The Lake Forest College and Concordia University Chicago football teams will meet Saturday at 11:30 a.m. to resume the game they started on September 3. The contest was postponed due to lightning.
The Foresters were leading 28-26 with 7:20 remaining in the second quarter when the game was postponed.
Lake Forest had already recorded several exciting plays, including junior tailback Al Mitchell's 80-yard touchdown run on the visittors' opening play. It was the team's longest play from scrimmage since the 2000 season.
While nearly 11 years passed between an 82-yard run by Andy Heikes and Mitchell's score, it took only 13 minutes for the Foresters to strike from that far again. Senior wide receiver Kevin Davis took a pass from junior Pete Scaffidi and out-ran the defense to the end zone for another 80-yard touchdown that put the visitors ahead 21-13 early in the second quarter. That play increases Davis' single-season team record for receiving yards to 1,265.
Scaffidi also tossed a 19-yard touchdown pass to junior wideout Rocky Al-Mutawa and a 17-yard scoring strike to junior Austin Sobey. Since the upcoming completion of the game will make Sobey's score count, he now has a school record 13 touchdown receptions on the year.
Scaffidi was 3-for-6 for 116 yards and the three touchdowns when play was suspended. Those numbers will be added to his single-season team records for completions (223), passing yards (2,702), and passing touchdowns (28). Mitchell had carried the ball four times for 116 yards, leaving him 77 yards away from becoming just the third player in team history to rush for 1,000 or more yards in a season.
Freshman wideout Joey Kropp also made his mark on the game with a 78-yard kickoff return that set up the score to Sobey, which put the Foresters on top 28-26 with 8:01 left in the second quarter.
Concordia Chicago had a second-and-10 on its own 41-yardline when play was stopped.
Lake Forest currently has an overall record of 3-6. The Cougars are 7-2 and co-champions of the Northern Athletics Conference.
