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Fresh facesSyracuse’s use of freshmen against Rhode Island in the season-opener lacked a long-term outlook.See page 5

Right foot Wake Forest punter Alexander Kinal has emerged as one of the best in the ACC after beginning his college career at age 20.See page 11

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HANDSBy Matt Schneidman asst. sports editor

One team scored 40-plus points and the other was shut out in Eric Dung-ey’s first snaps as a freshman quar-terback, a game he found himself in

because of an injury to the starter. He was 15, manning the Lakeridge (Ore-

gon) High School offense against powerhouse Canby (Oregon) in 2011. Lakeridge lost 41-0, forcing a play-in game just to make the 32-team state tournament.

“That was getting thrown into the wolves right there,” Dungey said. “But it kind of pre-pared me for what this is right now.”

What this is right now is what nobody expected. Fifth-year senior quarterback Terrel Hunt tear-

ing his Achilles just seven minutes and 27 seconds into the first game. A true freshman taking the

reins, surrounded by intrigue and uncertainty, guiding Syracuse to a 47-0 win against Rhode Island. A semi-circle of cameras pinning the 19-year-old up against a wall as he gives brief, soft-spoken answers about prepping for a confer-ence opponent just four days after being thrust onto the Carrier Dome turf.

Nobody in Dungey’s inner-circle thought he’d play this year – his mom, dad and high school coach were certain he’d redshirt. At 6-foot-3, his hush is a surprise, his humility an added bonus. Coaches rave about his windmill dunks on the hardwood and mobility on the gridiron. A versatile athleticism complement-ed by an aura that draws respect from elders he now has to lead.

A year ago, Dungey was 2,798 miles away without his name attached to a college, start-ing a senior season in which SU offensive coordinator Tim Lester needed to see polish.

Dungey leans on identical circumstance, humble persona to take reins of SU offense

ERIC DUNGEY took over the Syracuse offense just 7:27 into the season after fifth-year senior Terrel Hunt went down with a torn Achilles. The true freshman had a similar scenario his freshman year of high school and four years later, finds himself manning the offense of an Atlantic Coast Conference team. david salanitri staff photographer

Now, the keys to a reformed offense lie in his hands as Syracuse tries to return to relevance.

“Eric Dungey has paid his dues,” fifth-year senior center Rob Trudo said. “He’s our quar-terback now.”

Syracuse wasn’t going to take a quarterback in the 2015 class, but Lester expanded the search once three-star QB holdover Alin Edouard’s arriv-al became cloudy. Recruiting director Eric White scoured major recruiting sites and compiled a list of the top 150 uncommitted signal-callers. Lester watched film on each one and Dungey’s tape stuck out.

On a visit to Syracuse during last sea-son, Dungey watched practice from the side-line. Shafer approached him to survey his thoughts, and Dungey astutely responded along the lines of, “So coach, ‘Seattle’ is double slant and ‘Fargo’ is clear-out flat,” clarifying what plays coincided with certain calls.

“Most young men would say, ‘Oh yeah coach, everything looks good,’” Shafer said. “Right then, I knew, hey, he’s a locked-in guy that watches the game differently than most young people.”

That observant, intellectual demeanor see dungey page 4

Eric Dungey became Syracuse’s quarterback midway through the first quarter of its first game of the season. The previous two true freshman starting QBs had success in their first go-rounds as well. Dungey will play in his second game on Saturday.

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ERIC DUNGEY — 10-17, 114 YARDS, 2 TDS, 0 INT. SEPT. 4, 2015

AJ LONG — 22-32, 171 YARDS, 0 TDS, 0 INT. OCT. 18, 2014

R.J. ANDERSON — 18-33, 203 YARDS. 2 TDS, 1 INT. NOV. 4, 2000

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lends itself to Dungey’s placidity off the field. His mother, Cindy, says he’s always had a quietness to him, and his father, Tim, says he won’t take over a room at first.

Even after heroics, Dungey is tame. He’d just thrown a game-winning touchdown on the last play against Lakeridge’s rival his junior year. Facing the media postgame, Dungey only gave credit to his coaches and the opposing players.

“We all kind of followed suit,” Dungey’s high school friend, Andrew Demonico said. “That was one of the best examples of leadership I’ve ever seen in a high school kid ever.”

Speaking with reporters Tuesday, one of Dungey’s answers centered around staying focused for his teammates. Another around Les-ter and Shafer giving him confidence. Other questions elicited immense praise for Hunt as a mentor and how all to expect on Saturday is for him to do the best for his teammates.

Cliché, but by the book. No answer given with any aggression, just a tranquility mask-ing his football flare.

“No one wants a quarterback coming in running their mouth right away,” said Tay-lor Barton, Dungey’s private quarterback coach. “You’ve got to go earn your stripes, and that’s what Eric’s done.”

Between the hashmarks is a gunslinger that holds his high school records for most single-sea-son passing yards (2,395), passing touchdowns (22) and career passing yards (10,124). Outside those, a dart with cleats - initially hidden by his height – that ran for 982 yards and 15 touchdowns last year.

SU coaches voice full confidence in not having to scale back the playbook, but even Dungey didn’t think he’d become immersed in it this quickly.

“When we were visiting with the coaches during all of our visits and what not, (redshirting) was the plan,” Cindy said. “I think Eric had embraced that because he saw the value of having the opportunity to get another year of education paid for.”

Even though she thought redshirting was still a possibility as recent as last Friday after-noon, Cindy was planning to fly from Oregon to Syracuse for the game. Eric told her not to – even if he got in at the end of a blowout – since the airfare was too steep. It was the first football game of his she’s ever missed, but now she’ll be seated in the Dome bleachers when her son trots out for his first collegiate start on Saturday.

Tim wishes Hunt was still the starter and Eric was redshirting, acknowledging his son will be humbled in the coming weeks, but knowing he can handle it. Lakeridge head coach John Parke expected his former prodigy to get in for the last 15 seconds against the Rams once he was named the No. 2, but now finds himself hoping an increased bulk just isn’t too much.

A situation pulled from the realm of the unre-alistic is now countered with cautious optimism.

Before playing Rhode Island, Lakeridge princi-pal Jennifer Schiele texted Dungey reminding him to slide when he escapes the pocket, which Lester noted he did. Parke mentions how even as a fresh-man, Dungey served as a role model to older players and how it mimics what he’ll be tasked with now.

His Lakeridge days have relevance now, just on a bigger stage. It’s a platform the teenager with peach fuzz creeping up his neck now finds himself at the center of, and one that showcases him at the helm of a new era in Syracuse football.

“I’ve always been more of the, ‘Let’s see what happens; if it happens, great,’ all the way through high school,” Tim said. “To be honest with you, it’s surreal.”

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ERIC DUNGEY posed a serious threat both in the air and on the ground at Lakeridge (Oregon) High School. He set program records for most passing yards in a season, most passing touchdowns in a season and most passing yards in a career. Now, he’s charged with revitalizing an SU offense that struggled last year. david salanitri staff photographer

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dungey


Tyrone Perkins ran to his left after quarterback Austin Wilson took the snap, collected the hand off

and sprinted 5 yards through the middle of Rhode Island’s paltry defense.

