USD Football 1996

TOREROS HOST EVANSVILLE IN PFL CONTEST Page 1 THE GAIIE: The USO Toreros (2-3) return to action tonight, October 19th, with a home PFL contest against Evansville. Kickoffis scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at Torero Stadium.

rush/244 pass) to Drake ... Saturday's game was tied 21-all at halftime, and UE trailed by only 35-28 midway throught the third quarter when Drake reeled off20 points in 15 minutes to put the game away ... 5-game leaders for Evansville include RB Sean Bennett ( 418 yards rushing, 3 TDs; 24 receptions for 410 yards and 5 IDs), QB Drew Purcell ( 45-83 for 627 yards and 6 IDs), WR Vince Twedell (19 receptions for 427 yards and 7 TDs), DB Ryan Menke ( 48 tackles) and DE Jim Schaefer (48 tackles). BUHLER EARNS 2nd PFL HONOR: For his performance against St. Mary 's College on October 5th, Mike Buhler (Northglenn, CO) was named the PFL Special Teams Player of the Week. Although the team lost 52-3 at Saint Mary's College, Buhler continued his fine punting by averaging 43.3 yards on punts with longs of 60 and 54 yards. A First Team AII-PFL selection a year ago, Buhler has now punted 34 times this season and is averaging 41.2. GAELS GALLOP PAST TOREROS; Saint Mary's College, an NCAA Division I-AA scholarship program, improved to 4-1 on the season with their 52-3 victory over USO on Oct. 5th ... it was Saint Mary's ninth straight win over the Toreros and their 13th staight win at Saint Mary's Stadium ... SMC tallied 534 total yards of offense (288 rushing, 246 passing) .. . despite only connecting on a 23-yard field goal in the third quarter, USO managed 305 yards ofoffense (130 rush– ing, 175 passing) ... freshman running back Matt Brown had a per– sonal-best 85 yards on 15 carries ... freshman WR Dylan Ching hauled in a personal-best 7 receptions for 93 yards ... senior QB John Kahmis completedl2-of-2 l passes for 169 yards .. .junior FB Jared Keo rushed for 44 yards on 9 attempts ... senior FS Jeb Dougherty tallied a team– high 8 tackles (6 solos) and senior LB Robert Magnuson netted 7 ·tackles (5 solos) and one quarterback sack. PFL COACHES POLI.: Dayton and Drake tied for first in the Pioneer Football League Coaches Pre-Season Poll ... Drake is the de– fending PFL champion while Dayton won the first two seasons ... here is a breakdown with first place votes in parenthesis: First Place: Day– ton, 31 points (3); Drake, 31 points (2). Third Place: SAN DIEGO, 20 points; Vc-ilparaiso, 20 points (1). Fifth Place: Evansville, 13 points. Sixth Place: Butler, 11 points. 1996 USD CAPTAINS: Offensive captains include TB Evan Hlavacek (San Jose, CA), OG Todd Plutchok (Vallejo, CA) and QB John Khamis (Huntington Beach, CA). Defensive captains include DL Ryan Marcos (Los Gatos, CA), LB Ryan Larson (Scottsdale, AZ) and FS Jeb Dougherty (Yucca Valley, CA). HOW THEY PICK USD IN '96: Bob Griese s College Football Yearbook (2nd); The Sporting News (3rd), PFL Coaches (3rd), Preview Sports (3rd), Street & Smiths (4th). The Sporting News and Bob Griese s College Football Yearbook both pick senior free safety Jeb Dougherty as the Preseason PFL Defensive Player of the Year. UP NEXT FOR TOREROS; USO plays at Butler (Indianapo– lis, IN) on Saturday, October 26th in a 1:30 p.m. PFL contest. USD 's next home game will be Saturday, Nov. 2nd against Whittier College. The Homecoming Game start time will be I :30 p.m.

THE SERIES: The Toreros lead the series 2-1. All three games have been close with Evansville winning in 1993 (27-21), and USO winning the last two (28-16 in 1994; 19-17 last year). This will be the first PFL night game that Evansville has ever played. HEAD COACH KEVIN llcGARRY': Kevin McGarry (USO, '79), who is in the midst ofhis first season as head coach, takes a record of2-3 into Saturday's game. McGarry, an assistant coach at USO the past eighteen seasons, including the last fourteen as defen– sive coordinator and defensive backs coach, replaced Brian Fogarty who stepped down to become USD's Director of Athletic Develop– ment. McGarry received both his B.A. in Education and M.S. in Education Administration from USO, and is currently on a leave of absense from USO 's Doctoral program in Education. Kevin and his wife, Mary Ann, reside in Scripps Ranch with their four children: twins Pat and Mike (9 year-olds), Timbo (6 years old) and Matt, who arrived this past March. PFL STANDINGS & SCHEDULE: Drake (3-0; 5-1); Day– ton(l-0; 6-0), Valparaiso(l-1; 3-2), SAN DIEGO (1-1; 2-3),Evansville (0-2;2-3),Butler(0-2; 1-5). PFLGamesforOct 19: ButleratDayton (I :30 EDT), Drake at Valparaiso (1 :30 CDT), Evansville at San Diego (7:00PDT). TOR ERO UPDATE: At the midway point, the University of San Diego Toreros have a record of 2-3 overall and 1-1 in the Pioneer Football League ... USO is coming offa bye and this week will try to improve to 2-1 in the PFL as they take on visiting University ofEvans– ville (2-3 ; 0-2 PFL) ... after five games, the Toreros are being paced by senior TB Evan Hlavacek (348 yards rushing; 5 IDs; 30 points; 9.8 punt return average; 23.5 kickoff return average), senior QB John Khamis (35-for--04, 500 yards, 3 IDs, 3 int.),junior WR Chris Del Santo (12 receptions for 180 yards, I TD), freshman WRDylan Ching (1 2 catches for 144 yards), senior punter Mike Buhler (41.2 punting average), senior free safety Jeb Dougherty (55 tackles, I intercep– tion),-senior LB Robert Magnuson (42 tackles, 3 fumble recoveries), and sophomore DB Travis Dellinger ( 41 tackles). Among national leaders in NCAA I-AA, Buhler is 21st in punting (41.2). As a team, San Diego ranks 14th in turnover margin (+I. 40). Evansville is under the direction of6th year coach Robin Cooper (29-25) ... the Aces return 36 lettermen and 10 starters from last year's 5-5 club (1-4 PFL) ... this season they own wins over Quincy (34-21) and McKendree (21-8), with losses to Cumberland (29-48), Dayton (0-42) and Drake (34-55) ... the 89 points scored in their loss to Drake this past weekend were the most points scored in a UE football game since 1980 ... sophomore WR Vince Tweddell was named the PFL Offensive Player ofthe Week after he hauled in six receptions for 222 yards and four touchdowns .. . his four TD catches covered 75, 16, 48 and 58 yards ... QB Eric Goebel fi nished the day 14-for-27 for 294 yards and 5 IDs ... Evansville to- led 425 yards of offense, while the defense gave up 608 yards (364 S COUTING THE OPPONENT:

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