Travis Marmon

Sports Editor

For the second week in a row, the Wooster football team took care of business, setting themselves up for a possible second-place finish in the NCAC after dismantling Kenyon College (0-9, 0-5 NCAC) 31-3 in Gambier, Ohio last Saturday.

Robert Flagg ’12 had 72 yards on the ground and 47 yards receiving to make him the first player in program history to go over 2,000 career rushing yards and 1,000 career receiving yards.

The Fighting Scots (4-5, 3-2 NCAC) took a quarter to get going, but once they got into the endzone the game quickly had the makings of a rout.

With the exception of a 22-yard field goal by Trent Dunn ‘15 that gave Wooster a 3-0 lead nine minutes into the game, every drive in the first quarter ended in a punt or a turnover on downs for both teams.

Early in the second quarter, quarterback Brett Frongillo ’14 had a 16-yard carry from the 35-yard line to get the ball into the red zone. Flagg immediately followed with a 19-yard run to the endzone to give the Scots a 10-0 lead. After Wooster’s offense was stopped on Kenyon’s 47-yard line, Dana Obery ’13’s punt was downed at the eight-yard line, putting the Lords’ backs against the wall.

Setting Kenyon further back was a false start before getting a single snap off, placing the ball on its own four-yard line.

On the Lords’ first play of the drive, Matt Reeder ’14 and Quinn Hood ’14 got into the backfield to sack Dan Shannon, who fumbled. The ball was recovered in the endzone by Brendon Taylor ’14 for a touchdown, increasing the Scots’ lead to 17-0.

Kenyon was able to get on the board before halftime after Brandon January returned the ensuing kickoff to the Wooster 32-yard line. The Lords gained 11 yards before Max Chodosh drove in a 37-yard field goal to narrow the gap to 17-3. It would prove to be Kenyon’s only score of the day.

Wooster looked ready to score again after Frongillo found Flagg for a 42-yard pass to get the ball to Kenyon’s 20-yard line. However, Dunn’s 35-yard field goal attempt a few plays later was blocked and then returned to the Kenyon 33-yard line.

The Lords looked to use that momentum to narrow the deficit as they drove to Wooster’s 25-yard line, but Dan Terhune ’12 sacked Shannon on third-and-10 to knock them out of field goal range. Shannon’s pass on fourth-and-14 fell incomplete and the Scots went into the half with a two-touchdown advantage.

The third quarter was scoreless as the teams traded punts for the entire period. Early in the fourth quarter, the Lords made the decision to go for it on fourth-and-2 from their own 39-yard line.

The fourth-down conversion failed when safety Quinton Howard ’13 sacked Shannon for a five-yard loss. The Scots took advantage, capping a drive down the short field with a seven-yard touchdown run by Flagg, increasing their lead to 24-3.

Kenyon found itself in the Wooster red zone on the ensuing drive, but a field goal attempt from 26 yards out sailed wide right.

The Scots put the game away following the miss, driving 80 yards in eight plays, with John Battaglia ’14 providing the exclamation point with a 29-yard touchdown run to make it 31-3 with just over two minutes left.

The Scots will wrap up their season tomorrow against archrival Wittenberg University (7-2, 4-1 NCAC) in Springfield, Ohio. Kickoff is at 1 p.m.