The Missouri S&T football team closed out the 2009 season Saturday by winning for the fourth time in five weeks, using a 17-point burst late in the second quarter to post a 34-14 win over Kentucky Wesleyan in Great Lakes Football Conference play.
Missouri S&T finished the 2009 season with a record of 4-7 and won their season finale for the fifth straight year. S&T finished 2-1 in the league.
After seeing an early 14-0 lead get wiped out on a pair of KWC touchdown passes, the Miners regained the lead on Clay Kinman's first career touchdown catch with 2:13 left in the first half.
The Miners got a field goal from Joe Drahos with two seconds left in the half to extend the lead to 10, then Mark Hopkins intercepted a Hail Mary pass on the Panthers’ final play and returned it 96 yards for a touchdown to give S&T a 31-14 lead at the end of the half.
S&T scored on each of its first two possessions of the contest, scoring on the game’s opening possession on a 13-yard scoring pass from Jason Schlueter to Bryan Crider and again with just under two minutes left in the period on another Schluter-to-Crider scoring pass that covered two yards.
