Rochester at Gettysburg Game Notes
From the Gettysburg College Website:
Rochester at Gettysburg – Saturday, Sept. 17, 2005 – 1 p.m.
THIS WEEK’S GAME: Saturday’s 2005 Homecoming game marks the third meeting between Gettysburg (1-1) and Rochester (0-2), and the first to take place in Pennsylvania. The Yellowjackets hosted and won each of their first two meetings with the Bullets – a 7-0 victory in 1912 and a 31-6 decision last year. In the latter contest, then-freshman Matt Bielecki ran for four touchdowns to lead homestanding Rochester past Gettysburg 31-6 on Sept. 18, 2004. Making just his third collegiate appearance, Bielecki scored on runs of 8, 2, 36 and 3 yards as the Yellowjackets posted their first win of the 2004 season.
LAST TIME OUT: Despite record-breaking performances from sophomore QB Hunter McMillan (Middletown, DE/Wilmington Friends) and sophomore HB Shawn Hollingsworth (Chester, PA/Wilmington Friends [DE]), Gettysburg lost a 56-40 shootout at Hampden-Sydney last Saturday. McMillan set single-game program records for completions (35), attempts (62) and passing yards (404), and also threw for four touchdowns. Hollingsworth caught a program-record 12 passes for 172 yards and two TDs. Rochester also came out on the short end of a high-scoring affair on Saturday, falling at crosstown rival St. John Fisher, 58-32. Senior QB Aaron Molisani threw for one touchdown and ran for another in the loss while freshman RB Mike Sondericker returned a kickoff 78 yards for a touchdown, cutting the St. John Fisher lead to 34-18 early in the third quarter.
LEADING THE WAY: Senior OL Enoch Boateng (Vienna, VA/W.T. Woodson), senior DB Jay Cage (N. Charleston, SC/Sterling [NJ]), senior TB Joe Fricchione (Branchville, NJ/High Point Reg.) and senior DB Nathan Smith (Hanover, PA/Cooperstown Central [NY]) will serve as Gettysburg’s team captains in 2005.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: Gettysburg has boasted the Centennial Conference (CC) Offensive Player of the Week in each of the season’s first two weeks. Sophomore TB Tom Sturges (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield) earned the honor after rushing for 206 yards and two touchdowns in Gettysburg’s 34-27 win over Lebanon Valley on opening day. Hunter McMillan followed Sturges after a 404-yard, four-touchdown passing performance last weekend at Hampden-Sydney.
ALSO OUTSTANDING: Nathan Smith was recognized among the CC’s Other Outstanding Performers after recording a team-high nine tackles and making two interceptions against Hampden-Sydney on Saturday. Smith earned a special teams nod after returning a kickoff 86 yards for a touchdown against Lebanon Valley on opening day.
OFF AND RUNNING: Tom Sturges followed up his 206-yard rushing game against Lebanon Valley – the highest single-game total by a Bullet since Paul Smith in 1999 – with a solid 23-carry, 103-yard showing against Hampden-Sydney. Sturges leads the CC in carries (55), rushing yards (309) and yards per game (154.4).
RE-WRITING THE RECORD BOOKS: Hunter McMillan’s 35 completions and 62 attempts surpassed the program marks of 23 and 49, respectively, set by Jamie Steier against Ursinus in 1991. McMillan’s 404 passing yards – the first 400-yard game by a CC sophomore – broke the record of 385 set by Tim Brennan against Albright in 1970.
NOT TO BE OVERSHADOWED: Shawn Hollingsworth’s 12 receptions against Hampden-Sydney broke the mark of 11 set by Chris Notarfrancesco against Franklin & Marshall in 1994. Hollingsworth, who had three catches in his brief collegiate career before Saturday, ranks second in the CC in receiving yards per game (95.5) and third in receptions per game (6.5).
CATCHING ON: Junior WR Spencer Davidson (Dumont, NJ/Dumont) made seven receptions for 88 yards and one touchdown on Saturday, a 21-yard scoring catch to open Gettysburg’s 33-point second half. Davidson ranks second on the team with 12 receptions for 158 yards. He is fourth in the CC in receptions per game (6.00) and fifth in receiving yards per game (79.0).
