Central Michigan University
Toledo
Chippewas Fall Short To Toledo, 31-13
10/18/2003 12:00:00 AM | Football
Oct. 18, 2003
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MOUNT PLEASANT - Central Michigan University fell behind by a 21-0 margin after one period and could never recover in dropping a 31-13 Mid-American Conference football game to the University of Toledo here Saturday afternoon.
The loss was CMU's fourth in a row as the Chippewa record slipped to 2-5 for the season and 0-4 in MAC action. The two-time defending MAC West champion Rockets are now 5-2 and 3-0 and loop play.
Toledo broke a Kelly/Shorts Stadium record with 643 yards in total offense, a mark set by Eastern Kentucky earlier this year of 614 yards. UT rushed for 422 yards and passed for 221 more. "Toledo is the most physical team in the MAC right now," said CMU head coach Mike DeBord. "We just didn't hold up this week like we did last week against Northern Illinois. We lacked a little of the emotion we had last week."
Trailing 21-0, the Chippewas did narrow the gap to 21-7 with 12:17 remaining in the half on a one-yard run by Terrence Jackson. The big play in the 75-yard drive was a 72-yard pass from Derrick Vickers to Tory Humphrey that took the ball to the UT five.
The Rockets answered before half on Astin Martin's third TD of the game, a one-yarder at the 6:04 mark, giving the visitors a 28-7 lead.
Toledo scored its only points of the second half on a 35-yard field goal by Jason Robbins with 1:58 left in the third period giving his team a 31-7 edge.
Backup quarterback Grant Arnoldink led the Chippewas to a TD in the final period, the final nine yards on a pass to true freshman Damien Linson.
Arnoldink played the entire second half and hit on nine-of-20 passes for 103 yards. Vickers was two-of-13 in the first half.
"We'll look at all three quarterbacks this week in practice and have a decision by Thursday on who will start," DeBord said. "We made the switch in this game because we just didn't execute at all in the first half and we felt we'd give somebody else a chance."
CMU heads to UCF for a game on Saturday, Oct. 25, against the Golden Knights in Orlando, Fla. Kickoff is set for 4 p.m.
*UT had two runners with more than 100 yards - Trinity Dawson with 167 and Astin Martin 101. *Terrence Jackson led CMU with 86 yards in 19 carries.
*Tory Humphrey caught four passes for 107 yards for the Chippewas.
*Damien Linson finished with the first three catches of his career for 19 yards. The TD was also his career first.
*Cornerback Marlin Maxwell and linebacker Anthony Tyus Jr., had 16 tackles each for CMU; the MAC's top tackler, James King, had just five.
