FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Li'l Giant]

It's 14-10 Wooster after a Holter 66 yard run for a TD. 10:32 left in the 3rd.

Unfortunately, I can't keep updating because me and Mrs. Li'lGiant are headed out for dinner.

I guess we'll have to wait to find out who gets the Lantern.

[wooscotsfan]

It's now 21-10 Wooster leading after a Holter 2 yard TD pass to TE Cameron Daniels.   1:51 left in the 3rd Qtr.

Big Red drives down to Wooster 13 yard line but Scots D holds on a 4th and 6.  Wooster ball now with 11:27 left to play.

Denison gets a big interception at the Wooster 42 yard line.  Big Red ball with ~8 minutes remaining.

Wooster D registers a 14 yard QB sack on 3rd down and Denison has to punt.  Wooster ball with 6:41 left.

Big Red forces a punt.  Denison ball on their own 30 yard line with 4:21 left.

Denison drives to Wooster 18 yard line.  Scots D then gets a big interception on the 1 yard line!  2:52 left.

Wooster forced to punt but Big Red is now out of timeouts.  Denison ball on their own 41 yard line.  Only 24 secs left. 

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Wooster 21  Denison 10

The Lantern stays in Wooster as the Scots get a nice road win!   Wooster is now 3-0 with Earlham up next.

Wooster had 18 first downs and 407 total yards (212 rushing, 195 passing) compared to 322 yards for the Big Red.

[wab64]

How do we hire Brent Harris to announce the Wash U and Witt games? His work today was superb-particularly without a color man. He blended in his eMail thingys well, without ignoring everything-was right on the mark with the many substitutions, the down and yardage, and even though when something memorable occured, only dogs could hear him. Well done, Brent!! I even received my media guide early this week

[Black n Gold]

The game at Denison was great tonight.........the atmosphere was awesome and the place was packed as both teams put on a show. Holter looked outstanding tonight (although there were 5+ dropped passes). His 66 yard run was amazing and one for the highlight reel. The D looked pretty sharp, bending but not breaking. Brian Albani was all over the field tonight for Woosters D. For some reason Jordan Ferns didn't see one snap tonight which was mind boggling. But overall it was a great night for football and I must stay Denison has a great field/ atmosphere for football. We got to  see a glimpse of Mr. Zach Gusts speed as he took a hand off around the corner and put on the jets.

Go Scots, 3-0!

[Black n Gold]

Here's 2 articles on the Woo/ Denison game:

http://athletics.wooster.edu/fb/recaps/2008/denison.php

www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20080928/SPORTS/809280342/1006/SPORTS

[Kansas_kid]

        Congrats Wooster you get to keep the Ole Lantern this time. Good luck .
    See you next year

[owu98]

Been watching from afar but just can't sit back any longer.  9 pts in 3 games for OWU is just plain unacceptable!!!  What is going on there and who is running the offense?  It appears that the good old wing T is not the standard anymore but perhaps they should bring it back cause averaging a field goal per game doesn't seem to be working.  I don't want to pile on as i am sure things in Delaware are somber right now but someone has to be held accountable.  It would be nice to just be able to compete with the upper teams in the NCAC let alone win and i can't believe it has come to that.  OWU is too proud of a program to be saying that.  Something has to give and the old saying "well get um next game" is not good enough.  This is college football, not pee wee league.  Hopefully win #1 will come against Oberlin but these days that is not even a given anymore!!!  Anybody have any answers??

