because the pass wentbackwards, thus givingAllaria his second careerrushing touchdown.

SIU 10 17 7 0 — 34SDSU 0 3 0 12 — 15


SIU — Dpugherty 49 FG, 11:02SIU — Allaria 21 run, (Dougherty kick), 4:13

Second QuarterSDSU— Reifenrath 22 FG, 12:19.SIU — Goode 4 pass from McIntosh, (Doughertykick) 6:39.SIU — Dougherty 22 FG, 3:47.SIU — Caldwell 75 Interception ret., (Dpughertykick), 1:29

Third QuarterSIU — Evans 40 pass from McIntosh, (Doughertykick), 12:07.

Fourth QuarterSDSU — Cochart 2 pass from O’Brian, (pass failed)5:43SDSU — Steffen 23 pass from O’ Brian, (passfailed), 2:26

Team StatsSIU SDSU


Individual StatsRUSHING—SIU: Karim 21-127, McIntosh 7-76,

Strother 4-34, Allaria 1-21, White 3-15, Walker 4-8.SDSU: Minett 11-61, Duffy 10-17.

PASSING—SIU: McIntosh 11-18-0—108,Brenneisen 0-1-0—0. SDSU: Crawford 15-29-1—147,O’Brian 16-25-1—181.

RECEIVING—SIU: Morris 3-23, Cheatham 2-17,Evans 1-40, Kearnes 1-13, Allaria 1-9, Goode 1-4,Walker 2-2. SDSU: Fox 12-101, Montague 6-48,Steffen 4-88, Cochart 2=39, Rollin 2-24, Duffy 2-7,Minett 1-11, Kool 1-7, Sheehan 1-3


GAME 9, NOV. 7: SIU 34, SOUTH DAKOTA STATE 15

Another postseason berth locked up

APSIU’s Connor James (above) brings down SDSU’s Tyrel Kool in the first quarter of the Salukis’win Nov. 7. SIU’s Joe Allaria (right) breaks the tackle of SDSU’s Conrad Kjerstad to score.


LINEBACKERS

A solid linebacking corps was thebackbone of SIU’s defense in 2009.The senior duo of Brandin Jordan andChauncey Mixon have been leaders ofthe defensive unit since they broke intothe lineup as freshmen. Both endedstellar careers this year and areprominent figures in the record book.

Mixon’s standing would have beenbetter had he not missed four gameswith a broken jaw this season.

Chauncey MixonNo. 2 — Tackles for loss, career, 41.5No. 7 — Pass break-ups, career, 17Sacks, career, 16No. 9 — Tackles for loss, season, 15

(2008)No. 11 — Tackles for loss, season, 14.5

(2007)No. 13 — Tackles, career, 289

Brandin JordanNo. 3 — Tackles for a loss, career, 36.5No. 4 — Most tackles, career, 370No. 6 — Forced fumbles, career, 4

SIU’s ChaunceyMixon (left) getsa piece ofMissouri StatequarterbackCody Kirby inmid-throw,resulting in aninterceptionduring theSalukis’ win Nov.14. SIU’sBrandin Jordan(below, 10) joinsforces withStephenFranklin totackle MSU’sClay Harbor onNov. 14.

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CARBONDALE — No. 1Southern Illinois defeatedMissouri State, 44-24, to seta new Missouri ValleyFootball Conference recordwith its 14th straight leaguevictory in the final regular-season game ever atMcAndrew Stadium.

The victory secured theoutright MVFC Champ-ionship for SIU. This is thesecond time Southern haswon the conference outrightand the fifth time it hasshared at least part of thetitle since 2003.

The Salukis (9-1) finishedthe conference slate of theirschedule with an 8-0 record.

SIU coach Dale Lennonsaid he is very proud of histeam for winning the out-right conference champi-onship.

“That was something onthe minds of our players, andour senior class emphasizedwinning the outright cham-pionship,” Lennon said. “Iwas concerned coming intothe game that we had toomuch on our plate. Youcould pile it as high as youwanted to for the signifi-cance of the game, and ourplayers were ready andexcited to play. The wholekey was the offense comingback with a touchdown tomake it 7-7, and it allowed usto settle in.”

The Saluki defense creat-ed five turnovers andreturned two interceptionsfor touchdowns. MikeMcElroy’s 80-yard inter-ception return for a TD in

the third quarter is thefourth longest in school his-tory.

Seniors Brandin Jordanand Marty Rodgers led thedefense with seven tackleseach and Kyle Russo addedtwo sacks.

Walter Payton Awardcandidate and senior run-ning back Deji Karim rushedfor three touchdowns andhad his seventh 100-yardrushing game of the season.Karim totaled 160 all-pur-pose yards and 117 rushingyards on 14 carries.

Quarterback PaulMcIntosh threw for 150yards with one 27-yardtouchdown pass to MarcCheatham. He completed8-of-12 passes and led theSaluki offense to 358 yardsof total offense.

Chris Douglas rushed for106 yards with one touch-down and Cody Kirby threwfor 180 yards to lead theBears.

Southern Illinois scoredfour touchdowns over aseven-minute span betweenthe end of the first quarterand the start of the secondto take a commanding lead.Karim had two of his threetouchdown runs in thatspan, including a 73-yarder,and Brandon Williamsreturned an interception 34yards to the house.

