RIPON, Wisconsin—The Knox College Football team (0-4, 0-2 MWC) faced a tough loss riddled with turnovers in their matchup against Ripon College (1-3, 1-1 MWC).
 
Knox opened up the scoring for the day when Matt McCaffrey (Wilmette, IL, New Trier) led the Fire on a nine play 75-yard drive capped by a one yard rushing touchdown by the QB. The Red Hawks wasted no time scoring themselves as they scored on a rushing touchdown on the next drive.
 
Knox would not give in easily though, as McCaffrey scored his second rushing touchdown of the day on the very next drive. That made the score 13-7 Knox before Ripon went up 14-13 heading into the half.
 
After halftime Ripon broke off two more scoring drives to make the score 27-13. Quickly after, McCaffrey found Malik Hamilton (Chicago, IL, Lane Tech) for a 57 yard touchdown pass to bring the score within eight. The comeback attempt fell short as Knox fell to Ripon 33-19.
 
McCaffrey had a great game both in the air and on the ground for the Fire. He completed 22-of-42 passing attempts for 314 yards while rushing for two touchdowns. Hamilton had six receptions for 106 yards and Patrick Marzolino (Orange, CA, El Modena) had five catches for 85 yards.
 
Brock Gabel (Bourbonnais, IL, Bishop McNamara) and Quinn Sharp (Beaumont, CA, Beaumont) held down the Fire defensive unit. Gabel had 10 total tackles and Sharp recorded nine including a sack.

The Fire will look for their first win of the season when they take on Grinnell on October 8.