The Snow College Badgers took their number eight ranking and went on the road to face the Silverstorm of ASA-Miami attempting something they haven't face in two seasons, rebound after a regular season loss. The Badgers scored the first 31 points and then added 14 more for the 45-3 win.

The Badger defense held ASA-Miami to one first down and then a punt which gave Snow good field position at their own 38 yard line. They were able to work their way into field goal territory before the drive stalled and the Badgers settled for a 37 yard Stockton Lund field goal to go up 3-0. After that field goal Snow College didn't settle again adding four first half touchdowns.

"Honestly I wasn't sure what to expect," said Head Coach Zac Erekson. "We had bad weather and not the best practice this week. I expected us to bounce back and play strong, but I wasn't completely sure."

The defense held again and the offense got even better position starting at midfield. This time the Badgers took it into the end zone on a 2 yard Carsen Manookin run to make it 10-0 Snow College.

"We had some players banged up for this trip," said Erekson. "Gabe Sweeten had a concussion, Seth Kaelin rolled and ankle, Targhee Lambson has turf toe. All but Sweeten made the trip, but it was nice to not need them this afternoon."

Manookin got the start for the Badgers and added a 27 yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to lead the rushing attack. Sione "John-John" Molisi also had a good outing scoring the final touchdown of the game on a 14 yard scamper.

"As a coach I can't tell you how great it is to know that you have any of four running backs that can come in the game and have the impacts that they do," said Erekson. "We don't lose anything when we go deep with our backs."

Tommy McGrath threw three touchdown passes, one each to Dionte Davis for 65 yards, Marquis Montgomery for 10 and a 21 yarder to Caden Leggett with less than a minute remaining in the first half.

The only setbacks the Badgers faced was a fumble on their first drive in the second half and an interception on their last.

"We obviously still have some things to work on," said Erekson. "We had a couple of penalties and the turnovers that need to be cleaned up, but overall I'm happy to get this team back with a win and hopefully we can get some momentum and get back into the playoff picture."

Number four ranked Trinity Valley College suffered a loss to unranked Blinn College which should provide and opening for the Badgers to move up at least one spot. Snow College will be on the road again this week when they face Kilgore College in Texas. Kilgore was ranked in the top 15 before losing last week to Cisco College. Kilgore has an extra week to prepare for Snow because of a bye this week.

Snow College football can be followed on KMTI-AM 650, MTCC channel 3, CentraCom channel 10 and YouTube.com/snowbadgerTV.