PAYDIRT: After scoring only 14 touchdowns and averaging 10.5 points per game last season, the Bullets have found the end zone 11 times en route to 74 points in the season’s first two weeks. Tom Sturges and Shawn Hollingsworth lead the invigorated offense with three touchdowns apiece. Both are tied for third in the conference in scoring (9.0 points per game).
HIT PARADE: Junior LB Harold Barton (Somerdale, NJ/Sterling) leads the team with 24 tackles and ranks fourth in the conference with 12.0 tackles per game. Senior DL Dan Petersen (Beachwood, NJ/Toms River South) (8.0) and Nathan Smith (7.5) are also among the CC’s top 10 tacklers.
NATION’S BEST: Through games of Sept. 10, Tom Sturges ranked 14th in Division III with 154.5 rushing yards per game. Hunter McMillan was 27th in total offense with 282.5 yards per game. Nathan Smith ranked ninth with 33.4 yards per kickoff return and was tied for 23rd with 2.5 passes defended per game. As a team, Gettysburg ranked 22nd in total offense (480.0 yards per game), 25th in passing offense (286.0) and was tied for 31st in scoring offense (37.0 points per game).
BULLET POINTS: Senior LB Michael Schmidt (Huntington Station, NY/Walt Whitman) made his first collegiate interception on Saturday at Hampden-Sydney… The Bullets’ 40 points on Saturday set a program record for points in a loss, surpassing the mark of 36 set most recently in 2000… Gettysburg is seeking its fourth consecutive win on Homecoming Saturday. The Bullets downed Ursinus in 2002 and 2004, and Waynesburg in 2003.
THE WORD ON ROCHESTER: The Yellowjackets are seeking their first win of the 2005 season on Saturday. Sophomore RB Matt Bielecki, who ran for four touchdowns in last year’s meeting with the Bullets, is the Yellowjackets’ leading rusher so far in 2005. Bielecki has carried 37 times for 143 yards and one touchdown. Senior QB Aaron Molisani returns to lead the Rochester offense in 2005. Molisani has completed 31 of 60 passes for 290 yards and two touchdowns this season. He threw for 176 yards in last year’s win against Gettysburg. Senior WR Dave Ferris has nine catches for a team-high 99 yards and two touchdowns this season. Senior Jeff Leslie leads the team with 21 tackles while senior LB Nick Grow has 17 tackles and a team-best 2.5 sacks. The Yellowjackets are playing their second and final CC opponent of the season on Saturday. A last-second field goal lifted Johns Hopkins over Rochester 9-7 on Sept. 3.
COACH’S CORNER: Barry Streeter is in his 27th season as the head coach at Gettysburg, the longest coaching tenure in program history. He has posted a 133-127-5 record while guiding the Bullets to three CC championships and a pair of NCAA playoff victories. He ranks first among active CC coaches in both conference victories (71) and overall wins (133). Mark Kreydt enters his eighth season at the helm of the Rochester program in 2005. Kreydt has guided his alma mater to 24 victories during his tenure, including a first-place tie for the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association title in 2000 and a second-place finish in the University Athletic Association two seasons ago.
STREETER ON THE SECOND-HALF COMEBACK AT HAMPDEN-SYDNEY: “We had some confidence even though we’d only scored one touchdown in the first half. I think the score got them discouraged a little bit, but we just tried to get the point across that you’re never out of a game.”
STREETER ON HIS OFFENSE’S PERFORMANCE: “Our offensive line is really doing a good job and the kids executed the plan well. We had a lot of respect for Hampden-Sydney’s defense and we were able to get them in situations that they didn’t want to be in. But the whole thing’s about making plays on both sides of the ball and we had guys who were making plays.”
STREETER ON ROCHESTER: “They’re a good, talented team. It’s not like they’re 0-2 and they’ve got 0-2 talent – that’s as far from the truth as can be. Not having been there and played against them before, I don’t have as great a feel as some of the other coaches who played against them (last year). Their assessment is they could be a solid team in our conference and that’s enough for me. I know it will be a battle.”
STREETER ON HOMECOMING SATURDAY: “It will give us a lift, for sure. There will be a good crowd and we’ll have alumni back who want to see what kind of football team we have. I think we have a good football team and the kids are motivated to show that to the people.”
