November 1, 2007
(release courtesy of Larry Happel, Central College sports information director)

PELLA, IOWA . . . Central College football player Tim Connell (senior, Eldora, Eldora-New Providence HS) has been named an NCAA Division III co-player of the week by Don Hansen’s National Weekly Football Gazette.

Connell, a 5-foot-11, 185-pound quarterback, passed for a career-high 325 yards and four touchdowns as the No. 5-ranked Dutch (9-0 overall, 7-0 Iowa Conference) racked up 571 yards of total offense in a 40-14 victory over Cornell College Saturday. Central had 368 yards passing overall as Connell and freshman backup Zack Bandow (Manilla, IKM HS) threw completions to 12 different receivers. Connell connected on 20 of 30 passes with one interception.

It was Connell’s second four passing-TD performance of the year, giving him 25 touchdown passes on the season and breaking the school mark of 22 set by Marc Poortinga in 1997. Connell also smashed the school season passing record with 2,236, bettering the 2,057 passing yards by Mark Isaacson in 2004, and the total offense record with 2,327, topping Jeff Borgman’s 2001 mark of 2,081. Central eclipsed the school season team passing yardage record as well with 2,307, bettering the 2,099 from 2004.

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