2008-09 Football News
Kevin Friedman and Storm Tropea of The College of Wooster were selected to the All-North Region Team, both receiving second-team accolades from D3football.com.
After coming in second in the North Coast Athletic Conference – its highest finish since the 2004 championship season – Wooster was awarded with 14 of its players being named to the All-NCAC Team.
Austin Holter ran for three touchdowns and passed for another and The College of Wooster’s defense intercepted four passes, as the Fighting Scots beat rival Wittenberg University to a tune of 27-6.
Dustin Sheppard scored three of The College of Wooster’s four touchdowns Saturday, giving him 34 for his career and leading the Fighting Scots to a 27-7 road win over Oberlin College.
Junior Bryan Albani and sophomore Luke Drake of theWooster football team were named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Second Team.
In a game that featured several long plays, it was two clock-consuming drives by Wooster that spelled the difference, as the Fighting Scots scored two touchdowns during the fourth quarter to break a 21-21 tie and prevail 35-21 over visiting Allegheny College.
Wooster moved the ball inside Wabash College territory with a chance to pull within one touchdown just under the five-minute mark of the fourth quarter, but the Little Giants’ Derrin Slack picked off a pass that had been tipped by a Fighting Scot receiver and returned it 78 yards for a touchdown and a 45-24 lead, which turned out to be the final score.
Austin Holter passed for a career-high 327 yards, which also marked the fourth-most in team history, and as a whole, The College of Wooster was clicking on all cylinders as it celebrated Homecoming by thumping Washington University-St. Louis 38-13.
The College of Wooster held nationally-ranked Case Western Reserve University to a season-low 28 points, but it was not enough as the Fighting Scots fell 28-7 in the northeast Ohio schools’ annual match-up.
Dan Grangaard made a 17-yard field goal, which was deflected by an Earlham College player before making it through the uprights, with 1:58 to play, lifting The College of Wooster to a 16-14 win over the visiting Quakers.
The College of Wooster scored two touchdowns in the third quarter, turning a 10-7 halftime deficit into an 11-point lead, and made a couple of defensive stands during the fourth as the Fighting Scots spoiled Denison University’s “Big Red Weekend” with a 21-10 win.
The College of Wooster’s defense produced six takeaways, the last two of which resulted in fourth-quarter touchdowns, as the Fighting Scots finally pulled away from Ohio Wesleyan University for a 20-2 victory in the teams’ North Coast Athletic Conference opener.
The College of Wooster’s defense intercepted five passes, including two by Pat Zimmerman, and limited Waynesburg University’s preseason All-American running back Robert Heller, last year’s leading rusher in NCAA Div. III (197.8 ypg), to a career-low 104 yards, as the Fighting Scots won the teams’ season opener at Waynesburg, Pa., rather handily, 27-6.