It was the first play for Perkins in his SU career. A meaningless, fourth-quar-ter rush that’s main purpose was to kill clock at the tail end of a 47-0 win.

Syracuse played 15 freshmen — 56 percent of the total class — in its sea-son-opening win, tied for the third most of any Division I team. In head coach Scott Shafer’s first two years as head coach, the Orange has used just 10 per-cent and 32 percent of its redshirts in the season’s first game, respectively.

If even some goes to plan for Syra-cuse, Perkins might not see the field again in 2015, and almost certainly never for a meaningful snap. Neither will Kenterius Womack — a QB-turned-wide receiver — who didn’t touch the ball, but played on Friday. And neither will safety Daivon Ellison or defensive tackle Anthony Giudice.

The focus in personnel usage comes with a difference in Syracuse’s priority. It’s a win-now mentality for a young Orange team that has its potential offensive and defensive stars nearly all coming up at the same time.

It’s a mindset based in long-term rea-soning, but lacks long-term logic.

“Here’s the bottom line. If that guy ends up being a starter next year, I don’t want his very first snap to be when he’s a starter,” offensive coordinator Tim Lester said, speaking generally. “You’re just trying to

get guys ready to go as quickly as possible.”Lester and the coaching staff want their

players to be ready when the bell rings for meaningful snaps. But it’s a catch-22. Using the athletes they see as part of their future, also, in a way, limits their future.

Shafer acknowledged on Thursday that he couldn’t really see any of the true fresh-men that weren’t on the two-deep depth chart playing a sizable role for Syracuse this season. So why, then, use a full year of eligibility on them now, when they won’t play an impactful role?

Though it potentially limits the depth of the roster in the short-term, redshirting will give athletes the chance to have more import-ant snaps in their fifth year on the team.

“A lot of people take it as ‘Man, I’m not good enough,’ said true freshman Jacob Hill, who played on Friday. “You’re young and you’re inexperienced. But mental reps is just as good as physical reps.”

Of course it makes sense to put Eric Dungey in the game. He’s the new starting quarterback. Jordan Fredericks appears ready to contribute as a running back. Even Matt Keller is on scholarship to be the long snapper from day 1.

When Shafer justifies his use of fresh-men with a win-now mindset, it should be in the context of those that can contrib-ute. Lester said that the coaching staff would have no regrets with their process, even if a player like Womack doesn’t step

on the field the rest of 2015. Syracuse is a team invested in its young

talent. Eighteen players on the two-deep depth chart are in their first or second year. With youth, of course, comes uncer-tainty. And the promotion of a meritocra-cy, one where unproven talent continues to push each other, is sensible.

But at the risk of potentially erasing a player’s best year — SU has four redshirt seniors slated to start on Saturday — lim-its what the player can bring to the table in a long-term sense. Of SU’s two-deep, 54 percent of them have redshirted a sea-

son. The benefit of patience is sprinkled throughout the roster.

“Well we’re just trying to win right here and right now,” Shafer said. “And that’s our focus. And regardless of what year a young man’s in, we’ll play the best players that have been the right to be on the field.

“It’s really just as simple as that.”Sam Blum is the sports editor at

The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be

reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @SamBlum3.

SU’s use of freshmen against URI lacked long-term vision

SAM BLUMTHAT’S WHAT I SAID

by the numbers

Percent of total yards against URI from SU freshmen (359 out of 426).

84.2Syracuse true freshmen who played on Friday against Rhode Island. That’s tied

for third-most in Division I.

15True freshmen that SU played in the

first game of 2013 against Penn State.

2Percent of players on the two-deep

depth chart that have redshirted while at SU.

54

KIELAN WHITNER was one of 15 freshmen to play for Syracuse in its game against URI. That’s tied for the third-highest in D-I. david salanitri staff photographer


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ERVIN PHILIPS will miss Syracuse’s game against Wake Forest because of a lower-body injury, per the injury report released by SU Athletics. He was seen on crutches Thursday afternoon, seemingly favoring his left foot. david salanitri staff photographer

4 home matchups highlight Syracuse’s weekend schedule

By Matt Schneidmanasst. sports editor

Sophomore Erv Philips won’t play this Satur-day against Wake Forest due to a lower-body

injury, per the Week 2 injury report released by Syracuse Athletics on Thursday night. He was seen earlier Thursday walking with crutches on campus, seemingly favoring his left foot but still touching his right to the ground.

Philips didn’t play in the second half of the Orange’s 47-0 win against Rhode Island last Friday after reeling in two touchdown catches on 41 yards and two receptions in the first 30 minutes. Both scores came off throws from freshman signal-caller Eric Dungey.

Philips’ absence opens room for Ben Lewis, who is the only non-freshman at the hybrid. True freshmen Dontae Strickland and Tyrone Perkins are the other two who’ve played the

spot this summer. Against URI, Lewis had a catch for 16 yards, Strickland two rushes for 42 yards and the touchdown and Perkins a carry for five yards.

Now the Orange is without its starting quarterback from Week 1 and one of its most versatile offensive weapons. SU (1-0) opens up Atlantic Coast Conference play on Saturday at 12:30 against the Demon Deacons (1-0).

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By Sam Fortierasst. web editor

Last weekend, every Syracuse home team emerged from its games victorious. Volleyball completed a 2-0 road trip and, despite having 23 shots, women’s soccer lost while visiting Buffalo by a score of 1-0.

This weekend, six SU teams are back in action while softball starts its fall slate. Men’s soccer and football draw conference foes at home, field hockey plays a game with high national-ranking stakes on the line and vol-leyball tries to stay unbeaten in Brooklyn, New York.

Men's SoccerOpponent: LouisvilleWhere: SU Soccer StadiumWhen: Friday, 7 p.m.

After struggling offensively for the first half of its last game against Rutgers, Syracuse got some much-needed help from its wings as

Korab Syla and Liam Callahan lifted the SU men’s soccer team to a 2-1 victory.

Syracuse (3-1) will need that help, both on offense and to rotate back on defense, when SU plays its first Atlantic Coast Conference game against No. 23 Louisville (3-1).

Field HockeyOpponent: North CarolinaWhere: J.S. Coyne StadiumWhen: Saturday, 1 p.m.

Heading into a No. 2 vs. No. 3 matchup this weekend, the lower-ranked Syracuse (4-0) has something prove against North Carolina (4-0). So far this season, the Orange’s defense has shut out two teams and allowed five or fewer shots in three of its four games.

Women's SoccerOpponents: Cornell and ColgateWhere: SU Soccer StadiumWhen: Friday, 3:30 p.m. and Sunday, 3 p.m.Jessica Vigna practiced set pieces earlier in

the week, yelling “One more!” until she got it right. The Orange has struggled to execute on set pieces run from the corner, despite totaling 11 in its last loss. The team averages over seven corner kicks per game as well. Syracuse (2-4) will need better execution if it hopes to knock Cornell (3-0-1) from the ranks of the unbeaten.

