ACFC Week 7 Notes
Games for October 13
One conference matchup highlights another four-game slate in the ACFC on October 13. Wesley College visits Apprentice School for the ACFC matchup, while Springfield travels to SUNY Brockport, Southern Virginia visits Frostburg State and Salisbury travels to Morrisville State.
ACFC in Non-Conference Action
In 2006, the ACFC did more than hold its own against non-conference competition as the teams went a combined 22-12 in those games. Wesley College was 9-1 and Apprentice School went 5-1. The 22 wins equals the second most non-conference wins in a single season in the history of the Atlantic Central Football Conference. In 2005, ACFC teams went 23-12 in non-conference action.
1998: 22-12
1999: 12-14
2000: 18-10
2001: 12-14
2002: 18-11
2003: 12-13
2004: 18-13
2005: 23-12
2006: 22-12
2007: 12-6
West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference 0-1
USA South Athletic Conference 2-0
Old Dominion Athletic Conference 1-1
Middle Atlantic Conference 4-0
New Jersey Athletic Conference: 2-1
Presidents Athletic Conference: 1-0
Empire 8: 0-2
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (1-AA): 0-1
Independent: 2-0
ACFC In National Rankings
D3football.com: #10 Wesley; #12 Salisbury
Don Hansen Football Gazette: #10 Salisbury; #11 Wesley
AFCA Coaches Poll: #9 Salisbury; #12 Wesley
Next Week in the ACFC
Wesley College visits SUNY Brockport in the lone ACFC matchup on October 20. Apprentice School visits Maritime College, NY for the second Mariners Classic, Union of Kentucky travels to Frostburg State and Becker College visits Salisbury in non-conference action that day.
WESLEY (5-1, 1-0) AT APPRENTICE SCHOOL (2-3, 1-1)
1 pm, Builder Field - Newport News, Va.
Webcast: http://www.wdel.com/
WESLEY NOTES
Wesley is 11-2 all-time against Newport News Apprentice and have won 11 meetings since the series resumed in 1996. The Builders' wins came in Wesley's first two years as a varsity program in 1986 and 1987. The Wolverines have averaged 47.9 points and allowed just 6.8 during the 11 game series win streak...Sophomore tailback Mike Pennewell has rushed for 814 yards on just 104 attempts in 2007. He leads the ACFC in yards/game by over 56 yards per game (135.7) and rates 11th in Division III. More impressive, his yardage total on the ground is fifth in D3...Wesley turned in a record-setting day in a 45-0 win over Frostburg on October 6. The Wolverines set both a school and conference record with 676 yards. It was the seventh best single game total in Division III this season. That total was fueled by a Wesley record 411 on the ground...Three current Wesley players rank among the top 10 on the school's all-time touchdown reception list. Senior Michael Clarke needs just two more TD receptions to tie the school record and is currently tied for fourth career scoring grabs. Junior Larry Beavers is sixth with 19 career touchdown catches and Jon Lanouette, a senior, is tied for ninth with 13...Larry Beavers currently ranks sixth in Division III at 33.9 yards per kick return. Eric Lowry, who joins Beavers on kick return duties, is 28th in Division III at 26.5 ypr, and the team rates fifth at 27.76...he Wesley defense has been like in each of the past two weeks, shutting out Huntingdon (Ala.) on September 29 and Frostburg State on October 6. Over that span, the Wolverines have allowed just 199 yards of total offense combined in the two wins. It was the first time Wesley had registered shutouts in consecutive games since shutting out Apprentice and Husson in succession in 2003. The Wolverines held the Hawks to a negative two yards rushing, the lowest total for an opponent since holding SUNY Morrisville to minus-27 yards on November 11 of last season. Huntingdon also accumulated just 126 total yards. It was the team's best performance since Husson accumulated just 105 yards of offense on October 25, 2003. Wesley's dominance continued to grow last week when Frostburg State was held to just 73 total yards and five first downs. That was the fewest yards allowed since holding Apprentice to 67 yards on October 14, 2000, a span of 79 games...Both Mike Pennewell (160 yards) and Aaron Jackson (114) topped the 100-yard mark in Wesley's 45-0 win over Frostburg State on October 6. It marked the first time in 41 games that a pair of Wolverines reached triple digits in the same game. The last occurrence was a 40-7 win over Kean on September 25, 2004, when both Kevin Nelson (152) and Ken Busch (112) both went for 100+...Michael Clarke is just four catches shy of becoming the seventh Wolverine with 100 career catches. If he tallies those four catches, along with another 61 yards and one TD grab, Clarke will become just the fourth player in school history with 100 catches, 2,000 yards and 25 TDs...With 1.5 sacks in Wesley's win over Frostburg State a week ago, senior defensive end Bryan Robinson inched closer to Wesley's all-time sack record. His total tied him for second on the schools all-time charts, just three behind Ken Pippin's record of 44.