Rochester at Gettysburg – Saturday, Sept. 17, 2005 – 1 p.m.
THIS WEEK’S GAME: Saturday’s 2005 Homecoming game marks the third meeting between Gettysburg (1-1) and Rochester (0-2), and the first to take place in Pennsylvania. The Yellowjackets hosted and won each of their first two meetings with the Bullets – a 7-0 victory in 1912 and a 31-6 decision last year. In the latter contest, then-freshman Matt Bielecki ran for four touchdowns to lead homestanding Rochester past Gettysburg 31-6 on Sept. 18, 2004. Making just his third collegiate appearance, Bielecki scored on runs of 8, 2, 36 and 3 yards as the Yellowjackets posted their first win of the 2004 season.
LAST TIME OUT: Despite record-breaking performances from sophomore QB Hunter McMillan (Middletown, DE/Wilmington Friends) and sophomore HB Shawn Hollingsworth (Chester, PA/Wilmington Friends [DE]), Gettysburg lost a 56-40 shootout at Hampden-Sydney last Saturday. McMillan set single-game program records for completions (35), attempts (62) and passing yards (404), and also threw for four touchdowns. Hollingsworth caught a program-record 12 passes for 172 yards and two TDs. Rochester also came out on the short end of a high-scoring affair on Saturday, falling at crosstown rival St. John Fisher, 58-32. Senior QB Aaron Molisani threw for one touchdown and ran for another in the loss while freshman RB Mike Sondericker returned a kickoff 78 yards for a touchdown, cutting the St. John Fisher lead to 34-18 early in the third quarter.
LEADING THE WAY: Senior OL Enoch Boateng (Vienna, VA/W.T. Woodson), senior DB Jay Cage (N. Charleston, SC/Sterling [NJ]), senior TB Joe Fricchione (Branchville, NJ/High Point Reg.) and senior DB Nathan Smith (Hanover, PA/Cooperstown Central [NY]) will serve as Gettysburg’s team captains in 2005.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: Gettysburg has boasted the Centennial Conference (CC) Offensive Player of the Week in each of the season’s first two weeks. Sophomore TB Tom Sturges (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield) earned the honor after rushing for 206 yards and two touchdowns in Gettysburg’s 34-27 win over Lebanon Valley on opening day. Hunter McMillan followed Sturges after a 404-yard, four-touchdown passing performance last weekend at Hampden-Sydney.
ALSO OUTSTANDING: Nathan Smith was recognized among the CC’s Other Outstanding Performers after recording a team-high nine tackles and making two interceptions against Hampden-Sydney on Saturday. Smith earned a special teams nod after returning a kickoff 86 yards for a touchdown against Lebanon Valley on opening day.
OFF AND RUNNING: Tom Sturges followed up his 206-yard rushing game against Lebanon Valley – the highest single-game total by a Bullet since Paul Smith in 1999 – with a solid 23-carry, 103-yard showing against Hampden-Sydney. Sturges leads the CC in carries (55), rushing yards (309) and yards per game (154.4).
RE-WRITING THE RECORD BOOKS: Hunter McMillan’s 35 completions and 62 attempts surpassed the program marks of 23 and 49, respectively, set by Jamie Steier against Ursinus in 1991. McMillan’s 404 passing yards – the first 400-yard game by a CC sophomore – broke the record of 385 set by Tim Brennan against Albright in 1970.
NOT TO BE OVERSHADOWED: Shawn Hollingsworth’s 12 receptions against Hampden-Sydney broke the mark of 11 set by Chris Notarfrancesco against Franklin & Marshall in 1994. Hollingsworth, who had three catches in his brief collegiate career before Saturday, ranks second in the CC in receiving yards per game (95.5) and third in receptions per game (6.5).
CATCHING ON: Junior WR Spencer Davidson (Dumont, NJ/Dumont) made seven receptions for 88 yards and one touchdown on Saturday, a 21-yard scoring catch to open Gettysburg’s 33-point second half. Davidson ranks second on the team with 12 receptions for 158 yards. He is fourth in the CC in receptions per game (6.00) and fifth in receiving yards per game (79.0).