SIU held a 34-7 lead athalftime and ended up scor-ing 41 unanswered pointsuntil the five-minute markof the third quarter to sealthe deal. Missouri State

threw the first punch in thegame, as it scored on a 65-yard Douglas rush on itsfourth play from scrimmage.

The Salukis countered thequick Bear strike with one oftheir own. Karim scored ona seven-yard run at 11:30after a six-play, 76-yarddrive. McIntosh’s 56-yardcompletion on a third-and-9 to Joe Allaria set theDawgs up in the red zone,and Karim followed with ascore.

After the Salukis forced apair of fumbles, Karim gothis second rushing touch-down of the first quarter. Histhree-yard TD run ended afive-play, 39-yard drive togive the Salukis a 14-7 lead.

Williams gave the Dawgs a14-point cushion before theend of the first quarter, as hereturned an interception 34yards for a touchdown.

MSU 7 0 3 14 — 24SIU 21 13 7 3 — 44


MSU — Douglas 65 run, (Hottelman kick) 13:09SIU — Karim 7 run, (Dougherty kick), 11:30SIU — Karim 3 run, (Daugherty kick), 2:41SIU — Williams 34 Interception return, (Daughertykick), 1:16

Second QuarterSIU — Cheatham 27 pass from McIntosh, (kick failed),13:49.SIU — Karim 73 run, (Dougherty kick) 10:32.

Third QuarterSIU — McElroy 80 interception return, (Doughertykick), 6:58.MSU — Hottelman 40 FG, 4:21

Fourth QuarterMSU — Warren 7 run, (Hottelman kick) 6:05SIU — Daugherty 31 FG, 2:33MSU — Harbor 8 pass from Horner, (Hottelman kick),0:45

Team StatsMSU SIU

First Downs 22 13Rushes-Yds 47-222 37-183Passing Yds 242 175

Comp-Att-Int 19-30-3 9-14-1Punts 3-54.7 5-38.6Fumbles-Lost 2-2 0-0Penalties-Yds 5-55 7-60

Individual StatsRUSHING—MSU: Douglas 17-106, Cooper-falls 13-

58, Warren 11-54. SIU: Karim 14-117, Walker 7-34,McIntosh 8-34, Govan 2-9, Strother 2-7, White 2-3.

PASSING—MSU: Kirby 16-27-3—180, Horner 3-3-0—62. SIU: McIntosh 8-12-1—150, Brenneisen 1-2-0—25.

RECEIVING—MSU: Harbor 11-111, Saffold 3-77,Emery 3-36, Dotson 1-14, Douglas 1-4. SIU: Allaria 2-57, Karim 2-27, Cheatham 1-27, Hoffman 1-25, Morris1-20, Strother 1-14, Kernes 1-5


GAME 10, NOV. 14: SIU 44, MISSOURI STATE 24

No doubt about it:Outright champs

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSIU’s Brandon Williams(above) returns aninterception for a touchdownduring the Salukis’ win Nov.14. Former SIU standout BillNorwood salutes the crowdbefore the game.


CAPE GIRARDEAU —Redshirt freshman quarter-back Paul McIntoshaccounted for four touch-downs and senior runningback Deji Karim ran for 155yards as No. 1 SouthernIllinois closed out its 2009regular season with a 42-24win at Southeast MissouriState.

The Salukis (10-1) closedthe regular season with a 10-game winning streak.

SIU coach Dale Lennonsaid afterwards that hethought his team has a goodchance to receive one of thefour seeds in the playoffsand earn a home game in theopening round.

“Any time a team has 10wins and captures theMissouri Valley FootballConference outright, that ismaking a great case foryourself,” Lennon said. “It’sgood that we will control ourown destiny from here onout.

“The big thing from todayis we got the win and you’vegot to give SoutheastMissouri State a lot of credit.They don’t have the bestrecord, but they’ve playedeveryone tough all year andthat’s what they did to ustoday.”

McIntosh ran for 101 yardson 13 carries and threw for181 yards with one touch-down. He scored three rush-ing TDs as he registered justthe 11th 100-yard rushinggame by a quarterback inschool history.

The Salukis had 294 yardsrushing and 475 yards oftotal offense. Karim pickedup his 155 yards on 16 carriesand had two touchdownruns, including a 70-yarder.

He averaged 9.7 yards percarry and had 218 all-pur-pose yards.

Southeast Missouri State(2-9) put up a fight in itsfinal game of the season. TheRedhawks racked up 344yards of total offense andwere led by quarterbackMatt Scheible, who had 155yards passing with twotouchdowns.

Senior linebacker BrandinJordan led the SIU defensewith 11 tackles and one ofSIU’s two sacks. SIU’s streakof 11 straight games with atleast one interception cameto an end, as the Saluki

defense did not record a sin-gle turnover for the first timein the last 20 games.

Southern Illinois marcheddown the field to go up 7-0on the game’s opening drive.McIntosh capped off thenine-play, 63-yard drivewith a 15-yard touchdownrun just three minutes intothe game.

The Redhawks controlledthe ball for the majority ofthe first and second quar-ters, but McIntosh drove theSalukis down for their sec-ond touchdown late in thesecond quarter.

He hit Matt Guinn for a

49-yard pass down the side-line before Karim scored his15th rushing touchdown ofthe season. That came on a10-yard dive to put SIU up14-0 at the 3:10 mark.

