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Navy Sails Past Princeton Sprint Football
October 25, 2002 | Sprint Football
Oct. 25, 2002
Princeton, N.J. - Maurice Chapman scored two touchdowns in the first three minutes of Friday night's sprint football game at Princeton to lead the United States Naval Academy to its fifth victory of the season. Navy used a quick-striking offense to build an early lead and cruise to a 59-8 win over Princeton in the Tigers' final home game of the season.
Navy scored on its first offensive play of the night when Chris Asinhurst connected with Champman on a 35-yard slant. Champman scored on the third play of Navy's next drive, jaunting 18 yards to paydirt and giving the Midshipmen a 14-0 lead. A safety off of a Princeton punt attempt and a 35-yard run by Randall Leslie had the Blue and Gold up 23-0 after one quarter of play.
The Midshipmen continued to score in the second half with Asinhurst tossing two more touchdown passes; a nine-yard play to Joel Gow and a 26-yard pass to Adam Matthews. Charles Nash connected on a 38-yard field goal and the halftime scoreboard read 40-0. The Tigers held the ball for most of the night, but could not sustain a drive in the game's first three quarters. Navy ran the ball in the second half, scoring 19 third-quarter points off of three rushing touchdowns. Hayden Stevens ran the first from 17-yards out, Thomas Schmitz scored on a 39-yard run and Jake Owens found the endzone with an eight-yard scamper late in the third quarter.
Princeton put together its best drive of the night, a 15 play, 65-yard drive that culminated in a four-yard Matt Worley score. The drive, however, took 7:10 off the clock and despite recovering the ensuing on-sides kick, the Tigers would not score again.
Navy finished the game with 357 yards of offense. Asinhurst had 170 yards passing while six different runners finished with 20 or more yards on the ground. Dennis Bakke threw for 85 yards for Princeton as Rikki Racela led all Tiger rushers with 50 yards on 16 carries.
Princeton has the bye next week and concludes the 2002 season on Friday, Nov. 8 at Pennsylvania. The Tigers fall to 0-5 on the year and 0-3 in the CSFL. Navy sits atop the conference standings with a 5-0 overall record and a 2-0 conference mark. The Midshipmen host Penn next Friday and close out the year with Army in the Star Game on Nov. 8.
Final Statistics Navy vs Princeton (Oct 25, 2002 at Princeton, N.J.) NAVY PRIN Score......................... 59 8 FIRST DOWNS................... 19 12 RUSHES-YARDS (NET)............ 32-187 56-95 PASSING YDS (NET)............. 170 85 Passes Att-Comp-Int........... 24-12-1 33-9-2 TOTAL OFFENSE PLAYS-YARDS..... 56-357 89-180 Fumble Returns-Yards.......... 0-0 0-0 Punt Returns-Yards............ 3-16 1-1 Kickoff Returns-Yards......... 3-36 10-135 Interception Returns-Yards.... 2-29 1--21 Punts (Number-Avg)............ 5-32.8 8-15.1 Fumbles-Lost.................. 4-3 3-2 Penalties-Yards............... 9-56 6-54 Possession Time............... 22:23 37:37
Navy Princeton
Rushing No Yds TD Lg Avg Rushing No Yds TD Lg Avg Jake Owens 4 57 1 24 14.2 Rikki Racela 16 50 0 9 3.1 Thomas Schmitz 3 50 1 39 16.7 Matt Worley 10 31 1 8 3.1 Randall Leslie 4 40 1 35 10.0 Shane Stevenson 5 7 0 3 1.4 Scott Lieng 2 25 0 23 12.5 Dennis Bakke 16 5 0 13 0.3
Passing AttCmpInt Yds TD Lng Passing AttCmpInt Yds TD Lng Chris Asinhurst 23-12-1 170 3 35 Dennis Bakke 32-9-2 85 0 18 Chris Maloney 1-0-0 0 0 0 Christian Gomez 1-0-0 0 0 0
Receiving No. Yds TD Long Receiving No. Yds TD Long Maurice Chapman 4 52 1 35 Adam Farren 5 34 0 14 Scott Lieng 3 28 0 19 Cleland Welton 1 18 0 18 Adam Matthews 2 52 1 26 Matt Worley 1 16 0 16 Randall Leslie 1 21 0 21 Ariel Melendez 1 13 0 13
Punting No. Avg Long I20 Punting No. Avg Long I20 Chris Maloney 3 30.0 32 0 Brenden Florez 7 14.6 25 0 Charles Nash 2 37.0 39 2 Sam Hancock 1 19.0 19 0
Punt returns No. Yds TD Long Punt returns No. Yds TD Long Adam Matthews 3 16 0 13 Ned Bartlett 1 1 0 1
Kick returns No. Yds TD Long Kick returns No. Yds TD Long Trevor Garabedi 1 15 0 15 Adam Farren 7 115 0 24 Thomas Schmitz 1 20 0 20 Frank Langston 2 10 0 10
Team Qtr Time Scoring play Conversion Plays-Yards TOP NAVY - PRIN ---- --- ---- ------------ ---------- ----------- --- ----------------- NAVY 1st 13:51 Maurice Chapman 35 yd pass from Chris AsinhurstCharles Nash kick 1-35 0:10 7 - 0 NAVY 1st 12:27 Maurice Chapman 18 yd run Charles Nash kick 3-37 0:21 14 - 0 NAVY 1st 04:24 TM safety 16 - 0 NAVY 1st 03:29 Randall Leslie 35 yd run Charles Nash kick 2-40 0:55 23 - 0 NAVY 2nd 14:01 Charles Nash 38 yd field goal 7-15 2:08 26 - 0 NAVY 2nd 06:40 Joel Gow 9 yd pass from Chris Asinhurst Charles Nash kick 11-44 4:21 33 - 0 NAVY 2nd 00:21 Adam Matthews 26 yd pass from Chris Asinhurst Charles Nash kick 4-40 0:43 40 - 0 NAVY 3rd 05:43 Hayden Stevens 17 yd run Charles Nash kick 3-45 1:02 47 - 0 NAVY 3rd 01:38 Thomas Schmitz 39 yd run Charles Nash kick blockd 3-74 1:05 53 - 0 NAVY 3rd 00:34 Jake Owens 8 yd run Charles Nash kick failed 2-13 0:37 59 - 0 PRIN 4th 08:32 Matt Worley 4 yd run Matt Worley pass 15-65 7:15 59 - 8