The Monmouth College Fighting Scots football team was coming into this past Saturday’s game against the Beloit College Buccaneers off an exciting highly important road win at the University of Chicago. A win that kept themselves in a tie for first place in the Midwest Conference with Ripon and Lake Forest. Beloit was winless on the season and have struggled mightily in conference games. Normally, you would be concerned about a let down coming off a big win against a winless opponent, but the Scots took care of business quickly, scoring 21 points in the first quarter in Saturday afternoon’s 64-0 home win over the Buccaneers. Combine that scenario with the fact that it was fall break on the Monmouth College campus and that could have been a recipe for disaster for Monmouth. Head coach Chad Braun says his ballclub did a great job of focusing on the task they had at hand with Beloit and nothing else.
The Scots will go on the road this Saturday afternoon, heading to Cornell College. The Rams are (2-4) overall and (2-3) in the Midwest Conference. Monmouth is tied with Ripon College for first place in the league. Ripon upset preseason conference favorite Lake Forest 16-14 on a touchdown with 22 seconds left in the game. Following Cornell, Monmouth has two of their final three regular season games on the road, starting with Lake Forest on Halloween weekend, and Knox College in the regular season finale on November 12th in the Turkey Bowl. Those games are sandwiched around the big one against Ripon College at April Zorn Memorial Stadium on November 5th. That’s also the last home game of the regular season, as well.
For the entire interview with Braun, go to the SPORTS PODCAST section.
