Week 2 • W&L at Sewanee • September 20, 2003 • 1:30 pm CST

LAST WEEK'S SCORES:
Bridgewater 42, Shenandoah 0
Ferrum 19, Emory & Henry 0
Ursinus 26, Catholic 0
Guilford 27, Methodist 24
Hampden-Sydney 31, Gettysburg 13
Waynesburg 45, Randolph-Macon 7

SERIES INFO:
Time: 1:30 pm CST
Site: McGee Field (3,500)
Series: W&L leads 31-21
Last Meeting: 10/26/02 at W&L (W&L won 26-14)
First Meeting: 1892 (UOS won 22-16)
Last W&L Win: 10/26/02 at W&L (26-14)
Last UOS Win: 10/25/97 at UOS (48-14)
Current Series Streak: W&L +5
W&L vs. UOS at W&L: 22-5
W&L vs. UOS at UOS: 9-16

THE SERIES:
W&L and Sewanee will be meeting for the 53rd time on Saturday, with the Generals holding a 31-21 edge in the series that began during the 1892 season.  The two teams have met every year since 1955 and W&L's 31 wins against Sewanee are the most against any opponent. The Generals are currently enjoying a streak of five consecutive wins against the Tigers dating back to 1998.  W&L won last season's encounter, 26-14 in Lexington. Though W&L is just 9-16 all-time at Sewanee's McGhee Field, the Generals have won three of the last four games at Sewanee, including the last two by a total of seven points.

THE HEAD COACHES:
Frank Miriello (East Stroudsburg '67) is in his ninth season as the head coach at W&L and his 35th year of coaching. He claims a 38-41-1 (.481) overall record. Miriello is third all-time in victories at W&L and needs 11 more wins to overtake Lee McLaughlin for second place. He is 7-1 all-time against Sewanee. The Tigers are led by eighth-year Head Coach John Windham (Vanderbilt '86). Windham is 33-35 (.485) overall at Sewanee and 1-6 overall against Washington and Lee.

ALL-TIME RECORD:
W&L has compiled a 420-467-39 (.475) all-time record. The Generals have been linked to the first intercollegiate football game played in the south, an 1873 matchup with VMI.

THE LAST MEETING:
(W&L 26, UOS 14; October 26, 2002 - Lexington, Va.)
Quarterback Sean McGarvey completed 25-of-46 passes for 301 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Generals past Sewanee, 26-14. The Generals assumed a 20-0 halftime lead as McGarvey found wide receiver Jonathan Brimer, senior tight end Jay Thomas and senior wide receiver Dyllan Rankin with scoring strikes of 20, 6 and 21 yards, respectively. The Tigers stormed back in the third quarter as senior quarterback Kirk Holtgrewe scored on touchdown runs of 2 and 10 yards to cut the W&L lead to 20-14 with 8:27 remaining in the third quarter. W&L senior running back Chris Sullivan capped the scoring with a 45-yard touchdown run with 9:30 remaining in the fourth quarter to give the Generals their fifth straight win over Sewanee. McGarvey's career day paced the Generals offense. His 301 yards were the most by a W&L quarterback since the 1999 season. Sullivan rushed for 126 yards and one touchdown on 29 carries, while Thomas caught seven passes for 51 yards and the one touchdown as W&L racked up a season-high 517 yards of total offense. Linebacker Ben Krasnoff led the Generals' defense with 14 tackles. Holtgrewe paced the Sewanee offense with 25 yards rushing and 132 yards passing. Running back Justin Askew rushed for 136 yards on 23 carries, while wide receiver Don Rodgers caught seven passes for 67 yards. Defensive back Will Smith led the Tiger defense with 14 tackles.

LAST TIME OUT:
The Washington and Lee football team managed just 174 total yards to Johns Hopkins' 508 total yards as the Bue Jays downed the Generals 36-7. The Generals were scoreless on the day until sophomore running back Michael Lackett capitalized on a 17-yard W&L drive in the third quarter.  Lackett, who led the Generals with 49 yards on 17 carries, produced a four-yard touchdown run at 7:29 in the third to thwart the Blue Jay's attempted shutout. Johns Hopkins found the scoreboard in every quarter, beginning with a 15-play, 69-yard drive in the first that finished with a one-yard touchdown run by sophomore T.J. Lyons.  Blue Jay kicker Chris Smolyn opened up the second quarter scoring with a 30-yard field goal at the 4:09 mark.  Senior quarterback George Merrell connected with frosh wide receiver Anthony Triplin for a 12-yard touchdown pass in the closing minutes of the second quarter, giving the home team a 16-0 lead going into the break. Despite the Generals' third-quarter comeback hopes, two more touchdown passes from Merrell and another touchdown run from Lyons put the game out of reach. Senior quarterback Peter Dean led the General offense with 121 passing yards, completing 10 of 27 attempts.  Dean gave up one interception and was sacked three times. Merrell threw a career-high 228 yards and added 78 rushing yards to lead the Blue Jay's offense.  On defense junior Matt Campbell amassed six tackles and sophomore Mike Aynardi made five tackles and blocked a W&L punt.

