The Great Danes are in the Championship Subdivision and were scheduled to play at No. 8 Delaware on Saturday and at home against No. 16 Villanova the following week.
Head coach Greg Gattuso said the decision to opt out was made with a focus on health and safety due to the high number of injuries on the roster. The Great Danes opened the season with a win at New Hampshire but had lost three straight, including a 21-7 setback at home to Stony Brook on Saturday.
“We are all competitive people and have done everything in our power to play a full spring season,” Gattuso said. “We all feel terrible right now, but at the end of the day I believe this is the right thing for my players. We had nine kids come out of the game Saturday. I go out (on the field) when I think a player is injured badly and I made … six or seven trips onto the field. It was overwhelming how we were after that game and on Sunday, so that’s kind of what started the process.”
College notebook: GSHL connection made in Eastern Washington’s win
Battle Ground’s Talkington toss TD pass to Heritage’s Taras
Published: March 31, 2021, 11:29pm
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A Greater St. Helens League connection led to an Eastern Washington touchdown on Saturday.
Battle Ground grad Gunner Talkington got his first career start at quarterback in EWU’s 62-10 win over Cal Poly. The redshirt junior threw for 132 yards and two touchdowns.
The second of those touchdowns went to Heritage grad Michael Taras. The redshirt sophomore hauled in his first collegiate touchdown on an 18-yard pass in the fourth quarter.
Camas grad Dylan Ingram also got into the scoring action. The tight end caught a 3-yard touchdown pass from normal Eagles starter Eric Barriere, who played in the middle portion of the game.
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By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
You couldn’t blame Zion Webb for volunteering to make a second trip to Tennessee in as many weeks. The Jacksonville State quarterback definitely found the most recent trip to his liking as it yielded his selection as Ohio Valley Conference Offensive Player of the Week.
The redshirt junior led the Gamecocks to a 38-16 win at Tennessee State last Sunday in just the second start of his career. Webb totaled 280 passing yards and a career-high three touchdowns on 21 completions against the Tigers. The Phenix City native also gained 18 yards on five carries as Jax State improved to 5-1 on the season and 2-0 in league play this spring.
The University of Northern Colorado football program won’t participate in the Big Sky Conference and FCS spring championship season.
Instead, the Golden Bears, led by rookie head coach Ed McCaffrey, will pursue a modified non-conference schedule in late spring.
The school cited the health and safety of its student-athletes and coaches along with “staffing and faculty challenges associated with multiple sports competing simultaneously.”
Northern Colorado is the fifth Big Sky program to either opt out of the spring season or to pursue a modified spring schedule. The others are Montana, Montana State, Portland State and Sacramento State.
The Big Sky pushed its football schedule from last fall to the spring in response to the coronavirus pandemic.