Sophomore quarterback Tim Morrison completed 21-of-32
passes for 225 yards and a touchdown today for
Stonehill. |
Chargers TD with 21-seconds left the difference in
inaugural meeting
Boxscore
WEST HAVEN, Conn.
(September 26, 2009) - The University of New Haven scored
a touchdown with 21-seconds to play to claim a 23-16 victory over
Stonehill College in Northeast-10 Conference football action at
Ralph F. DellaCamera Stadium this afternoon.
Sophomore quarterback Ryan
Osiecki (Seymour, Conn./Seymour) connected with classmate
Sharieff Hall (Brockton, Mass./Brockton) for a
19-yard touchdown pass with 21-seconds to play. Osiecki then hit
sophomore Kameel Lashley (Boston, Mass./BCLA) for
the two-point conversion to put the Chargers up seven and clinch
the victory.
Osiecki, a transfer from the
University of Louisville, was 30-for-48 passing for 323 yards and
two touchdowns with one interception for New Haven which claimed
its first ever NE-10 victory. The Chargers are in their first
season of varsity competition after a five-year hiatus.
Sophomore Chris Ruffin (New
York, N.Y./Phillip Randolph) caught six passes for 122
yards, while Hall finished with seven receptions for 71 yards and
the one touchdown.
Sophomore Akaki Ramishvili
(Fair Lawn, N.J./Fair Lawn) led the New Haven defense with
a game-high 12 tackles (eight solo), including three for a loss of
eight yards. Sophomore Desmond Anderson (Jacksonville,
Fla./White) added five stops (four solo) and an
interception.
Sophomore quarterback Tim
Morrison (Billerica, Mass./Billerica Memorial) completed
21-of-32 passes for Stonehill for 225 yards and one touchdown and
an interception. Senior David Pringle (West Haven,
Conn./Westminister School) caught seven of those passes
for 56 yards. New Haven held junior running back Eddie
Vachon (Newton, Mass./Blair Academy) to a season-low 32
yards rushing on 19 attempts, while sophomore Danny
Carducci (Rocky Hill, Conn./Rocky Hill) rushed for a
score.
Sophomore cornerback
Stephan Neville (Foxborough, Mass./Foxborough) led
the Skyhawks defense with ten tackles (five solo), an interception
and another pass breakup. He also returned three kickoffs for 85
yards. Senior linebacker Greg Sanzari (Centerport, N.Y./St.
Anthony's) added eight stops (four solo), while classmate
Andrew Lesko (Florence, Mass./Northampton) chipped
in six tackles (three solo), including four for a loss of 13 yards
and one sack for a loss of eight.
Osiecki's gamewinning pass to Hall
capped a 12-play, 70-yard drive for New Haven that took just 2:57
after Morrison had hit sophomore Jordan Smith (Northfield,
N.H./Bishop Brady) for a four-yard touchdown pass to put
Stonehill up 16-15 with 3:25 remaining. Osiecki converted a big
fourth and ten play during the winning drive with an 18-yard
completion to Ruffin to the Skyhawks 19.
Morrison was able to get Stonehill
into New Haven territory after senior Brendan Law (Hamden,
Conn./Notre Dame) ran the pooch kick up to the Stonehill
42. Morrison found sophomore Oscar Alvarez
(Framingham,
Mass./Cushing) for a 16-yard completion
to the UNH 42, but two passes into the end-zone came up empty to
end the game.
Sophomore Stephan Neville led the defense with ten tackles
and an interception, while also returning three kickoffs for 85
yards. |
The teams traded field goals in the
opening quarter with New Haven freshman Michael Herrera
(Tamarac, Fla./J.P. Taravella) hitting a
35-yarder and Stonehill senior Brendan Gorey (West Islip,
N.Y./West Islip) converting a 37-yard attempt. The
Skyhawks forged in front early in the second quarter when they
turned a New Haven fumble just over midfield into a score.
Morrison found freshman
John Gomes (Hyannis, Mass./Barnstable) for a
17-yard pass on fourth and nine at the New Haven 30 to keep the
drive alive, before Carducci capped the 12-play, 59-yard drive that
ate 6:26 off the clock with a two-yard scamper.
After Gorey had a 42-yard field
goal attempt carom off the crossbar later in the second quarter,
New Haven got a score just before halftime. Osiecki capped a
6-play, 35-yard drive with a five-yard pass to freshman
Jason Thompson (Stuart, Fla./South Fork). The
Skyhawks blocked the Herrera extra point to take the lead into the
lockerroom.
New Haven scored the only points of
the third quarter when sophomore Victor Jones (Patterson,
N.J./Passaic County Tech) capped an 11-play, 69-yard drive
with a one-yard plunge with 14-seconds left in the frame. Neville
picked off the two-point conversion attempt by Osiecki.
On Stonehill's fourth quarter
scoring drive that briefly gave the Skyhawks the lead, Morrison
completed two big passes to senior Cory Wright (Hooksett,
N.H./Manchester Central), one for 31 yards to the UNH 25
on first and ten and another for 15 yards to the Chargers seven, on
second and seven, before finding Smith for a four-yard score three
plays later on fourth down.
New Haven finished with 358 yards
of total offense, just 32 rushing and 326 passing. Stonehill
compiled 280 yards of total offense, 225 passing and 55
rushing.
Stonehill (1-4, 0-3 NE-10) has next
weekend off before returning to action on Saturday, October 10, to
host Pace University on Easton Appreciation Day at W.B. Mason
Stadium at 1 p.m. New Haven (2-2, 1-2 NE-10) visits Southern
Connecticut State University on Friday at 7 p.m.
