Atlantic Central Football Conference/Independents

[PA_wesleyfan]

HAVE TO HIT TE OPEN RECIEVERS

[Teamski]

Well, it easily could have been 21-3 at the half.  Wesley is just downright tired.  I hope they can get the energy to get back into the game.  The O-line is just getting overpowered and the D looks drawn......This is the first time I have seen this.

-Ski

[wesleydad]

oline real bad, abandoned the run but cant block.  d looks confused with all the players running on and off the field.  no excuses, make the plays and come back and win the game.

[SUADC]

That return was nice

[Teamski]

That return was nice

It helps!  Leave it up to Sean Hopkins to do it.

-Ski

[Teamski]

What the....     Dismal offensive performance.

-Ski

[Teamski]

Wesley's staying in it.  21-17 into the 4th.  They gotta quit throwing wasted long balls. 

-Ski

[Teamski]

Thank you defense. 

-Ski

[Teamski]

24-21 Wesley. The defense does it again and sets up the offense.

-Ski

[wesleydad]

the road warriors do it again.  come back to win against a very good huntingdon team.  will comment later, enjoying the beer and the win.  agree ski, long balls wasted many downs.

[Teamski]

Wesley pulls it off once again.  A big cudos to the defense.  They won this game.

Congrads to the Hawks to putting up one tough contest!  I know it is little consolation, but I was impressed by the preparation and motivation the Hawks showed today.  It was easily the best game I have ever seen them play against Wesley in all of games I have seen them play (all of them).   I hope you guys can slip in on a C bid, and who knows?

Now, Wesley needs some rest.  A home game next week against NNA should get them some needed "local" time.

-Ski

[thewaterboy]

Defense was clutch today! Wesley came out not ready mentally to play, Huntingdon was, and it showed for most of the game. Wesley had the big play on their side in this one though, although I do think they went deep a little too much. Sottilare had the recievers, he just couldnt hit them, but he executed when he had to and kept from throwing an interception. This Wesley team likes to save it to the fourth quarter to finally get going. I was really hoping for a more complete effort in this one. Come playoff time, I cant help but be a little concerned. At some point you have to wonder: How good is this team? I dont think we know yet. I hope the answer is great, but sometimes I feel they are a bit below where they should be.

I think a trip home against next week vs. NNA will get them rested and hopefully primed for the playoffs. I would like to see a complete 4 quarters of football.

[Teamski]

Now it begs the question if Wesley's 4 (with a 5th subsequently) ranked team opposition schedule a DIII record.....

-Ski

[wesleydad]

the game did not look good.  it seemed that there was no chance they would win it, but they did.  there is something about this team that is impressive.  the 16th ranked team in the country had 2 weeks to prepare for wesley and wesley had what was likely only 3 days to prepare for them and wesley pulls out the win.  huntingdon is a very nice team and deserves to be in the playoffs, but that will be tough unless some things break their way.  wesley's o line must improve its play, but if you look at the season they have been outplayed by 3 d lines from the south which may point to the level of players available down there.  i question some of the play calling today, inside the 10 early and the number of long passes during most of the game.  the defense keeps making the plays and that bodes well for the playoffs.  i just get a feeling that this team is going to make a deep run as they have not played a complete game and have beaten 4 ranked teams this year.  again, congrats to the hawks for a well played game and good luck the rest of the season.

[jknezek]

I made it to the game at Huntingdon today, met up with Hawks and DG, briefly said hi to DEWesley. Wesley is the biggest, most athletic, fastest D3 team I've seen since my one visit to the Stagg back when I was in college. That being said, their first half was a difficult series of mental errors and breakdowns and poor special teams. As evidenced from other posters, that team should have been better than they were. The sum of their parts was somehow less than the whole should have been.

Huntingdon played a very good game. They are a very good team, but not on Wesley's level. I was very impressed with Huntingdon's defense. The offense struggled against Wesley's defense, which I think was good in the first half and downright outstanding in the second.

I have no idea how Huntingdon lost to B-SC. I don't know how B-SC stayed as close to Wesley as they did, and if I was a playoff team, I would not look forward to playing either of them, though I'm thinking that loss will keep Huntingdon out.

That being said, Wesley needs to play better to reach their potential. Clearly they saw something in the first half that had them thinking they could throw long. They probably could if the qb was on target. He wasn't. And when he was, the receivers did him no favors. Can't blame it on the weather. There was a light breeze and it was cool for Alabama, but the weather was not a factor.

There were two things that really impressed me. 1) I don't know what the yards after contact were for Huntingdon, but they had to have been as small as I've ever seen. When Wesley touched the ball carrier, he went down immediately. That was impressive. Can only remember 1 missed tackle. 2) Huntingdon's defense played as hard as they could and almost pulled it off. By the 4th quarter, Wesley's superior athletes had taken control, but it was a close thing given Wesley's start.

A fun game to go see and those were two good teams. Wesley will be scarily good if they execute up to their potential.