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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology football team will host the Mount St. Joseph Lions on Saturday at 1:30 PM for the HCAC Championship game. Rose-Hulman will also honor their 22 seniors prior to the game.

ROSE-HULMAN NOTES:
* Rose-Hulman enters this week at 7-2 overall and 6-0 in the HCAC.
* The Fightin' Engineers put up an offensive explosion last week with a 78-54 win over Defiance.
* Grant Ripperda etched his name into the Rose-Hulman record book with 38 carries (10th most in school history), 226 rushing yards (fourth in school history), and five rushing touchdowns (tied for most in school history) to be named to the D3football.com Team of the Week.
* Jailen Hobbs also earned D3football.com Team of the Week honors after he returned a 79-yard punt back for a touchdown. Hobbs tallied 130 punt return yards on 3 returns, and he currently sits at 290 punt return yards on the season which puts him 36 yards away from breaking the single-season record for punt return yards.
* Hobbs also has two of the ten longest punt return touchdowns in Division III on the year with returns of 79 and 82 yards.
* Hobbs leads the HCAC in both receiving yards and receiving touchdowns this season with 895 and 12.
* Grant Ripperda (1,043) and Jay Smith (610) rank 2nd and 4th in the HCAC in rushing yards this season, and they are 3rd and 4th respectively in rushing touchdowns with 13 and 9.
* Ripperda's 1,000 yard season makes him just the second player to reach that mark in the last 12 years.
* Miguel Robertson ranks second in the HCAC with 2,087 passing yards and 25 touchdowns. He leads the HCAC in Passing Efficiency at 168.9.
* Kyle Rehberg leads the HCAC with 9 field goals made and 71 points scored.
* Marshall Koch, Jakey Ovanic, and Adam Field all rank top-10 in the HCAC in tackles this season.
* Koch ranks 9th in the HCAC with 8.5 tackles for loss this season.
* Payton Gryniewicz ranks 6th in the HCAC in sacks with 5.5 and also ranks 8th with 9.0 tackles for a loss.
* Stephon Pugh and Adam Field are two of the 20 HCAC players with multiple interceptions this season.
* Andrew Toler leads the HCAC in yards per punt at 44.6.
* Jeff Sokol is serving in his 13th year at Rose-Hulman with a career record of 84-42 and the top winning percentage in program history at .667. Sokol has led Rose-Hulman to three HCAC titles and NCAA Playoff appearances in 2016 and 2021.
* With a win, Rose-Hulman will advance to their second NCAA Tournament in the last three seasons.

MOUNT ST. JOSEPH NOTES:
* The Lions come into the final game of the season at 8-1 on the season and a perfect 6-0 in the HCAC.
* The lone loss this season came to Hope, 40-35, back on September 16.
* Mt. St. Joseph has scored at least 49 points in every conference game this season.
* Their closest conference game of the year came last week in the 49-27 win over Bluffton.
* Josh Taylor has been lights out with 2,523 passing yards and 39 passing touchdowns in 9 games this season.
* Mariano McKenzie leads the Lions on the ground this season with 524 yards and 4 touchdowns.
* They have had 9 different players record a rushing touchdown this season and have 24 as a team.
* DeShawn Starks leads the Lions with 7 interceptions this season.
* With a win, the Lions would win their third HCAC Regular season title in the last six years. Mount St. Joseph advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2022 where they fell to Alma in the opening round.

SERIES HISTORY:
* Mount St. Joseph leads the all-time series 12-9 over Rose-Hulman.
* The Lions won last year's HCAC Championship game 40-31 in Cincinnati.
* The Fightin' Engineers won the 2021 HCAC Championship game 58-21 in Terre Haute.
* The last win for Mount St. Joseph in Terre Haute was in 2015, a 27-26 win.

