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Seahawks Host RMU Today In NEC High Noon Showdown


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Staten Island, NY - The Wagner Seahawks lookfor their second Northeast Conference (NEC) win of the season when they host the Robert Morris Colonials in a Noon kickoff at Hameline Field.

Prior to kickoff, the Wagner athletic department will pay recognition to RMU head coach Joe Walton, who will be retiring at the end of the 2013 campaign. The only coach in RMU history, Walton was the architect of the program which began in 1994 at the Division III level, and went on to record six league titles. Walton enters the Wagner game with a mark of 110-87-1.

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After 35 years in the National Football League, eight as a player and 27 as a coach, including a seven-year tenure as head coach the New York Jets (1983-1989), Joe Walton guided Robert Morris' first-ever football team in 1994. Under Walton's tutelage, the Colonials have claimed outright NEC regular-season titles three times (1997, 1999, 2000) while sharing three others (1996, 1998, 2010). Walton led Robert Morris to back-to-back ECAC Bowl victories in 1996 and 1997, and in 1999 and 2000 he guided RMU to a pair of NCAA I-AA mid-major national crowns according to Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette.

Did You Know?
In 53 combined years as collegiate head coaches, Walt Hameline and Joe Walton have combined to win 327 games.

About the Seahawks
The defending NEC Champion Seahawks, picked No. 1 in the 2013 NEC Preseason Poll and No. 24 in the 2013 Lindy's Annual Preseason Poll, are 2-5 on the season. Wagner opened the campaign with a 28-21 come-from-behind win over Georgetown in the season opener on August 31. The following week, Wagner was edged by Merrimack in a 42-41 shoot-out on Sept. 6. Wagner was blitzed in its next three outings, by Syracuse (54-0, 9/14), Delaware (49-9, 9/21) and Bryant (47-28, 9/28), before taking a 20-3 lead at Sacred Heart and then pulling out the 23-20 win on Bryan Maley's game-winning kick. Prior to lost week's bye, Wagner dropped a 34-7 decision at Duquesne in a contest that was tied 7-7 entering the fourth quarter.

Dominique Is Unique
The Seahawks are led by 5-9, 205-pound senior running back Dominique Williams, a tough, sturdy and elusive back, and one who enters the Delaware game ranked fourth all-time in Wagner history in rushing yards (4,044) and third in scoring (264 points). Williams enters the Sacred Heart game ranked fourth all-time in NEC history with 5,032 all-purpose yards and seventh in rushing. Williams is a 2013 College Sports Journal Preseason Third-Team All-American and a 2012 Preseason All-NEC selection. In 39 games as a Seahawk, Williams has topped the 100-yard rushing mark 25 times.

20th All-Time Meeting Between Wagner, RMU
Robert Morris and Wagner will be meeting for the 20th time on Saturday. While the Colonials lead the all-time series 12-7, the Seahawks have won the last two matchups. Wagner's 38-17 road victory in 2011, followed by last season's 23-13 win on Grymes Hill, marks the Seahawks' first two-game winning streak in the series.

About the Colonials
The Colonials, fresh off an excruciating 21-20 loss to cross-town rival Duquesne, enter today's game with a 2-4 record and a 0-1 mark in the NEC. Robert Morris thought it had tied the game w-hen massive 6-4, 285-pound quarterback QB Paul Jones barreled into the end zone for a touchdown with 4:43 remaining in the fourth quarter, but the ensuing PAT was ruled high and wide. Trailing 21-20, the Colonials received the ball at their own 33-yard line with 00:54 remaining, but were unable to move into field goal range as time ran out and Duquesne held on. Jones has completed 86-of-176 passes (49%) for 1,087 yards, 9 TDs and 7 INTs. RB Deontae Howard is the Colonials' leading rusher. On defense, RMU features LB Mike Cook, who leads the NEC with 12.0 tackles per game.

LAST YEAR'S MEETING:
Wagner 23, Robert Morris 13
October 27, 2012
Staten Island, NY - Senior quarterback Nick Doscher completed 12-of-17 passes for 228 yards, junior RB Dominique Williams rushed for 112 yards on 23 carries and senior linebacker Mike Lombardo led a fierce defensive effort with nine tackles, to lead Wagner to a 23-13 Homecoming Day win over Robert Morris. The win was Wagner's fifth of what would eventually build to a nine-game winning streak, capped by a First Round NCAA FCS victory over Colgate. Sophomore Otis Wright set the tone early in this one, returning the opening kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown. The Seahawks would increase the lead to 13-0 at the half on a pair of field goals by redshirt junior kicker David Lopez), the first a 32-yarder with 13:20 left in the half made it 10-0 and the latter, a 33-yard boot as time expired in the opening half, gave Wagner the 13-0 bulge and momentum at intermission. Midway through the third quarter, Wagner took over backed up against their own 11-yard line following a 44-yard Tony Mancusa punt. Williams immediately got the Seahawks out of the hole with an 11-yard burst. The play set up a methodical, well-executed and time-consuming 17-play, 89-yard drive that was capped by a Doscher one-yard TD plunge. The 9:33 march provided Wagner with a commanding 20-0 edge.

