2008 Woodie Awards
Football gets back on track
Tigers defeat DePauw (Ind.) 43-28, improves record to 5-1, Barmore breaks school record
Jonny Wiener
Issue date: 10/19/07 Section: Sports
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Facing a must-win game at a difficult SCAC opponent on the road last weekend, the Trinity Tigers turned to their senior gun-slinger QB Blake Barmore to keep their championship hopes alive.
No. 21 Trinity outgunned Depauw 43-28 to improve to 5-1, 2-1 on the season, with Barmore amassing a school record 518 yards of total offense en route to the crucial win.
Barmore completed 22 of 32 passes for 476 yards and two touchdowns, and ran 12 times for 42 yards and two more scores.
He scored touchdown runs of 10 and 21 yards on consecutive drives to give the Tigers a 12-0 lead with 13:11 to play in the second quarter, and then found Riley Curry for back-to-back scores (15 and 20 yards) to extend the Trinity lead to 26-7.
But, with Barmore firing on all cylinders, and the Tigers seemingly on the verge of a blowout, DePauw rallied for 14 unanswered points in the final 2:20 of the first half to seize the momentum in the game and send the Tigers to the locker room subdued.
A lead that was a comfortable 19 points had been reduced to five in a matter of seconds.
With the sudden comeback by DePauw, the Tigers found themselves clinging to a small lead in a difficult road environment, not unlike the previous week in their upset loss at Rhodes.
This time, however, the Tigers would not be denied, a fact the white-hot Barmore made very clear to his team in the halftime locker room.
"[At halftime] I just told our offense especially that they hadn't stopped us yet. The only time we had stopped ourselves was an interception. I told 'em, 'We got this defense, so there's no reason to hang our heads, we're gonna go out and put a bunch more points up.'"
Mohr said Barmore's typically cool confidence at halftime reflected in his squad's gutsy second half performance.
"It was just one of things where the performance by Blake and his attitude at halftime, I mean the guy was really calm. It was like, 'Ehh, don't worry about it we're gonna score again,'" Mohr said. "We could have folded our tents at that point at halftime because they had all the momentum. The second half was a gut-check period, and the kids really came out and responded."
No. 21 Trinity outgunned Depauw 43-28 to improve to 5-1, 2-1 on the season, with Barmore amassing a school record 518 yards of total offense en route to the crucial win.
Barmore completed 22 of 32 passes for 476 yards and two touchdowns, and ran 12 times for 42 yards and two more scores.
He scored touchdown runs of 10 and 21 yards on consecutive drives to give the Tigers a 12-0 lead with 13:11 to play in the second quarter, and then found Riley Curry for back-to-back scores (15 and 20 yards) to extend the Trinity lead to 26-7.
But, with Barmore firing on all cylinders, and the Tigers seemingly on the verge of a blowout, DePauw rallied for 14 unanswered points in the final 2:20 of the first half to seize the momentum in the game and send the Tigers to the locker room subdued.
A lead that was a comfortable 19 points had been reduced to five in a matter of seconds.
With the sudden comeback by DePauw, the Tigers found themselves clinging to a small lead in a difficult road environment, not unlike the previous week in their upset loss at Rhodes.
This time, however, the Tigers would not be denied, a fact the white-hot Barmore made very clear to his team in the halftime locker room.
"[At halftime] I just told our offense especially that they hadn't stopped us yet. The only time we had stopped ourselves was an interception. I told 'em, 'We got this defense, so there's no reason to hang our heads, we're gonna go out and put a bunch more points up.'"
Mohr said Barmore's typically cool confidence at halftime reflected in his squad's gutsy second half performance.
"It was just one of things where the performance by Blake and his attitude at halftime, I mean the guy was really calm. It was like, 'Ehh, don't worry about it we're gonna score again,'" Mohr said. "We could have folded our tents at that point at halftime because they had all the momentum. The second half was a gut-check period, and the kids really came out and responded."
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