WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (October 13, 2018) – The Warriors led 14-0 after one quarter, but from there it was all Seahawks as the No. 23 Webber International University football team fell 21-14 to Keiser University.

It was a good start for Webber as the offense took the opening drive of the game down the field for 69 yards for a touchdown to jump ahead 7-0.

The score came via a 25-yard run by Kwamaine Brown who in all, accounted for 43 of the Warriors' 58 rushing yards on the drive. Quarterback Brady Ooten added 17 rushing yards and two completions for 11 yards on the series.

With a minute and a half left in the first quarter, Keiser was stuffed on fourth-and-one, giving the ball back to the Warriors at the Seahawks 29-yard line.

On the very next play, Webber made Keiser pay as Ooten connected with Timothy Miller for the third time in the game, resulting in a 29-yard touchdown pass to make it 14-0 Warriors.

On Keiser's next drive, the Seahawks would answer with a 40-yard touchdown pass to make it 14-6 early in the second quarter. Then, with less than four minutes left before halftime, Marcus Mannerstedt's 18-yard field goal attempt was blocked and returned for a huge 92-yard score to bring Keiser to within one at 14-13 at the intermission.

After a scoreless third quarter in which the offenses combined to stall near midfield on three consecutive series, the fourth quarter began with an interception thrown by Ooten that led to a nine-play, 68-yard Keiser drive that resulted in a seven-yard touchdown pass and subsequent two-point conversion that put the Seahawks ahead by a touchdown with still over 10 minutes remaining.

Webber had two opportunities to get back on the scoreboard and make things interesting in the fourth quarter as a 53-yard punt return by Davonte Williams set the Warriors up at the Keiser 17-yard line with seven minutes remaining. Unfortunately, a sack on fourth-and-four gave the ball back to the Seahawks; and then after a 26-yard pass from Ooten to Christian Acevedo got the Warriors into Keiser territory on Webber's final drive of the game, two incomplete passes and another interception, this time on third-and-10, was all she wrote.

In was another heartbreaking defeat for Webber which fell for the second straight time after entering the NAIA Football Coaches' Top 25 Poll. The Warriors are now 4-2 overall and 0-2 in the Mid-South Conference Sun Division while Keiser, a first-year football program, improved to 5-2 and 3-0. It was the first win for the Seahawks against a ranked opponent in their inaugural season.

Despite the loss, Webber did outgain Keiser 368-260 overall, 216-150 in rushing yards and 152-110 in passing yards; but in the end, it was the Warriors' 3-for-12 number on third down and 0-for-2 number on chances in the red zone that came back to haunt them.

Brown would go on to finish with 152 rushing yards on 19 carries, an average of eight yards per attempt. It was his second straight game with 150-plus rushing yards on 19 attempts combined with at least one score and an average of over eight yards per carry.

Williams added nine rushes for 40 yards and Jeremiah Harris led the Warriors' receiving corps with 76 yards on two catches.

Both Aaron Givens and Dequan Harvin reached double-digit tackles on defense (10 apiece) while Harvin also came up huge with 4.5 tackles for loss and three sacks. Fellow-senior Keith Neal added nine total tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss and a sack, and Brandon Bell and Amin Gilbert both finished with eight tackles.

Webber's next game will come at home inside Denison Stadium in an installment of "Friday Night Lights." The battle between the Warriors and the Eagles of Faulkner University will kick off at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 19.