The Saluki defense got aquick stop, giving McIntoshthe opportunity to work hismagic once again. This time,he drove the Salukis 57 yardsin just over a minute and hitBryce Morris for a 10-yardtouchdown pass with 42seconds left in the half.

McIntosh threw for 147yards and ran for 69 as heguided the Dawgs to the 21-0lead after two quarters.

After a fairly docile firsthalf, the fireworks werelaunched in the third quar-ter, where the teams com-bined to score 31 points.

Southeast Missouri Statefinally got on the scoreboardfive minutes into the stanzawith a 38-yard Curtis Hugefield goal.

SIU’s Richard White setthe Salukis up with greatfield position on the ensuingkickoff. He returned it 59yards down to the Redhawk25-yard line, and the Dawgsscored five plays later.McIntosh’s second rushingtouchdown of the game

came from two yards out andgave Southern Illinois a 28-3lead.

Two touchdowns werethen scored in the next 1:56.Southeast Missouri State gotits first touchdown of thegame when Scheible faked areverse and hit a wide-openMiles Edwards for a 54-yardtouchdown pass.

Karim answered for theSalukis with a 70-yardtouchdown run on SIU’sfirst offensive play after thekickoff. For Karim, a WalterPayton Award Candidate, itwas his fourth touchdownrun on the year of 70 yards ormore.

SIU 7 14 14 7 — 42SEMO 0 0 17 7 — 24


SIU — McIntosh 15 run, (Dougherty kick) 12:09Second Quarter

SIU — Karim 10 run, (Dougherty kick), 3:10.SIU — Morris 10 pass from McIntosh, (Doughertykick) 0:42.

Third QuarterSEMO — Huge 38 FG, 9:52SIU — McIntosh 2 run, (Dougherty kick), 7:39SEMO — Edwards 54 pass from Scheible, (Hugekick), 6:04SIU — Karim 70 run, (Dougherty kick), 5:43SEMO — Edwards 5 pass from Scheible, (Hugekick), 4:21

Fourth QuarterSEMO — Castro 14 interception return, (Huge kick)9:22SIU — McIntosh 3 run, (Dougherty kick), 7:26

TTeeaamm SSttaattssSIU SEMO


IInnddiivviidduuaall SSttaattssRUSHING—SIU: Karim 16-155, McIntosh 13-101,

Walker 7-26, Govan 1-6, White 3-6, Strother 2-6.SEMO: Harris 21-93, Scheible 14-55, Peoples 7-33,Jones 6-11.

PASSING—SIU: McIntosh 12-18-1—181. SEMO:Scheible 10-18-0—155.

RECEIVING—SIU: Allaria 5-59, Guinn 3-83,Morris 3-25, Kernes 1-14. SEMO: Peoples 3-32,Edwards 2-59, Brown 1-29, Grassi 1-13, Harris 1-9,Ahamefule 1-7, King 1-6


GAME 11, NOV. 21: SIU 42, SE MISSOURI STATE 24

Regular season closed out in style

PAUL NEWTON / THE SOUTHERNSouthern Illinois’ Richard White returns a kickoff during the Salukis’ win over Southeast Missouri State on Nov. 21.


CARBONDALE — No. 3seed Southern Illinois forcedsix turnovers and had twodifferent 100-yard rushersas the Salukis rolled overEastern Illinois for a 48-7victory at McAndrewStadium in the first round ofthe 2009 NCAA Division IFootball Championships.

The Salukis (11-1) had oneinterception and recoveredfive fumbles — the secondmost in a game in school his-tory. SIU scored 28 points offof the Panthers mishaps andscored 48 unanswered in thegame to move on to thequarterfinals for the fifthtime in school history.

“Anytime a team forces sixturnovers, things are goingto go your way,” SIU coachDale Lennon said. “Whenthe defense can get the ballback to the offense as quickas they did, you are going tobe able to put a lot of pointson the board.”

Coming into the game,Eastern Illinois had notallowed a 100-yard rusher.Southern Illinois had two onthe day as Deji Karim had 155yards and Paul McIntoshadded 115. As a team, SIUhad 323 yards rushing in theplayoff victory.

Karim got his 155 yardsrushing on 23 carries and hescored three touchdowns(two rushing, one receiving).McIntosh had his secondstraight 100-yard game. Hebecame just the secondSaluki quarterback in SIUhistory to have two 100-yardrushing games in a career.

McIntosh accounted forthree touchdowns in all. Hecompleted 13-of-17 passesfor 66 yards with two TDsand ran for another.

Senior linebacker BrandinJordan led the Dawgs withseven tackles.

“We were just happy wewere getting them,” Jordansaid in regards to theturnovers. “Anytime you getsix, that’s pretty good, andwe keep getting hungry asthe game went along to getanother.”

Senior nose tackle ChrisArthurs recovered two fum-bles, and Lance Caldwellforced one fumble and hadSIU’s lone interception. KyleRusso returned a fumble 28yards for a touchdown in thesecond quarter after a KyleWalker sack knocked the ballfree.

The Salukis had four sacksin the game and recordedeight tackles for a loss.Southern Illinois only gaveup 189 yards of total offensewhile having 389 of its own.

Fmbles were the tale of thefirst half.

