Moravian College opens up with a 24-0 win over visiting Kings College. Next up is McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. Both teams enter the game at 1-0. The Green Terrors won at Rocco Calvo Field last year 35-14.
The Green Terror Outlook……………….
Mike Dailey (6-14) enters the third year of his tenure as head coach of the 
McDaniel Green Terror. His team opened the 2018 football season with an impressive 27-12 win on the road against Catholic University.
Dailey is one of the winningest coaches in the Arena Football League (with two Arena Bowl championships) with the Albany Firebirds and the Colorado Crush. His overall record was 115-85 including a 9-5 playoff mark.
Last season the Green Terrors handled Moravian relatively easily with a 35-14 win on Rocco Calvo Field. But from there things fell apart and they were able to win just one more time in the next eight games to finish 3-7.
The McDaniel captains are all seniors – LT Jared Staub (73), NT – Markos Katrakazis (49), LG – Paul Flagg (61) and DB Angelo Payne (11).
McDaniel returns three ALL CENTENNIAL performers in kick returner Matt Schleifer (3) who had 1296 all-purpose yards, Punter Joey Cornwell with a 36.7 average, and left tackle Jared Staub (73).
Offensively MC returns three quality running backs in Grad Student Perry Stefanelli (7) and seniors Matt Cathey (21), Isaac Murray (28) and John Chamberlin (4). They combined for over 1500 yards last year with Cathey (21) leading the way. (Stefanelli (7) was lost early last season to a knee injury and is aiming to be ready for next week’s game.)
The offensive line returns three starters in Captain Paul Flagg (61), All- Centennial Tackle Jared Staub (73) and Josh Disharoon (68). Disharoon (68) was injured during the debut game and did not return to finish.
Defensively the Terrors are returning a fair amount of starters…but in the opener very few were on the field for the opening series. Only Angelo Payne (11) in the secondary and Defensive Tackle Markos Katrrakizis (49) were starters in the first game of the season.
Ray Doh (6) a 6-3, 235 pound Senior Defensive lineman was not in the starting line up despite the fact that over his only two seasons with the club he averaged five sacks per season and has totaled over 100 tackles. When he did play last Saturday nite he kept up with his sack numbers as he was able to get the Catholic quarterback on the ground during the game.
Garvin Grooms (33) recorded nine sacks last season, but he did not start the game against Catholic nor did he record any stats when he did play for McDaniel in their opening game.
These are obviously interesting developments, but as with most Division III colleges it is difficult to get any information with the exception of a basic pregame write up and a very generic story about the game when it is over. In this age of rapid information it seems like Division III has decided to remain in the 1980’s.
Moravian……………
The Greyhounds pitched a shutout last week in beating Kings 24-0.
Offensively the hounds were very effective with a 453 yard output as the Mpravian front line wore down the visiting King’s College Monarchs.
262 yards of that total were accounted for by the running game with the tandem of Eli Redmond (96 yards) and Berto Diaz (91 yards) with QB Doug Erney (2) chipping in 79 yards as well.
Redmond and Diaz were chosen as the co-players of the week offensively for
their work. But as can be expected the offensive line really did a nice job of opening up some lanes for the backs. This group continues to take steps forward in their goal of becoming a dominating force.
The Hounds will have their work cut out for them offensively as McDaniel allowed just 287 yards to host Catholic University last weekend. The Green Terrors were very stout against the Catholic running game – giving up just a total of 61 yards rushing.
Aside from shutting out Kings last weekend the Greyhound defense limited the Monarchs to just 16 first downs (7 were in the first quarter). It was a solid defensive effort throughout the game.
Moravian managed one interception (Jake Kober #29) and two sacks and broke up three passes. It was a good overall team win for the home team.
For the week Nick Tone (51) was named defensive player of the week for the Hounds.
The Special Forces had a great week in preparing the squad for the game. Their efforts are not overlooked by the coaches…..this week RJ Nicholson (87), and Matt McNally (30) were players of the week for the look squads.
GO HOUNDS!