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Reaching for the restart button
Longwell concentrates on changing Capital’s momentum
By Paul Batterson
on a fourth and 1 at the Otterbein 35 with
less than a minute to play.
for Chase Longwell
Capital closes out the season against
to get discouraged.
visiting Muskingum (1-7 overall) on
In the Hilliard Darby High School
Saturday and Wilmington (0-8) on Nov.
graduate’s first eight games as quarterback
16. The Muskies, sixth in the league in
for the Capital University football team,
scoring defense (30.1), are allowing 214.9
the Crusaders have lost as many games as
yards through the air and 134.9 yards on
the Panthers did in the last three years of
the ground per game. Wilmington dwells
Longwell’s career there.
As Capital (1-7 overall, 1-6 in the Ohio near the bottom of most of the OAC’s
defensive categories including scoring
It could be very easy
our offensive huddle.”
“Playing at Darby definitely helped
prepare me,” Longwell adds. “My
coaches were great; they harped on
discipline, discipline, discipline. That is
one of the things (Candeto), coming from
the U.S. Naval Academy, preaches all the
time.”
Longwell was set to attend Georgetown
College in Kentucky when Capital hired
Candeto as its head coach. Candeto, who
rushed and passed for more than 1,000
yards as a quarterback his senior year
with Navy in 2003, eventually convinced
Longwell to sign with Capital.
“I actually verbally committed to
Georgetown but coach Candeto came
around and changed my mind,” Longwell
says. “I really liked everything he was
about and what he stood for and what he
had planned for this program.”
Longwell found out there’s huge
different between high school and college
football in the first few weeks of the
Crusaders’ practices. The speed of the
including a 1-yard touchdown run on 21
carries.
“It was such a good feeling in the
locker room after we came away with the
victory,” Longwell says.
Since the Sept. 21 win, the Crusaders
have been trying to recapture that feeling.
The month of October was particularly
ruthless to Capital. It didn’t help that the
Crusaders’ faced three teams ranked in
the top 15 of the Division III poll released
on Oct. 28, including top-ranked Mount
Union (currently 8-0 overall), ninthranked Heidelberg (7-1) and 15th ranked
John Carroll (8-0).
Capital was outscored 185-20 in a 54-0
loss at John Carroll on Oct. 5, a 73-17 loss
at Heidelberg on Oct. 12 and 58-3 loss to
Mount Union on Oct. 19.
Longwell says the team is trying to
learn from its losses.
“The losses have been learning
experiences for us,” Longwell said. “We
learned from (the lopsided losses) even
though they weren’t great games for us.”
Longwell says he would like to see his
team play at the level of a Mount Union.
The Purple Raiders are to Division III
Chase Longwell, shown here throwing a pass against Thomas More (Ky.) game on
Sept. 7, says he has had to adjust to the speed of the college game.
Photos (2) by Jeff Mills/Capital University Athletics.
“NOW MORE THAN EVER”
Athletic Conference) gets ready to take on
Muskingum University on Saturday, the
freshman refuses to give up.
“Things are starting to turn around
here,” says Longwell, who completed
five of 10 passes for 32 yards and rushed
nine times for six yards in a 19-14 loss to
rival Otterbein on Nov. 2. “(Coach Craig)
Candeto keeps talking about ‘Changing
Momentum.’ We need to take all the bad
stuff that has happened in the past and just
really change it around for the better. We
need to keep pushing forward.”
As the only freshman starting at
quarterback in the 10-team OAC,
Longwell completed 34 of his 69 passing
attempts (49.3 percent) for 442 yards with
four touchdowns and four interceptions
and is the team’s second leading rusher
with 398 yards and two touchdowns on
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