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Football Looks To Close Season With Third Straight Win Saturday At Monmouth In Noon Start

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Following a 29-21 Senior Day win over Sacred Heart and a rosuing 38-17 victory at Robert Morris, the Wagner football team looks to end the 2011 season with its third straight win when the Seahawks travel to Monmouth on Saturday to meet the Hawks in a Noon start.

Wagner enters the game with a 3-7 overall mark, 3-4 in the Northeast Conference (NEC) while the Hawks are 5-5 on the season, 4-3 in league play. The Hawks, who will be celebrating their own Senior Day, are winless at home this season (0-5) and undefeated on the road (5-0). Monmouth is coached by Kevin Callahan, a former assistant under Seahawk head coach Walt Hameline at Wagner.

TODAY'S GAME
Wagner and Monmouth enter today's meeting with different emotions from one another. After enduring a seven-game losing streak, the Seahawks have rebounded with wins over Sacred Heart and at Robert Morris and would love nothing more than to end their season on a three-game winning streak. For Monmouth, the goal is three-fold - to end the season with a winning record, to send its seniors off on a postive note on Senior Day and finally, to snap a seven-game home losing streak.

THE SERIES
Wagner and Monmouth, charter member of the NEC Football League, have met 18 times since the conference's inception in 1993 and the all-time series is tied at 9-9. Not only is the series dead even, neither team has ever won more than two straight games vs. th other.

HAMELINE REACHED CAREER MILESTONE IN LAST YEAR'S WIN OVER MONMOUTH
On Nov. 6, 2010 in Staten Island, Wagner head coach Walt Hameline became just the eighth active FCS head coach to win 200 games. He is also just the 66th coach in NCAA history to reach the 200-win club and the 35th to do so at one school. Hameline has been a part of 218 Seahawk wins (out of 378 in school history) (.572). The Brockport State alum was able  to share the celebration with his wife Debbie and daughters Kristen & Kelly on the field following the game. 200-win t-shirts were distributed before a nine-plus minute video of tributes that includes warm wishes from Wagner President Richard Guarasci, NEC commissioner Noreen Morris, former New York Giant quarterback Phil Simms, former New York Jet quarterback Boomer Esiasan, current Giants coach Tom Coughlin, current Mississippi State coach and former Wagner assistant Dan Mullen and current Toronto Raptors assistant coach P.J. Carlesimo.Hameline is a longtime resident of nearby Colts Neck, NJ.

WILLIAMS COPS SECOND NEC HONOR OF SEASON, FIFTH OF CAREER
WILLIAMS IS RANKD 11TH IN NATION IN RUSHING YARDS PER GAME (122.2)
WILLIAMS IS RANKD 12TH IN NATION IN ALL-PURPOSE YARDS PER GAME (151.5)

Sophomore running back Dominique Williams, who ran for 216 yards and scored four of Wagner's five touchdowns in a 38-17 NEC win over Robert Morris on Saturday, has been named the NEC-Co-Offensive player of the Week. Williams shares this week's honor with Jordan Brown of Bryant who gained 243 yards on 33 carries vs. Sacred Heart. This marks the second time that Williams has been honored by the NEC this season. Following a 26-carry, 180-yard effort vs. Saint Francis (PA) on September 3, Willams picked up his first NEC Offensive Player of the Year Award. Williams has now been honored by the NEC five times in his career as he was the NEC Rookie of the Week on three occasions in 2009 before sitting out the 2010 season with a knee injury. The 5-9, 200-pound averaged nearly 7.0 yards per carry on the way to his first career 200-yard rushing performance against Robert Morris. Williams ran 32 times, three of which resulted in first-half scores as the Seahawks took a 24-3 lead into the break.  One play after Robert Morris' second-quarter field goal cut Wagner's lead to 14-3, Williams kept the Seahawks in control by sprinting 56 yards for a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, he ripped off a career-long 79-yard run that set up his fourth touchdown of the game. Williams now has 1,222 rush yards rushing on the season which places him eighth on the Seahawk single-season list to go with 12 touchdowns. This marks the fifth time that a Seahawk has been cited by the NEC this season. Sophomore cornerback Torian Phillips was named Defensive Player of the Week following the November 5 victory over Sacred Heart. Redshirt freshman cornerback Jarrett Dieudonne copped NEC Rookie of the Week honors following a big game vs. Georgetown (10/8). Williams and junior linebacker Carl-Olivier Prime were named Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, respectively following Wagner's 38-28 season-opening win over Saint Francis (PA).
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