2006 Season

(AUSTINTOWN, Ohio)--Capital University head football coach Jim Collins has been selected to receive the 2006 Lee Tressel Ohio College Coach-of-the-Year Award. Collins will be honored at the 19th Annual Scholar-Athlete Awards Banquet of the Northeastern Ohio Chapter of the National Football Foundation. The banquet will be held on Tuesday, May 8 at LaCentre in Westlake.

(WESTMONT, Ill.)--Junior wide receiver Derick Alexander (Grove City/Grove City), senior tight end Dylan Kelly (Hilliard/Hilliard Darby), junior placekicker Matt Spitz (Xenia/Xenia) and junior defensive back James Starks (Toledo/Toledo-St. Francis) have been named All-Americans by Football Gazette.

(NORTH AURORA, Ill.)--Capital University head coach Jim Collins was named North Region Coach of the Year and 10 Crusaders earned All-North Region Honors from Football Gazette.

For the second straight season, Capital University’s football team set a school record for wins and advanced to the Division III national quarterfinals.

(NORWALK, Conn.)--Capital University senior quarterback Rocky Pentello (Columbus/Westerville South) was named first team All-American by D3football.com. Pentello was one of four Crusaders named All-American.

(NORWALK, Conn.)--Capital University senior quarterback Rocky Pentello (Columbus/Westerville South), junior wide receiver Derick Alexander (Grove City/Grove City), senior center Josh Kinniard (Lancaster/Lancaster), senior tight end Dylan Kelly (Hilliard/Hilliard Darby) and junior offensive lineman Adam Persing (Springfield Township/Springfield) were named to the 2006 D3Football.com All-North Region Team.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)--Capital University senior offensive lineman Steve Leppert (Cincinnati/Princeton) is a 2006 ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-American College Division First Team Football selection.

(AUSTINTOWN, Ohio)--Capital University senior football players Steve Leppert (Cincinnati/Princeton), Sam Abdullah (Worthington/Thomas Worthington) and Eric Calland (Westerville/Westerville South) were named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference.

(ALLIANCE, Ohio)—For the second year in a row, Mount Union College rallied in the fourth quarter to beat Capital University, 17-14, in the national quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Football Championship Saturday in Alliance, Ohio.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)--Senior quarterback Rocky Pentello (Columbus/Westerville South) passed for 399 yards and a career-best five touchdown passes to lead the Capital University football team to a 41-13 win over North Central (Ill.) College in NCAA Division III Football Playoffs Second Round game in Columbus, Ohio.

(AUSTINTOWN, Ohio)—Capital University head football coach Jim Collins was named Ohio Athletic Conference Coach of the Year and senior quarterback Rocky Pentello (Columbus/Westerville South) was named the Mike Gregory Outstanding Offensive Back to headline the All-OAC football teams selected by the OAC’s 10 head coaches.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)--Capital University quarterback Rocky Pentello (Columbus/Westerville South) and wide receiver Mike Niedzwiecki (Norwalk/Norwalk St. Paul) each had career days as the Crusaders posted a 32-14 victory over Wittenberg University in the first round of the NCAA Division III Football Championship Saturday in Columbus.

(BEREA, Ohio)— Capital University’s football team posted its first 9-1 regular season in school history and locked up second place in the Ohio Athletic Conference with a 19-7 win at Baldwin-Wallace College Saturday in Berea.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Capital University’s football team, ranked No. 5 in the nation, maintained its hold on second place in the Ohio Athletic Conference with a 52-14 win over Muskingum College Saturday in Columbus.

(ALLIANCE, Ohio)—No. 1 nationally ranked Mount Union College jumped out to a 17-0 first quarter lead on their way to a 38-12 Ohio Athletic Conference football win over No. 4 in the nation Capital University in a rainy, windy, wintry Saturday in Alliance, Ohio.

(AUSTINTOWN, Ohio)--Capital University junior kicker Matt Spitz (Xenia/Xenia) was named Ohio Athletic Conference Special Teams Player of the Week.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Capital University, ranked No. 4 in the nation, is off to the best start in school history at 7-0 with a 26-0 shutout of cross-town rival Otterbein College in an Ohio Athletic Conference football victory Saturday in Columbus.

(ADA, Ohio)—For the second week in a row it took a fourth quarter rally for the #4 Capital University football team to get a win as they scored a 17-10 Ohio Athletic Conference victory at #17 Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio.

(UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio)—Senior quarterback Rocky Pentello (Columbus/Westerville South) completed an 11-yard touchdown pass to Dylan Kelly (Hilliard/Hilliard Darby) with 58 seconds left as Capital University’s football team, ranked No. 3 in the nation, rallied for a 24-21 Ohio Athletic Conference football win at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)--Capital University’s football team, ranked No. 3 in the nation, scored 21 points in the first four minutes of the fourth quarter to pull away from Marietta College for a 52-10 Ohio Athletic Conference victory Saturday in Columbus.

(TIFFIN, Ohio)--Rocky Pentello (Columbus/Westerville South) completed 18-of-22 passes for 301 yards and matched a career-high with four touchdown passes to lead Capital University to a 65-7 Ohio Athletic Conference football win at Heidelberg College in Tiffin.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)--Capital University's football team, ranked No. 5 in the nation, opened Ohio Athletic Conference play with a 43-0 shutout of Wilmington College Saturday in Bernlohr Stadium.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)--Capital University's football team, ranked No, 5 in the nation, picked up in the 2006 right where they left off in 2005 with a 57-7 rout of Wittenberg University Saturday in Columbus.