Football Game Nine Game Notes (PDF)
The College of Wooster football team (5-3, 4-3 North Coast Athletic Conference) hosts Allegheny College (2-6, 1-6 NCAC) at 1 p.m. on Saturday, November 6. Prior to the game, the Fighting Scots will recognize their 13 seniors. Wooster blasted Hiram College 51-14 last Saturday, while Allegheny fell 29-19 against Wittenberg University.
On The Air: Wooster's home games are produced by MCTV, the local cable company in Wooster. The Scots' livestreaming link is https://portal.stretchinternet.com/wooster/. MCTV customers in Wayne and Stark Counties can catch first replay at 4:30 p.m. on Ch. 22 and 8 p.m. on Ch. 621. WQKT Sports Country radio will carry this week's contest on its AM station (WKVX 960 AM) live and online at https://wqkt.com.
All-Time Series: Allegheny leads the all-time series 22-18, and the Gators have won the last two meetings. The teams first met in 1905, a game won by Wooster 38-16. The two teams did not meet again until 1950, and Wooster won the six games contested between 1950-55 by a combined score of 199-52. Twenty-nine years elapsed after the 1955 game before the teams met again in 1984, the first year of the NCAC.
Last Time Out Versus Allegheny: Wooster was unable to sustain its strong start, with Allegheny scoring 24 unanswered points in its 24-14 win over the Fighting Scots on November 9, 2019. Wooster drove 77 yards in eight plays on its opening drive, which ended with a 5-yard touchdown pass from then-sophomore Mateo Renteria (Houston, Texas/Cypress Creek) to then-senior Nick Strausbaugh. That marked Strausbaugh's 30th career touchdown reception, which at the time moved him into a tie with Brandon Good for the most in program history. Allegheny's 273 yards rushing proved to be a big factor in the outcome.
Offense Notes: Renteria fired his 50th career touchdown pass on a second-quarter 34-yard strike to senior Cole Hissong (Shreve, Ohio/Triway) on Saturday. Hissong's touchdown marked his 13th, and he's now tied with Cameron Daniels for the most receiving touchdowns by a tight end in program history. Junior Andrew Yanssens (Columbiana, Ohio/Crestview) logged his first career 100-yard game during last Saturday's win, and Wooster rushed for a season-high 212 yards.
Defense Notes: Wooster has just 10 takeaways on the year, but three of them did come last week. Sophomore Alex White (Fayetteville, Ga./Fayette County) recovered a backwards-pass fumble on Hiram's opening drive. Two drives later, first-year Gio Rodriguez (Palmdale, Calif./William J. Knight) forced a fumble that was recovered by senior Kellen Calhoun (Tipp City, Ohio/Bethel). Later in the first quarter, senior Beau Greenwood (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mount Lebanon) recorded his eighth career interception. Wooster kept Hiram from running an offensive play on its side of midfield until the fourth quarter, and the Terriers only had one first down in the first quarter last Saturday.
Special Teams Notes: Sophomore Carter Warstler (New Albany, Ohio/Columbus Academy) nearly had a second kickoff return for a touchdown on Saturday before settling for a 73-yard run back to Hiram's 18-yard line. That marked the lone kickoff returned by the Scots last week, and it vaulted Wooster up to seventh nationally in kickoff return average at 28.2 yards per return. Individually, junior Matt Ulishney (Greensburg, Pa./Serra District Catholic) is 25th nationally with 25.8 yards per return. Warstler is one of five players in Div. III to have a kickoff and a punt return touchdown this year. Junior Matt Pardi (Arlington, Va./Washington-Liberty) would rank second in Div. III in yards per punt this year (43.5) if he qualified for the stat leaders, which requires 3.6 punts per game. Junior Lake Barrett (Columbia, S.C./Hammond School) matched his career-high with three field goals last week, and he had his second 15-point game.
This and That: Wooster head coach Frank Colaprete started his coaching career at Allegheny, where he spent two seasons. Wooster has six players on its roster from Pennsylvania - Beau Greenwood, junior Ben Greenwood (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mount Lebanon), junior EJ Humphries (Pittsburgh, Pa./Kiski School), sophomore Brett Mushnok (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Catholic), Ulishney, and first-year Tyler Ziggas (Beaver, Pa./Beaver Area). Prior to the game, Wooster will recognize its 13 seniors - wide receiver Julian Ballesteros (Winchester, Calif./Chaparral), wide receiver Troy Baughman (McKinney, Texas/Frisco Independence), defensive end Harvey Briscoe (West Bloomfield, Mich./West Bloomfield), Calhoun, defensive back Dylan Carr (Newark, Ohio/Licking Valley), wide receiver Kristian Coleman (Lubbock, Texas/Lubbock), Greenwood, Hissong, center Eli Lohrey (Hamilton, Ohio/Edgewood), linebacker Angelo Petracci (Youngstown, Ohio/Canfield), Renteria, linebacker Chris Savaglio (Centerport, N.Y./Harborfields), and defensive end Joseph Zagales (Miami, Fla./Tuscarawas Valley (Ohio)).