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| Both teams observed a moment of silence in honor of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 |
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| Nick Hinojosa '13 |
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| Richard Renteria '15 closes in for a tackle |
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Showing posts with label monmouth. Show all posts
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Pioneers Fall To Monmouth
See the official game story here.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
PIONEER FOOTBALL IN ESPN.COM ARTICLE!
ESPN.com blogger Ryan McGee highlighted the Pioneers upset over the Monmouth Scots in a recent blog post.
After last week's blog when I wondered aloud where James Madison's win over Virginia Tech ranked among the all-time greatest upsets, I received an e-mail from reader Brian Taylor, who made a pretty good argument that the Dukes might not have even had the biggest upset that weekend.
On Sept. 11 Grinnell (Iowa) College knocked off fellow NCAA Division III (non-scholarship) foe Monmouth (Ill.) College 17-15. That doesn't seem like a big deal until you consider that in their previous three meetings the Pioneers had been beaten by the Fighting Scots by a combined score of 170-0 (2007: 42-0, 2008: 69-0, 2009: 59-0). According to Taylor, Grinnell sports a 48-man roster, multiple two-way players, and carried a preseason ranking of 214th out of 238 D3 schools. Monmouth, led by the '09 D3 Player of the Year, QB Alex Tanney, was ranked 17th. I don't care what game you're playing, if you beat a guy ranked 197 spots ahead of you, that is a pretty nice upset.
Read McGee's whole post here.
Jump on board the Pioneer train because we are starting to roll!
After last week's blog when I wondered aloud where James Madison's win over Virginia Tech ranked among the all-time greatest upsets, I received an e-mail from reader Brian Taylor, who made a pretty good argument that the Dukes might not have even had the biggest upset that weekend.
On Sept. 11 Grinnell (Iowa) College knocked off fellow NCAA Division III (non-scholarship) foe Monmouth (Ill.) College 17-15. That doesn't seem like a big deal until you consider that in their previous three meetings the Pioneers had been beaten by the Fighting Scots by a combined score of 170-0 (2007: 42-0, 2008: 69-0, 2009: 59-0). According to Taylor, Grinnell sports a 48-man roster, multiple two-way players, and carried a preseason ranking of 214th out of 238 D3 schools. Monmouth, led by the '09 D3 Player of the Year, QB Alex Tanney, was ranked 17th. I don't care what game you're playing, if you beat a guy ranked 197 spots ahead of you, that is a pretty nice upset.
Read McGee's whole post here.
Jump on board the Pioneer train because we are starting to roll!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The Pioneers beat Monmouth!
After opening the 2010 seasons with a win over Macalester, the Pioneers got another big win this past weekend! We played two-time defending conference champion Monmouth and beat them 17-15 at their place. We hadn’t beaten them since 2000, and they had won 21 straight conference games!
We took the opening kickoff and put together a 15 play touchdown drive that used up 6:40 of the first quarter. Our next score came in the second quarter on a one-yard run by Nick Hinojosa. The run capped a 5 play, 70 yard drive. The big play of the drive was 41 yard pass from Mike Bogard to Robert Seer. The score gave us a 14-0 lead, which we took into halftime.
Coming out of the half, our defense forced a three and out, and the offense launched a 13 play drive that used up another 6:32 of game time. Unfortunately we were only able to get a field goal out of the drive, but that would prove to be enough.
The defense came up huge the entire game. On Monmouth’s first drive of the game we stopped them twice for short gains on running plays. On third down Coach Martinez called the perfect blitz and senior Ryan Fletcher was able to get the big hit on their quarterback. He ended up coming out of the game after that play, and he never returned. Monmouth’s offense took a while to adjust to a new quarterback, and our defense kept bringing the pressure all game.
Monmouth eventually closed the gap to 17-15 late in the fourth quarter, and had the ball with a chance to win the game. The defense came up clutch again however, when Marquis Bradley forced a fumble with under five minutes, and on the next drive they stopped Monmouth on fourth down with less than one minute remaining.
This was a great victory for our program and for our players. All the hard work of the past few years has begun to pay off, but nobody is satisfied with our 2-0 start. We know that we have the potential to win every game left on our schedule, but we have the potential to lose them all as well. There are no guarantees for this team, so we’ll just keep working hard and try to make our own breaks!
We took the opening kickoff and put together a 15 play touchdown drive that used up 6:40 of the first quarter. Our next score came in the second quarter on a one-yard run by Nick Hinojosa. The run capped a 5 play, 70 yard drive. The big play of the drive was 41 yard pass from Mike Bogard to Robert Seer. The score gave us a 14-0 lead, which we took into halftime.
Coming out of the half, our defense forced a three and out, and the offense launched a 13 play drive that used up another 6:32 of game time. Unfortunately we were only able to get a field goal out of the drive, but that would prove to be enough.
The defense came up huge the entire game. On Monmouth’s first drive of the game we stopped them twice for short gains on running plays. On third down Coach Martinez called the perfect blitz and senior Ryan Fletcher was able to get the big hit on their quarterback. He ended up coming out of the game after that play, and he never returned. Monmouth’s offense took a while to adjust to a new quarterback, and our defense kept bringing the pressure all game.
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| Marquis Bradley and Ryan Fletcher |
Monmouth eventually closed the gap to 17-15 late in the fourth quarter, and had the ball with a chance to win the game. The defense came up clutch again however, when Marquis Bradley forced a fumble with under five minutes, and on the next drive they stopped Monmouth on fourth down with less than one minute remaining.
This was a great victory for our program and for our players. All the hard work of the past few years has begun to pay off, but nobody is satisfied with our 2-0 start. We know that we have the potential to win every game left on our schedule, but we have the potential to lose them all as well. There are no guarantees for this team, so we’ll just keep working hard and try to make our own breaks!
Monday, October 5, 2009
Pioneers Lose to #11 Monmouth
The Grinnell College football team ran into a buzzsaw on Saturday afternoon. In a cool drizzle in western Illinois, the 11th ranked, and defending conference champions, Monmouth Scots won handily 59-0.
The Scots displayed great offensive balanced putting up 240 rushing and 270 passing yards on the day and defensively they forced us into 5 turnovers. Heading into this game, our defense was holding opponents to 17.5 points a game and only 118 yards passing. So it's a testament to the Scots that they could move the ball so effectively against our stout defense.
We have no doubt Monmouth is the best team we've played in years here at Grinnell and we wish them the best of luck as they likely head into the NCAA Playoffs and represent the Midwest Conference all the way to the national title!
The Scots displayed great offensive balanced putting up 240 rushing and 270 passing yards on the day and defensively they forced us into 5 turnovers. Heading into this game, our defense was holding opponents to 17.5 points a game and only 118 yards passing. So it's a testament to the Scots that they could move the ball so effectively against our stout defense.
We have no doubt Monmouth is the best team we've played in years here at Grinnell and we wish them the best of luck as they likely head into the NCAA Playoffs and represent the Midwest Conference all the way to the national title!
Saturday, September 26, 2009
GRINNELL SHUTS OUT LAWRENCE 42-0!!
We had this game coming! Our players have worked so hard this season and have come up just short in our first three games against good teams. Not the case today where we put it all together for an awesome team victory 42-0. We finally put everything together on all three phases and recorded one of our largest margins of victory in a long time!
To read more about Saturday's game, please read our online story on the Grinnell Football homepage.
Next Saturday we travel to Monmouth College to take on the #11 ranked team in the country. Should be a lot of fun!
To read more about Saturday's game, please read our online story on the Grinnell Football homepage.
Next Saturday we travel to Monmouth College to take on the #11 ranked team in the country. Should be a lot of fun!
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