Complete Game Notes
Game 3: Quincy (1-1, 0-0 GLVC) at Lincoln (2-0, 0-0 GLVC)
Date/Time: Saturday, Sept. 20 - 6:30 p.m.
Location: Jefferson City, Mo.
Stadium (Capacity): Dwight T. Reed Stadium (5,500)
Tickets: Available online at http://lubluetigers.com/tickets | Adults - $10 | Children Under the Age of Six - Free | Non-LU Students/LU Faculty & Staff - $5 | LU Students (With ID) - Free
Streaming: https://www.glvcsn.com/lincolnbluetigers/
Radio: KJLU 88.9 FM - Jefferson City, Mo.
Audiocast: http://radio.securenetsystems.net/v5/KJLU
Live Stats: https://lubluetigers.com/sidearmstats/football/
Series: QU leads, 5-1
 
THE KICKOFF 
The Lincoln football team, enjoying its best start to a season in over 25 years, opens its GLVC slate on Saturday night (Sept. 20) by hosting Quincy at 6:30 p.m. CDT. The Blue Tigers are 2-0 on the year after beating Lincoln (CA), 55-6, at home on Aug. 30 and defeating Lane on the road, 27-15, on Sept. 6. This is LU's first 2-0 start to a season since 1972.
 
Quincy enters the weekend with a 1-1 record and is also playing its first GLVC game of the season. The Hawks opened 2025 at home with a 38-7 win over Concordia-St. Paul on Aug. 28. Quincy then started a three-game road trip on Sept. 6 by falling to Roosevelt, 23-21, in a very close contest. Quincy finishes the month with road games at Lincoln and Wayne State.
 
The Blue Tigers are playing their second home game and their second night contest of the season on Saturday. A win would give LU a 3-0 start for the time since beginning 1972 with a 5-0 record.
 
QUICK HITS 
- Quincy and Lincoln meet for the seventh time in a series that dates back to 2014. The Hawks lead the series, 5-1.
 
- Lincoln won the first meeting between the two teams, 42-13, in Dwight T. Reed Stadium in 2014. The Hawks have since won five-straight, including beating the Blue Tigers, 46-5, in Illinois last season.
 
- A Blue Tiger win would be the first for Lincoln against a conference opponent since Oct. 19, 2019, when LU beat Northeastern State, 27-9, as a member of the MIAA.
 
- A victory for Lincoln would give the Blue Tigers their first three-win season since 2018. It would also give LU its first three-game winning streak since 2003.
 
- Lincoln is also attempting to win consecutive home games for the first time since ending the the 2013 season with back-to-back victories over Northeastern State and Southwest Baptist at Dwight T. Reed Stadium.
 
- A win on Saturday would give Lincoln a 3-0 start to a season for the first time since 1972.
 
- LU will try to open league play 1-0 for the first time since 2018.
 
- The Blue Tigers enter this weekend with an all-time record of 264-506-25.
 
- Moses Harper was named the head coach of the Lincoln football team in 2024. He is in his second season leading the Blue Tigers and has an overall and program record of 3-10 entering this week.
 
- Lincoln, which was a full member of the MIAA for 26 years (overall), joined the GLVC as a full member in 2024. The Blue Tigers, who were an associate member of the GLVC from 2014-18, have played in five different leagues in their 94-year history: the Midwest Athletic Association (MWAA), the Great Lakes Football Conference (GLFC), the Central States Football League (CSFL), the GLVC and the MIAA.
 
- This is the 94th season of Lincoln football. The Blue Tigers first fielded a team in 1920 and played every year until 1943, when Lincoln took a year off due to World War II. LU then played each season from 1944-1989. The football program was disbanded at that point, but was brought back in 2000. Lincoln did not play a full schedule in 2020 due to Covid-19 restrictions.
 
BLUE TIGERS TO WATCH
OFFENSE - Isaiah Tate was named the GLVC's Offensive Player of the Week after a 13-for-16 day in Lincoln's win over Lane. Tate has thrown five touchdown passes, averages 187 yards per contest and has a passing rating of 191.2. Jaylen Thomas and Will King III have also thrown scoring passes this season, with Thomas owning a completion percentage of .667.
 
