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Staten Island, NY - After two tough, close, defensive-minded defeats on the road, Wagner returns to action when the Seahawks play their 2012 home and Northeast (NEC) opener against neighboring rival Monmouth as the Hawks make the 88-mile round-trip from the Jersey Shore to Grymes Hill for the 1:00 pm kickoff.

HOW TO FOLLOW THE GAME
The Wagner-Monmouth game will be broadcast live, free of charge, on wagnerathletics.com. This is the first Wagner football game to be streamed via NEC Front Row, a partnership between the Conference and the Pack Network. News 12 The Bronx/Brooklyn Sports Anchor Pat O'Keefe will describe all of the play-by-play action. Seahawk fans can also receive game updates from the team's official Twitter account: @WagnerAthletics.


FIELD AT WAGNER COLLEGE STADIUM TO BE NAMAED HAMELINE FIELD PRIOR TO KICKOFF
According to script, at precisely 12:42 pm in a pregame ceremony at the 50-yard line, the field at Wagner College Stadium will officially and forever more be named “Hameline Field,” in honor of long-time Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Walt Hameline. Adding to the ceremonial feel of the day will be the presence of players and coaches from 1987 Division III National Championship team as Wagner College recognize the 25th anniversary of 1987 Division III National Champioship. On Nov. 6, 2010, Hameline, who is in his 32nd year as AD/Football Coach, became just the eighth active Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) coach to win 200 games with a 31-20 victory over Monmouth. He also ranks 16th all-time among FCS coaches and 18th among active NCAA coaches. He enters the Monmouth game with an overall record of 204-125-2 (.621) .

1987 TEAM TO BE HONORED ON 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF DIVISION III NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
The greatest day in the long and illustrious gridiron history of Wagner College came on a sunny December 12, 1987 in Phenix, Alabama, as the Seahawks captured the 1987 NCAA Division III National Championship with a 19-3 victory over the University of Dayton and finish with a 13-1 reecord.

HARD-LUCK SEAHAWKS SEEKING FIRST WIN OF 2012
The Wagner football team is playing some of the best defense in the land as the Seahawks enter today's home and NEC opener ranked No. 10 nationally in scoring defense, yielding just 10.0 points per game. Both of Wagner's losses this season followed similar scripts. At FBS member Florida Atlantic on a steamy August 31 night in Boca Raton, the Green & White held a 3-0 lead into early in the fourth quarter when the Owls connected on their only big play of the night, a 39-yard touchdown pass and held on to win 7-3. On September 8, on another hot, humid day, this time in Washington, DC, the Seahawks led Georgetown for the majority of the game until a late third-quarter touchdown by the Hoyas put Georgetown on top 10-7 en route to their eventual 13-10 win. Junior RB Dominique Williams (Bridgeton, NJ/ Milford Academy) was held to 66 yards rushing on 22 carries, snapping his streak of 100-yard games at five.

DID YOU KNOW?
Every time senior QB Nick Doscher (Moore Catholic/ Staten Island, NY) gains a yard running or passing, he adds to his Wagner all-time total offensive yardage mark which,following the Georgetown game, stands at 6,248.

VETERAN MONMOUTH HEAD COACH WAS SEAHAWK ASSISTANT FROM 1981-83
Kevin Callahan is entering his 20th season as Monmouth head coach and is the only head coach in the history of the Hawks' program.  Included in his rise through the coaching ranks was a stop in Staten Island, NY where he served as Wagner's defensive coordinator under Walt Hameline from 1981 to 1983. During his three seasons on Grymes Hill, the Seahawks, compiled a 25-4-2 record and were ranked in the top 10 in Division III each of his three seasons. In 1983, Wagner reached the quarterfinals of the Division III playoffs.  

CRAWFORD IS BACK: NEW NUMBER, SAME PLAYER
When Seahawk fans gaze out across the field, they will see a familair-lookng player at wide receiver but he'll be wearing number 88 instead of his customary number 14. Fifth-year senior wide receiver David Crawford (Carrollton, TX/ Hebron), who suffered a season-ending shoulder injury in week three last week, led the way for Wagner in the receiving department vs. Georgetown last week with six catches for 72 yards. Early in the fourth quarter with the Seahawks trailing 10-7, Wagner answered with a nine-play, 42-yard field goal drive highlighted by a gorgeous 20-yard third-quarter catch by Crawford as the outstretched 6-4, 215-pounder made a leaping grab of a well-placed Nick Doscher pass along the left sideline. The highlight reel catch helped lead to a 44-yard field goal by senior kicker David Lopez (Plantation, FL/ American Heritage) with 5:19 remaining in the game to knot the score at 10-10.

O'CONNOR LEADS NEC IN TACKLES
In the nip-and-tuck affair vs. Georgetown, senior free safety and reigning Northeast (NEC) Conference Defensive Player of the Week Patrick O'Connor (Leominster, MA/ Leominster) led the hard-hitting Seahawk defense with a career-high 13 tackles. O'Connor, who tied his previous career high of 10 tackles while copping his NEC honor in the season-opening 7-3 loss at Florida Atlantic on August 31, is ranked No. 1 in the NEC in tackles per game at 11.5, which is also tied for 14th nationally. The 6-1, 190-pound O'Connor is one of of Wagner's four newly-minted captains. O'Connor ranks No. 1 in the NEC in tackles per game at 11.5, which is also tied for 14th nationally.

