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The Grove City College football team secured their second win last Saturday, Oct. 4, with a 22-9 victory over the Golden Tornadoes of Geneva College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Wolverines were aided by an impressive defensive performance from senior linebacker Ben Bladel, who put up a single-game, record-tying performance with four sacks. Bladel\u2019s performance highlighted a dominant evening for the Wolverines defense, holding the Tornadoes to negative rushing yards and stalling their ground game completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Geneva\u2019s junior quarterback Caleb Romano did lead a furious aerial attack to the tune of 19 completed passes for 335 yards and a touchdown, the Wolverines were able to hold their opponent to single-digit points for the first time this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI had no clue that I tied the record during the game. I feel honored to be in the record books, but football is truly a team sport, and it takes all 11 doing their part to lead to individual success,\u201d Bladel said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the offensive side, junior quarterback Sutton Ellis went 16-for-27 and tallied three touchdowns through the air while junior running back Chase Rankin totaled 157 rushing yards on 25 carries from the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While neither team was able to find success early in the first quarter, Geneva broke the deadlock with a seven-play, 56-yard drive that resulted in a 23-yard field goal to take a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Wolverines struck back quickly, with Ellis finding junior wide receiver Breck Peacock for a 75-yard touchdown. Following a 60-yard kickoff return, Geneva stalled another drive and turned it over after failing to convert a fourth down, setting the Wolverines up with excellent field position. Ellis capitalized on this advantage, throwing a two-yard touchdown pass to Peacock. The extra point attempt was no good, giving the Wolverines a 10-point advantage, 13-3, going into the half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Wolverines received the ball to start the second half and drained the clock on a seven-minute, 45-second scoring drive to go up 19-3. Ellis connected with junior wide receiver Daniel Sullivan on the two-yard touchdown but failed to secure the two-point conversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Geneva would make a rapid advance on their next drive, making it to the two-yard line of Grove City, but an interception by sophomore cornerback Mason Clouse gave the Wolverines the ball back. Grove City and Geneva traded punts to end the third quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grove City\u2019s next drive resulted in a missed field goal, but another turnover on downs by Geneva allowed Grove City to move the ball into field goal range. Freshman kicker Brady Lane\u2019s kick was good from 44-yards to the Wolverines and extended the lead to 22-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Geneva was not out of it yet, with Romano throwing a 62-yard touchdown pass on the next drive. The extra point attempt was good, narrowing the Wolverines lead to 22-9. Grove City failed to move the ball on their next possession, giving it back to Geneva with 3:14 to go. A sack from Bladel forced Geneva to burn their final timeout, and senior linebacker Keegan Fraiser intercepted a Romano pass to seal the victory for the Wolverines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senior captain Ethan Wiley said the team learned a lot from the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen we live in the vision that we\u2019ve been given, we\u2019re a really good football team. What sets us apart is when we\u2019re disciplined to that vision,\u201d Wiley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Wolverines return to Robert E. Thorn Field tomorrow for a homecoming showdown against the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets. The game will kick off at 2 p.m. and will serve as the culmination of the weekend\u2019s event line-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Football breezes by Geneva to secure second win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[128,34,24],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-chance-rains","tag-issue-2025-10-10","tag-sports"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-10-10-32-tornado-takedown-1.jpg",1184,832,false],"thumbnail":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-10-10-32-tornado-takedown-1.jpg",150,105,false],"medium":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-10-10-32-tornado-takedown-1.jpg",300,211,false],"medium_large":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-10-10-32-tornado-takedown-1.jpg",768,540,false],"large":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-10-10-32-tornado-takedown-1.jpg",1024,720,false],"1536x1536":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-10-10-32-tornado-takedown-1.jpg",1184,832,false],"2048x2048":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-10-10-32-tornado-takedown-1.jpg",1184,832,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ian Schartner","author_link":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/author\/schartnerij23\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Football breezes by Geneva to secure second win","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Senior](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-10-10-32-tornado-takedown-2.jpg\")