The Waynesburg University football program is in a much better state now than it was three years ago. Head coach Chris Smithley said after the team fell to 0-2 on the season with a 29-12 loss to Westminster that the program was “10 times better” than it was when he took over before last season. … Continue reading
On the surface, Saturday’s game against St. Vincent looked like an ideal opportunity for the Waynesburg University football team to emphatically bounce back from last week’s 28-3 setback at Grove City. Although the Yellow Jackets left Latrobe with a win, it didn’t come as easily as some may have expected. The Bearcats came into the … Continue reading
Heading into Saturday’s week seven matchup, the Waynesburg football team had won three straight games for the first time since 2014. It was looking to extend that to four games Saturday. However, a 28-3 win by the Grove City snapped the streak. With the loss, Waynesburg (3-4, 3-3) falls to sixth place in the Presidents’ … Continue reading
The Waynesburg University football team is currently in the midst of its longest win streak since the 2014 season, when the Jackets went 8-3. After starting the season 0-3, a 10-7 win over Geneva helped jumpstart a team that desperately needed a spark, especially on the offensive side of the ball and just overall as … Continue reading
Two years ago, Garret Guthrie had a chance to kick a game-winning field goal at John F. Wiley Stadium. In the first game of the 2016 season, Guthrie, then a sophomore, went to kick a 32-yard field goal with a little more than a minute to play and the Yellow Jackets down 17-16 to Muskingum. … Continue reading
After coming off of another come-from-behind victory, this time over the Carnegie Mellon University Tartans, optimism is high for the Yellow Jackets heading into the rest of the season. “It finally seems like we’ve got some guys stepping up and we’re finally starting to click together,” said junior quarterback Tyler Perone. “Over the past couple … Continue reading
On paper, most would believe the Waynesburg University football team would come out victorious last week. Although it did, it did not happen as easy as most people might have expected. Waynesburg trailed 14-3 after the first quarter, but would go on to score the next 21 points in the 24-21 victory over the Thiel … Continue reading
It’s been four years since the Waynesburg University football team won three consecutive games. After beating Geneva and Thiel the past two weeks, the Yellow Jackets (2-3, 2-2) have a chance to win three straight games for the first time since the 2014 season, when Waynesburg reeled off four consecutive wins between Oct. 4 and … Continue reading
Saturday’s 10-7 win over Geneva at John F. Wiley Stadium was a big relief for everybody involved in the football program. It was the Yellow Jackets’ [1-3, 1-2] first win of the season and ensured that the team wouldn’t start 0-4 for the third year in a row. For junior quarterback Tyler Perone, the win … Continue reading
It had been 322 days since the Yellow Jackets won a football game. Waynesburg broke that streak last week against Geneva College, a school that holds the best rushing offense in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference and ranked eighth in all of Division III. The Waynesburg defense held Geneva to just seven points and 208 yards … Continue reading
