No. 9 Slippery Rock Captures PSAC Championship Game

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WEST CHESTER, Pa. – Slippery Rock QB Dante Nania finished 18-for-27 for 304 yards and five TDs, and RB Shamar Greene rushed for 178 yards and a TD, as Slippery Rock repeated as PSAC Champions with a 61-12 victory over host West Chester at John A. Farrell Stadium Saturday.
 
Nania was named the game's most valuable player for Slippery Rock (10-1). West Chester (7-4) saw its three-game winning streak come to a close with the loss.
 
West Chester DE Andrew Cohen (Holland, Pa./Council Rock North) registered nine tackles and a pair of sacks to break the PSAC all-time record for sacks with 33.5 during his four-year career. He finished 2015 with 13.5 sacks.
 
Greene opened the scoring with a 24-yard run with 9:42 left in the first quarter. That 7-play, 80-yard drive followed a missed field goal attempt by West Chester and put the visitor's on top, 7-0. The Golden Rams answered with a 6-play, 56-yard drive capped by a 23-yard pass from QB Pat Moriarty (Gladwyne, Pa./Harriton) to A.J. DePietro (Glen Mills, Pa./Garnet Valley). The extra-point was wide right and West Chester cut the deficit to one at 7-6.
 
It was all Slippery Rock after that.
 
The Rock scored six unanswered touchdowns over the next 36 minutes to take an insurmountable 48-6 lead. West Chester managed just 18 yards of total offense in the second quarter and only 62 yards in the third.
 
For the game, Slippery Rock rolled up 557 yards of total offense, running 82 offensive plays.
 
Senior RB Brandon Monk (West Grove, Pa./Avon Grove) accumulated 173 all-purpose yards. He caught six passes for 67 yards and rushed for 19 yards in his final college football game. Classmate Eddie Elliott (Bethlehem, Pa./Freedom) caught a 17-yard TD pass in his final game as well.
 
Junior LB Ralph Reeves (North Wales, Pa./North Penn) registered a team-best 12 tackles, including one forced fumble. Josh Ganzelli (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown East) posted nine tackles.
 
Before the game, junior DB Kyle Keyser (Garnet Valley, Pa./Garnet Valley) was presented with the PSAC Champion Scholar Award for having the highest grade-point average among the participants at the site of the conference finals. He carries a 3.81 GPA in Finance & Economics.