VolleyballOpponents: Arizona, Ohio State, Long Island UniversityWhere: Brooklyn, New YorkWhen: Friday, 4:30 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

With the game tied in a crucial third set against Georgia, Nicolette Serratore attacked from the service line. Six consecutive SU points, and four Serratore aces directly aimed at struggling Georgia players, led to the win. It’s partly why Syracuse (5-0) is still unbeaten heading into the LIU Blackbird Invitational, which takes place this weekend in Brooklyn, New York.

SoftballOpponent: Cornell, BinghamtonWhere: Binghamton, New YorkWhen: Saturday, 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.

The softball team begins its fall slate, which means new head coach Mike Bosch will have his first games, albeit exhibition ones, at the helm of his team. The team returns many of its starters from a season ago.

Cross CountryWhat: Harry Groves Spiked Shoe InvitationalWhere: University Park, PennsylvaniaWhen: Friday, 5:30 p.m.

The Orange — the men’s team is ranked as the third-best cross-country team nationally — will race in its second meet of the season Friday when it travels to Pennsylvania State University to race in the Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational.

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By Jesse Doughertyweb editor

When Syracuse’s defensive coaching staff fin-ished grading the tape of the Rhode Island game, their collective reaction indicated the sample size.

“That’s all? Those are the only plays?” SU head coach Scott Shafer recalled the coaches saying.

In a 47-0 season-opening win over Rhode Island last Friday, Syracuse’s (1-0) defense gave up two first downs and was only on the field for 19:46. The unit rolled out nine new starters in Week 1 — junior defensive end Ron Thompson was limited to late-down packages — and will remain unproven until it faces a tougher test than the Division I-AA Rams.

That will come against Wake Forest (1-0) at 12:30 p.m. in the Carrier Dome on Saturday, which starts SU’s Atlantic Coast Conference schedule and offers a better measurement of its new-look defense.

“We’re never satisfied with how we play,” SU safety Rodney Williams said Tuesday. “But we also do know that this week is a big week for us to show what we’re made of. It’s a young group, and a hungry group.”

The Demon Deacons aren’t an offensive juggernaut by any estimation, but there is a stark contrast between WFU and Rhode

Island’s respective offenses. Wake Forest faced Elon, a similar program to URI, in Week 1, and won 41-3 while collecting 591 total yards of offense. Quarterback John Wolford, who Shafer complimented during his Thursday press conference, went 20-for-27 for 323 yards and three touchdowns.

As far as watching Wake Forest’s film from last week, Shafer said Syracuse can pick up on offensive schemes and how Elon’s defense tried to attack them. The way the head coach summed up his team’s performance against the Rams can be applied to both teams heading into Saturday’s matchup.

“We also have to understand that it’s a (Foot-ball Championship Subdivision) opponent,” Shafer said. “You know our goal was to go in and handle that job with a sense of discipline and feel good about playing at a high level against a team that we should play at a higher level.”

Now the Orange preps for the only ACC team it beat last season, a 30-7 win on the road. The forecast is for a defensive battle of conference bottom-feeders, and SU’s defense will show if it can be relied upon for another season.

“There’s a lot of new starters, a lot of turn-over and we know that,” Williams said. “I think that’s just more of a reason to be motivated going into this game. We just want more foot-ball, more opportunities.”

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SU defense remains unproven heading into 1st real challenge

COREY WINFIELD returned an interception for a touchdown in SU’s shutout of URI. He and the defense will have a much harder test Saturday. david salanitri staff photographer

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By Michael Burke staff writer

Wake Forest punter Alexander Kinal remembers his first trip to the Carri-er Dome. It was the Demon Deacons’

season opener in 2011, and Kinal, then redshirt-ing, stood on the sideline as he watched live American football for the first time in his life. Naturally, he was confused.

“I remember we lost, which sucked,” Kinal said. “But that was a big awakening to me about how big college football was.”

Four years later, Kinal — a native Australian who left his home country for Wake Forest when he was 21 — has evolved into one of college foot-ball’s best punters. With almost a full season left, he’s already set records at Wake Forest and garnered recognition not typical for a punt-er, making him a fan favorite. Kinal will visit the Carrier Dome for the third and final time when Wake Forest (1-0) visits Syracuse (1-0) on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. in the Atlantic Coast Conference opener for both teams.

Before college, Kinal played Australian Rules football, a rugby-like sport that empha-sizes punting. One way to score is by kicking the ball between two goal posts, and the most common method of accomplishing that is with

the drop-punt, when a punter drops the ball and kicks it before it reaches the ground.

It wasn’t until he was 20 when Kinal tried to punt at a Division I school. The fall before he enrolled at Wake Forest, Kinal took a friend to a rugby club and had the friend videotape him punting. Kinal then sent that film to a number of schools, and Wake Forest was one that got back to him.

“The rest is history,” Kinal said. That includes three full seasons and the begin-

ning of a fourth as Wake Forest’s starting punter.

On a Wake Forest team that struggles offen-sively — Kinal punted for nearly 1,000 more yards than the offense gained in 2014 — Kinal’s foot aids a defense that shoulders an extreme load. Kinal frequently pins teams inside the 20-yard line — he did it 27 times in 2014. In

total, he punted 81 times without a touchback in 2014 and averaged 43.6 yards per punt, earn-ing him second-team All-ACC honors.

“He can make every punt, and he can place the ball very well,” Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson said.

Against Elon in Wake Forest’s season open-er on Sept. 3, Wake Forest had possession on fourth down near its own 10-yard line in the first quarter. Kinal booted the ball 70 yards inside the Elon 20, completely flipping the field.

It’s after punts like that one when line-backer Brandon Chubb, who also plays in punt coverage, said he’ll “dap up” Kinal before the punter heads to the sideline.

“I just like to tell him, ‘Thank you,’” Chubb said. Chubb acknowledged the perception that

niche players like kickers and punters aren’t

real football players, and he said that Kinal is viewed by his teammates as “one of the guys.”

“Sometimes there are kickers who play football, and sometimes there are football players who happen to kick,” Clawson said. “And Kinal is a football player who happens to punt. He’s tough…and I think our football team respects him because of it.”

Kinal was voted as a team captain prior to the season. He also represented Wake Forest at ACC Media Day in Pinehurst, North Carolina in July, one of only two special teams-only players at the event.

“I didn’t really expect that,” he said. “Well, of course I didn’t expect it. I’m a punter.”

After a 3-9 season in 2014, Kinal is one of the few bright spots for Wake Forest, and the fan base has latched on. There’s a Twitter account dedicated solely to Kinal and the SB Nation Wake Forest site, Blogger So Dear, launched an “official” Heisman Trophy campaign for the punter in June.

Kinal, however, says that those aren’t things he pays much attention to.

“My friend showed me (the Twitter account) just the other day,” Kinal said, “but that’s just white noise.

“My number one goal is to flip the field. That’s what I think about.”

