University of St. Thomas Athletics
Hamline
Sat. Football: Toms beat Pipers 35-13
11/5/2005 12:00:00 AM | Football
Junior wideout P. J. Theisen tied a 19-year-old school record with four touchdown receptions as visiting St. Thomas scored a 35-13 victory over Hamline in MIAC football play Saturday on the Pipers' field in St. Paul.
The Tommies (4-4 overall, 4-3 MIAC) moved back to .500 on the season and ran their winning streak to three games. It was UST's 10th consecutive victory over Hamline (3-6, 1-6).
Playing just three quarters, Theisen had 12 receptions for 224 yards for his fifth consecutive 100-yard receiving game. His four TD catches -- all in the first half -- matched the UST record set by Brian Biehn vs. St. John's in 1986. Theisen went over 100 career receptions and now has 111 catches for 1,758 yards in 27 games.
Freshman QB David Sauer completed 25-of-30 passes for 349 yards and five TD passes in three quarters in just his second career start. That was just one TD pass off the UST single-game record held by Tom Stallings (vs. Bethel in 1993) and Chris Esterley (vs. Carleton in 1996). Sauer missed his first attempt but completed 20-of-22 the rest of the first half as UST built a 35-6 lead.
Freshman Jake Casey rushed 22 times for 133 yards for his fourth 100-yard rushing game of the season. Joel Korte caught four passes for 56 yards.
UST used three Piper turnovers to help build a 35-6 halftime lead. The Toms outgained the Pipers 477-198 and recorded six sacks.
Defensively, Andrew Ubbelohde had two tackles for loss among his 12 tackles and now has 112 tackles in eight games. That's just two away from breaking a 17-year-old UST season tackles record and matches Ubbelohde's 2003 season total.
Other Tommie defensive standouts included Mike Hara (two sacks), Justin Nwadiashi and Alex Falenczykowski (each had interceptions), Tom Fritze (fumble recovery and a sack), Josh Schwingler (nine tackles, one sack) and Ben Kessler (seven tackles). It was Nwadiashi's fifth consecutive game with an interception.
For Hamline, freshman QB James Leary had an 8-yard scoring run in the first period and a fourth-quarter TD pass of 10 yards to Andrew Seymour. Leary, a freshman in his first career start, completed 20-of-39 passes for 159 yards. Paul Klees had a sack and eight tackles, Ryan Laube had 11 tackles and Brody Anderson had eight tackles and a fumble recovery for the Piper defense.
St. Thomas closes its season next Saturday at home vs. No. 3 ranked St. John's.
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