[aueagle]

Back from the mess in Delaware. It is tough to say what I saw & heard...missed tackles, dropped passes, poor pass protection, turnovers & many think  the game at Oberlin this Saturday will be tough to win. After 2 pre-season ('07/'08) outlooks of stating the Bishops will be back in the national spot-light & compete with the top tier of the NCAC, with "power running games & tough defenses", the talk looks to be cheap. I can't forget that this Bishop team was predicted to finish 4th/5th in the polls, but the wheels have come off the bus. The web announcer stated the OWU "O" is anemic. The 32-0 score should have worse...the Tigers fumbled in the red-zone in the last minute. QB Mike Fisher plays his guts out...after removal of a bonine tumor over the winter...he still looks thin and isn't the same as he was in '07. Insert Frosh QB Varner...many frosh are getting PT. I predicted that September would tell us plenty of this Bishop team.
With all that I saw..the one embarrising impression I have is looking at the recruits on hand for the game. Stuck at the end of the sideline with no recognition (boosters/ath. dept), I saw one alumni/football player speak with the young men at lenght about OWU. Give the guys a hotdog & a co-ed for cryin' out loud!
owu98...good to have your voice back. I will give you my answers this week...

[ADL70]

211th worst in turnovers (10) says a lot about the Bishops' O.

The capacity of Piper Stadium (5,000) must be overstated.  Or a lot of folks (only 3950) didn't get counted among the SRO crowd in Granville.

[nike]

Has OWU scrapped the wing-t in favor of something else?  Where is their running game? 
9 points, wow!  Does that include a touchdown, or all fieldgoals?

[Black n Gold]

The place was jammed packed! From listening to the Woo fans, it sounded like half of Woo's crowd was from Licking County supporting the Local boys from Johnstown, Licking Valley and Newark. As for the "White Out".......it looked pretty sweet, but I wanna give props to the Woo fans for wearing black for the "black out". It was a great night and a great ball game. Very loud at times, but Wooster stood strong. I was really impressed with the first possesion "no huddle" offense that Holter operated. He looked like Peyton Manning out there. The next 6 weeks are gonna be very tough for the Scots. Hopefully we can stay healthy against Earlham and then we have: Case/ away, Washington/ home and Wabash/ away. We will see how tough this defense really is. But throughout 3 games they have still aloud only 1 touchdown and held Barnes to -8 yards rushing. Way to go Scots!

Congrats to Holter as well for recieving the NCAC Offensive Player of the Week.

[ScotsFan]

The capacity of Piper Stadium (5,000) must be overstated.  Or a lot of folks (only 3950) didn't get counted among the SRO crowd in Granville.

My guess would be that capacity is a bit overstated.  Every report I've read stated that the crowd was at capacity...

I had thought about making the trek down to Granville.  I'll bet that was a pretty cool atmosphere at Piper stadium with the 'white out' from Denison fans and the 'black out' from the Woo fans.  But, I just couldn't pull myself away from watching Michigan claim their first signature win for Coach Rodriguez in what was the largest come from behind victory at the Big House in the 500th game at the Big House!!!  And against a previously unbeaten and top 10 Wisconsin to boot!!! 8)

[wally_wabash]

211th worst in turnovers (10) says a lot about the Bishops' O.

The capacity of Piper Stadium (5,000) must be overstated.  Or a lot of folks (only 3950) didn't get counted among the SRO crowd in Granville.

You're not counting the 5 TOs from Saturday...OWU has 15 TOs on the season is -9 on TO margin for the year.  Yeeouch. 

Has OWU scrapped the wing-t in favor of something else?  Where is their running game? 
9 points, wow!  Does that include a touchdown, or all fieldgoals?

One touchdown (vs. CMU) and one safety (vs. Wooster) accounts for OWU's 9 points. 

The first couple of times that I saw OWU play, they were wing-t.  Then Hollway started putting some shotgun into the offense, but it was basically still just the wing-t out of a shotgun.  Then the last time I saw them it looks like they want to run more of an Urban Meyer/RichRod kind of spread option, with some more passing, etc. etc. except to me it doesn't like they are fully committed to it (and OWU hasn't had an adequate passer in the years that I've seen them) and what you end up with is an offense that has no idea what it's supposed to be doing.  At least that's what it has looked like to me.  And the results seem to support that.  OWU seems to be in a bad, bad situation right now offensively and I'm not sure that there is an easy fix for it. 

[ADL70]

I thought the stats I was looking at had been updated, but you're right.  15 in 3 games.

I'm pretty sure 5000 was overstating the capacity of Piper Stadium.