Wooster Football Game Notes (2023 Game 6) | Wooster Football Record Book | Wooster Football Spectator Information

 

The College of Wooster football team (2-3, 1-2 North Coast Athletic Conference) welcomes two-time defending NCAC champion DePauw University (6-0, 4-0 NCAC) to John P. Papp Stadium for this Saturday's 2 p.m. contest. Wooster is coming off a 45-35 loss to Wabash College (4-1, 3-0 NCAC), a game in which it was within 35-28 after trailing 28-0. DePauw, the first team among the others receiving votes group of the D3football.com Top 25 Poll, kept Denison University (3-3, 2-2 NCAC) in check with a 17-6 win last Saturday. 

 

On The Air: MCTV produces Wooster's webcasts for home football games and shows the game on delay on Ch. 22 and Ch. 621 (Wayne & Stark County MCTV customers should check local listings for air times). Livestreams of Wooster home football games can be viewed at https://northcoastnetwork.com/Wooster. Q Media Wooster carries Wooster home football games on WKVX 960 AM and online at https://wqkt.com.

 

Ticket Information: Tickets for Wooster home football games are $6.00 for adults, $5.00 for senior citizens and youth, and free for College of Wooster students, faculty, and staff with your College of Wooster identification card. Wooster accepts cash only for football tickets. You can purchase tickets at the ticket booth located at the main entrance to John P. Papp Stadium, located off E. University St., or the table at the back access driveway located off Gasche St.

 

All-Time Series: DePauw leads the all-time series, which dates back to 1975, 9-3. The Tigers have won the last three counting contests in the series. Wooster's last win in the series was a 24-21 victory in 2018. In that contest, then-first-year Mateo Renteria electrified the team with 388 yards passing in his first collegiate start, and Wooster's defense protected a three-point lead with an interception and fourth-down stop down the stretch.

 

Last Meeting In Series: DePauw scored on nine of its 11 possessions during last year's 59-0 Tigers' win at Blackstock Stadium in Greencastle, Indiana. Wooster was in prime position to try to tie the game midway through the first quarter following a 43-yard Renteria scramble and a 21-yard Renteria-to-Cole Hissong completion. However, Wooster never recovered after fumbling the ball at DePauw's 2-yard line. College Sports Communicators Academic All-American® Matt Pardi averaged 48 yards over six punts and booted a pair of 61 yarders.

 

Offense Notes: Wooster has a top-40 scoring offense within NCAA Div. III at 38.4 points per game, and the Scots' .909 red zone percentage ranks 22nd nationally. Wooster is one of 29 teams nationally averaging at least 292 passing yards per game. Sophomore Chanden Lee's (Barberton, Ohio/Barberton) 14 touchdown passes are 30th nationally and third within the NCAC. Lee is three touchdown passes shy of a top-10 mark in single-season program history. Junior Brazos Gadler (Houston, Texas/Cypress Creek) is averaging just shy of 100 yards receiving per game, and his average ranks 38th nationally. Gadler recorded his third 100-yard game of the year at Wabash, and all three of them have come on the road.

 

Defense Notes: Senior Domenic DeMuth (Mayfield Village, Ohio/Mayfield) surpassed 150 career tackles in the game at Wabash. He also had his second sack of the year. Wooster has six interceptions at the halfway point of the season, thanks to junior Jon Banal's (Columbus Grove, Ohio/Columbus Grove). The Scots had just eight all of last season. 

 

Special Teams Notes: Senior Lake Barrett (Columbia, S.C./Hammond School) is 28-for-28 on kicks this season after going 5-for-5 on extra-point tries at Wabash. Barrett's 209 career points are the most since NCAA Div. III running back legend Tony Sutton (2002-04) and placekicker Richie McNally (2001-04) ended their standout careers with 480 and 327 points, respectively. Steve McClellan, who had 224 points from 1957-60 is the next Scot above Barrett on the all-time leaderboard. Wooster first-year Al Hastick IV (Soddy Daisy, Tenn./Notre Dame) booted Wooster's first 50-yard punt of the year, with that coming last Saturday at Wabash.