The Wabash Little Giants opened the 2009 season with a dominating performance beating Denison 56-7 at Hollett Little Giant Stadium.
It took the Little Giants 2:02 of the first quarter to storm 77 yards on only 5 plays to take an early 7-0 lead. Braden Layer of Denison then fumbled on the first play from scrimmage that was picked up by Matt Kraft and returned 26 yards for a touchdown and an acrobat, albeit penalized flip into the endzone. 2:16 seconds into the game and Wabash had already scored all the points they would need for the afternoon.
Wabash added another TD in the 1st and two more in the 2nd to head to the locker room with a commanding 35-0 halftime lead.
Denison managed to get on the board early in the 3rd but that was it for the day. Wabash tacked on two more scores in the 3rd and with a 49-7 spread, the second stringers got some valuable early season playing time.
The Little Giants racked up 532 yards of total offense on 80 plays while limiting Denison to six first downs and 139 yards of total offense with only 55 coming on the ground.
Matt Hudson had a solid afternoon at quarterback completing 16 of 27 passes for 254 yards and 3 touchdowns and only 1 interception that came on a hesitant pass as he was hit by the Denison defense.
Hudson’s favorite target on the day was preseason All-American Kody LeMond who hauled in 7 passes for 126 yards and two TD’s. My apologies to Kody as I gave up on shooting the play that ended with him making one of the nicest catches I can remember seeing. I promise to not give up on you ever again. Great catch!!
Tommy Mambourg led the way on the ground picking up 120 yards and a single touchdown. Wes Chamblee made the most of his two rushing attempts (42 yards and 20 yards) as both ended with him in the end zone. Kyle Stevens rounded out the scoring on the ground with a 2 yard run.
Wabash travels north to take on the University of Chicago next weekend and return to Hollett Little Giant stadium the following weekend for homecoming.
Below is a slideshow of my favorite images from the event. Click here to view them as a gallery or click here to view all photos from the game.
You can also read more about the game on the Wabash website by clicking here.
2009-09-12 Wabash Football vs Denison – My Picks – Images by Kevin Seale