Position battles + young players = unefeated

Coming into their first game, the Trinity Tigers had no idea what was going to happen. The team was injury plagued throughout training camp losing their starting safety (Bobby Adamson) and the starting quarterback (Jeremy Staska) was dealing with a hurt hamstring. With their toughest schedule in years, the Tigers headed off to McMurry for their first game with high hopes for Staska to be their guy. Another aspect worrying the coaches were three starting freshman, OT Tino Hong, K Garret Beil, and P Kyle Trella. Within the first half, Staska was pulled because of his hamstring which caused junior, Robert Davidson to come in to take over the offense. Robert came into the game and pulled off a scary win of 31-26. The game was one by a miraculous strip of the ball from senior running back Al Furlow on a McMurry defender. With this came a position battle at the quarterback position between Robert Davidson and sophomore Pat Dickinson. With this battle came a start for Rob Davidson against Texas Lutheran University in Seguin. The Tigers struggled against the Bulldogs but won the game with a last second field goal by freshman Garret Beil. With high hopes, the Tigers went into a great week of practice ready to travel to Tennessee to take on Rhodes College, a team that had upset the Tigers two years ago. Coach Mohr made the decision that Davidson would be the team’s starter against Rhodes and the team looked at him as leader. On a muddy field, Davidson came out on the first drive firing. Unfortunately, on a routine run, Davidson suffered a high ankle sprain causing sophomore Pat Dickinson, who has never played a down in college football, to put the weight of the team on his shoulders. With the season on the line, Dickinson came in and showed his skills going 18-22 with 265 yards passing and 3 touchdowns. Also contributing were starting running back Chris Baer with 16 rushes for 123 yards. The Tigers dominated Rhoades with a 40-19 win and the first blowout of the season. With Staska’s injury healed, the question now is whether he or Dickinson will start against Millsaps, which is considered the game of the year In the SCAC (Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference). If you remember this is the team that Trinity pulled the famous Mississippi miracle against two years ago. This is the first time the Tigers will travel to Mississippi since that game. Also, Coach Mohr has come to say that there could be two possible freshman All-Americans in K Garret Beil and P Kyle Trella. So the questions to be asked are who will start against Millsaps? This will be determined in a hard week of practice which the coaches will make a big decision. Will Trinity come out and show that they are the best team in the SCAC? Will the injury plagued defense be able to stop the high powered Majors offense? All the questions will be answered this week.