SCOUTING SEWANEE:
Sewanee is 0-2 on the season following a 24-23 loss at Rose-Hulman on Saturday afternoon. The Tigers battled back from a 17-0 first quarter deficit to assume a 20-17 lead with 7:04 remaining in the third quarter, but could not hold on for the win. Freshman quarterback Wes Satterfield led the Sewanee offense, rushing for 70 yards and a touchdown on 22 carries and completing 15-of-27 passes for 163 yards. Sophomore placekicker Jake Roberts drilled three field goals to keep the Tigers within striking distance. Senior safety Luqman Salam led the Sewanee defense with 13 tackles. On the season, Satterfield has completed 30-of-47 passed for 287 yards and one touchdown and has rushed for 102 yards and two touchdowns on 36 carries. Junior wide receiver John Kelly has been Satterfield's primary target, catching 15 passes for 164 yards and one touchdown. Salam has posted 19 tackles in two outings to lead the defense.

OH SO CLOSE:
The Generals have had numerous heartbreaking defeats in recent memory, including a 21-14 overtime loss to Johns Hopkins in week one of last season. All told, W&L has lost 11 games by seven points or less since the beginning of the 1998 season.

DOUBLE-TROUBLE:
Senior quarterback Peter Dean spells double-trouble for opponents of Washington and Lee athletics. Not only is Dean the starting quarterback for the football team, but he is also the top pitcher for the Generals' baseball team. The starting signal-caller each of the past two seasons, Dean has completed 47.1 percent of his passes for 2,338 yards and 14 touchdowns for his career. On the mound, Dean claims a 2.14 career ERA with 168 strikeouts and just 48 walks in posting a 20-5 career record. He was 8-2 with a 1.67 ERA last spring en route to posting First Team All-ODAC, First Team All-Region and Second Team Academic All-America honors.

W&L vs. THE SOUTHERN COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE:
W&L sports a 57-65-3 (.468) all-time record against the current members of the SCAC. However, the Generals have taken eight of the last 10 games against the SCAC. Below is a breakdown:

Centre (20-33-2)
DePauw (0-0)
Millsaps (0-0)
Rhodes (6-11-1)
Rose-Hulman (0-0)
Sewanee (31-21)
Trinity (0-0)

ALIGNMENT CHANGE:
Washington and Lee Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator Frank Miriello will change his defensive philosophy this season. Miriello had always featured a multiple 3-4 set which changes from a 3-4 to a 4-3 depending on the call. This season, Miriello's defense will exhibit a traditional 4-3 set.

DEFENSIVE DOLDRUMS:
The Generals' defense has forced 133 turnovers since the beginning of the 1998 season, but has scored just one defensive touchdown during that span. In fact, W&L has gone 42 straight games without scoring a defensive touchdown. W&L's last defensive touchdown occurred on a fumble return in a 23-20 loss to Emory & Henry during the 1998 season. The Generals have not returned an interception for a score since Jon Wagner did so against Davidson during the 1992 season.

ON THE ROAD:
Washington and Lee's schedule features six road contests for the first time since the 1989 season. In addition, the Generals will play their first two games on the road for the first time since traveling to Delaware Valley and Emory & Henry to begin the 1979 campaign. In all, W&L's opening trips to Baltimore, Md., and Sewanee, Tenn., will cover 1382.2 miles.

CLOSE SERIES:
Washington and Lee and Sewanee have met 52 times over the years and the series has seen its share of close games. In all, 25 of the 52 games have been determined by a touchdown or less. The Generals have won each of the last five meetings, but all of them have been close. In those five games, the average margin of victory is just 4.8 points with the largest margin of victory (26-12) coming last season. The Generals current string of five straight victories is the longest such streak in the series history. This season's September contest marks the first time that W&L and Sewanee will not have met in the month of October since the teams met on Nov. 1, 1969. The last September meeting between the two teams was Sep. 26, 1941, a 20-19 Sewanee win.

FOOTBALL AND ACADEMICS:
Washington and Lee has featured a First Team Verizon Academic All-American each of the past two seasons and claims another player with an Academic All-America award in another sport. Tight end Jay Thomas '03 was presented the award following the 2001 season and offensive lineman John Melillo '03 won the award following the 2002 campaign. Senior quarterback Peter Dean was a Second Team Academic All-America selection last spring in baseball. Melillo also garnered an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship last season.

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