Karim’s first career fum-ble, on his 310th touch as aSaluki, set up EIU’s firstscore just 3:12 into the game.Wide receiver Lorence Ricksscored an 11-yard touch-down on a Panther reverse.

The next time Eastern hadthe ball, the Pantherscoughed it up to the Salukison a fumbled exchangebetween the center andquarterback Jake Christ-ensen. That gave SIU the ball

at the EIU 33, and Karimneeded just two carries toreach the end zone. His 10-yard run at 7:33 tied thegame up at seven apiece.

McIntosh gave SouthernIllinois its first lead early inthe second quarter. He brokethrough a couple of armtackles on a 16-yard touch-down run that capped off asix-play, 58-yard drive.

After a Panther fumbleand a McIntosh interceptionon back-to-back drives,Korey Lindsey’s punt returnset the Salukis up with theball on the EIU 22-yard line.SIU did not find the endzone, but Kyle Doughertymade a 33-yard field goal toput SIU up, 17-7.

With 6:04 left in the half,Walker blitzed through theright side and was able to hitChristensen as he was look-

ing to pass. He knocked theball up in the air — and rightinto the hands of Russo, whoreturned it 28 yards for thetouchdown.

That capped off 24 unan-swered points for the Salukisas they held a 24-7 lead atthe half.

Caldwell, who forced oneof three Panther fumbles inthe first half, interceptedChristensen on EIU’s firstdrive of the second half.That set up a six-yardMcIntosh-to-John Goodetouchdown pass to put SIUup, 31-7.

Eastern’s turnover prob-lems continued to plague itas the third quarter wore on.Its fifth turnover and fourthfumble led to SIU’s nexttouchdown that gave theDawgs a 38-7 lead. Thiscame on an 11-yard pass

from McIntosh to Karim,which was his first touch-down reception of his career.

Dougherty tacked on a 45-yard field goal late in thethird quarter. It was his 18thof the season, which tiedRon Miller’s school recordthat he set in 1983.

Karim added a 58-yardrushing touchdown midwaythrough the fourth quarterto cap the scoring for theSalukis and end a stretch of48 unanswered points.Eastern Illinois did have alate chance to punch in itssecond touchdown, but with3:42 to play the Salukidefense held at their own 1-yard line.

EIU 7 0 0 0 — 7SIU 7 17 17 7 — 48


EIU — Ricks 11 run (Signor kick), 11:42.

SIU — Karim 10 run (Dougherty kick), 7:33.Second Quarter

SIU— McIntosh 16 run (Dougherty kick), 13:28.SIU — Dougherty 33 FG, 7:24SIU — Russo 28 fumble return, (Dougherty kick)6:04.

Third QuarterSIU — Goode 6 pass from McIntosh, (Dougherty kick),11:29.SIU — Karim 11 pass from McIntosh, (Doughertykick), 6:37.SIU — Dougherty 45 FG, 1:14.

Fourth QuarterSIU — Karim 58 run, (Dougherty kick), 11:31

Team StatsEIU SIU


Individual StatsRUSHING—EIU: M. Williams 20-107, Potempa 7-17,

Ricks 3-13. SIU: Karim 23-155, McIntosh 15-115, Walker7-31.

PASSING—EIU: Reeder 6-10-0—67, Christensen 1-8-1—13. SIU: McIntosh 13-17-1—66.

RECEIVING—EIU: Lora 3-28, Whittaker 2-28,Wright 1-13, Potempa 1-11. SIU: Morris 3-15, Kernes 2-14, Goode 2-13, Allaria 2-6, Karim 1-11, Cheatham 1-6


GAME 12, NOV. 28: SIU 48, EASTERN ILLINOIS 7

Strong startto playoffs

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSSIU’s Stephen Franklin celebrates after a defensive stop (left) Nov. 28, and salutes the crowd (right) after the playoff game.


CARBONDALE — A sti-fling William and Marydefense ended SouthernIllinois’ season, as the Tribe(11-2) handed the Salukis(11-2) a 24-3 loss in theDivision I FCS quarterfinalsat McAndrew Stadium.

“We had our opportuni-ties, but just didn’t takeadvantage of them and madea few too many mistakes,”SIU coach Dale Lennon said.“You can’t do that against agood team, and that waskind of the story of the day.Congratulations to Williamand Mary, they have a verygood team and came out anddid what they had to do toget the win.”

At the start of the game,the Salukis appeared to have

the edge on the Tribedefense. SIU’s offense got102 yards in the first quarter,but William and Maryadjusted and held the Dawgsto just 85 total yards in thelast three quarters.

William and Mary fin-ished the game with 373yards of total offense.

SIU scored first with a 46-yard field goal from KyleDougherty just more thantwo minutes into the game.William and Mary wasunable to convert a thirddown in that opening quar-ter, but halfway through thesecond, Tribe kicker BrianPate put one through theuprights to tie the game atthree.

From that point on,

William and Mary beatSouthern at its own game.Tribe running back JonathanGrimes scored his first ofthree rushing touchdownswith just a minute and a halfleft before halftime, puttingWilliam and Mary up 10-3 atthe break after a Pate extrapoint.

With Grimes leading theway, William and Maryposted 181 total yards rush-ing, nearly 100 more thanSIU’s uncharacteristic 84.The Tribe defense heldWalter Payton Award finalistDeji Karim to just 27 yards onthe ground, but Karim brokethe SIU record for single-season all-purpose yardage.He finished the game with105 total yards.