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ALEXANDER KINAL tried punting a football at age 20 after playing Australian Rules football before college. He didn’t take long to pick it up, securing a spot on the Demon Deacons foot-ball team. Since then, he’s become one of the best in the country at the position heading into his final season at WFU. courtesy of wake forest athletics

I remember we lost, which sucked. But that was a big awakening to me about how big college football was. Alexander Kinalwake forest punter

11,035PUNTING YARDS

ALEX KINAL HOLDS THE WAKE FOREST CAREER PUNTING YARDS RECORD WITH 11,035 YARDS.

Wake Forest punter Alexander Kinal thrives after picking up football when he was 20

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By Sam Fortier asst. web editor

A few minutes after 11 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, 33-year-old Joventino Bermu-dez-Arenas entered a McMinnville, Oregon 7-Eleven and approached the man checking out. He took out a knife and stabbed 20-year-old Parker Moore twice in the chest.

Medics airlifted Moore to a Portland hos-pital, where he later died. Moore and Arenas did not know each other, and police reportedly found no motive.

The 7-Eleven sits across the street from the campus of Linfield College, where Moore played linebacker on the football team. Hours earlier, Moore helped shutout Linfield’s oppo-nent 59-0 to win its conference championship. At the 7-Eleven, KOIN 6 News reported Moore was buying beer with a friend, who stayed outside in the car.

That night, Moore’s close friends and team-mates, Kyle Chandler and Eli Faults drove an hour to Portland. The next morning, the team met in the locker room with grief counselors.

“We’re not going to pretend this didn’t hap-pen,” Linfield’s head coach Joseph Smith said. “We don’t want people dealing with it alone in their dorm rooms. I want (my players) to talk about it…(They’ll) never quite recover, but we want to honor (Parker) by being better men. I fully believe that if a bunch of young men living their lives that way then his death won’t be in vain.”

Linfield, a historically good Division III football school in McMinnville, Oregon, suddenly faced an adversity much greater than football, Smith said. It’s been ten months since the shock, since Moore’s death, since the improbable playoff run. The 2015 school year has brought pain. When a group of teammates couldn’t compromise on where to live, Chandler thought of what Moore would do to please everyone. For the first time in three years at Linfield, Chandler won’t room with Moore.

“It’s always in the back of your mind,” Chan-dler said. “The week after it happened, we had a week of just these gorgeous sunsets. When I wasn’t in playing, I would kind of just look off, sitting there on the football field thinking about him. I still have those moments. But you learn to live with it. You have to.”

The team’s focus was not moving on, but moving forward with his memory, Smith said.

This season, before its second game, Linfield will unveil a monument near the stadium, bearing Moore’s picture and some lights. The day after, Linfield will host a memorial run/walk event of 3.5 miles—Moore wore number 35—which will end at Maxwell Field, Linfield’s home turf.

The football team, playing in its first full season without Moore, has constant reminders of him. The No. 35, which hung inside Smith’s office this season, has been moved into the locker room. Little stickers honoring Moore have been slapped on helmets. The team takes

Moore’s away jersey out to practice and plans to bring it to road games. Nearly everyone on the team, Smith said, has dog tags, which Faults and Chandler helped design.

On the front is the Linfield logo with the slogan, “Play for Moore,” underneath it. Below that, the No. 35. On the back, it has John 11:25, the Bible verse Moore’s mother picked out.

“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even if they die.”

After Moore’s death, Linfield College had to decide whether it would take the field six days later against Chapman in the next round of the Division III playoffs.

Two days after Moore died, Monday, moti-vational speaker Will Keim addressed the team before it decided to practice that day. Tuesday, students on campus held a candle-light vigil. Wednesday, the team ate dinner together, talking mostly of Moore. Thursday, Chandler, Faults and Smith spoke to nearly 2,000 mourners at Moore’s memorial service. Friday, the team rested.

“We went out because that’s what Park-er would’ve wanted,” Smith said. “He was a worker, a grinder. I think he would’ve been mortified if we’d stopped then.

“But I honestly didn’t know how we’d come out and play.”

Linfield scored touchdowns on its first four drives and never let Chapman into the game. The following two weeks, 10th-seeded Lin-field beat two previously undefeated teams, Mary Hardin-Baylor and Widener. The Wild-cats run ended in the national semi-finals, losing, 20-14, to eventual-national champion Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Seven months later, speaking on the phone from his office, Smith talked about Linfield’s newest tradition. Moore’s jersey, the No. 35,

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Linfield honors late teammate with No. 35 jersey tradition

Linfield football rallied around the death of teammate Parker Moore, surrounding his No. 35 jersey with encouraging signs and flowers. There is a planned memorial run in Moore’s honor, a length of 3.5 miles in accordance with his jersey number. courtesy of linfield athletics

PARKER MOORE was killed last year, and his No. 35 jersey will be worn annually by the upperclassman defensive player who best embodies Moore. courtesy of linfield athletics

We’re not going to pretend this didn’t happen. We don’t want people dealing with it alone in their dorm rooms.Joseph Smithlinfield college head coach

will be worn by an junior or senior defensive player who best represents what Parker stood

for as a player and as a person. “In football, you’re never just playing for

yourself,” Chandler said, who was selected to don the number this season. “You’re not playing for the love of the game. You’re not playing to win. You’re playing for your brothers. We’re playing now for a brother that we love, and a brother that we lost. This is a lot more than just a game.”

On Sept. 12, Linfield begins its season with Homecoming against Chapman—the same team Linfield played against in its first game without Moore.

Saturday, 301 days after Moore’s death, a player in a Linfield College uniform will run onto the field with John 11:25 around his neck, wearing No. 35.

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We’re playing now for a brother that we love, and a brother that we lost. This is a lot more than just a game.Kyle Chandlerfriend and teammate of moore


