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May 9, 2008
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Gator Defense Stymies Yeomen in 35-14 Victory Nov 11, 2006
Curt Anderson (Batavia, N.Y./Batavia Notre Dame) led the team with seven tackles, six solo, while Mateo Villa (Windsor, Ohio/Middlefield Cardinal), left, Andy Toner (Bethel Park, Pa./Bethel Park) and J.J. Davis (Bethel Park, Pa./Bethel Park) each picked up an interception in the end zone, holding the Yeomen to just 25% (1-4) in their red zone opportunities.
Oberlin responded when quarterback Greg Mangan found Cassius Harris from six yards out, knotting the score at seven apiece, before Robinson caught the second of his three touchdown passes with 1:05 to play in the first half from Jimmy Savage (North Canton, Ohio/Hoover), sending the Gators into the locker room with a 14-7 lead. The Gators turned the 14-7 lead into a 21-7 advantage when Savage found receiver Jim Lieb (Carrolltown, Pa./Northern Cambria), pictured below, open on a post route, before the junior receiver out-raced the Yeomen defense for the 83-yard touchdown, tied for the third longest passing touchdown in school history.
Carroll, who came into the game ranked fourth in Division III in rushing average (140.2 yards per game) and fresh off of a National Player of the Week effort against Kenyon in which he rushed for 336 yards and five touchdowns, was held to just 18 total rushing yards on 13 attempts, with a long rush of six in the game. Overall the Oberlin rushing game, which needed 40 yards to break the single season record for rushing yards in a season, was held to just 38 on 23 attempts.
Savage was 15-of-19 on the game for 249 yards and three scores, while also throwing an interception. With the first of his three touchdowns, the senior set the single season mark for the statistic, ending the year with 24 touchdown passes, adding to his lengthy list of single season school records in passing attempts, completions and yardage. For the season he completed 202 of 331 passes for 2,472 yards. Tarquinio completed his first ever pass attempt, becoming the first non-quarterback since 1995 to throw a touchdown pass. Mangan completed 25 of his 38 passes in the game for 350 yards, his second highest total of the season and third 300-yard game of the year, while also throwing a season-high three interceptions, as the sophomore quarterback came into the game having thrown just four interceptions all season.
Mangan completed passes to eight different receivers, with Schubert and Harris each catching six passes, the former for 92 yards and the latter 83.
Oberlin’s defense was led by Chase Palmer, who picked up 15 tackles, five solo, with Geoff Sirockman recording 10 stops in the contest. Palmer had the team’s only fumble recovery, while LaKristopher DeVant had an interception, which he returned for four yards in the first half.
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MEADVILLE, Pa. – The Allegheny College defense (6-4, 4-3 North Coast Athletic Conference), held Oberlin (5-5, 4-3 NCAC) running back R.V. Carroll, who came into the game ranked fourth in Division III in rushing yards per game, to just 18 yards on 13 carries, his season low, while picking off three passes in the end zone en route to a 35-14 Allegheny win.
The Gators never trailed in the game, as running back Mario Tarquinio (Charleroi, Pa./Charleroi) found Dallas Robinson (Wooster, Ohio/Northwestern) in the end zone, pictured at right, giving the hosts the 7-0 lead halfway through the first quarter.
The visitors would not back down, however, as Mangan found Chris Schubert open along the right sideline, where the junior sprinted into the end zone, cutting the deficit to 21-14. On the ensuing drive, the Gators used a steady effort from Tarquinio, scoring after a seven-play, 71-yard drive as the senior plunged into the end zone from two yards away, providing an insurance touchdown early in the fourth quarter. The Gators capped the scoring with a late Savage-to-Robinson 28-yard touchdown pass, sending the game to its 35-14 final score.
Tarquinio rushed 29 times for 141 yards and the touchdown, while Savage ground out 86 yards on 15 carries, and with Matt Cellini’s (Trumbull, Conn./St. Joseph) eight yards, it gave the Gators 235 yards on the ground for the contest. With his totals, he ended the contest with 1,202 yards for the season, scoring nine touchdowns. His total gives him the fifth highest single season total in school history.
Robinson and Lieb became the first duo to each record 100 or more yards receiving since Chris Conrad and Ronnie Anderson did it 11 years ago, Conrad with 119 and Anderson 112, against Wooster in 1985. Robinson hauled in seven passes in the contest, three for scores, for 120 yards while Lieb had five catches for 106 yards and the long touchdown. The three-touchdown effort for Robinson gave the senior five straight games with a touchdown reception to end his career, while the 11 he hauled in the season is the second highest total in school history. He finished 2006 with 56 catches and 765 yards, the reception total standing as the third highest in school history, and the yardage fifth best. Lieb’s 48 receptions this season gives him now the sixth highest single season total in school history, while also moving into seventh all time with 83 career receptions with a season to play.
The 38 yards given up by the Gator defense is the lowest this season for the squad, and the fewest in a season since the Gators held Hiram to just 20 rushing yards a season ago. The Blue and Gold came into the game with just seven quarterback sacks this season, but picked up three this afternoon, as Davis and senior Greg Sye (Titusville, Pa./Titusville) each had a solo sack, while Andrew Mihalcin (Beaver Falls, Pa./Blackhawk) and Nick Silva (Pascoag, R.I./Williston-Northhampton (Mass.)) combined for the third. 
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