W&M 0 10 7 7 — 24SIU 3 0 0 0 — 3


SIU — Dougherty 46 FG, 12:58.Second Quarter

W&M — Pate 36 FG, 6:06.W&M — Grimes 6 run (Pate kick), 1:37.

Third QuarterW&M — Grimes 7 run (Pate kick), 2:56.

Fourth QuarterW&M — Grimes 5 run (Pate kick), 1:45.

Team StatsW&M SIU


Individual StatsRUSHING—W&M: Grimes 30-133, Marriner 7-30,

Miller 1-12, Riggins 2-9, Archer 6-2. SIU: McIntosh 13-63, Karim 12-27, Dieker 1-(-5).

PASSING—W&M: Archer 15-28-1—192. SIU: Dieker5-11-1—54; McIntosh 6-11-0—49.

RECEIVING—W&M: McAulay 5-61, Varno 5-54, Hill 2-35, Grimes 2-12, Dohse 1-30. SIU: Morris 4-34, Karim 3-40, Hoffman 1-10, Cheatham 1-7, Allaria 1-7, Evans 1-5.


GAME 13, NOV. 28: WILLIAM AND MARY 24, SIU 3

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSIU’s Joe Allaria (top) gets taken down by William and Mary’sDavid Caldwell on Dec. 5. SIU’s James McFadden (above) kneelson the sideline during the final minute of the season-ending loss.

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DEFENSIVE BACKSTakeaways were an important part of the

SIU defense this season. The secondarywas a huge contributor. The Salukis had 23interceptions this season, the second-bestteam mark in SIU history.

Mike McElroy, a junior, led the team with seven picks. Another junior, KoreyLindsey, had six interceptions. LanceCaldwell, a senior, finished the year withfive.

The trio’s standing among SIU greats isas follows:

Lance CaldwellNo. 4 — Most interception return yards,

season, 103 (2009)

Mike McElroyNo. 2 — Most interceptions season, 7

(2009)No. 3 — Most interception return yards,

career, 131No. 8 — Most career interceptions, 10

Korey LindseyNo. 3 — Most career interceptions, 13No. 5 — Most interceptions, season, 6No. 8 — Most interception return yards,

career, 109No. 11 — Most interception return yards,

season, 82 (2008)

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSIU’s Lance Caldwell (1) makes a hit Oct. 7during the Salukis’ win over Western Illinois.

SIU’s MikeMcElroy hitsNorth DakotaState’s MattVeldman,knocking theball loose foran incompletepass on Sept.26.

THE SOUTHERNFILE PHOTO

SIU’s KoreyLindsey

upends NorthDakota State’s

WarrenHolloway

during theSalukis’ win

over the Bisonon Sept. 26.

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SEASON: Salukis reached FCS quarterfinalsFROM PAGE 2

“When it’s all said anddone, the thing that makesit hard at the end is you justdon’t want it to end, andyou know you got some-thing pretty special. Andthat’s when, when it ends, ittakes a piece of you away.”

SIU finished off the per-fect conference mark athome against MissouriState, 44-24, and setanother MVFC mark. Withthe victory, the Salukis wontheir 14th straight confer-ence game, breaking UNI’sprevious mark of 13 setbetween 1993 and 1995.

Before the season started,the game against the Bearswas thought to possibly bethe last game at “The Mac,”but the NCAA selectioncommittee gave the Salukisat least one more shot.

SIU was paired withEastern Illinois in the open-ing round of the playoffs.The Salukis won their thirdstraight game against thePanthers, 48-7, as thedefense forced six turnoversand the offense producedthe first two 100-yardrushers EIU allowed all sea-son.

Tailback Deji Karim andquarterback Paul McIntosh,two of the most pivotalplayers for SIU’s offensethis season, became thefirst two players to break thecentury mark against EIU.Karim, SIU’s first PaytonAward finalist since 2004,rushed for 155 yards andscored three touchdowns.

McIntosh, who made hisplayoff debut, had morethan 100 rushing yards athalftime and finished with115. The redshirt freshmantransfer from Armyaccounted for three touch-downs, throwing for twoand rushing for another.

McIntosh, one of themost pleasant surprises ofthe season, became just thesecond quarterback in SIUhistory to rush for 100 yardstwice in a season. Theright-hander from Evans-ville, Ind., came in for theinjured Chris Dieker on Oct.24 against YoungstownState and led SIU to sixstraight wins.

Dieker, the junior quar-terback who led the Salukisto a 9-3 mark last year,broke his clavicle in theopening quarter against thePenguins. He returnedbriefly against William andMary, and is expected to bethe No. 1 quarterbackentering spring ball.

McIntosh filled inadmirably, completing 78-of-116 passes for 888 yards,eight touchdowns and threeinterceptions. The team’ssecond-leading rusher, heran for 588 yards and sixscores on 87 carries.

Karim, nicknamed “TheDream,” carried SIU’s rush-ing attack. The fifth-yearsenior accounted for 18 ofthe Salukis’ 48 offensivetouchdowns and averaged130.3 yards rushing pergame. Slated as the backupto Richard White at thestart of the season, Karimbecame the starter as Whitewas held out of the Marshallgame with an injury. AllKarim did in return was runup 1,694 yards of totaloffense.

