The UW-Whitewater football team will welcome UW-Stevens Point to Perkins Stadium Saturday in the Hawks' 2011 Homecoming and Hall of Fame Game.
The conference rivals are no strangers to meeting for UWW's Homecoming. Saturday will mark the fourth time the two teams have squared off in a UW-Whitewater homecoming game since 2004.
Point beat the Hawks 15-12 in 2004 and 17-16 in 2008. U-Dub-Dub got a measure of revenge last year with a 27-14 in front of 11,448 fans at Perkins Stadium.
UWSP enters Saturday's game playing its best football of the season.
The Pointers came from ten points down, scoring on Mitch Beau's quarterback sneak with 15 seconds left in the game to win at Eau Claire, 28-24, last Saturday. The UW-SP defense sacked Blugold QB Austin Neu four times. Beau went 11-19 for 252 yards with three touchdowns. Lineman Justin Scary with eleven tackles, two and a half for a loss, and one and a half sacks.
UW-W went into the lion's den in Oshkosh and came out with a 20-17 win last week. It was the smallest margin of victory in Whitewater's current 37 game win streak. An Eric Kindler field goal with 1:18 left was the difference. That field goal was set up by a 47 yard run by Levell Coppage, who was the focus of the Titan defense. He carried the ball 28 times for 131 yards.
Saturday's Homecoming game will be the 86th for UW-Whitewater. The 2011 Athletics Hall of Fame class will be honored Saturday. The group will be introduced at halftime of the football game, with the formal induction taking place at a banquet Saturday night.
To access UW-Whitewater sports information director Tom Fick's UWW-UWSP game notes CLICK HERE
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