Big Win for the Jackets

The Jackets got on track Saturday night against the Pioneers from Marietta College. Here's an excerpted story about our RB John McGraw who was named OAC player of the week:


BEREA, OHIO -- Two Baldwin-Wallace College fall sport student-athletes, junior football running back John McGraw (North Ridgeville) and junior men's golfer Matt Weiss (Mentor), have been named as Ohio Athletic Conference players-of-the-week for their efforts during the week of September 21-27.

McGraw, who earned the Dick Miller B-W Outstanding Player of the Game award, led the Yellow Jackets to a 34-13 victory against Marietta College last Saturday (Sept. 26) on Tressel Field at The George Finnie Stadium in Berea. He rushed for a career-high 151 yards in 21 attempts, including a 24-yard second quarter touchdown gallop. For the season, McGraw is B-W's leading runner with 221 yards in 37 attempts (6.0 yards per carry) with four TD. He also is the team's leading receiver with nine catches for 68 yards.

This Saturday, October 3, McGraw and the Yellow Jackets travel to Alliance to play Mount Union College at 7:00 p.m. Following that game, B-W will play back-to-back home games versus Otterbein College on Saturday, October 10 at 2:00 p.m. and then versus Muskingum College on Saturday, October 17 at 1:30 p.m.

Weiss earned his honor by placing in a tie for third individually at last week's OAC Invitational Tournament that B-W hosted at the Fox Meadows Country Club in Medina. In that event, Weiss carded rounds of 75 and 74 for a five-over-par total of 149 strokes on the 6,917-yard, par-72 layout. For the season, Weiss stands second on the team in stroke average at 76.50 for three fall tournaments and six total rounds.

Weiss and the Yellow Jackets end their fall season today as they are currently competing in the second round of the Mt. Union Tournament at the Alliance Country Club.

For more B-W Sports Information, please call Sports Information Director Kevin Ruple by telephone at 440-826-2327 and via e-mail at kuple@bw.edu or Assistant SID Nick Minerd at 440-826-2780 and via e-mail at nminerd@bw.edu. For all of the latest Yellow Jacket athletics news, please visit our web site at www.bw.edu/athletics.

We had a great day running the football, over 500 yards of total offense. Solid effort on Defense as well. Now it's time to take on the Purple Raiders.

Camp has been outstanding...

This has been the most entertaining pre-season football camp that I have ever been a part of. Our players have been competing at an extremely high level and our work has been outstanding. The weather has been hot, the sun's been beating down on us and we've enjoyed every minute of it!

We had our first inter-squad scrimmage of the season yesterday, Sunday, and things went very well. We made some plays on offense and defense and our young guys competed very hard. We had a great crowd for the scrimmage, thanks to everyone who came out in support of the Jackets!

Couple of highlights from the scrimmage, Ryan Kish, an outside linebacker had a interception return for a touchdown, Anthony Gardner threw a TD pass to John Meyers on the last play of the scrimmage. Zach Haudenschield threw a TD pass to Matt Dash, who made an outstanding run after catch to complete the play. Senior captain Ryan Clokey had a productive scrimmage from his safety position and Brett Thompson had a great scrimmage from his outside linebacker position to highlight the defense.

I am sad that camp is over, it's been a great one. We definitely got better as a team over these past two weeks, now we turn our sites to Wooster for our scrimmage this coming Saturday.

Zach Fletcher
Offensive Coordinator

Jackets to Play 8 games on TV

Yellow Jackets Announce 2009 Schedule; Play Eight Games on SportsTime Ohio

BEREA, OHIO -- Baldwin-Wallace College has announced its 2009 varsity football schedule. It includes five promotional events, three night contests and eight games that will be televised by SportsTime Ohio, including ALL five home games.

• 2009 Baldwin-Wallace Football Schedule

The Yellow Jackets host NCAA Division III National Playoff participants Franklin (Ind.) College for Shriners' Day on September 5 and Ohio Athletic Conference rival Otterbein College on October 10 for Homecoming.

The three night games are a September 19 game at OAC and Cleveland cross-town rival John Carroll University at 7:00 p.m., a September 26 Community Night contest versus Marietta College at 6:30 p.m. and an away Oct. 3 game at arch-rival Mount Union College at 7:00 p.m.

The eight STO games include the Franklin, JCU, Marietta, Mt. Union and Otterbein games, an Oct. 17 Profesor Appreciation Day game versus Muskingum College, an Oct. 24 away game at Heidelberg College and a November 7 Seniors' Day game versus Wilmington College.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, please contact B-W Sports Information Director Kevin Ruple by telephone at 440-826-2327, by FAX machine at 440-826-2329 or via e-mail at kruple@bw.edu . To contact Head Coach John Snell, please call him at 440-826-2069 or e-mail him at jsnell@bw.edu . You can get all of the latest B-W athletics information by visiting our Web site at www.bw.edu/athletics .

Yellow Jacket Football - John Carroll Week

Entering Thursday, the BW football team is finalizing preparations for this Saturday's game against rival John Carroll University.

As a newcomer to the Baldwin-Wallace football family this will be my first ever experience playing in this rivalry for the Cuyahoga Gold Bowl Trophy. This will also be my first ever experience with community night and my first home game with the Jackets. The excitement at practice has been obvious and our players are ready to take the newly laid down Tressel Field for the first time in a game situation.

Offensively, we are looking forward to executing the game plan that we've put in this week. We've had two great days of practive this week and we'll polish some things today and tomorrow as we build toward Saturday. We are expecting a great crowd on Saturday for the community night activities and the game, I'm looking forward to seeing Finnie stadium full of Jacket fans!

The excitement for Saturday's game has taken over the football facility here, our coaches and players are extremely excited for the game. The community night dinner is already sold out and the crowd should be excited for the game as well. For me, personally, I can't wait to celebrate a great victory with our Yellow-Jacket family and return the Cuyahoga Gold Bowl Trophy to Berea!

Zach Fletcher
Offensive Coordinator
Quarterbacks Coach
Baldwin-Wallace College