SIU begins another run ata national title Sept. 2against NAIA foe Quincy. Itwill be the first game at thestill-unnamed football sta-dium that will open adja-cent to SIU Arena.

“This is definitely a sea-son to be proud of,” Lennonsaid. “That was the mes-sage to our seniors in thelocker room afterwards.I’m proud of what weaccomplished. I thoughtwe had a good chance tomake a run at a nationalchampionship, and that’swhy we are so disappoint-ed, because we fell short ofour goals.”

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SALUKI WAY: Weather won’t slow constructionFROM PAGE 6

The new arena will have1,200 additional chairbackseats, a new upper con-course and an interiorgraphics package with adeluxe video board.

The 50,000-square foot

team complex connected tothe arena will house newoffices and locker roomsfor the men’s and women’sbasketball teams and foot-ball team. Each team willgain new player lounges,conference rooms and ashared meeting room capa-

ble of seating 115 people in atheater-style auditorium.The athletic departmentwill also get a new equip-ment room, training roomand video classrooms.

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‘This is definitely a season to be proud of. ... Ithought we had a good chance to make a run at anational championship, and that’s why we’re sodisappointed, because we fell short of our goals.’

DALE LENNON, SIU FOOTBALL COACH

The 2009 season will godown as one of thegreatest in SIU footballhistory.

The 11-2 Salukis sweptthe Missouri ValleyFootball Conference toearn their seventh straightberth in the NCAAFootball ChampionshipSubdivision playoffs. Thestreak is the second-longest in the country.Montana has qualified 17straight seasons.

During the course of theyear, the Salukis set new

team and individualrecords. The 11 wins werethe third most in schoolhistory. In addition, theSIU defense intercepted 23passes, the second highestsingle-season total.

Some of the individualmarks include:

Joe AllariaNo. 2 — Longest pass

reception, 86 yards, vs.Youngstown State

No. 5 — Most receptions,season, 52 (2009)

No. 6 — Most receivingyards, season, 697 (2009)

No. 10 — Longest passreception, 77 yards vs.Southwest Baptist

No. 20 — Mostreceptions, career, 70

Ryan KernesNo. 7 — Most receiving

touchdowns, career, 11

Kyle WalkerNo. 7 — Most sacks,

season, 8 (2009)


INDIVIDUAL FEATS

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSIU’s Joe Allaria runs downfield after making a catch Nov. 21 against Southeast Missouri State.


SALUKI SENIORS’ FAVORITE MEMORIES

Lance Caldwell “That’s hard — I guess

when we played Delawarethat year, that was prettyexciting because of theatmosphere and everythinglike that, that was a big game.Beside that, winning theconference championship inmy senior year.”

Chauncey Mixon“My best moment playing

for SIU has to be a tiebetween sacking (Joe) Flaccotwice in the playoffs in thesemis in ’07 and winning theconference outright this yearin ’09.”

Brandon Williams“There’s a lot of them. I

might have to say beatingNorthern Illinois. That wasthe first D-I team that webeat since I’ve been here.”

Marty Rodgers“My greatest moment was

probably when we just wonthis last conferencechampionship.”

Brandin Jordan “My greatest moment at

SIU was my redshirtfreshman year when we beatIndiana. We were down by acouple of points, fought back,that was still probably like mythird game starting. CoachBurns was on that team, ourtight end coach, so wewhooped him and it feltgood.”

Fred Wright“My greatest moment

when we playedMassachusetts and ByronGettis caught a touchdownpass at the beginning of thegame to give us that boost.”

Kyle Walker“My favorite moment as a

Saluki is beating NorthernIowa at the Dome.”

Bryce Morris“I’d have to say my favorite

moment was (Nov. 14),winning it outright and beingable to be the first team toever go 8-0 in conference,especially being a seniorwhen we did that.”

Deji Karim“Greatest moment at SIU

probably had to be when I ranthe 93-yard touchdownagainst Illinois State.”

Travis Bloomfield“Two of my greatest

memories are NorthernIllinois, it was my first actualcollege game snapping it,and the Northern Iowa gamewith the winning field goal.”

Ryan Patton“I’d say my most distinct

moment, that’s definitely notmy favorite, is winterconditioning. I don’t know if Ihave one favorite. Last year’swin over Northern Iowa wasfun, but there’s been a lot ofgood wins.”


SALUKI SENIORS’ FAVORITE MEMORIES

Beau Hoffman“My greatest moment was

beating UNI in the Dome.”

Mike Nitti“My greatest moment

would have to be my startagainst Northern Iowa lastyear.”

Scott Bauer“To be honest with you, one

of my greatest moments isdancing with the Shakers atthe SIU basketball game withall of the football players.”

Tony Colletti“The most memorable

moment playing football hereat SIU has been thecomeback win at NorthernIllinois when we were downpretty late in the second halfand came back and won attheir place.”

John Purdy“Well, I haven’t been here

too long, but I’d have to saymy greatest moment was(Nov. 14) when we wereholding up that MVFC titletrophy in front of the crowdand singing the school fightsong.”

Ryan Kernes“I don’t know if I can narrow

it down to a single one. Whenwe came back againstNorthern Illinois two of yearsago, it was just a teamcomeback and it wasawesome. Beating IU when Iwas a freshman was a greatexperience and then ourplayoff run two years ago whenwe made it to the semifinals.”

