THE LIGHTNING ROUND--2012 DEBUT--Part 2

Key: Featured games are listed in BOLD type.

Projected winners are marked in RED.

Other games of interest are listed in normal type.

Note: 

NCAA Division II

Saturday, September 1

Valdosta State at Saginaw Valley State 

(Blazers head north to face the Cardinals in GSC vs. GLIAC clash!)

Nebraska-Kearney at Washburn

(Lopers take on the Ichabods in first-ever MIAA match-up!) 

Minnesota State at Minot State 

Sioux Falls at St. Cloud State

Fort Valley State at Delta State

Central Missouri at Missouri Western State

Lenoir-Rhyne at Concord 

UNC Pembroke at Winston-Salem State

NCAA Division III

Schedule of games for week of September 1, 2012

Saturday, September 1

Mount Union at Franklin

(Grizzlies play host to the powerhouse Purple Raiders in key early-season clash!) 

Salisbury at Christopher Newport

(Sea Gulls open their season on the road against the Captains!)

Endicott at Framingham State

Western New England at Norwich

Randolph-Macon at Johns Hopkins 

LaGrange at Birmingham-Southern 

Whitworth at St. Scholastica 

NAIA

Schedule of games for week ending September 1, 2012 (courtesy of naia.org)  

Thursday, August 30

Valley City State at Morningside 

(Mustangs play host to the Vikings in a battle of 2011 NAIA playoff participants!)

Saturday, September 1

Marian vs. Bethel (Tenn.)--(0-1)

(2012 NAIA Big River Bowl at Dyersburg, Tenn.)

Cumberland (Tenn.) vs. Kansas Wesleyan 

(2012 NAIA Big River Bowl at Dyersburg, Tenn.)

Pikeville (1-0) at Campbellsville

(Tigers play host to the Bears in critical early-season Mid-South Conference match-up!)
 
Baker (1-0) at Peru State (1-0)