NO. NAME POS. HT. WT. YR. HOMETOWN/HS

1 Julian Whigham CB 6-1 200 Sr. West Palm Beach, Fla./ Dwyer2 Eric Dungey QB 6-3 202 Fr. Lake Oswego, Ore. / Lakeridge2 Wayne Morgan CB 5-11 190 Jr. Brooklyn, N.Y. / Erasmus Hall3 Ervin Philips RB 5-11 181 So. West Haven, Conn./West Haven4 Zaire Franklin LB 6-0 230 So. Philadelphia, Pa./La Salle College4 AJ Long QB 6-0 181 So. Bethlehem, Pa. / Friendship Christian (Tenn.)5 Luke Arciniega DE 6-4 243 Jr. Sparks, Nev. / Spanish Springs5 Austin Wilson QB 6-3 217 So. Camp Hill, Pa. / East Pennsboro6 Rodney Williams S 5-10 196 R-Fr. Cherry Hill, N.J. / Cherry Hill West7 Troy Green WR 6-1 180 So. Skaneateles, N.Y. / Skaneateles7 Oliver Vigille LB 6-2 235 Sr. Miami, Fla. / Miami Central8 Antwan Cordy S 5-8 175 So. Homestead, Fla. / South Dade8 Steve Ishmael WR 6-2 203 So. Miami, Fla. / North MIami Beach9 Brisly Estime WR 5-9 178 Jr. Delray Beach, Fla. / Atlantic Community10 Sterling Hofrichter K/P 5-9 178 Fr. Valrico, Fla. / Armwood10 Terrel Hunt QB 6-3 238 Sr. Rosedale, N.Y. / Christ the King11 Trey Dunkelberger TE 6-5 238 So. Shillington, Pa. / Governor Mifflin11 Corey Winfield CB 6-1 181 So. St. Louis, Mo. / Riverview Gardens12 Ryan Norton K 5-11 188 Sr. Garden City, N.Y. / Garden City13 Ron Thompson DE 6-3 255 Jr. Southfield, Mich. / Southfield14 Kenterius Womack WR 6-1 170 Fr. Luverne, Ala. / Luverne15 Juwan Dowels CB 5-10 177 R-Fr. Sunrise, Fla. / American Heritage School16 Zack Mahoney QB 6-2 192 So. LaGrange, Ill. / Lyons Township17 Jamal Custis WR 6-5 224 So. Philadelphia, Pa. / Neumann-Goretti18 Dontae Strickland RB 5-11 194 Fr. Dayton, N.J. / South Brunswick19 Daivon Ellison S 5-8 168 Fr. Linden, N.J. / Don Bosco Prep20 Cordell Hudson CB 5-11 182 R-Fr. Largo, Fla. / Largo21 Chauncey Scissum S 6-2 207 So. West Henrietta, N.Y. / Rush-Henrietta22 Jordan Fredericks RB 5-10 208 Fr. Inwood, N.Y. / Lawrence23 Jonathan Thomas LB 6-1 214 So. Lawrenceville, Ga. / Collins Hill24 Shyheim Cullen LB 6-0 209 Fr. Lowell, Mass. / Lowell25 Kielan Whitner S 6-0 196 Fr. Lawrenceville, Ga. / Mountain View26 Tyrone Perkins HB 6-0 208 Fr. Glen Head, N.Y. / Friends Academy27 George Morris RB 6-0 192 Jr. Lawrenceville, Ga. / Central Gwinnett28 Christopher Fredrick S 5-11 173 Fr. Conley, Ga. / Cedar Grove29 Devante McFarlane RB 6-0 199 Jr. Wheatley Heights, N.Y. / Half Hollow Hills West30 Parris Bennett LB 6-0 216 So. Detroit, Mich. / University of Detroit Jesuit31 Kyle Kleinberg LB 6-0 223 Fr. Armonk, N.Y. / Don Bosco Prep (N.J.)33 Marqez Hodge LB 5-11 221 Jr. Miami, Fla. / Miami Central34 Jacob Hill RB 5-6 165 Fr. Detroit, Mich. / Detroit County Day35 Eric Jackson CB 5-9 170 Sr. Inglewood, Calif. / Pacific Palisades37 Ted Taylor LB 6-1 193 Jr. Riviera Beach, Fla. / Dwyer/ Dodge City Community College39 Troy Henderson LB 5-11 225 Fr. Cleveland, Ohio / St. Edward41 Eric Anthony S 6-0 196 Jr. Baldwinsville, N.Y. / C.W. Baker42 Jacob Green TE 6-1 250 Sr. Seattle, Wash. / Seattle Prep42 Joe Stanard S 5-10 199 Jr. Baldwinsville, N.Y. / C.W. Baker43 Terrell Drayton LB 5-11 215 So. Rosedale, N.Y. / Townsend Harris46 PJ Batten TE 6-3 234 So. Miami, Fla. / Dade Christian47 Matt Keller LS 5-11 217 Fr. Willow Street, Pa. / Penn Manor48 Cole Murphy K 6-3 188 So. Castaic, Calif. / Valencia49 Alryk Perry LB 6-1 221 So. Columbus, Ala. / Glenwood School50 John Raymon DT 6-5 308 Sr. Richboro, Pa. / Council Rock North51 Donnie Simmons DE 6-2 264 Sr. White Plains, N.Y. / Archbishop Stepinac52 Kayton Samuels NT 6-0 300 R-Fr. Ellenwood, Ga. / Arabia Mountain53 Lucas Albrecht DE 6-2 260 Sr. Hudson Falls, N.Y. / Hudson Falls53 Nathan Hines LS 6-6 245 So. Catonsville, Md. / Catonsville54 Tyler Cross DT 6-2 283 Fr. Douglassville, Ga. / Northview55 Rob Trudo C 6-4 301 Sr. Farrell, Pa. / Farrell56 Kenny Carter DE 6-4 257 Fr. Plainfield, N.J. / Plainfield57 Omari Palmer OT 6-3 305 Jr. Coram, N.Y. / Longwood58 Donnie Foster C 6-3 310 So. Savannah, Ga. / IMG Academy (Fla.)58 Hernz Laguerre LB 6-1 230 Sr. Spring Valley, N.Y. / Spring Valley59 Aaron Roberts OG 6-4 280 R-Fr. Chicago, Ill. / De La Salle Institute60 Cody Conway OT 6-6 281 Fr. Plainfield, Ill. / Plainfield North61 Samuel Clausman OG 6-3 317 Fr. Pembroke Pines, Fla. / St. Thomas Aquinas62 Andrejas Duerig C 6-3 297 Fr. Lowell, Ind. / Mount Carmel63 Evan Adams OG 6-6 314 Fr. Norwalk, Conn. / Norwalk63 Rony Charles NT 6-2 312 Sr. Medford, Mass. / St. Clement64 Colin Byrne OT 6-5 303 Fr. Coral Springs, Fla. / St. Thomas Aquinas65 Jamar McGloster OT 6-7 319 So. Hillside, N.J. / Saint Anthony67 Michael Lasker OT 6-5 295 Sr. Corona, Calif. / Santiago68 Nick Robinson OG 6-6 302 Sr. Baldwinsville, N.Y. / C.W. Baker69 Keith Mitsuuchi LS 5-10 223 Sr. Torrance, Calif. / South Torrance71 Alex Hayes OG 6-2 279 So. Ellenwood, Ga. / Tucker72 Steven Clark NT 6-2 303 Fr. Arab, Ala. / Brindlee Mountain72 Ivan Foy OT 6-5 280 Sr. Brooklyn, N.Y. / Fort Hamilton73 Jon Burton OT 6-8 304 So. Spotsylvania, Va. / Courtland74 Seamus Shanley OG 6-1 281 Sr. Syracuse, N.Y. / West Genesee75 Denzel Ward OT 6-8 325 R-Fr. Chicago, Ill. / Neal F. Simeon76 Keaton Darney OT 6-3 280 R-Fr. Los Angeles, Calif. / Loyola78 Jason Emerich C 6-3 273 Jr. New Ringgold, Pa. / Blue Mountain79 Anthony Giudice DT 6-1 273 Fr. Monroe Township, N.J. / Avon Old Farms (Conn.)79 Taylor Hindy OG 6-4 312 Jr. West Hills, Calif. / Chaminade Prep80 Tyler Provo TE 6-2 223 So. West Palm Beach, Fla. / American Heritage School82 Alvin Cornelius WR 6-1 183 Jr. Staten Island, N.Y. / Tottenville83 Sean Avant WR 5-10 207 So. Miramar, Fla. / Miramar84 Ben Lewis HB 6-2 213 Jr. Middletown, Md. / Middletown85 Nesean Crofford WR 5-10 178 Fr. Alpharetta, Ga. / Alpharetta86 Adly Enoicy WR 6-5 226 R-Fr. Delray Beach, Fla. / Atlantic Community87 Kendall Moore TE 6-5 245 Jr. Chicago, Ill. / Neal F. Simeon88 Clay Austin WR 5-9 164 So. Montclair, N.J. / Seton Hall Prep89 Josh Parris TE 6-4 246 Jr. Stone Mountain, Ga. / Stephenson90 Cameron MacPherson TE 6-3 248 Jr. Syracuse, N.Y. / Christian Brothers Academy92 Riley Dixon P 6-5 219 Sr. Blossvale, N.Y. / Christian Brothers Academy93 Qaadir Sheppard DE 6-3 247 Fr. Bronx, N.Y. / Iona Prep95 Chris Slayton DT 6-4 288 R-Fr. University Park, Ill. / Crete Monee97 Amir Ealey DE 6-3 237 Fr. Coatesville, Pa. / Coatesville99 Jake Pickard DE 6-5 244 Fr. Short Hills, N.J. / Millburn

