MIDDLETOWN – Sophomore Brendan Deasy kicked a pair of field goals and junior defensive end Shane Lange recorded nine tackles and two sacks as the Salve Regina University football team defeated Worcester Polytechnic Institute 6-3 in a non-conference game on Saturday afternoon at the Gaudet School field in the season opener for both schools.
Deasy tied the game late in the first quarter on a 31-yarder and booted the winner from 22 yards out late in the third quarter.
The Seahawks sacked WPI junior quarterback Pat McAuley five times and held him to 8-of-20 passing for 39 yards and limited the Engineers’ option attack on the ground to 129 yards on 33 carries.
“Our defense did a great job,” first-year Salve coach Bob Chesney said. “They stepped up and listened to what we talked about all week.
‘That option offense is tricky. They’re running all these different things, but we felt we had a pretty good scheme in place, and I thought our kids executed excellently.”
The win snapped the visitors’ 19-game win streak against New England opponents, dating back to a loss to Coast Guard on November 8, 2003.
Salve avenged a 34-20 loss to WPI last year in holding the Engineers to just five first downs and 168 total yards in spoiling the return of former Seahawks head coach Chris Robertson, who took over the helm at the Worcester, Mass., school last spring after four seasons in Newport.
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