Hobart Bowls Over Buffalo State, 45-21, Files for an ECAC Bid

The Hobart College Statesmen honored their (4th and 5th year) seniors Saturday in the final regular season game at the "Boz". According to the HWS Athletics Game Notes these Statesmen players were playing in their "last" home game (definitely the case for the 5th years, but whether or not that is correct for the others is TBD):

ILB BRYAN AGUILAR*
DL ISAIAH BOONE
WR GAVIN BUDA*
ILB CJ CALERO*  

PK ROB DIGREGORIO*

OLB EMMETT FORDE

OL CADE FRUCCI* 

OL CLAY JAMISON* 

DL NAJ JOHNSON* 

LB DANTE KIMBROUGH* 
OL DALTON KINDT* 

OL ETHAN KORNACKI* 

QB DAVID KREWSON*

WR ALEX LABELLA

DB JARED LEAKE

WR SHAHKYLE MATTHEWS*

DB JAY MCCOY*

OL LUDNER MERCY*

WR JAMES MIELE*
OL ANTHONY SEGUITI*

DE KYLE SPANO*

FS CAL SULLIVAN

DL SHANE WHITE

*(Student athletes who still have a year of NCAA eligibility left. It would appear as those decisions on whether or not these guys come back in 2022 will be made in the off-season. I have heard rumors on a few who are and aren't coming back, but won't speculate / report that for now. One omission of note was SR OL Kieran Paskewitz, Hobart's starting RT and arguably best OL. The fact he chose not to walk on Senior Day is a pretty good indication he'll be back). 

Back to last Saturday's game, Hobart (7-2, 3-2) fell behind early, allowing a 18-yard Buff State (0-9, 0-5) SR QB Thomas Dupee TD scamper with only 11:58 to go in the 1st quarter. The Statesmen shook it off and rattled off 45 unanswered points, however, gaining 465 total yards and six rushing TDs. 

You can read more about it here.

SO/JR RB Tim Denham, Jr. led the Hobart offense with 20 rushes for 213 yards and 3 rushing TDs. Defensively the Statesmen were paced by FY/SO OLB Jaimen Bliss with 8 tackles, adding 1.5 TFL/sacks.

The Statesmen will know prepare for their final week of the regular season and wait to see if and against whom they may have an opportunity to play in an ECAC Bowl Game on Saturday, November 20th. As you can see from the image below, Hobart has filed for a bid.

Selections will be announced on "In the D3FB Huddle" around 12-1 PM (give or take) ET (on our Facebook live channel).

I'll have more on the Rochester matchup later this week. Don't be surprised to see Hobart in this week's NCAA Regional Rankings either. Region 2 is down to a single undefeated team (Cortland) and the PAC is a mess after last weekend.

Thanks as always for reading (and for checking out the D3Blitzer show if you did so on last Saturday) and go 'Bart!