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NO. NAME POS. HT. WT. CLASS HOMETOWN/LAST SCHOOL)

2 Cameron Glenn DB 6-1 200 R-Fr. Stone Mountain, GA (Stephenson)2 Kendall Hinton QB 6-0 185 Fr. Durham, N.C. (Southern Durham)3 Devin Gaulden DB 5-10 190 Gs. Miramar, FL (Wisconsin)4 Rocky Reid TB 6-0 220 Fr. Mt. Pleasant, NC (Concord)5 Zack Wary LB 6-4 225 RS Fr. Rogers, AR (Rogers)6 Tabari Hines WR 5-10 165 Fr. Florence, S.C. (Marlboro County)7 Maddox Stamey WR 6-2 180 RS Jr. Rutherfordton, NC (East Rutherford)8 Marquel Lee LB 6-3 235 Jr. Waldorf, MD (Westlake)9 Zach Dancel DB 6-0 200 Gs. Ellicott City, MD (Maryland)10 Amari Henderson DB 6-1 175 Fr. Charlotte, NC (Mallard Creek)10 John Wolford QB 6-1 205 So. Jacksonville, FL (Bishop Kenny)11 Dionte Austin DB 6-0 165 Fr. Baltimore, MD (Calvert Hall)11 Chuck Norgle QB 6-3 215 Fr. Downers Grove, IL (Montini Catholic)12 Tyree Harris WR 6-3 185 RS So. Marietta, GA (Marietta)13 Kyle Kearns QB 6-2 190 Fr. San Ramon, CA (Foothill)13 Jalen Latter DB 6-0 190 Jr. Charlotte, NC (Vance)14 Steven Claude WR 6-2 190 Fr. Miami, FL (Champagnat Catholic)14 Wendell Dunn DL 6-3 250 RS So. Miami, Fla. (Palmetto)15 Kyle Driscoll QB 6-1 215 RS Fr. Garden City, NY (Kellenberg Memorial)15 Cortez Lewis WR 6-1 200 RS Fr. Demopolis, AL (Demopolis)15 Garrett Wilson LS 6-3 195 Fr. Sanford, N.C. (Southern Lee)17 Steve Donatell TE 6-6 230 RS Jr. Lone Tree, CO (Highlands)18 John Armstrong DB 5-9 165 Jr. Orlando, Fla. (Olympia)18 Mike Weaver PK/P 6-1 180 RS So. Pine City, NY (Southside)20 Dezmond Wortham TB 6-0 205 RS So. Frisco, Texas (Hebron)21 Isaiah Robinson TB 5-10 215 So. Charlotte, NC (Independence)22 Matt Colburn TB 5-10 195 Fr. Irmo, SC (Dutch Fork)22 Ryan Janvion DB 5-11 190 RS Jr. Miami, FL (Dade Christian)23 James Ward TB 5-10 210 RS Jr. DeLand, FL (DeLand)24 Tyler Bell RB 5-11 205 Fr. Mobile, AL (Faith Academy)24 Josh Okonye DB 6-0 200 RS So. Sugar Land, TX (George Ranch)25 James Sriraman WR 6-3 175 Fr. Raleigh, NC (Cardinal Gibbons)25 Brad Watson DB 6-0 190 Jr. Round Rock, Texas (Westwood)26 Thomas Brown DB 6-3 220 Jr. Evans, GA (Air Force Prep School)26 Crawford Sloan RB 5-9 170 Fr. Raleigh, NC (Ravenscroft)27 Bryant Gross-Armiento DB 6-1 190 RS So. Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Rutgers)28 Teddy Matthews LB 6-3 240 RS Jr. West Palm Beach, FL (Royal Palm Beach)28 Christopher Pearcey TB 5-11 195 RS Fr. Bradenton, FL (Lakewood Ranch)29 Deonte Davis DB 5-10 185 Jr. Snellville, Ga. (South Gwinnett)30 Hunter Williams LB 6-0 220 RS Sr Wake Forest, NC (Wake Forest-Rolesville)32 Charles Argenzio FB 6-0 230 Jr. Richmond, VA (Fork Union Military Academy)32 Jessie Bates DB 6-2 185 Fr. Fort Wayne, IN (Snider)34 Demetrius Kemp DB 6-1 205 RS Fr. Demopolis, AL (Demopolis)35 Nate Mays LB 6-1 210 Fr. Dalton, GA (Dalton)36 Tylor Harris DL 6-4 305 Sr. Baton Rouge, LA (Episcopal)37 Thomas Dillon DB 5-10 180 So. Houston, TX (Kinkaid)38 Alexander Kinal P 6-4 205 RS Sr. Adelaide, South Australia (St. Peter’s)39 Jaboree Williams LB 6-0 240 So. Deerfield Beach, FL (Fort Lauderdale)40 Josh Banks DL 6-4 275 RS Jr. Cary, NC (Middle Creek)41 Devin Pike TE 6-6 245 So. Cincinnati, OH (Elder)42 Julian Jackson DL 6-4 220 RS So. Dothan, AL (Dothan)43 Justin Strnad LB 6-2 205 Fr. Palm Harbor, FL (East Lake)44 Kalin McNeil LB 6-1 225 RS Fr. McLeansville, NC (Northeast Guilford)45 Paris Black DL 6-3 250 Fr. Fayetteville, NC (Terry Sanford)46 Nick Luedeke TE 6-5 265 RS Fr. Cary, NC (Holly Springs)48 Brandon Chubb LB 6-1 245 RS Sr. Marietta, GA (Hillgrove)49 Trey Ndlovu RB 5-7 200 Fr. Hummelstown, PA (Hershey)50 Grant Dawson LB 6-1 225 RS So. Winston-Salem, NC (Reagan)51 Chris Calhoun DL 6-4 240 Fr. Alpharetta, GA (Centennial)53 Duke Ejiofor DL 6-4 275 RS So. Houston, Texas (Alief Taylor)54 Elontae Bateman DL 6-2 275 Fr. Memphis, TN (Ridgeway)55 A’Lique Terry OL 6-1 310 So. Miami, FL (Hialeah)56 Harry Warner OL 6-3 260 RS Fr. Spring Lake, NJ (Phillips Exeter Academy)57 Ali Lamot DL 6-2 265 RS Sr. Mebane, NC (Eastern Alamance)58 Vincent Paolucci LB 6-0 225 RS Fr. San Diego, CA (La Jolla Country Day)59 Leo Kone DL 6-3 290 Fr. New York, NY (The Dalton School)61 Sam Beckerman PK 5-10 175 Jr. Toronto, ON (North Toronto College Institute)62 Reid Althoff DL 6-4 255 RS So. Sarasota, FL (Riverview)63 Dylan Intemann OL 6-5 305 RS Sr. Wake Forest, NC (Wake Forest-Rolesville)64 T.J. Haney OL 6-6 330 Fr. Gaffney, SC (Gaffney)65 Josh Harris OL 6-4 310 Jr. Milton, GA (Milton)66 Rocco Esposito OL 6-5 315 RS So. Coraopolis, PA (Sto-Rox)67 Taylor Chambers OL 6-8 290 RS So. Columbia, S.C. (Irmo)68 Patrick Osterhage OL 6-4 300 RS Fr. Centerville, OH (Centerville)70 Ryan Anderson OL 6-6 290 RS Fr. Raleigh, NC (Wakefield)71 Nathan Gilliam OL 6-5 280 Fr Knoxville, TN (Farragut)72 Nathan Thacker OL 6-2 280 Fr. Troutville, VA (Lord Botetourt)73 Jake Benzinger OL 6-7 275 Fr. Williamston, MA (Mt. Greylock)74 Phil Haynes OL 6-4 290 RS Fr. Raleigh, NC (Enloe)75 Justin Herron OL 6-5 290 RS Fr. Silver Spring, MD (Bullis)76 Joel Suggs OL 6-6 300 RS Jr. Sophia, NC (Randleman)78 Tyler Hayworth OL 6-4 325 RS Jr. Kingsport, TN (Dobyns-Bennett)79 Cameron Gardner OL 6-5 285 RS So. Bailey, NC (Southern Nash)80 K.J. Brent WR 6-4 190 Gs. Waxhaw, NC (South Carolina)81 Scotty Washington WR 6-5 210 FR Washington, DC (St. John’s)82 P.J. Howard IV WR 6-1 190 RS SR Portsmouth, VA (I.C. Norcom)83 Jonathan Williams WR 6-3 185 RS JR Atlanta, GA (Mays)84 Brendan O’Neil TE 6-4 230 RS SO Burlington, MA (Buckingham Brown & Nichols)85 Cam Serigne TE 6-3 245 RS SO Ashburn, VA (Briar Woods)86 Jack Freudenthal TE 6-3 205 FR Glen Allen, VA (Trinity Episcopal)87 Alex Bachman WR 6-0 175 FR Moorpark, CA (Oaks Christian)88 Jared Crump WR 6-3 205 RS JR St. John’s, FL (Bartram Trail)89 Chuck Wade WR 6-0 200 FR Jacksonville, FL (Bishop Kenny)90 Rashawn Shaw DL 6-3 250 RS FR Fort Pierce, FL (Central)91 Chase Wilson LS 6-2 210 RS SO Mooresville, NC (Mooresville)92 Willie Yarbary DL 6-2 280 RS FR Augusta, GA (Richmond Academy)93 Zeek Rodney DL 6-1 295 SO Rock Hill, SC (South Pointe)94 William Flood DL 6-2 265 JR Atlanta, GA (Davidson)95 Shelldon Lewinson DL 6-2 260 RS JR Seffner, FL (Armwood)96 Chris Stewart DL 6-3 260 RS FR Petal, MS (Petal)97 Ben Brown PK 6-2 195 FR Chevy Chase, MD (Bullis)98 Adam Centers PK 6-0 195 SO Coppell, TX (Coppell)99 Kahlil Welsh II DL 6-3 270 FR Jacksonville, FL (Sandalwood)

