Morning College quarterback Craig Fobbe, a senior from Maple Lake, broke the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) national record for passing yards in a season during the Mustangs’ 54-21 victory against Evangel University during Saturday’s quarterfinal round of the NAIA National Playoffs in Sioux City, Iowa.
Fobbe passed for a school-record 501 yards to raise his season’s total to 4,627 yards to break the former NAIA national record of 4,616 yards by Jon Kitna of Central Washington University in 1995. Since 1997, Kitna has served as the starting quarterback for both the Seattle Seahawks and Cincinnati Bengals. He is currently the backup quarterback for the Bengals’ Carson Palmer.
Fobbe, who passed for five touchdowns in the win against Evangel, broke his own former school single-game record of 476 yards passing he set against Dana College in the Mustangs’ regular season finale on Nov. 12. Fobbe also had a school-record 510 yards total offense against Evangel to break his former school record of 477 yards total offense in this year’s opener against Midland Lutheran College on Sept. 3.
Fobbe received the Offensive Player of the Game Award as selected by the media. The Mustangs, ranked third in the nation, will take a 12-0 record into next Saturday’s NAIA Semifinals against second-ranked University of Saint Francis at Fort Wayne, Ind. Top-ranked Carroll College will host fourth ranked University of Sioux Falls in the other semifinal. Fobbe threw touchdown passes of 15 and nine yards to Trae Johnson, six and 47 yards to Damon Mothershead, and seven yards to Cory Wirth to raise his season’s total to a school-record 40 touchdown passes. He finished the contest with a school-record 31 completions in 46 attempts.
The only negative in Fobbe’s performance came in the fourth quarter when Evangel’s Cedric Dewberry, the Defensive Player of the Game Award winner, intercepted a Fobbe pass to snap a streak of 190 consecutive passes Fobbe had thrown without an interception.
Johnson, who caught nine passes for a school-record 287 yards in the Mustangs’ opening round 58-7 win against St. Ambrose, led the Mustangs with 13 catches for 263 yards to raise his season’s totals to 78 catches for 1,825 yards and 20 touchdowns. Wirth added seven receptions for 87 yards and Mothershead had six catches for 99 yards.
Tyler Childress led the Mustangs’ rushing attack with 22 carries for 106 yards. Chad Hustedt led the Mustangs defense with nine tackles.
Morningside’s defense forced five turnovers. John Zevenbergen had three of the takeaways with two fumble recoveries and an interception. Mike Winklepleck had the others with a fumble recovery and interception.
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