Marcus Harris has demonstrated big play ability, leading the Blue Tigers with 155 receiving yards on five catches, two of which have gone for scores. Jaden Holloway leads LU with six receptions and is tied with four other Blue Tigers in touchdown grabs (one). Justin Cooks averages 43.0 yards per reception and Armani Turner is averaging 23.3 yards per catch.
 
DEFENSE - Jacob McGhee and Sterling Bright each have four tackles for loss, with McGhee leading the team with three sacks. Bright has a team-high 11 tackles, followed by Jordan Hoskins with 10 and Qwalan Miller has eight. Dontonio Moore has a strip sack and recovery while Christian Harris and Ke'Ron Blankumsee each have intercepted passes.
 
Lincoln has 15 tackles for loss and seven sacks on the season as well as 12 quarterback hurries and three fumble recoveries. Michael Allen, Jamarion Darough and Andrew Sourinhaphong each have made five tackles, with Allen owning 1.5 tackles for loss and a sack. McGhee leads the Blue Tigers with three quarterback hurries.
 
SPECIAL TEAMS - Luka Sari had an outstanding Blue Tiger debut, going five-for-five on extra point attempts and two-for-two on field goals in the win over Lincoln (CA). One of those field goals was a 47-yard kick and he is averaging 63.6 yards on 16 kickoffs. Sari additionally averages 32.0 yards on punts while Max Roth is next at 23.0 yards.
 
Cooks had the biggest play of the day in Lincoln's victory over Lane, as he returned a second-half kickoff 83 yards for the go-ahead touchdown. He is averaging 33.8 yards per kick return on four tries. Jalen Thomas, meanwhile, ran 22 yards on his only kick return of the season. Jaden Holloway is the punt returner, averaging 18.3 yards per attempt.
 
QUINCY AT A GLANCE
Offensively, the Hawks average 248 passing yards and 80.5 rushing yards per game. Defensively, the Hawks are allowing 86 rushing yards and 181 passing yards as well as 15 points per contest. Bradyn Little has thrown for 488 yards and four touchdown passes while completing 71.6% of his passes. Kamrin Cox has been the recipient of 11 passes while Elijah Genenbacher, Jackson Burnett, Troy TW Crozier and Derrick Miller each have five receptions. Genenbacher, Burnett, Owen Hampton and Aaron Baker have one touchdown catch apiece. Cox, meanwhile, leads the ground attack with 104 yards on 31 carries.
 
Brock Inman, who has a sack, leads Quincy in tackling with 15, followed by Brock Wiley (13 tackles) and Jaylin Vaughn (11), the latter of whom has three tackles for loss. DJ Cross and Caleb Aungst have each intercepted passes and Kendrick Adimado, who has eight tackles, has a pair of broken up passes. Julius Barfield has 1.5 tackles for loss and a sack while Jai Williams has made nine takedowns. Inman has blocked a kick and Vaughn and Williams each have been credited with quarterback hurries.
 
The Hawks are 1-for-3 on field goals with Kiko Moreno making a kick from 28 yards. Alex Schattin averages 37.6 yards on punts with a long of 48 and six kicks landing in the 20. Conor McAneney averages 61.3 yards on kickoffs with four touchbacks. Crozier is averaging 51.0 yards on kick returns while Hampton averages 2.7 yards on punt returns.
 
THE COACHES
Moses Harper was named the head coach of the Blue Tigers in 2024 and is in his second season leading the LU football program. Harper is no stranger to Missouri as he graduated from Central Methodist and has worked at both William Jewell and Missouri Western. Most recently he was the passing game coordinator and receivers coach at Nebraska Kearney, a former rival of the Blue Tigers in the MIAA.
 
Jason Killday is also in his second season as head coach and brings years of familiarity with the GLVC to Quincy. From 2016-23, Killday was the offensive coordinator at Truman State, helping the Bulldogs average 29.8 points and 356.5 yards per contest. Truman State won at least nine games in four consecutive seasons, won a GLVC title in 2016 and was the winner of the America's Crossroads Bowl Game in 2019, 2021 and 2022.
 