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Editor’s note: The article below is a repub-lished story from The Daily Orange’s coverage of Syracuse and Wake Forest’s first-ever matchup in football on Sept. 1, 2011.

By Zach Brown

Kevyn Scott’s performance was a microcosm of the Syracuse defense.

The senior got beat on a couple pass plays through the first three quarters. He had to leave the game in the third quarter with a leg injury. And later in that period, he took a bad angle on a quick hitch that allowed Wake Forest wide receiver Chris Givens to scamper down the sideline for a score.

But, like the rest of his Orange team-mates, he turned it around in the fourth quarter and overtime.

‘I think Kevyn Scott, he showed resiliency,’ head coach Doug Marrone said. ‘He’s out there working, working. They win (some plays). Their receiver had a heck of a game in Givens. All of a sudden Kevyn Scott comes back with a great pick. That’s a fifth-year senior that never gives up.’

Scott picked off a pass late in the fourth quarter to deny the Demon Deacons a chance

to win the game in regulation, as he and the rest of the SU defense pulled themselves together and defeated Wake Forest 36-29. The Demon Deacons torched Scott and the rest of the SU defense for 326 yards in the air and 406 yards total, but the fourth quarter belonged to the Orange.

After the Syracuse ‘D’ showed no resem-blance to the unit that ranked No. 7 in the country from a year ago for 45 minutes, the unit overcame exhaustion and injuries to make key stops in the fourth quarter.

Scott in particular came up huge twice for the Orange.

He cut in front of Givens to pick off a pass from quarterback Ted Stachitaswith less than five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. Minutes later, on the last play of overtime, his blanket coverage sealed Syracuse’s come-from-behind win as he had perfect coverage to prevent a catch by Givens in the end zone.

‘Usually, in the past, we get down and we give up,’ Scott said. ‘But those guys never gave up. I went down, (safety) Phillip Thomas went down, but we never gave up. We kept fighting.’

Early on, some broken coverage led to big plays for Wake Forest that could have demoral-

ized the SU secondary. It was Givens in partic-ular that frustrated the Orange’s cornerbacks.

He was left uncovered down the sideline on the Demon Deacons’ second possession for a 37-yard catch. Givens would have likely scored on the play had he not fallen down making the grab.

In the second quarter, the junior receiver blew past Thomas for a 60-yard touchdown to put Wake Forest up 13-7. By halftime, he had already piled up 124 yards on just four catches.

‘Givens, all respect goes to him,’ Scott said. ‘He’s a good receiver. He runs some solid pat-terns, and he got himself open.’