WILLIAMS LOOKS TO RE-START 100-YARD GAME STREAK
Redshirt junior running back Dominique Williams (Bridgeton, NJ/ Milford Academy) saw his streak of 100-yard rushing games come to a halt at five when Georgetown limited him to 66 yards on 22 carries. Williams' century mark streak began on October 29, 2011 when he plowed his way through blizzard-like conditions for 145 yards on 35 carries vs. Albany. The 5-9, 200-pound Williams spearheaded Wagner's season-ending three-game winning streak with a 109-yard effort vs. Sacred Heart, a career-best 216-yard affair at Robert Morris (11/12), before rumbling for 116 yards in the season finale at Monmouth (11/19). Williams then opened the 2012 season with a 117-yard effort at FBS member Florida Atlantic on August 31. For his career, Williams has rushed for 100 yards or more in 13 of 22 games.    
    
WAGNER-MONMOUTH: THE LAST TIME
Seahawks Outlast Hawks in Season Finale, 44-29
Nov. 19, 2011
West Long Branch, NJ – Running back Dominique Williams (Bridgeton, NJ/ Bridgeton Academy) rushed for 116 yards on 18 carries and two touchdowns and threw his first career touchdown pass while senior linebacker Julian Stanford (Bloomfield, CT/ Bloomfield. now a member of the Jacksonville Jaguars, blocked a punt that was returned by senior safety Jeremiah Brown (Brooklyn, NY/ Grand Street Campus) for a touchdown.

Stanford later scored a TD of his own on an interception return to highlight Wagner's wild 44-29 win over Monmouth in the season finale for both teams.
 
In closing the 2011 season with three consecutive wins, the Seahawks finish with a 4-7 overall record, including a 4-4 mark in the Northeast Conference (NEC). Monmouth ends its season with a 5-6 mark and also finished with a 4-4 NEC record. With those identical 4-4 league records, Wagner and and Monmouth finish in a tie for fourth-place in the eight-team NEC. The Wagner victory came on the heels of wins over Sacred Heart (29-21 on Nov. 5) and at Robert Morris (38-17 on Nov. 12).
 
Monmouth got on the board first, marching 66 yards in nine plays, culminating in a 31-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Craig Peterson to wide receiver Tristan Roberts on what would be first of three Peterson to Roberts TD connections. The Seahawks answered right back. Freshman Otis Wright (Fort Lauderdale, FL/ Dillard) gave Wagner excellent field position at its own 45 following a 25-yard return. After a personal foul penalty on the Hawks gave Wagner a first down at the Monmouth 28, the Seahawks reached into their bag of tricks as Williams rushed to the right and then straightened up and fired a 28-yard scoring strike to senior wide receiver Justin Matthews (Hillside, NJ/ Hillside), tying the game at 7-7.
 
That's the way the score remained until the waning minutes of the opening period. On third-and-1 from the Seahawk 24, Williams busted loose for a 76-yard touchdown run. It was the longest touchdown run of Williams' career and second-longest overall run of his career, topped only by last week's 79-yarder at Robert Morris. Wagner held the 14-7 lead until Peterson found Roberts for a 29-yard score with 13:26 left in the second quarter, capping a five-play, 59-yard drive that bridged the first and second quarters.
 
With the score tied at 14-14, Monmouth was forced to punt on a fourth and two from its own 37 and this is when Stanford struck, bursting through to block the punt that was recovered and returned 22 yards for a touchdown by Brown to give Wagner the lead for good at 21-14.
 
The Seahawks took that 21-14 into the locker room at halftime and the score remained that way for most of the third quarter. With less than six minutes left in the quarter, Wagner again struck for a big play, this time it was sophomore cornerback Torian Phillips (Staten Island, NY/ Port Richmond) coming up with an interception at the Hawk 32. For Phillips, it was his team-leading fourth INT of the season. After three plays netted five yards, senior kicker Mark Mangion (Basking Ridge,, NJ/ Ridge) came on and delivered a clutch, career-long 44-yard field goal to give the Seahawks a two-score lead at 24-14 with 4:20 to go in the third.
 
Early in the fourth quarter, Monmouth put together a long drive that appeared destined to result in points until the Seahawks struck for yet another huge, momentum-changing play. A drive, that featured a good mixture of Peterson passes and effective runs by Julian Hayes, ended when Peterson was stripped loose of the ball on a third-and-one at the Wagner seven.
 
As was the case earlier on the punt block involving Stanford and Brown, another pair of Seahawk seniors playing their final game in the Green & White combined on this one as defensive tackle Sal Gigante (New Windsor, NY/ Cornwall Central Catholic) got the strip, and defensive end Quintin Anderson (Rochester, NY/ Milford Academy) picked up the loose ball. The athletic 6-5, 280-pound Anderson then rumbled 68 yards, all the way to the Monmouth 28.For Anderson, who also had eight pass breakups this season, it was his third fumble recovery of 2011.
 
Three plays later, Doscher found emerging sophomore tight end Joe Sidaras (Mastic Beach, NY/ William Floyd) on a 20-yard touchdown to extend the Seahawk lead to 31-14 with 9:11 remaining.    
 
Following a 44-yard kickoff return by Eric Sumlin, Monmouth countered quickly with a four-play, 45-yard drive with Peterson hitting wide receiver Neal Sterling on a 20-yard score on first down to make it a 31-21 game at the 7:45 mark of the third quarter. Monmouth then tried an on-side kick which the Hawks recovered before being whistled for illegal touching. Instead of it being Monmouth ball, Wagner took over at the Hawk 49 and promptly moved 49 yards in six plays with Williams darting over the left side from 17 yards out to put Wagner out in front, 38-21 with just 4:45 remaining in the game.
 
With four minutes remaining in the game, Stanford stepped in front of a Peterson pass and raced untouched into the end zone, building the lead to an insurmountable 44-21 margin. For Stanford,it was his second “pick-six” of the season as he had one two weeks ago on Senior Day in the win over Sacred Heart.