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Thomas Reives hauled in
this touchdown pass as time expired in the first half. |
BOX SCORE
PHOTO MONTAGE
ANDERSON,
IND.
-- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology secured its fourth consecutive
winning season with a convincing 37-6 victory over
Anderson
University in Heartland
Collegiate Athletic Conference football action on Saturday.
Senior Derek Eitel (Marshall,
Ill.) completed a historic career
by finishing 20-29 through the air for 312 yards and four touchdowns
in three quarters of action.
Graduate student Thomas
Reives (Indianapolis/Arsenal Tech) added seven receptions for
117
yards and two touchdowns in his final college game. Junior Ben
Hopf (Huntingburg/Jasper) pitched in with a career-high 95
receiving yards four catches.
On the ground, sophomore
Kyle Kovach (Andrean/Munster) had a team-high 34 rushing yards
and senior Tyler Thornton (Willard,
Ohio) compiled 33 yards on the ground.
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Ben Hopf outleaped three
defenders to catch this fourth-down touchdown throw. |
The defense allowed just 204
yards in total offense and held
Anderson
scoreless until the final play of the game. Sophomore Matt Green
(Cincinnati,
Ohio/LaSalle) led the defensive
effort with seven tackles. Junior Scott Eaton (Fishers/Hamilton
Southeastern) had six stops, with senior Nick Murphy (Casey,
Ill./Casey-Westfield) and junior
Robby Alumbaugh (Mooresville) recorded interceptions.
Rose-Hulman's offensive unit
capped perhaps the best season in school history by setting four
team and numerous individual school records in the performance. Eitel capped his career with school records of 576 completions in
1,037 attempts for 7,507 yards and 52 touchdowns as a Fightin'
Engineer. His efforts also included single-season passing records
of 2,723 yards and 24 touchdowns.
Other school records for
Rose-Hulman included single-season marks for points (365), total
offense (4,282 yards), passing yards (2,849) and touchdown passes
(25).
Other individual marks
included junior Reed Eason (St. Louis,
Mo./Parkway North) with 71 receptions this season and
sophomore kicker Nick Schneider (Naperville,
Ill./Neuqua Valley) with 43 extra
points. Schneider also tied a school record with three field goals
in the victory over
Anderson.
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Matt Green (33) and
Scott Eaton (46) led Rose-Hulman in tackles on the day. |
The Engineers opened the
scoring on the first drive with a six-play, 55-yard drive that ended
on an 18-yard scoring strike from Eitel to Reives. The lead reached
10-0 on a 24-yard field goal by Schneider with 2:57 left in the
first quarter.
Eitel connected with
Huddleston on a nine-yard scoring strike with 9:33 left in the
second quarter as the lead reached 17-0.
Rose-Hulman rounded out the
first half scoring with two hail mary touchdown passes. The first
came on fourth and 20, and involved Hopf leaping over defenders to
haul in a 37-yard touchdown pass to make the score 24-0 in favor of
the Engineers with 2:29 left in the half.
The second was the final play
of the first half, when Eitel and Reives connected on a 31-yard
scoring strike in the left corner of the endzone to make the score
31-0 at the break.
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Andrew Huddleston ran
through an Anderson defender and dove across the goal line for a
TD on this play. |
The lead reached 34-0 on Rose-Hulman's
second drive of the second half, when Schneider booted home a
30-yard field goal after an interception by junior Robby
Alumbaugh (Mooresville) put the Engineers in the red zone.
Schneider contributed his
school record tying third field goal of the contest for the final
points in the 37-0 victory.
Rose-Hulman capped its fourth
consecutive winning season with a 6-4 mark, including a 4-3 record
in league play. Anderson
dropped to 1-8 overall and 1-6 in league play.
