Fisher Football To Host Castleton In ECAC Bowl
St. John Fisher College has been selected to play in the 2012 ECAC Northwest Championship Bowl. The Cardinals (7-3) will take on Vermont’s Castleston State College (7-3) at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Fisher’s Growney Stadium. Ticket information will be announced at a later time.
This marks the 10
th straight year that Fisher has advanced to the postseason (four NCAAs/six ECACs) and is 12-5 all-time in postseason play, including a 4-1 mark in ECAC Bowls. Fisher’s last ECAC appearance came in 2010 when the Cardinals racked up 395 yards of total offense in the first half, jumping out to a
42-6 lead at intermission and cruised to a 56-13 win over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the ECAC Northwest Championship Bowl.
Fisher is coming off its strongest performance of the season. On Saturday, the Cardinals jumped out to 34-0 halftime-lead and tacked on 21 more points in the third quarter, picking up a 55-20 win over host Utica College. In that game, Fisher tallied a season-high 521 yards of total offense, while the defense forced five turnovers, including four interceptions.
For the season, Fisher ranks 31
st nationally in both total defense (287 yards per game) and scoring defense (16.4 ppg), while All-American cornerback Troy Sant ranks fourth nationally with seven interceptions.
Offensively, the Cardinals have a balanced attack (181.7 rushing/159.1 passing), led by multi-dimensional quarterback Ryan Kramer, who threw for a career-high four touchdowns in last week’s win. Junior running back Cody Miller, who leads Fisher in scoring with 11 touchdowns, needs exactly 100 yards to become the fifth player in Fisher history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season.
Castleton State, winners of six of its last seven games, features one of the nation’s top passing offenses. Receiver Brandon Boyle has over 1,500 receiving yards and 18 touchdowns, while quarterback Shane Brozowski is second in the country in total passing yards (3,294), passing yards per game (366) and touchdown passes (31). Defensively, the Spartans are eighth in the nation in pass defense, allowing just 143.8 yards per game and ninth in caused turnovers with 29.