BEAVER FALLS, Pa. – For a second-straight week, the Waynesburg University football team hit the road to face a Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) opponent with a high-scoring offense led by one of the conference’s top quarterbacks and multiple dynamic playmakers. During Saturday’s game with Geneva, the Yellow Jackets also faced a fourth-quarter deficit and a very real threat of their undefeated season coming to an end for a second-straight contest. Luckily for the visiting team, it was also ... Read More
Washington & Jefferson hammer Saint Vincent on Homecoming 40-14
WASHINGTON, Pa. -- Junior running back Dion Wiegand (Pittsburgh, Pa./Keystone Oaks) rushed for a career-high 168 yards and blocked a punt, while sophomore backup quarterback Shane Smith (Fredonia, N.Y./Fredonia) added 115 on the ground and recovered a key fumble during Washington & Jefferson’s 40-14 PAC football rout of Saint Vincent on Homecoming Saturday at Cameron Stadium. The Presidents (6-2, 5-1 PAC) clinched their 29th consecutive winning season which is the fifth-longest active ... Read More
IUP Moves Up to No. 20 in Newest AFCA D2 Top 25 Poll
WACO, TX - After spending three straight weeks ranked 22nd in the nation, IUP has moved up two spots to No. 20 in the lastest version of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Division II Poll, as it was released on Monday. The Crimson Hawks are on a three-game winning streak after Saturday's 26-10 victory at Edinboro, improving to 6-1 on the year and 3-1 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Western Division. IUP's defense shut down the hot-handed Fighting Scots ... Read More
Shippensburg and big numbers becoming a trend
The PSAC should be recognized as a whole. Locally, we are fortunate to watch a couple of D2 power houses in IUP and California U. The successes of the previously mentioned programs are clear, but it might be what’s going on 170 miles east of Pittsburgh that should be grabbing our PSAC attention. Zach Zulli, Jake Metz, and the rest of the Shippensburg Raiders are experiencing obvious personal successes but it’s their undefeated 7-0 record that is most impressive. Zulli, has been fantastic ... Read More
Vulcan’s soar past Lock Haven; remain stout on both sides of the ball
Cody Schroeder went 20-of-29 as the Vulcans show why they are a true Division II force. Not only was the California Offense efficient and effective, the D stood strong and shut out the basement dwelling Lock Haven squad 30-0. The Vulcan D allowed a daunting 25 yards on the ground, while forcing two interceptions of LHU Quarterback Jarrett Kratzer. The Vulcans also attacked on the ground with Senior Lamont Smith gaining 121 yards on 21 carries. Excluding a three-point loss to West Chester is ... Read More
Waynesburg remains perfect with victory over Bethany
BETHANY, W.Va. (Oct. 13) – During the 2010 and 2011 seasons, the one thing that seemed to keep the Waynesburg University football team from getting to where it wanted to go was coming up short in close games. Over those two campaigns, the Jackets were 4-8 in games decided by a touchdown or less. In 2012, Waynesburg has found a way to win those close games, and did so once again during Saturday’s Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) contest at Bethany. The Yellow Jackets trailed the ... Read More
Rock football team ends losing skid, retains Milk Jug with 28-20 win at Clarion
CLARION, Pa. – Junior quarterback Nigel Barksdale passed for two touchdowns and ran for a third score Saturday afternoon to lead Slippery Rock University to a 28-20 win over hosting Clarion University in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division football action at Memorial Stadium. The win ended a three-game losing skid by SRU this fall and a string of five consecutive road-game losses and improved the Green and White's season records to 3-4 overall, 2-2 in PSAC-West ... Read More
PSAC teams look to prove why they are worthy of D2 Rankings
It’s that time of year where separation is created in college football. The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference is no different. This weekend’s slate of games could go far in determining who is a legitimate 2012 championship contender. Both California University (PA) and IUP have pedigrees that make it understandable of their D2 Top 20 Rankings, but it’s Bloomsburg and Shippensburg who might be here to steal the show. Four PSAC schools crowd the NCAA Division II weekly rankings. What this ... Read More
IUP wins big 33-16 over Slippery Rock on Homecoming
INDIANA, PA – Harvie Tuck (Akron, OH/St. Vincent-St. Mary) rushed for 233 and De'Antwan Williams (Woodbridge, VA/Woodbridge) added 158 yards on the ground as 22nd-ranked IUP ran over rival Slippery Rock in a 33-16 win on Homecoming at George P. Miller Stadium on Saturday. With his big day, Tuck moves into third place overall in the IUP history books with 3,676 career rushing yards, passing Aamir Dew's 3,623 yards he gained from 1999-2001. It was Tuck's third 200-yard game of the season, the ... Read More
Waynesburg football stays undefeated with 21-14 win over Grove City
WAYNESBURG, Pa. (Oct. 6) – Coming into Saturday’s homecoming game against Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) rival Grove City, Waynesburg knew that job number one was to stop the Wolverines’ top ranked running game. The Yellow Jacket defense did just that as they held GCC, which averaged 193.4 yards per game coming into Saturday, to just 84 yards on the ground as the Orange and Black scored a 21-14 victory over the Wolverines in front of the hcrowd gathered at John F. Wiley Stadium. With ... Read More