NEWBERRY, S.C. — For a Barton College football team coming off back-to-back shutout losses, a 19-play touchdown drive after a defensive stop start the game Saturday, Oct. 26, at Newberry College was just what the Bulldogs needed.
However, that was the only time Barton stopped the Wolves, who scored on their next seven possessions in a 41-25 result that stretched the Bulldogs’ skid to four games. Barton, now 2-6 overall, slipped to 1-5 in South Atlantic Conference games in its final season as a football member of the NCAA Division II league. The Bulldogs will host Catawba (2-6, 1-5 SAC) next Saturday in a battle to avoid sole occupancy of the SAC’s Piedmont Division cellar. Newberry (3-4, 3-2 SAC) avoided being in that situtation with its second straight win.
“We’re just not playing winning football,” Barton head coach Chip Hester said in a Sunday morning telephone interview. “I think our effort was outstanding yesterday. I think guys played hard. We just can’t quite get it all together. And, I think in some sense, we did some things that we needed to do to try to win the football game by controlling the clock and ran the football a whole lot better. I’m very proud of our offensive line and running backs for how they how they ran the ball and our quarterbacks.”…