Sept 27th, 2002

Shroom Impressive in First Victory
Shroom 27 Chi Phi 6
The Shroom is back this year and they look better than ever. There are many new faces, not the least of which is Dante Williamson. Dante tore apart both Chi Phi and the X team this weekend.
The game started out with the Shroom jumping out to an early 7 point lead when Brett Kovach hit Sean Stavely on a 70 yd bomb. The next possession, Chi Phi’s Cliff Windsor ran in a touchdown on a broken down play to bring the game within one point. However, on the next drive, Brett Kovach struck again, this time it was a catch of 80 yards to Dante Williamson. Dante also drove in the extra point to make the game a 14-6 Shroom advantage. Dante Williamson’s game, though, is not without flaw as he sent the next kickoff screeching out of bounds, allowing Chi Phi to take over on the 40 yd line. The Shroom’s defense was up to the challenge though, and with Travis Johnson putting heavy pressure on Windsor, Kovach picked off an errant pass. However the Shroom could not score before the end of the half. In the second half, the Shroom came out firing, the kickoff return team managed to knock down the Chi Phi kick to start their possession on the 41 yard line. Then with passes to Wale Adebiyi and Shawn Stavely, both of 25 yards, the Shroom waltzed downfield. With the Shroom in the red zone, it was time for Dante to step it up again, so he ran in another touchdown on a 10 yard quarterback option. The next play, Brett was under pressure and just managaed to get off a pass to Dante.  Dante caught the ball well outside of his endzone, but would not be denied as he spun and wormed his way in for the extra point. The Shroom defense had been borderline unstoppable all game, as on the next Chi Phi possession Yohance Dotton sacked the quarterback, bringing up third and long. The next offensive possession, the Chi Phi defence gets their first real chance to got on Kovach, and he was sacked. This brings up third and 30 for the Shroom. The man who had been stepping it up all day, came up big again and had a catch and run for 35 yards. The next play, a 15 yard sweep from Dante, brought the Shroom knocking at the Chi Phi endzone. The next play Brett got the ball from center, rolled out to his right, and threw a perfect lob across his body. Stavely wasjust denied the endzone and Nick Pahl picked up the one yard touchdown plunge to seal the scoring.