The Demon Deacons held possession for over 20 minutes in the first half, whereas SU struggled offensively and repeatedly went three-and-out.

That left an already weakened defense exhausted. Defensive end MikhailMari-novich threw up twice on the field. Three of the four starters in the secondary needed medical attention at some point during the game.’It was really tough,’ linebacker Marquis Spruill said. ‘Everybody was cramping. Then they had to throw (freshman cornerback Brandon Red-dish) in for a little bit and everybody was like, ‘Oh, man.’ But everybody got back on track.’

They didn’t get back on track, though, until

the fourth quarter, when SU caught a break just before a Wake Forest field goal. SU defen-sive end Chandler Jones fell into the legs of Demon Deacons quarterback Tanner Price, knocking him out of the game.

‘When the quarterback went down,’ Jones said. ‘I felt like that was our time to kick it up a notch and start to get this ball moving.’

The Orange offense ignited itself and came back to tie the game, and the defense respond-ed to suffocate the Demon Deacons and backup Ted Stachitas.

SU held Wake Forest to just 37 yards of offense after Price left the game.

Scott’s interception helped send the game to overtime, where SU got the ball first and scored.

Wake Forest stalled at the 19-yard line and faced a fourth-and-four. And with Scott in one-on-one coverage with Givens on the outside, the Orange corner knew where the ball was going.

Stachitas tried to squeeze a fade pass into Givens in the end zone, but Scott was in perfect position as the pass bounced away to seal the win.

‘(Givens) was their guy,’ Scott said. ‘We were in man-to-man coverage. Last play of the game. And I seized the moment. I said, ‘Bring it on.’ And weprevailed.’

Syracuse took down Wake Forest 36-29 in overtime in 2011. The win was the first in SU’s current three-game winning streak against the Demon Deacons. SU wide receiver Van Chew scored the game-winning touchdown after the Orange outscored WFU 22-9 in the second half to stage the comeback. daily orange file photo

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Syracuse tops Demon Deacons in 2011 overtime contest


DATE OPPONENT TIME

Saturday, Sept. 12 Wake Forest 12:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 19 Central Michigan 12:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 26 Louisiana State TBA

Saturday, Oct. 10 South Florida TBA

Saturday, Oct. 17 Virginia TBA

Saturday, Oct. 24 Pittsburgh TBA

Saturday, Oct. 31 Florida State TBA

Saturday, Nov. 7 Louisville TBA

Saturday, Nov. 14 Clemson TBA

Saturday, Nov. 21 North Carolina State TBA

Saturday, Nov. 28 Boston College TBA

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PREGAME PLAYBOOKkey players

they said it beat writer predictionsby the numbers

With (Terrel) Hunt, you just feel bad for the kid. You don’t even think about it as a coach. You’re just trying to help him mentally through a rough time.Tim Lestersu offensive coordinator on injured qb terrel hunt

2

True freshmen quarterbacks to start for Syracuse since 1972.

10First downs Syracuse

allowed to Rhode Island in the season-opening

47-0 win.

Wake Forest took an early 7-0 lead but Syracuse responded with 30 straight points. SU’s defense had two touch-downs — a pick six by Robert Welsh and a returned fumble recovery by Micah Rob-inson — while Cole Murphy padded the scoreboard with three field goals.

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ERIC DUNGEYq ua r t e r b ac kHT: 6’3 WGHT: 202 YEAR: FRESHMAN

from the startDungey is set to make his first colle-giate start against Wake Forest after replacing the injured Terrel Hunt midway through the first quarter against Rhode Island. The following day, Hunt was ruled out for the sea-son and Dungey became the starter. He went 10-of-17 for 114 yards and two touchdowns in the Orange’s 47-0 win over the Rams.

syracuse

ZAIRE FRANKLINl in e b ac k e rHT: 6’0 WGHT: 230 YEAR: SOPHOMORE

round twoIn Franklin’s first game against Wake Forest as a freshman, he totaled three tackles — two for a loss, including a sack. Now as a sopho-more Franklin is a team captain who anchors the middle of SU’s defense. He had six tackles against URI last week and will get his first chance against a conference opponent on Saturday.

JOHN WOLFORDq ua r t e r b ac kHT: 6’1 WGHT: 205 YEAR: SOPHOMORE

wolf’s howl The sophomore quarterback started all 12 games Wake Forest played as a freshman. He threw for 2,037 yards and 12 touchdowns and set school records for most attempts, comple-tions, yards, touchdown passes and completion percentage by a true freshman QB.

RYAN JANVIONd e f e n si v e b ac kHT: 5’11 WGHT: 190 YEAR: RS JUNIOR

fresh meatAlthough Janvion didn’t intercept any passes last season, the Wake Forest captain will get a shot against a true freshman quarterback. Last season, Janvion recorded 115 tack-les, the most for a Wake Forest play-er since Jon Abbate racked up 120 tackles in 2006.

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JESSE DOUGHERTY wake forest: 20 syracuse: 14

Wake me up when

September ends

Syracuse’s 1-0 start to

the season was clouded by a season-end-

ing injury to starting quarterback Terrel

Hunt, and the Eric Dungey era starts off

with a close game that the Orange loses in

the red zone.

SAM BLUM syracuse: 10 wake forest: 6

Deforestation

Syracuse will continue its

recent habit of beating

Wake Forest. In what will be a low-scoring

game. Eric Dungey won’t look as poised

against his first ACC opponent, but he

won’t need much to give SU a 2-0 start to

the season.

MATT SCHNEIDMAN syracuse: 20 wake forest: 14

Exorcising demons

Two teams built on

staunch defenses won’t

light up the scoreboard, but Dungey

accounts for two touchdowns to prove his

success against URI can’t be deemed a

fluke just yet.

PAUL SCHWEDELSON syracuse: 24 wake forest: 17

Sleeper game

Two teams with similar

talent levels could make

for an incredibly competitive game, but

Syracuse’s youthful defense clamps down

late to secure a victory in a game SU must

win to keep its bowl hopes alive.

stats to know

77 percent of Syracuse's offense in Week 1 came from running plays,

23 percent passing plays.

running plays

passing plays

Syracuse maintained possession of the ball for 67 percent of its Week 1

matchup.

syracuse possession

rhode island possession

last time they played

SYRACUSE WAKE FOREST

syracuse 30wake forest 7

oct. 18, 2014

OFFENSIVE YARDS THIRD-DOWN CONVERSIONS

170

47.4%

20%

Jordan’s a beast man. He just plays football, that’s one thing I love about him. He doesn’t think twice about anything. If he sees a brick wall he’ll run into it without even thinking.

Steve Ishmaelsu sophomore wide receiver on freshman running back jordan fredericks

We really didn’t anticipate or want to throw him to the wolves like this so quick. But God love him … I liked his reads, he was on the right side of the field with a lot of his preparation.Scott Shafersu head coach on eric dungey

They had a lot of success against us a year ago. We’ll be challenged with their scheme and their personnel on both sides of the football.Dave Clawsonwake forest head coach on syracuse

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