NAVY SPORTS INFORMATION Football Contact: Scott Strasemeier Assistant AD / Sports Information Office Phone: 410-293-8775 Fax: 410-293-8954 Email: [email protected] Navy Sports Information • Ricketts Hall • 566 Brownson Road • Annapolis, MD 21402 Website: www.navysports.com Navy Schedule... Game Information... Date Opponent Time Date: September 10, 2005 Time: 6:00 p.m. (EDT) Sept. 3 vs. Maryland# (CSTV) L, 23-20 Place: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (34,500) Sept. 10 Stanford (CSTV) 6:00 pm City: Annapolis, Md. Sept. 24 at Rice 8:00 pm Records: N avy (0-1), S t a n fo rd (0-0) Oct. 1 at Duke TBA Television: College Sports Te l evision (Tom McCart hy and Ray Lucas); Oct. 8 Air Force (CSTV) 1:30 pm HDNet (Pete Medhurst and Astor Heave n ) Oct. 15 Kent State (CSTV) 1:30 pm Radio: Navy Radio Network — Bob Socci (PxP), Omar Nelson Oct. 29 at Rutgers TBA (Color) and John Feinstein (Analysis) Nov. 5 Tulane (HC-CSTV) 1:30 pm Internet: w w w. n av y s p o rts.com (Gametracker and links to audio) Nov. 12 at Notre Dame (NBC) 1:00 pm Series: Navy leads 1-0-1 Streak: Tied-1 Nov. 19 Temple (CSTV) 1:30 pm Dec. 3 vs.Army$ (CBS) 2:30 pm Home games in bold. # — M&T Bank Stadium (Baltimore, Md.) Mids Try To Bounce Back From $ — Lincoln Financial Field (Philadelphia, Pa.) Heartbreaking Loss... Stanford Schedule... Date Opponent Time Game Data... Sept. 10 at Navy (CSTV) 6:00 pm Navy (0-1) will play host to a Pac-10 school at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (34,000) for Sept. 17 UC-Davis 7:00 pm the first time on Saturday as the Stanford Cardinal (0-0) come calling for a 6 p.m. kickoff. Oct. 1 Oregon 2:00 pm Saturday’s game will be broadcast nationally on College Sports Television (CSTV) and worldwide on Oct. 8 at Washington State TBA the internet at www.navysports.com or www.cstv.com. Armed Forces Television will not carry the Oct. 15 at Arizona 4:00 pm game live to our troops around the world, opting to cover other college football action instead. Oct. 22 Arizona State 2:00 pm Tom McCarthy and former New York Jets quarterback Ray Lucas will call all the action for CSTV. Oct. 29 UCLA 200 pm CSTV Networks,Inc.(www.cstv.com) is the first 24-hour college sports network.Through its numer- Nov. 5 at Southern Cal TBA ous platforms, CSTV provides more live college sports games, events, news, information, analysis and Nov. 12 at Oregon State TBA broadband content, and reaches more college sports fans, than any other company. College Sports TV Nov. 19 California (ABC) 4:00 pm has agreements with distributors that represent more than 65 million homes nationwide, including the Nov. 26 Notre Dame (ABC) TBA top six national distributors: Comcast, DirecTV,Time Warner, Charter, Cox and Adelphia. Home games in bold. The game will also be televised nationally by HDNet with Pete Medhurst and Astor Heaven calling the action and Kandace Krueger as the sideline re p o rt e r. Comparing the Teams... HDNet is the first national television network broadcasting all of its programming in 1080i HD, the Category - Offense Navy Stanford highest-quality format of high-definition television (HDTV). Launched September 2001 by co-founders Scoring 20 — Mark Cuban, owner of Dallas Mavericks, and Philip Garvin of Colorado Studios, HDNet roduces and Points / Game 20.0 — televises more hours of HDTV sports,news and entertainment programming each week than any other Total Offense 343 — network. HDNet is available on Adelphia Communications, Charter Communications, DIRECTV, DISH Average / Game 343.0 — Network, Insight Communications, Mediacom Communications, Time Warner Cable and several Rushing Yards 246 — National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) cable affiliate companies. Yards / Rush 5.0 — Saturday’s game can be heard on the Navy Radio Network, which includes WBAL in Baltimore (1090 Yards / Game 246.0 — AM), Sportstalk 980 in Washington, D.C. (980 AM),WNAV in Annapolis (1430 AM) and ESPN Radio in Passing Yards 97 — Cambridge, Md. (1240 AM). The game can also be nationally on Sirius Radio or around the world at Pass Att.-Comp.