HELENA, Mont. -- Tyler Emmert passed for 368 yards and five
touchdowns and ran for another score Saturday to lead three-time
defending champion Carroll College to a 55-0 victory over Sioux
Falls in the semifinals of the NAIA playoffs.
Top-ranked Carroll advances to the title game against
second-ranked St. Francis of Indiana on Dec. 17. Carroll beat St.
Francis 17-15 in last year's title game on a field goal with 10
seconds remaining.
The Saints (13-0) led 41-0 at halftime after scoring three
touchdowns in the final 4:24 of the second quarter.
Emmert had touchdown passes of 29 and 37 yards to Peterson, who
had nine catches for 200 yards. Both of those scores came on
two-play drives lasting 15 and 17 seconds.
Dustin Michaelis, Bryce Doak and Zach Bumgarner also caught
first-half TD passes for the Saints, who have won 15 straight
playoff games and 20 straight overall.
Emmert is the NAIA record-holder in career total offense and now
has a 50-3 record as a starter at Carroll.
Joe Wright passed for 86 yards, 126 below his season average for
Sioux Falls (11-2) while Michael Dvoracek was held to just 31 yards
rushing, 100 below his season average. Sioux Falls had some trouble
slipping on the frozen field as Carroll recorded its second
straight shutout.<
^St. Francis, Ind. 42, Morningside 14=
FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Adam Denning ran for 83 yards and three
touchdowns and St. Francis, Ind., routed previously unbeaten
Morningside.
St. Francis (13-0) led for most of the game, scoring four
touchdowns before Morningside's Tyle Childress scored on a 1-yard
run in the fourth quarter.
Third-ranked Morningside (12-1) had 242 yards passing, compared
to 189 for St. Francis. But St. Francis had a stronger running
game. The Cougars netted 325 yards rushing, compared to 85 for
Morningside.