2023 STAT LEADERS:
PASSING YARDS - Miguel Robertson (2087)
PASSING TDS - Miguel Robertson (25)
RUSHING YARDS - Grant Ripperda (1043)
RUSHING TDS - Grant Ripperda (13)
RECEPTIONS - Daniel Huery (61)
RECEIVING YARDS - Jailen Hobbs (895)
RECEIVING TDS - Jailen Hobbs (12)
TACKLES - Jakey Ovanic (64)
TACKLES FOR A LOSS - Payton Gryniewicz (9.0)
SACKS - Payton Gryniewicz (5.5)
INTERCEPTIONS - Adam Field / Stephon Pugh (2)

NCAA DIVISION III STAT NOTES:
* Wyatt Bell - 5th in pass breakups (13)
* Jailen Hobbs - 2nd in punt return touchdowns (2), 3rd in punt return yards (290), 9th in all-purpose yards (1,478), 11th in receiving yards (869), and 16th in receiving touchdowns (12)
* Daniel Huery - 21st in receptions (61)
* Kyle Rehberg - 3rd in field goal percentage (90%) and 18th in field goals made (9)
* Grant Ripperda - 14th in rushing yards (1043), 15th in rushing touchdowns (12), and 37th in all-purpose yards (1,117)
* Miguel Robertson - 20th in passing efficiency (168.9), 22nd in passing touchdowns (25), 29th in completion percentage (66.5%), and 35th in yards per attempt (8.62)

CAREER STAT NOTES:
* Cameron Dorsey - 6th in pass breakups (25) and 13th in fumble return yards (9)
* Jacob Fields - One of seven players in Rose-Hulman history to return a fumble for a touchdown, and 8th in fumble return yards (19)
* Jailen Hobbs - One of four players to return 2 kicks for touchdowns, 1st in punt returns for touchdowns with 4, 1st in yards per punt return (17.22), 1st in total punt return yards (844), 2nd in yards per kick return (26.41), 2nd in total kick return yards (1294), 3rd in receiving touchdowns (26), 5th in receptions per game (4.23), 7th in receptions (148), 8th in receiving yards (2088), and 12th in yards per catch (14.11)
* Daniel Huery - 5th in receptions (185), 5th in receiving yards (2362), 5th in receiving touchdowns (24), 7th in yards per kick return (23.76), and one of only 12 players to return a kick for a touchdown
* Jonathan Oliger - 6th in PAT percentage (91.2%) and 9th in extra points made (52)
* Kyle Rehberg - 4th in extra points made (89), 7th in field goals made (17), and 10th in PAT percentage (89.9%)
* Grant Ripperda - 7th in rushing touchdowns (26), 7th in rushing yards per game (70.2), 11th in rushing attempts (492), 12th in rushing yards (2245), and 14th in yards per carry (4.56)
* Miguel Robertson - 1st in completion percentage (67.6%), 1st in yards per completion (8.7), 1st in passing efficiency (171.1), 3rd in passing touchdowns (55), 7th in passing yards (4458), 8th in passing completions (346), and 11th in passing attempts (512)
* Chaikou Sow - 14th in interception return yards (110)
* Andrew Toler - 3rd in yards per punt (39.53) and 6th in total punt yards (5139)

SINGLE-SEASON STAT NOTES:
* Wyatt Bell - 3rd in pass breakups (13)
* Cameron Dorsey - 12th in pass breakups (10)
* Jacob Fields - One of seven players in Rose-Hulman history to return a fumble for a touchdown, 7th in fumble return yards (19) and 13th in QB hurries (4)
* Jailen Hobbs - One of two players to return two punts for a touchdown in a season, 1st in yards per punt return (24.17), 2nd in punt return yards (290), 5th in receiving touchdowns (12), 7th in receiving yards (895), and 11th in yards per catch (17.55)
* Daniel Huery - 10th in receptions (61) and 13th in yards per punt return (10.0)
* Kyle Rehberg - 1st in field goal percentage (90.0%), and 4th in extra points made (44), and 6th in field goals made (9)
* Grant Ripperda - 8th in rushing yards (1043) and 9th in rushing touchdowns (13)
* Miguel Robertson - 2nd in passer efficiency (168.9), 3rd in completion percentage (66.5%), 5th in passing touchdowns (25), 5th in yards per completion (8.6), 11th in passing yards (2087), and 14th in competions (161)

HCAC FOOTBALL STANDINGS:
T1) Mount St. Joseph (8-1, 6-0 HCAC)
T1) Rose-Hulman (7-2, 6-0 HCAC)
3) Franklin (4-5, 4-2 HCAC)
T4) Defiance (4-5, 3-3 HCAC)
T4) Hanover (6-3, 3-3 HCAC)
6) Bluffton (3-6, 2-4 HCAC)
T7) Anderson (0-9, 0-6 HCAC)
T7) Manchester (0-9, 0-6 HCAC)