APPRENTICE NOTES
Apprentice School enters the game after defeating Morrisville State 50-21 in front of over 5,600 fans last weekend. ... Builder senior WR Travis Reid is now five receptions from the school career, modern-era record of 138 after his career-high 10 catches for 163 yards and two touchdowns against Morrisville. ...He needs 210 yards to break the career yardage record of 2.544 by Andre Ross. ... Senior QB Kyle Franklin is now tied for second place on the career, modern-era touchdown list with 24 after his two TD passes to Reid. ... His 199 yards put him into fourth place on the career, modern-era yardage list with 2,485. He is 15 completions from fourth place in the career completions list as he now has 203. ... Senior DB Franako Smith took the lead over fellow senior Tony Scott for the modern era record in career interceptions with his 13 th against Morrisville State. ... That was his second career 2-interception game.
SPRINGFIELD (3-2) AT SUNY BROCKPORT (2-3)
1 pm, Special Olympic Stadium
Brockport, NY
Webcast: www.891thepoint.com
The Golden Eagles are coming in off back-to-back 20-plus point losses after a 45-7 loss at #10 nationally ranked St. John Fisher College last Saturday and a 34-14 loss at Ithaca College on September 29th dropping the Golden Eagles to 2-3 overall on the season... In the loss, Brockport was held to 246 yards of total offense compared to Fisher, who compiled
514 total yards, including 312 passing yards... QB Jake DerCola made his first career start, finishing 6-16 passing for 67 yards and 0 touchdowns and three interceptions...Combined, the RB combo of Garet Lynch and Matt McCormick has 711 yards on the ground this season... Springfield is coming into the game after defeating Husson College 42-28 last Saturday in the Pride's first home game of the season after starting the season with four straight road games, in the game QB Chris Sharpe ran for 133 yards and two touchdowns ... This will be only the fourth meeting between the two schools dating back to 2000 when Springfield beat Brockport 13-6 in Brockport in the first-round of the NCAA Playoffs... The second meeting between the two schools was a 16-0 Brockport win at home, again the first-round of the NCAA Playoffs in the 2002 season. Last season marked the first time the two schools met in a regular season game and first time in Springfield, with the Pride winning 27-3. Springfield leads the all-time series 2-1 and all three games have been played in the head coach Rocco Salomone era... In the game last year, the Golden Eagles managed just 179 total yards and only 66 through the air... QB Chris Sharpe led all rushers with 135 yards on the ground for the Pride... The Golden Eagles are in their 4th and final season in the ACFC before making the move to the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) in 2008......
Senior DE Dale Buck moved into a tie for 4th in school history for career sacks with a sack in the loss at Fisher... RB Garet Lynch needs only 39 rushing yards to move into 8th in career rushing yards, needs only 46 yards for 7th in Brockport school history ... RB Matt McCormick needs 159 receiving yards to 1,000 career yards and needs 17 receptions to move into 10th in career catches in Brockport school history... The Golden Eagles are currently leading the ACFC with the fewest penalties this season... Brockport has committed 19 penalties for 147 yards for a 3.8 average per game for 29.4 yards... the Golden Eagles have outscored their opponents 56-54 in the first half this season, but have been outscored 86-45 in the second half including 42-13 in the third quarter... Brockport is 15-11 in October games since 2000, but are currently 3-10 in those games since the 2003 season... In three loses this year, the Golden Eagles have lost the turnover battle 7-2... Brockport will induct two former football players into its Hall of Fame on Saturday, Dan Fichter and Adam Rodger... The former players will be administering the coin toss for the game.
