2 top NAIA teams to meet again

ASSOCIATED PRESS
HELENA, Mont. -- Tyler Emmert passed for 368 yards and five touchdowns and ran for another score Saturday to lead three-time defending champion Carroll College to a 55-0 victory over Sioux Falls in the semifinals of the NAIA playoffs.
Top-ranked Carroll advances to the title game against second-ranked St. Francis of Indiana on Dec. 17. Carroll beat St. Francis 17-15 in last year's title game on a field goal with 10 seconds remaining.
The Saints (13-0) led 41-0 at halftime after scoring three touchdowns in the final 4:24 of the second quarter.
Emmert had touchdown passes of 29 and 37 yards to Peterson, who had nine catches for 200 yards. Both of those scores came on two-play drives lasting 15 and 17 seconds.
Dustin Michaelis, Bryce Doak and Zach Bumgarner also caught first-half TD passes for the Saints, who have won 15 straight playoff games and 20 straight overall.
Emmert is the NAIA record-holder in career total offense and now has a 50-3 record as a starter at Carroll.
Joe Wright passed for 86 yards, 126 below his season average for Sioux Falls (11-2) while Michael Dvoracek was held to just 31 yards rushing, 100 below his season average. Sioux Falls had some trouble slipping on the frozen field as Carroll recorded its second straight shutout.
St. Francis, Ind. 42, Morningside 14
FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Adam Denning ran for 83 yards and three touchdowns and St. Francis, Ind., routed previously unbeaten Morningside.
St. Francis (13-0) led for most of the game, scoring four touchdowns before Morningside's Tyle Childress scored on a 1-yard run in the fourth quarter.
Third-ranked Morningside (12-1) had 242 yards passing, compared to 189 for St. Francis. But St. Francis had a stronger running game. The Cougars netted 325 yards rushing, compared to 85 for Morningside.