Box Score
Brookville, N.Y. – Junior quarterback #
Rob Parent# (West Warwick, R.I.) completed 17 of 29 passes for 180 yards and two touchdowns, one passing and one rushing, as the American International College football team registered a 21-6 win at C.W. Post in the season-opening game for both teams.
Freshman running back #
Jermayne Capdeville# (Springfield, Mass.) carried the ball 11 times for 85 yards and scored the first touchdown of his collegiate career. Senior wide receiver #
Kertis Hussey# (Paterson, N.J.) caught six balls for 71 yards and a TD.
Junior linebacker #
George Hudson# (Philadelphia, Pa.) picked up a team-high 10 tackles for a Yellow Jackets defense that limited the Pioneers (0-1) to a 3-for-15 conversion rate on third downs. Sophomroe defensive back #
Max Brown# (Paterson, N.J.) registered nine hits and a pass breakup for AIC, while senior defensive back #
Brian Kelly# (Springfield, Mass.) added seven hits and broke up two C.W. Post passes.
For C.W. Post, Eric Anderwkavic came off the bench to complete 12-of-22 passes for 96 yards, while adding 41 yards rushing on eight carries. Receiver Chris Harris caught four passes for 65 yards, while Andrew Kell (63 yds.) reeled in a game-high nine grabs on the perimeter.
Parent opened the scoring for the Yellow Jackets just 5:22 into the 2009 campaign, capping off a nine-play, 77-yard drive with a one-yard quarterback sneak to put AIC on top by a 7-0 count. The junior completed all four of his passes on the drive for 62 yards, as well.
The host Pioneers used a seven-play, 51-yard drive to score its only points of the game with 3:37 left in the first half, when Harris sprinted in motion and ran around left end to hit paydirt from six yards out. Jonathan Korn missed the point-after try, though, and the Yellow Jackets maintained its lead, 7-6.
On the ensuing AIC possession, Parent led the team on a seven-play, 51-yard drive before finding Hussey in the right corner of the end zone for a 22-yard scoring strike with 28 seconds left in the half, allowing the visitors to carry a 14-6 lead into the locker room.
Capdeville came off the bench in the second half and, after the Yellow Jackets recovered a fumble of a Pioneers' punt return at the C.W. Post 46, carried the ball three consecutive times – the last one a three-yard jaunt, to score his first collegiate touchdown and giving AIC a 21-6 lead that it would not relinquish.
Head coach #Art Wilkins#' squad is back in action Saturday night (Sept.5), when it travels to No. Andover, Mass., for a 6 p.m. kickoff in a non-conference contest against fellow Northeast-10 institution, Merrimack.
