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A 22-yard field goal by Rhodes placekicker Chris Catalanotto with 40 seconds left booted Rhodes to a 15-13 victory over Sewanee and made the Lynx senior linebacker Donny Dillard a prophet.
After Catalanotto missed a 41-yard field goal before halftime, Dillard told him that he “would have another chance to be a hero. He's cool as a cat. That's his nickname. He's not missed one that has been a game-winner. I've got faith in him.”
It was Catalanotto's third winning field goal this season in the closing seconds. Not only did the victory give the Lynx a second straight winning season (6-4, 4-3 in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference) but allowed them to hang onto the Edmund Orgill Trophy, the symbol of the rivalry.
“He's money,” said Rhodes coach Joe White of Catalanotto.
With teammate Artie Quinn on the sideline making him laugh and keeping him calm moments before he entered the game to attempt the winning kick, Catalanotto wasn't iced by a Sewanee timeout, a tactic other teams have used. “I had confidence in myself. It's been great how close the guys have gotten me (to the goal). Bryn's punt on the last drive and Jake's punt return was incredible. It got me close enough to where it was a routine PAT,” said Catalanotto, With 3:22 left in the game, Bryn Meredith kicked a 49-yard punt to the Sewanee 1-yard line. When Rhodes defensive back Jake McCart downed the ball, he handed it to an official. “I knew we had it,” said McCart, whose team was trailing 13-12. “I never felt like we had lost control the whole game. All I think about is heart. We finished the drill.”
Rhodes stopped the Tigers (1-8, 0-7) within the 1-yard line on four downs, forcing a punt. McCart fielded Geoff Marolda's 32-yard punt and returned it 23 yards to the Sewanee 10-yard line.
“I'm mad I didn't score,” he said. After a 5-yard rush by Charles Hoggard, who was the game's leading rusher with 94 yards on 27 carries, put the Lynx on the 5, they would get no closer. Catalanotto, a left-handed pitcher on the Rhodes baseball team, entered on fourth down.
“It's been a great experience all the way through,” said Catalanotto, whose first season on the football team was in 2006. “It was nice to be given an opportunity to get another chance after I completely duffed it in the first half.” In the third quarter Catalanotto kicked a 25-yard field goal to give the Lynx a 12-6 lead. With 3:59 left in the third Sewanee's Andrew Gould kicked a 32-yard field goal. However, the Lynx were called for a roughing-the-kicker penalty. Sewanee got a first down at the Rhodes 8. Then at the 5-yard line, Rhodes defensive back Brandon Valentine intercepted quarterback Patrick Shelton.
“I don't feel bad about the decision we made,” said Sewanee first-year coach Robert Black, to take points off the board. “Our guys played to win. This is what has been happening to us. I hope we got five years of these type things (a dropped exchange that led to a crucial fumble) in one year.”
The Tigers would later take the lead. A 58-yard pass from Shelton to David Craig put the Tigers on the Rhodes 11-yard line. Blake Mears, who has been playing with a torn anterior cruciate ligament for three games, then ran 9 yards for a touchdown with 4:55 left. A 5-yard touchdown run by Bobby Martin gave Rhodes a 7-0 first quarter lead. After Trey Reliford scored on a 2-yard run, the Lynx Mason Mosby blocked Gould's PAT and raced 70 yards for a two-point PAT return.
“Our rivalry is strong,” said Black. “This is a game they won't forget.”
Said White, “I'm proud of these guys.” Dillard said, “The whole team always believes. The senior class has established a program where we never give up. We got into the right rhythm and rolled with it.”