Moon Township, Pa. - The Robert Morris University football team has made a recent habit of exciting fourth-quarter comebacks, but the Colonials fell just short of duplicating last week’s effort as they fell to Monmouth, 26-21, to close out each team’s season Saturday afternoon at a sunny Joe Walton Stadium. RMU appeared to have scored a game-winning touchdown with just seven seconds remaining, but an untimely holding penalty was accessed that negated the score. The Colonials had shown great ... Read More
Washington & Jefferson falls 42-10 to Johns Hopkins in D3 Playoffs
BALTIMORE, Md. -- Fifteenth-ranked Johns Hopkins gained 595 yards of total offense and earned a 42-10 victory over Washington & Jefferson Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Division III football playoffs at Homewood Field. The Presidents (8-3) fell behind by a 28-3 margin at halftime and had four different players take snaps from center. Junior Matt Bliss (Bethel Park, Pa./Bethel Park) suffered an injury late in the first quarter and did not return, while his backup, freshman Shane ... Read More
Duquesne falls short to Wagner
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Duquesne gave Wagner all it could handle, but a Dominique Williams touchdown with 5:54 left proved to be the difference as the Seahawks defeated the Dukes 23-17 to earn the Northeast Conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Championship. The win was the eighth in a row for 8-3 Wagner (7-1 in NEC). Duquesne, which rallied from an early 14-3 deficit to take a 17-14 fourth quarter lead, finished its season 5-6 overall and 3-5 in the NEC. Duquesne recovered two ... Read More
PSAC represented by IUP, Shippensburg, Bloomsburg in D2 National Playoffs
Few of the end results in the PSAC Football Conference this season were anything but predictable. At no point in the 2012 season was there a game where you felt 100% certain that you knew who would win. Many times stats and records can be a barometer of an outcome, but that has been rendered useless in the PSAC football season. If you had to bet your life savings on one thing, it wouldn’t be the winners of games any given weekend. Traditional power California will be missing the National ... Read More
W&J Travels To Baltimore To Face Johns Hopkins In NCAA Playoffs
WASHINGTON, Pa. -- After earning the Presidents' Athletic Conference's automatic bid, Washington & Jefferson College drew Johns Hopkins University for the opening round of the 2012 NCAA Division III football playoffs on Saturday, November 17 in Baltimore, Md. Kickoff is set for noon at Homewood Field. The Presidents are appearing in the NCAA playoffs for the 22nd time and own a 21-21 record in the postseason, including a 10-12 road record. Washington & Jefferson has posted a 13-8 ... Read More
IUP Will Host Shepherd in First Round of NCAA Football Playoffs
INDIANAPOLIS - IUP has earned the third seed in Super Region One and will host sixth-seeded Shepherd in the opening round of the 2012 NCAA Division II Football Championships on Saturday, November 17. 13th-ranked IUP earned an automatic bid to the NCAA postseason with a resounding 41-10 over seventh-ranked Shippensburg in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) championship game on Saturday at George P. Miller Stadium. The Crimson Hawks (10-1) earn the third seed in the region ... Read More
Washington & Jefferson wins PAC title upsetting #18 Waynesburg
WAYNESBURG, Pa. – For the first time in nine years, the Waynesburg University football team had a chance to clinch the outright Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) title when it hosted Washington & Jefferson on Saturday for senior day. The 9-0 Yellow Jackets had already clinched a share of the 2012 PAC title with a 7-0 conference record, but needed a victory over the Presidents to grab the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division III national tournament. Unfortunately, an inspired, ... Read More
Duquesne’s Rally Falls Short, Drops 3rd Straight to Albany
Thanks to back-to-back losses to Monmouth and Robert Morris, the Northeast Conference showdown between the Duquesne Dukes and Albany Great Danes lost a little bit of its luster. Coming into the season, many projected this to decide the NEC champion, but that wasn’t the case. Jerry Schmitt’s Dukes couldn’t snap their skid and were outplayed on both sides of the ball in the first half as Albany ruined senior day for the Dukes, scoring early and often, en route to a 38-31 victory to keep the ... Read More
Panthers season crumbles with loss to Connecticut
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. -- Lyle McCombs ran for 120 yards and a touchdown as Connecticut beat Pittsburgh 24-17 on Friday night for the Huskies' first conference win after four losses. Chandler Whitmer threw for 213 yards and a score for the Huskies (4-6, 1-4 Big East), andNick Williams returned a punt 80 yards for a touchdown. Tino Sunseri threw for 302 yards and two touchdowns for Pitt (4-6, 1-4), which fell short in its attempt to overcome a 24-0 halftime deficit. The Panthers, like UConn, ... Read More
Pitt’s Bowl Hopes Likely Gone With Loss to U Conn
Playing with the hopes of reaching a bowl game, the Pitt Panthers sure didn't act like it. The Panthers showed no signs of being a desperate team until it was too late, nor did they play like the team that took No. 3 Notre Dame into triple-overtime six days ago. Instead the Panthers looked flat and the results reflected that the Connecticut Huskies handed Pitt their sixth loss of the season, 24-17. With the loss, Pitt (4-6, 1-4) will have to beat both Rutgers (home) and South Florida ... Read More