SOUTHERN VIRGINIA (3-4) AT FROSTBURG STATE (1-4)
6 pm, Bobcat Stadium
Frostburg, Md.
Webcast: http://www.frostburgsports.com/
Frostburg State University hosts Southern Virginia for its home opener this Saturday ... The meeting is the first between the two schools as SVU began its football program back in 2003 ... The kickoff is set for 6:00 pm and is just the second-ever night game for Frostburg state at Bobcat Stadium ... The first nightcap, came last fall against Apprentice on Sept. 9, 2006 ... The Bobcats look to back on the winning track having lost their last three games by a combined 120-17 ... The Knights enter the contest 3-4 having won two out of the last three games ... Frostburg State is 18-5 in home openers dating back to 1984 ... Last weekend, FSU fell to ACFC opponent and No. 10 ranked Wesley, 45-0, and Southern Virginia defeated Kentucky Christian 76-35 ... SVU set 13 single-game records in the win, including total yards (854), first downs (30), rushing yards (338), passing yards (554) and points scored ... FSU is ranked 30th in the country in pass sacks allowed per game (1.2) ... Sophomore Nicholas Payne is ranked 6th in the country in punting, averaging 42.0 yards per kick ... Senior wide receiver Fred Howze continues on his streak of consecutive games with a reception which currently stands at 26 ... Head coach Rubin Stevenson has 30 wins during his career with the Bobcats and he needs just four more victories to become the schools' all-time winningest coach ... Every FSU game this season can be heard on http://www.frostburgsports.com/ through the stretch internet application on the football section of the website ... The games will also be broadcast locally on 91.9 WFWM ...
MORRISVILLE STATE (1-5) AT SALISBURY (6-0)
1 pm, Sea Gull Stadium
Salisbury, Md.
Webcast: http://www.wicoam.com/
The Sea Gulls and Mustangs have only met once prior to this year's game. Last season, the two programs met at Sea Gull Stadium with the maroon and gold rolling to a 65-7 win. This season SU is 1-0 against teams from the state of New York. Salisbury defeated ACFC foe SUNY Brockport 40-14 on September 8. ... Morrisville State plays four of the five ACFC teams. Last week the Mustangs fell to the Apprentice School, 50-21. MSC will host SUNY Brockport on October 27 and two weeks later the Mustangs will get a visit from Wesley on November 10. The Sea Gulls have already faced both SUNY Brockport and the Apprentice School. ... Salisbury's 40-14 win over the Golden Eagles was the largest margin of victory against SUNY Brockport since it joined the ACFC. SU's 62-14 win over the Shipbuilders was the largest margin of victory of the season for the maroon and gold and their highest offensive output of the year. ... The Salisbury University football team cracked the Top 10 in the latest American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) poll for the first time this year as the undefeated Sea Gulls are ranked No. 9. ... The Sea Gulls are also up three spots to No. 12 in the D3football.com poll and up three spots to No. 10 in Don Hansen's poll. ... The Salisbury University football team is the only unbeaten team left in the state of Maryland. The Sea Gulls are a perfect 6-0, rank No. 9 in the AFCA Top 25 poll and are in first place in the Atlantic Central Football Conference. The maroon and gold have won nine straight games dating back to last season and are off to the program's best start since 2004 when the Sea Gulls went 10-0 in the regular season.
ACFC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Week 6-Oct. 6, 2007
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Travis Reid, Sr., WR, Apprentice School
The senior from Goose Creek, SC caught a career-high 10 passes for 163 yards and scored two touchdowns as the Builders defeated Morrisville State 50-21. His 10 receptions were one away from the modern-era record for a single game and puts him five receptions from the school career record of 138. The touchdown receptions of 16 and 39 yards were in the second quarter.
HONOR ROLL: Ronnie Curley, Salisbury; Mike Pennewell, Wesley.
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Josh Jones, Sr., DE, Wesley
The senior from Baltimore, Md. helped lead a Wesley defense that held Frostburg State to 73 yards of total offense and five first downs in a 45-0 victory. He had 10 tackles including two for a loss.
HONOR ROLL: Franako Smith, Apprentice; Dale Buck, SUNY Brockport; Matthew Bookard, Salisbury.
