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Sye Runs Wild Over Hiram In Gator Win
October 11, 2003
Junior running back Jamie Sye (Ttitusville, Pa./Titusville) had career highs in rushes and yardage as he carried 28 times for 190 yards and two touchdowns as the Allegheny College football team defeated Hiram College, 37-14, on the road for their second win over the season. Senior wideout Jon Turner (Franklin, Pa./Franklin Area) tied the school mark for career touchdown receptions, catching his 18th in the game.
The Gators, now 2-3 and a perfect 2-0 in the North Coast Athletic Conference, held their third straight opponent under 300 yards of offense and churned out 385 yards of their own. The running game accounted for 250 of those yards while the passing attack contributed 135 yards.
Senior quarterback Bubba Smith (Doylestown, Ohio/Chippewa) finished 14-22 for 123 yards and two scores. Turner caught six balls for 53 yards. Freshman quarterback Tom Roszell completed 23-47 passes for 214 yards for the Terriers, but was sacked seven times by the Allegheny defense.
Allegheny took a 3-0 lead on a 31-yard field goal by Aaron Polack (Medina, Ohio/Medina) at 11:30, but Hiram quickly erased that lead. Dan Crofoot blocked a Gator punt midway through the first quarter, setting up shop for Hiram at the Allegheny 14-yard line. Three plays later, they held a 6-3 lead.
That lead, however, was short lived. Polack knotted the game with a 30-yard field goal on the next drive, and on the Gators first drive of the second quarter, Sye scored his first of the game on a one-yard plunge giving Allegheny a 13-6 lead. Polack tacked on a third field goal before the half, a 28-yarder that capped a 12-play, 88-yard drive with 4:03 remaining in the first half to make it 16-3.
The Gators continued to pull away in the third quarter. Senior Brian Woods (Pittsburgh, Pa./Avonworth) returned a punt to the Hiram six-yard line after the Gator defense pinned the Terriers at their own three. On the first play of the ensuing drive, quarterback Bubba Smith (Doylestown, Ohio/Chippewa) hit Turner for his 18th career touchdown reception.
Woods would later score on an eight-yard pass and Sye would run in from three yards to cap the Gator scoring. Hiram scored with 8:40 left in the fourth quarter and a converted the two-point attempt, capping the scoring at 27-14.
The Gators look to stretch their win streak to three games for the first time since the 2001 season when they travel to Wooster on Saturday, October 18, for a 1:00 p.m. game. The Fighting Scots, ranked 17th in the nation, lost to Oberlin on Saturday, 14-7.