PAYDIRT: After scoring only 14 touchdowns and averaging 10.5 points per game last season, the Bullets have found the end zone 11 times en route to 74 points in the season’s first two weeks. Tom Sturges and Shawn Hollingsworth lead the invigorated offense with three touchdowns apiece. Both are tied for third in the conference in scoring (9.0 points per game).
HIT PARADE: Junior LB Harold Barton (Somerdale, NJ/Sterling) leads the team with 24 tackles and ranks fourth in the conference with 12.0 tackles per game. Senior DL Dan Petersen (Beachwood, NJ/Toms River South) (8.0) and Nathan Smith (7.5) are also among the CC’s top 10 tacklers.
NATION’S BEST: Through games of Sept. 10, Tom Sturges ranked 14th in Division III with 154.5 rushing yards per game. Hunter McMillan was 27th in total offense with 282.5 yards per game. Nathan Smith ranked ninth with 33.4 yards per kickoff return and was tied for 23rd with 2.5 passes defended per game. As a team, Gettysburg ranked 22nd in total offense (480.0 yards per game), 25th in passing offense (286.0) and was tied for 31st in scoring offense (37.0 points per game).
BULLET POINTS: Senior LB Michael Schmidt (Huntington Station, NY/Walt Whitman) made his first collegiate interception on Saturday at Hampden-Sydney… The Bullets’ 40 points on Saturday set a program record for points in a loss, surpassing the mark of 36 set most recently in 2000… Gettysburg is seeking its fourth consecutive win on Homecoming Saturday. The Bullets downed Ursinus in 2002 and 2004, and Waynesburg in 2003.
THE WORD ON ROCHESTER: The Yellowjackets are seeking their first win of the 2005 season on Saturday. Sophomore RB Matt Bielecki, who ran for four touchdowns in last year’s meeting with the Bullets, is the Yellowjackets’ leading rusher so far in 2005. Bielecki has carried 37 times for 143 yards and one touchdown. Senior QB Aaron Molisani returns to lead the Rochester offense in 2005. Molisani has completed 31 of 60 passes for 290 yards and two touchdowns this season. He threw for 176 yards in last year’s win against Gettysburg. Senior WR Dave Ferris has nine catches for a team-high 99 yards and two touchdowns this season. Senior Jeff Leslie leads the team with 21 tackles while senior LB Nick Grow has 17 tackles and a team-best 2.5 sacks. The Yellowjackets are playing their second and final CC opponent of the season on Saturday. A last-second field goal lifted Johns Hopkins over Rochester 9-7 on Sept. 3.
COACH’S CORNER: Barry Streeter is in his 27th season as the head coach at Gettysburg, the longest coaching tenure in program history. He has posted a 133-127-5 record while guiding the Bullets to three CC championships and a pair of NCAA playoff victories. He ranks first among active CC coaches in both conference victories (71) and overall wins (133). Mark Kreydt enters his eighth season at the helm of the Rochester program in 2005. Kreydt has guided his alma mater to 24 victories during his tenure, including a first-place tie for the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association title in 2000 and a second-place finish in the University Athletic Association two seasons ago.
STREETER ON THE SECOND-HALF COMEBACK AT HAMPDEN-SYDNEY: “We had some confidence even though we’d only scored one touchdown in the first half. I think the score got them discouraged a little bit, but we just tried to get the point across that you’re never out of a game.”
STREETER ON HIS OFFENSE’S PERFORMANCE: “Our offensive line is really doing a good job and the kids executed the plan well. We had a lot of respect for Hampden-Sydney’s defense and we were able to get them in situations that they didn’t want to be in. But the whole thing’s about making plays on both sides of the ball and we had guys who were making plays.”
STREETER ON ROCHESTER: “They’re a good, talented team. It’s not like they’re 0-2 and they’ve got 0-2 talent – that’s as far from the truth as can be. Not having been there and played against them before, I don’t have as great a feel as some of the other coaches who played against them (last year). Their assessment is they could be a solid team in our conference and that’s enough for me. I know it will be a battle.”
STREETER ON HOMECOMING SATURDAY: “It will give us a lift, for sure. There will be a good crowd and we’ll have alumni back who want to see what kind of football team we have. I think we have a good football team and the kids are motivated to show that to the people.”
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