ITHACA COLLEGE - College Football Dvds-Media Guides Project
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<strong>ITHACA</strong> <strong>COLLEGE</strong><br />
Joe Goetz, Tyler Baker and Kyle Scharles (l. to r.) all saw starting time on the Bomber defense.<br />
LINEBACKERS: Six letter-winners are back<br />
this season, with three starters (including a pair of<br />
all-conference selections) back. Scalice is the most<br />
experienced Bomber linebacker. He’s collected 178<br />
career tackles – 30 for loss – while seeing starting<br />
action at inside linebacker in all three of his seasons.<br />
Sophomore Paul Helm moves to inside linebacker<br />
after lettering as a defensive lineman last season.<br />
He made 10 tackles in nine games. Other candidates<br />
for playing time include sophomores Sean Gil<br />
and Pat Scott, who both played on Ithaca’s junior<br />
varsity team a year ago.<br />
Scanlon, an Empire 8 all-star and two-year<br />
starter, enters his senior season with three letters. His<br />
128 career tackles include 28 tackles for loss. Classmate<br />
Craig Liebler is a two-year letter winner who<br />
made 18 tackles in 2007. Junior Tyler Baker (39<br />
tackles, 12 tackles for loss) started last season’s final<br />
seven games.<br />
Junior Bobby Pattison and sophomores Morgan<br />
Abdelnour, Eric Betts and Matt Dibble will<br />
also push for playing time.<br />
SECONDARY: Three defensive backs with<br />
starting experience are among the six returning letter-winners<br />
on Ithaca’s roster. Chier has started the<br />
last 17 games at cornerback and has three interceptions<br />
and seven pass break-ups in that time. His 53<br />
tackles and five tackles for loss both led the team’s<br />
cornerbacks last year.<br />
Another senior, Chris Grady, is the most experienced<br />
candidate for the other starting spot. A 2007<br />
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letter winner, Grady played in all but one game. Four<br />
sophomores who played on Ithaca’s junior varsity<br />
team last fall will all push for playing time; Aaron<br />
Castonguay, Tom Eschen, Chris McConnell and<br />
Tim Wood.<br />
Senior Matt Samela, who started four games<br />
at cornerback last year, moves to strong safety this<br />
season. Samela made 26 tackles and his six pass<br />
break-ups ranked second on the team. Junior Chad<br />
Herring lettered a year ago in his first varsity season<br />
after making 16 tackles.<br />
Sophomores Kevin Accetta and Tyler Rauber<br />
are up from the junior varsity team.<br />
Two letter-winners return at free safety: junior<br />
Roniel Bencosme and sophomore David Ahonen.<br />
Bencosme has played in 18 games (with one start) in<br />
his career. Ahonen appeared in all but one game as a<br />
Bomber rookie, recording 11 stops. Senior Alex Darcey<br />
and junior Bobby DeForest are returning varsity<br />
players as well.<br />
SPECIAL TEAMS: Once again last season<br />
the Bombers fielded one of the nation’s best special<br />
teams units. Ithaca ranked in the top 20 nationally<br />
in four categories, leading Division III in punt return<br />
average and ranking 11th in kickoff returns, 15th in<br />
punt return defense and 16th in net punting. In addition,<br />
The Bombers set a school record with five<br />
blocked extra-point attempts among their six overall<br />
blocked kicks.<br />
Chier heads the list of returning special teams<br />
standouts. The nation’s top punt returner, he became
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