Chris Arthurs“My freshman year when

we played UT-Martin, and wewere down pretty big. Weended up coming back andscored a touchdown with likeless that a minute left to takethe lead and ended upwinning.”

Dolapo Adubifa“My greatest moment was

this past year, playingNorthern Iowa in the Domeand beating them. Being herefor five years, and not everbeating them in the Domeand with the history for notever beating them for so longin the Dome, it was reallygood to actually have thathappen my senior year.”

Scott Ravanesi“My favorite moment

probably as a Saluki wasprobably either Indiana myfreshman year when we beatthem, I think it was our firstbig-time win against a Division Ischool, or at Northern Illinois.That was probably one of thecraziest games I’ve ever playedin, and those are two memoriesthat I will never forget.”

Shawn Smith“Lets go with — I can’t

narrow it down to one – I wasthinking about this the otherday. My first career start atIndiana was pretty great. Thecomeback win againstNorthern Illinois was anawesome game. BeatingNorthern Iowa at the Domewas a great thing.”

Blake Brunner“My favorite is yet to

come.”

SIU INDIVIDUAL GAME HIGHS

SIU GAME HIGHS

MVFC ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM


First TeamOffenseQB Pat Grace (UNI) Sr.RB Deji Karim (SIU) Sr.RB Pat Paschall (NDSU) Sr.FB John Goode (SIU) So.WR Donald Jones (YSU) Sr.WR Eyad Salem (ILS) Sr.TE Clay Harbor (MSU) Sr.OL David Arkin (MSU) Jr.OL Keith Buckman (NDSU)

Sr.OL Ryan McKnight (SDSU)

Jr.OL David Pickard (SIU) So.OL Austin Steichen (UNI)

Sr.PK Zach Kutch (ILS) Sr.DefenseDL Chris Arthurs (SIU) Sr.DL Danny Batten (SDSU)

Sr.DL James Ruffin (UNI) Sr.DL Mychal Savage (YSU) Sr.LB Derek Domino (SDSU)

Jr.LB Brandin Jordan (SIU)

Sr.LB Josh Mahoney (UNI) Sr.LB Antoine Wilkinson

(MSU) Jr.DB Korey Lindsey (SIU) Jr.DB Mike McElroy (SIU) Jr.DB Quentin Scott (UNI) Sr.DB Patrick Stoudamire

(WIU) Sr.P Scott Ravanesi (SIU) Sr.RS Todd Speight (WIU) Jr.

Second TeamOffenseQB Matt Brown (ILS) Fr.RB Dre Gibbs (WIU) Sr.RB Kyle Minett (SDSU) Jr.FB Ryan Mahaffey (UNI) Jr.WR Joe Allaria (SIU) Jr.WR Glen Fox (SDSU) Sr.TE Schuylar Oordt (UNI) Jr.OL Nick Bledsoe (ILS) So.OL Bryan Boemer (SIU)

So.OL Austin Howard (UNI) Sr.OL Casey Knips (SDSU) Sr.OL Eric Rodemoyer (YSU)

Jr.PK Kyle Dougherty (SIU)

Jr.DefenseDL Eric Brunner (ILS) So.DL Matthew Gratzek

(NDSU) Jr.DL Wes Lane (UNI) Sr.DL Waylon Richardet (MSU)

Jr.LB Aaron Archie (INS) Fr.LB Preston Evans (NDSU)

So.LB Kyle Glazier (WIU) Jr.LB Chauncey Mixon (SIU)

Sr.DB Kelvyn Hemphill (ILS)

Jr.DB Conrad Kjerstad (SDSU)

Jr.DB Skylar Smith (MSU) Jr.DB Lenny Wicks (YSU) Sr.P Dean Priddy (SDSU) Jr.

RS Deji Karim (SIU) Sr.

Honorable MentionIllinois State: DB Chris

Garrett, LB EJ Jones, DL DoniPhelps

Indiana State: RS DarriusGates, DL Rod Hardy, DBDonye McCleskey

Missouri State: P JordanChiles, WR Jared Emery, QBCody Kirby North DakotaState: OL Ryan Foster, CAustin Richard

Northern Iowa: RB CarlosAnderson, PK Billy Hallgren,WR D.J. Hord, LB JamarThompson South DakotaState: TE Colin Cochart, LBChris Johnson, LB JimmyRogers

Southern Illinois: QB ChrisDieker, TE Ryan Kernes, DBMarty Rodgers

Western Illinois: LB BuddyDudczak, FB JoshGabelmann, WR Lilo SenatusYoungstown State: WRDominique Barnes, S AndreElliott, QB Brandon Summers

Offensive Player of theYear: RB Deji Karim (SIU)

Defensive Players of theYear: DE James Ruffin (UNI)and DE Danny Batten (SDSU)

Coach of the Year: DaleLennon (SIU)

