BLOG 34: Bulldogs’ offense has its moments against Lakers

By Sandy Gholston

Ferris quarterback Tom Schneider drops back to pass Saturday as the Bulldogs were in Allendale to face Grand Valley State. (Photo/Sandy Gholston)

ALLENDALE – If anyone thought redshirt freshman quarterback Tom Schneider would be awestruck playing in Lubbers Stadium, they were mistaken.

The Lubbers Stadium record crowd of 14,612 did not rattle Schneider who had a couple of passes he would like to have had back, but generally was solid in the No. 24 Bulldogs’ 31-13 road loss to No. 2 Grand Valley State. Schneider completed 20-of-32 passes for 193 yards with no touchdowns and two interceptions (both of which came when the Bulldogs were in a desperate position to try and make something happen).

All in all, Ferris defied the so-called experts who asserted it could not throw the football based on whatever that was based on. Passing, however, was no easy task against a good GVSU defense and in a stadium that featured a mostly-hostile environment in the form of a sea of blue-clad Laker fans screaming their lungs out. As a team, the Bulldogs compiled 362 yards of total offense to 332 for the Lakers (3-0, 3-0) to maintain the Anchor-Bone Trophy for another year.

“That was good to see us be able to move the ball the way we did at times against a team with a very good defense,” Ferris head coach Jeff Pierce said as his team drops now to 3-1 overall and 2-1 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference standings. “We know we’ve made some positive strides from where we were in the first game to where we are now and we just have to continue to improve and continue to work on the things we need to get better with to make our offense as effective as it can be.”

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