SUWANEE, Ga. - Behind Spud Dick's school-record six touchdown passes, the DePauw University Tigers improved to 4-1 overall and 3-1 in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play with a 52-26 win at Rhodes College.
It marked just the fourth time since 1978 that a CAC/SCAC quarterback threw for six touchdown passes. The last time that happened was when Millsaps' Juan Joseph achieved the feat, also against Rhodes, on September 27, 2008.
AROUND THE SCAC
Austin College
improved to 3-2 overall and 1-2 in conference play with a 31-21 win
over Sewanee over the weekend. Andy Braly threw for 152 yards and
two scores and added a team-best 87 yards rushing to lead the way,
and Matt Finke had an interception return for a touchdown that
helped seal the win in the second half. After Sewanee got on the
board first the ‘Roos scored 17 straight to take a 17-7
halftime lead, and after an early touchdown to start the third by
the Tigers the ‘Roos scored a pair of quick touchdowns to end
the quarter with Finke’s 65 yard return being followed by a
one yard plunge by Ross Hasten. Greg Harrell and Colton LaRue each
had touchdown receptions for the ’Roos and Ryan Simons rushed
for 74 yards while Evan Coachman and Greg Fife each registered a
team-best seven tackles in the victory. The ‘Roos host
Birmingham-Southern on Saturday in their Homecoming game with
kickoff set for 1:00 p.m. at Jerry Apple Stadium.
Birmingham-Southern dropped a one-point 14-13
decision at home this week to Centre College. Junior wide receiver
David Langston and senior linebacker Victor Allen scored the
Panthers’ two touchdowns; Langston’s came on a
five-yard run, and Allen’s came on a 36-yard interception
return for a score. The Panthers are now 2-3 on the season and hit
the road for its next two games, beginning with a trip to Sherman,
Texas, this weekend to face Austin College at 1 p.m. on Saturday,
Oct. 17.
No. 22 Centre moved to 6-0 and extended its
winning streak to 10 games dating back to last year by defeating
Birmingham Southern 14-13 in Birmingham, Ala. The 10 game-winning
streak is currently the fourth longest in Division III. The
Colonels have not started 6-0 since the 2001 season and have only
started a season 7-0 once going all the way back to 1962, and that
was in 1989 when Centre finished 8-1 under Joe McDaniel. The
Colonels scored touchdowns on their first two possessions of the
game and the defense limited the Panthers to only 174 total
offensive yards, marking the second straight week they have limited
a team to under 200 total offensive yards. Centre also forced two
more turnovers to extend its consecutive game streak with at least
one turnover to 49 games. The Colonels will take a week off and
then prepare for another SCAC road contest in two weeks against
Millsaps.
DePauw improved to 4-1 overall and 3-1 in the SCAC
and extended its win streak to three with a 52-26 win at Rhodes.
The Tigers scored on their first three offensive possessions and
held as much as a 28-0 lead late in the first half. Quarterback
Spud Dick completed 25 of 36 passes for 343 yards with a
school-record six touchdowns and no interceptions. His six
touchdown passes went to five different players as Alex Koors
caught six for 126 yards with Bryan Mulligan hauling in five for 96
yards and Brayden Dahlstrom finishing with five for 46. Derrick
Karazsia rushed for 96 yards in 16 carries and Jon Ellis followed
with 70 yards in 13 tries. The DePauw defense limited Rhodes to
just 17 yards on its first five possessions and totaled four sacks
for the day led by James Foglton with two and Alex Fitch and Ryan
Woodard with one each. Ryan Preuss totaled 11 tackles and Jonathan
Lambert had 10. Dick moved into fifth place on the SCAC's all-time
passing yardage list with 7,802 and is sixth in total offense with
7,782 yards. Mulligan moved his career reception total to 182 which
is just 13 shy of tying the record of 195 by Jay True (1977-80).
Jordan Havercamp hit all seven extra-point tries to tie the school
record and added a field goal for his second consecutive
double-digit scoring game.
Millsaps (3-3, 2-1
SCAC) lost its first back-to-back regular season road games since
2005, surrendering 23 unanswered points over the final 19:13 to
lose a 47-36 decision at Huntingdon College. The Majors lost both
their first and second string QBs on the day, having to play the
final quarter with freshman QB Konner Joplin. Senior quarterback
Chris Graves tied a career-high with four touchdown passes through
three and a half quarters, but went out with an injury with 8:17
remaining in the third as the Hawks grabbed momentum and rallied
for a home win. In a flag-filled game in which both teams were
whistled for double-digit penalties en route to a combined 277
penalty yards, a costly pass interference call on Millsaps late in
the third quarter on 3rd-and-23 kept the drive alive and set up
Huntingdon's eventual go-ahead touchdown from senior QB Justin
Ridgeway. Junior linebacker Will Hawkins had a career afternoon
with 13 tackles, 2.0 tackles-for-loss and a pair of quarterback
hurries in a losing effort, while Sager chipped in 11 tackles and
Kevin Peters added a career-high 10. Millsaps will return this
weekend, playing host to Rhodes College (2-4, 0-2 SCAC) at 1
p.m.
Rhodes was able to throw for a season high 309
yards in their 52-26 loss to DePauw on Saturday, October 10th.
Freshman wide receiver Jack Lartigue caught 8 passes for 78 yards
in the loss and has caught 17 passes in his last two games.
Sophomore wide receiver Jake Jackson leads all Lynx receivers with
28 receptions. Against DePauw, Jackson caught 9 passes for 116
yards and gained 95 yards in kickoff returns for a season best 211
all-purpose yards. Lynx junior linebacker Andrew Meier continues to
lead the SCAC in tackles (60) and is second in sacks and tackles
for loss.
Sewanee hosted Austin College in SCAC football
play on the Mountain in front of a rain-soaked Homecoming crowd and
the Tigers fell to the visiting Kangaroos 31-21. Sewanee jumped out
to a 7-0 lead, but Austin answered with a field goal in the first
quarter and two touchdowns in the second for a 17-7 halftime edge.
In the second half, Sewanee climbed to within three points on
Michael Poarch's second TD run of the day. In the third quarter,
Austin scored a pair of touchdowns on a 65-yard interception return
and a two-yard TD run. In the fourth quarter, Sewanee QB Patrick
Shelton ran 28 yards for the final score of the game. Chuck
Winfield led Sewanee's rushing yardage with 79, while Poarch had 59
on the ground. Shelton completed three passes for 21 yards.
Defensively, Trey Reliford led Sewanee with 11 total tackles.
Sewanee is now 0-5 and 0-3 in the SCAC. The Tigers will play at
SCAC foe Trinity in San Antonio next weekend.
Trinity is coming off of its bye week, and will
host Sewanee: University of the South on Saturday afternoon.
Trinity defeated Birmingham-Southern 41-14 in its home opener on
October 3, with quarterback Patrick Dickinson accounting for three
touchdowns. Caleb Urban also had two touchdown scores of 49 yards
or more for the Tigers. Since the 1974 season, Trinity is 18-4
against Sewanee. Trinity has won 16 consecutive meetings in the
series, dating back to the 1993 season. Last year, Trinity won
27-14 in Sewanee, and three of the past four meetings have been
decided by just 14 points.
For the complete SCAC Gridiron Weekly for Week 6, click here.
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