-Int. 12-5-1 — www.navysports.com, www.wbal.com, www.sportstalk980.com and www.wnav.com. Armed Forces Yards / Pass 8.1 — Radio will carry the game live to our troops around the world. Bob Socci, Omar Nelson and John Yards / Game 97.0 — Feinstein will call the action. The Navy Football Pregame Show will air an hour befo re kickoff (5 p. m . EST) on those same netwo r k s . Category - Defense Navy Stanford Pete Medhurst and Joe Miller will kick things off with the Navy Tailgate Show on 1430 WNAV and Scoring 23 — www.wnav.com at 4 p.m. Points / Game 23.0 — Total Offense Allowed 427 — Yards / Game 427.0 — Mids Lose Heartbreaker to Maryland, 23-20... Rush Yards Allowed 210 — Maryland quarterback Sam Hollenbach hit Drew Weatherly with a 11-yard touchdown strike with Yards / Game 210.0 — 1:01 remaining to rally Maryland to a 23-20 victory over Navy in front of 67,809 fans at Baltimore’s Pass Yards Allowed 217 — M&T Bank Stadium. Yards / Game 217.0 — Navy jumped out to a 14-3 lead in the first quarter as senior quarterback Lamar Owens Turnover Diff. +1 — (Savannah, Ga.) led the Mids on 80 and 50-yard scoring drives on Navy’s first two possessions. Matt Hall (Jr./Cape Coral, Fla.) capped off the 12-play, 80-yard scoring drive with a three-yard touchdown run to give Navy a 7-3 lead.After a Jake Biles (Sr./Lorena, Texas) interception gave Covering Navy... the offense the ball on the 50, the Mids promptly drove down the field in six plays with Marco Navy Sports Information Nelson (Sr./Scottsdale, Ariz.) scoring from seven yards out on an option pitch to give Navy a 566 Brownson Road 14-3 lead. Annapolis, MD 21401 Navy had an opportunity to put the game away the next time it had the ball as Greg Sudderth Football Contact: Scott Strasemeier picked off a Hollenbach pass and returned it to the Maryland 46.. The Mids moved the ball down to Email: [email protected] the 14 yard line where, facing third-and-one, drew a delay of game penalty. Navy head coach Paul Office Phone: 410-293-8775 Johnson elected to go for it on fourth and two and Owens was stopped for a one yard game. Cell Phone: 443-336-9023 The Navy defense held tough most of the day, holding the Terps to just three field goals through Fax: 410-293-8954 the first three quarters. Maryland finally broke through on their first possession of the fourth quar- Working Press... ter when Mario Merrills scored from 12 yards out to give the Terps a 15-14 lead. « Admittance to the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Navy, however, would answer. Owens re-entered the game after missing two series with a right Stadium press box is limited to the WORKING hand cramp and promptly led the Mids on a eight-play, 66-yard scoring drive that was capped off by PRESS ONLY.The press box is located on the west a six-yard touchdown run by Hall. The Mids, now up by five, had to go for two and didn’t convert. side of the stadium. Beverages and a buffet are avail- Maryland would come roaring back and drove the ball down to the Navy 33 before a holding penal- able two hours before kickoff and at halftime. ty pushed them back to the 43. The call appeared to be the break Navy needed as the Mids got the Telephones... Terps in a fourth-and-eight situation from the Navy 31. Hollenbach hit Lance Ball with a swing pass « T h e re are eight courtesy phone lines and high- in the flat and Navy had two defenders in the area, but neither Greg Thrasher (So./Carrollton, speed internet connections available in the press box . Texas) nor Tyler Tidwell (Jr./Edmond, Okla.) could bring him down before he crossed the Radio... first down marker. Hollenbach hit Weatherly on the next play to make it 23-20. « There are two radio booths in the NMCMS press Navy had one more chance to pull the game out when on first and 10 from its own 25 Nelson got box. One booth is reserved for the Navy Football behind the Maryland secondary on a wheel route. Owens was just short on his throw and Nelson Network; the visiting team is assigned the other was unable to make the grab. broadcast space. Six credentials will be allotted to Owens led the Navy offense with 122 yards rushing on 19 carries. He completed five of his 11 each broadcast crew, plus one for each spotter. pass attempts for 97 yards. Hall rushed for 68 yards and two touchdowns. Jason Tomlinson Opponent stations should indicate when (Jr./Arlington, Texas) caught three passes for 72 yards. Junior linebacker Rob Caldwell (St. requesting credentials whether or not they will John, Ind.) led the Navy defense with 13 tackles and a forced fumble. Keenan Little require the services of a Navy spotter.Visiting radio (Jr./Boiling Springs, N.C.) and Biles recorded nine tackles apiece. Biles also had an interception. stations may purchase the use of up to three phone David Mahoney (Jr./Fort Myers, Fla.) had six tackles, three tackles for a loss and a sack.