TEAM STATSSIU OPP

SCORING 442 207Points Per Game 34.0 15.9FIRST DOWNS 247 239Rushing 135 97Passing 97 122Penalty 15 20RUSHING YARDAGE 2854 1569Yards gained rushing 3099 1989Yards lost rushing 245 420Rushing Attempts 526 479Average Per Rush 5.4 3.3Average Per Game 219.5 120.7TDs Rushing 30 9PASSING YARDAGE 2279 2654Comp-Att-Int 182-296-9 237-424-23Average Per Pass 7.7 6.3Average Per Catch 12.5 11.2Average Per Game 175.3 204.2TDs Passing 18 14TOTAL OFFENSE 5133 4223Total Plays 822 903Average Per Play 6.2 4.7Average Per Game 394.8 324.8KICK RETURNS 39-970 75-1406PUNT RETURNS 29-212 12-123INT RETURNS 23-339 9-75KICK RETURN AVERAGE 24.9 18.7PUNT RETURN AVERAGE 7.3 10.2INT RETURN AVERAGE 14.7 8.3FUMBLES-LOST 9-7 13-10PENALTIES 79-764 67-611Average Per Game 58.8 47.0PUNTS-Yards 55-2305 65-2417Average Per Punt 41.9 37.2Net punt average 36.8 32.4TIME OF POSSESSION 29:04 30:553RD-DOWN Conversions 66/165 65/1903rd-Down Pct 40 344TH-DOWN Conversions 7/9 10/294th-Down Pct 78 34SACKS BY-Yards 36-247 14-84TOUCHDOWNS SCORED 55 25FIELD GOALS-ATTEMPTS 19-25 11-17ONSIDE KICKS 0-1 0-1RED-ZONE SCORES 40-49 28-38RED-ZONE TDS 30-49 17-38PAT-ATTEMPTS 53-55 22-22

Rushes: 28, Deji Karim vs.Illinois State (Oct. 10)

Yards Rushing: 273, DejiKarim vs. Illinois State (Oct. 10)

TD Rushes: 3, Deji Karim vs.Illinois State (Oct. 10)

3, Deji Karim vs. MissouriState (Nov. 14)

3, Paul McIntosh atSoutheast Missouri (Nov. 14)

Long Rush: 93, Deji Karimvs. Illinois State (Oct. 10)

Pass attempts: 37, ChrisDieker at Marshall University(Sept. 5)

Pass completions: 22, ChrisDieker at Marshall University(Sept. 5)

Yards Passing: 274, ChrisDieker vs. Illinois State (Oct.10)

TD Passes: 3, Paul McIntoshat South Dakota State (Nov. 7)

Long Pass: 86, PaulMcIntosh vs. Youngstown State(Oct. 24)

Receptions: 7, Joe Allaria vs.Southwest Baptist (Sept. 19)

Yards Receiving: 144, JoeAllaria vs. Southwest Baptist(Sept. 19)

TD Receptions: 18 tied with1

Long Reception: 86, JoeAllaria vs. Youngstown State(Oct. 24)

Field Goals: 3, KyleDougherty at Western Illinois(Oct. 3)

3, Kyle Dougherty vs. IllinoisState (Oct. 10)

Long Field Goal: 49, KyleDougherty at South DakotaState (Nov. 7)

Punts: 8, Scott Ravanesi vs.North Dakota State (Sept. 26)

Punting Avg.: 47.3, ScottRavanesi vs. William and Mary(Dec. 5)

Long Punt: 67, ScottRavanesi vs. North DakotaState (Sept. 26)

Long Punt Return: 23, KoreyLindsey vs. Eastern Illinois(Nov. 28)

Long Kickoff Return: 82,Deji Karim vs. SouthwestBaptist (Sept. 19)

Tackles: 12, Brandin Jordanat Marshall University (Sept. 5)

12, Korey Lindsey vs.Youngstown State (Oct. 24)

Sacks: 3.0, Kyle Walker vs.North Dakota State (Sept. 26)

Tackles For Loss: 3.0, KyleWalker vs. North Dakota State(Sept. 26)

Interceptions: 2, done fourtimes

Rushes: 54 vs. SouthwestBaptist (Sept. 19)

Yards Rushing: 435 vs.Southwest Baptist (Sept. 19)

Yards Per Rush: 8.1 vs.Southwest Baptist (Sept. 19)

TD Rushes: 5 vs. SouthwestBaptist (Sept. 19)

5 at Southeast Missouri(Nov. 21)

Pass attempts: 38 atMarshall University (Sept. 5)

Pass completions: 22 atMarshall University (Sept. 5)

Yards Passing: 274 vs.Illinois State (Oct. 10)

Yards Per Pass: 13.2 vs.Southwest Baptist (Sept. 19)

TD Passes: 3 at SouthDakota State (Nov. 7)

Total Plays: 74 vs.

Southwest Baptist (Sept. 19)Total Offense: 699 vs.

Southwest Baptist (Sept. 19)Yards Per Play: 9.4 vs.

Southwest Baptist (Sept. 19)Points: 59 vs. Southwest

Baptist (Sept. 19)Sacks: By 6 at South Dakota

State (Nov. 7)First Downs: 30 vs.

Southwest Baptist (Sept. 19)Penalties: 9 at Northern

Iowa (Oct. 17)Penalty Yards: 94 vs. Illinois

State (Oct. 10)Turnovers: 3 at Marshall

University (Sept. 5)Interceptions By: 3 vs.

Southwest Baptist (Sept. 19)3 at Western Illinois (Oct. 3)3 vs. Missouri State (Nov. 14)

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOSIU coach Dale Lennon leads his team into the locker room at halftime Nov. 21 against SEMO.

SIU’s DejiKarim runsOct. 24againstYoungstownState.

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