Head Coach Walt Hameline
Now in his 33rd season as head coach, Walt Hameline, who doubles as the Seahawks' athletic director, owns a sparkling 215-132-2 (.620) record. In 2012, he led the Seahawks to their first-ever Northeast Conference (NEC) Football Championship with a thrilling 23-17 come-from-behind win over Duquesne on November 17, 2012, while clinching a berth in the 2012 D-I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Championship. The win personified the Green & White's as Wagner began the campaign with three straight losses, before winning its next nine games. In defying the odds throughout its triumphant march to the school's first-ever NEC title and the conference's first-ever NCAA FCS win, Wagner compiled a 9-4 record, including a 7-1 mark in the NEC. The Seahawks finished the season ranked 21st in The Sports Network Top-25 Poll and 22nd in the FCS Coaches Poll, marking the first time an NEC team has ended the season with an appearance in both official Top-25 polls. The accolades soon began to pour in for Hameline. After being named the NEC Football Coach of the Year, he was tabbed the 2012 FCS National Coach of the Year by both College Football News (CFN) and the College Sports Journal (CSJ). In the 2012 home opener against Monmouth, Wagner College Stadium was renamed Hameline Field in his honor. On November 6, 2010, Hameline became just the eighth active FCS coach to win 200 games with a 31-20 victory over Monmouth, is 54th on the all-time NCAA wins list (any level) and one of just 36 coaches to win 200 games at one school. The 1987 Kodak National Coach of the Year, after guiding Wagner to a 13-1 record and to the Division III National Championship, Hameline currently ranks sixth in victories among all active FCS coaches.

Maley's Game-Winning FG Caps 23-20 win at Sacred Heart
The Green & White rode the leg of junior kicker Bryan Maley (Eagle River, Alaska/Chugiak) at Sacred Heart, as the Alaska native nailed a 32-yard field goal and a pair of 45-yarders, the latter splitting the uprights with four seconds left to play, providing Wagner with the thrilling win on Oct. 5. Maley, who was named NEC Special Teams Player of the Week, was filling in for fifth-year senior David Lopez who suffered an ankle injury at Delaware (9/21) that has sidelined him since. Maley has big shoes to fill as Lopez was a 2010 All-NEC selection, a 2013 Preseason All-NEC pick, and ranks second on the all-time NEC field goals made list with 38.

Dominique Williams in the Record Book

WAGNER ALL-TIME RUSHING YARDS
1. Rick Sarille (1995-99) 5290
2. Terry Underwood (1985-88) 5010
3. Alonzo Patterson (1979-82) 4177
4. DOMINQUE WILLIAMS (2009-pres.) 4044

WAGNER ALL-TIME SCORING
1. Rick Sarille (1995-99) 334
2. Terry Underwood (1985-88) 330
3. DOMINIQUE WILLIAMS (2009-pres.) 264

Williams in All-Time NEC Record Book
NEC Rushing Yards
1. David Sinisi, MU, 2006-09 5,049
2. Larry McCoy, DUQ, 2009-12 4,549
3. Rick Sarille, WC, 1996-99 4,460
4. David McCarty, UA, 2006-09 4,287
5. Myles Russ, RMU, 2007-10 4,271
6. Jordan Brown, BRY, 2009-12 4,238
7. Dominique Williams, WAG, 2009- 4,044
8. Sam Dorsett, RMU, 1999-03 3,847

NEC All-Purpose Yardage
1. Jordan Brown, BRY, 2009-12 6,788
2. David Sinisi, MU, 2006-09 6,310
3. Rick Sarille, WC, 1996-99 6,263
4. Dominique Williams WC 2009- 5,032
5. David McCarty, UA, 2006-09 4,976

NEC Scoring
1. David Sinisi, MU, 2006-09 432
2. Rick Sarille, WC, 1996-99 300
3. Jordan Brown, BRY, 2009-12 290
4. Drew Smith, UA, 2009-12 270
5. Dominique Williams, WC, 2009- 264



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