Co-SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Garrett Burgess, So., Salisbury
The sophomore from Beach Haven, NJ was the top return man for Salisbury in a 20-7 road victory over Geneva College. He returned four punts for 61 yards, including a 31-yarder in the first half. He was second in all-purpose yards in the game for Salisbury.
Co-SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Blair Newman, So., Wesley
The sophomore from Camden, De. returned three punts for 91 yards, including a 42-yarder that set up a Wesley score in their 45-0 victory over Frostburg State.
HONOR ROLL: DaMario Sampson, Apprentice; Cevon Carter, SUNY Brockport; Nicholas Payne, Frostburg State.
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Desmond Isaac, Fr., LB, Apprentice School
Making his first collegiate start, the freshman from St. Stephen, SC shared the team lead with seven tackles (3 solo, 4 assisted) with a half-tackle for loss in Apprentice School's 50-21 victory over Morrisville State.
HONOR ROLL: Kenny McDonald, Wesley.
NCAA Statistics
Team (Top 50 ranking listed)
4. Passes Had Intercepted: Salisbury (1)
5. Rushing Offense: Salisbury (307.7)
5. Kickoff Returns: Wesley (27.76)
6. Punt Return Defense: Salisbury (1.86)
10. Passing Efficiency: Salisbury (164.31)
13. Scoring Offense: Salisbury (39.2)
13. Total Offense: Wesley (458.5)
13. Pass Sacks Allowed: Wesley (1)
15. Punt Returns: Salisbury (14.24)
17. Tackles For Loss: Salisbury (9.7)
18. Total Defense: Wesley (239.7)
19. Turnovers Lost: Salisbury (6)
24. Pass Sacks: Salisbury (3.5)
27. Rushing Offense: Wesley (232.5)
28. Scoring Defense: Salisbury (14.0)
30. Pass Sacks Allowed: Frostburg State (1.2)
31. Kickoff Returns: Salisbury (22.69)
32. Tackles For Loss: Wesley (9.2)
33. Rushing Defense: Wesley (87.8)
33. Fumbles Recovered: Frostburg State (7.0)
36. Rushing Defense: Salisbury (90.2)
36. Punt Returns: Wesley (12.05)
37. Punt Returns Defense: Wesley (5.0)
41. Pass Efficiency Defense: Wesley (96.8)
42. Pass Sacks Allowed: SUNY Brockport (1.4)
46. Total Offense: Salisbury (406.5)
48. Scoring Defense: Wesley (16.0)
49. Pass Sacks: Wesley (3.0)
50. Kickoff Returns: SUNY Brockport (21.31)
Individual (Top 50 Rankings)
5. Rushing Yards: Mike Pennewell, Wesley, 814
6. Punting: Nicholas Payne, Frostburg State, 42.0
6. Kickoff Returns: Larry Beavers, Wesley, 33.9
11. Rushing Yards PG: Mike Pennewell, Wesley, 135.7
18. Punt Returns: Blair Newman, Wesley, 14.1
24. Tackles For Loss: Jarrell Chandler, Salisbury, 2.0
27. Passing Yards: Jason Schatz, Wesley, 1279
28. Forced Fumbles: C Ako-Agugua, Frostburg State, 0.4
28. Kickoff Returns: Eric Lowry, Wesley, 26.5
30. Kickoff Returns: Cevon Carver, SUNY Brockport, 26.0
31. Interceptions: Chet Turner, Wesley, 0.7
43. Receiving Yards: Michael Clarke, Wesley, 448
44. Pass Sacks: Jarrell Chandler, Salisbury, 0.9
44. Pass Sacks: Bryan Robinson, Wesley, 0.9
45. All Purpose: Larry Beavers, Wesley, 142.3
48. Tackles: Dale Buck, SUNY Brockport, 10.6
49. Receiving Yards: Larry Beavers, Wesley, 443
Game Highs
7. Team Total Offense: Wesley vs. Frostburg State, 10/6/07, 676 yards
10. Rushing: Mike Pennewell, Wesley v. Montclair State, 9/22/07, 213 yards
14. Team Rushing Yds: Wesley vs. Frostburg State, 10/6/07, 411 yards