PLAYER OF THE WEEK:  After completing 13 of his 16 pass attempts and throwing two touchdown passes in Lincoln's victory over Lane, Isaiah Tate was selected as the GLVC Offensive Player of the Week. Tate became the first Blue Tiger to win that award since Antwon Davis claimed the honor back when LU was an associate member of the league in 2015.
 
NATIONAL NOTICE:  LU's hot start is getting recognized by the other HBCU coaches in the US. The Blue Tigers received seven points in the latest HBCU D2 Coaches Poll, Powered by BOXTOROW. This is the first time that LU has been mentioned in this poll and the Blue Tigers were only three points behind Savannah State, which earned 10 points to claim the No. 10 ranking among all DII HBCU schools.
 
PASSING GRADE:  Isaiah Tate has the eighth-best passing efficiency rating in NCAA Division II, with his 191.2 rating also the second-best in the GLVC. Tate is ranked highly in the nation in a few categories. His 16.3 yards per completions ranks sixth in the country while he is also 36th in DII with five touchdown passes. Tate additionally is fifth nationally in passing yards per attempt (10.7) and he is 60th in the country points responsible for (30).
 
STAUNCH DEFENSE:  Lincoln's defense has been outstanding through the first two weeks of 2025, with the Blue Tigers ranking sixth in the country in pass efficiency defense (73.8) and eighth in DII in scoring defense (10.5). The Blue Tigers also rate 10th in fewest passing yards allowed (116.0), 21st in red zone defense (0.600) and 34th in the land in rushing defense (95.5). Individually, Jacob McGhee ranks fourth in the country in sacks (1.5 per game) and is tied with Sterling Bright for 10th in tackles for loss (2.0 per game).
 
OTHER NATIONAL NOTES: Marcus Harris rates 33rd in Division II in receiving touchdowns (two) and 42nd in receiving yards per game (77.5). After an electrifying 83-yard return for a touchdown, Justin Cooks is 11th nationally in kick returns (33.8). Ke'Ron Blankumsee is 30th nationally in passes defended (1.5) while Jaden Holloway is ninth in punt returns (18.3).
 
SCORING A WIN:  No other team in the GLVC scored as many points as the Blue Tigers did in week one, as LU defeated Lincoln (CA) 55-6. The 55 points were four more than the 51 scored by Missouri S&T in its opener, with Indianapolis checking in at third with 45 points against their first week opponent. The Blue Tigers also allowed the fewest points by any GLVC team in week one, with Quincy a close second with seven points allowed.
 
TICKETS:  Like in the past two years, fans can purchase their tickets to Lincoln's home football games online. Head to http://lubluetigers.com/tickets to purchase both season and individual game tickets for the 2025 season. The season ticket package also includes parking passes for all six of Lincoln's home games.
 
JOIN THE TEAM BEHIND THE TEAM:  The Blue Tiger Athletics Club is a great way to engage with other LU fans while supporting Lincoln student-athletes. Every dollar raised by the club goes towards scholarships for students, improving campus facilities and purchasing and maintaining equipment. To become a member of the BTAC, or to learn more about the club, please visit www.LUBlueTigers.com/BTAC.
 
LU PLAYS ON KJLU:  Veteran play-by-play announcer James Stanley returns to the airwaves to provide Lincoln fans the action on the field in 2025. Stanley will call five of LU's home games, and fans can listen to him live on 88.9 FM KJLU. Those not in the Jefferson City area can also listen to the games on KJLU's website, http://radio.securenetsystems.net/v5/KJLU.
 
...AND ONLINE:  Each of Lincoln's league games in 2025 will stream online on the GLVC Sports Network at https://www.glvcsn.com/lincolnbluetigers. The home games will include a simulcast of the KJLU broadcast, while the road games will be called by the home team's radio broadcasting crew. All-season viewing packages are now available.
 
GEAR UP FOR THE GAME:  LU fans can get everything they need for the game at www.BlueTigersStore.com, the official online store for LU athletics. Everything from jerseys to office supplies can be found on the site, with a portion of all sales going to benefit Lincoln athletics.
 
UP NEXT:  Lincoln heads north to Fayette, Iowa to play Upper Iowa next Saturday (Sept. 27). Kickoff is set for 1:00 p.m. CDT.