WAYNESBURG, Pa. – After notching perhaps its most convincing win of the 2012 season, the Waynesburg University football team moved up three spots in the D3football.com national top 25 rankings. The Yellow Jackets rose to number 22 following their 42-16 victory over visiting Westminster.
Waynesburg maintained the best overall record of any team in the D3football.com national top 25 by moving to 9-0 on the season and 7-0 in Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) action. The Jackets’ 42 points was their highest scoring total of 2012 and sophomore quarterback Carter Hill threw for a team-high 242 yards and a Waynesburg-best four touchdown passes in the victory. Junior wide receiver Christian Jackson also enjoyed a very productive afternoon at John F. Wiley Stadium when he pulled in six passes for 141 yards and three touchdowns.
After playing for more than two months without a bye week, the Yellow Jackets will finally get a week off to heal and rest up for perhaps their biggest game since the 2003 season, when they won the program’s only outright PAC title. In two weeks, the Jackets will host their arch-rivals Washington & Jefferson for the PAC Backyard Brawl. The Jackets have already clinched a share of the 2012 conference crown, but if W&J (6-2, 5-1) can beat Geneva on Saturday, Nov. 3, it will set up a winner-take-all showdown for the head-to-head tiebreaker that will determine who will represent the PAC in the 2012 NCAA Division III playoffs.
