CARLISLE - Fullback Tim Wells scored his second touchdown of the game, on a five-yard run in overtime, to give Dickinson a 16-10 victory over Waynesburg in the ECAC Southeast Bowl Saturday afternoon.
Wells' touchdown came after Waynesburg missed a 27-yard field goal on the first possession of overtime. On Dickinson's possession, a 20-yard pass gave the Red Devils the ball at the Waynesburg three. Two plays later, Wells scored the game-winner.
Dickinson, the Centennial Conference runner-up, finishes the season with a 9-2 record. Waynesburg (8-3) lost three of its final four games. Two of the defeats came in overtime and the other by one point.
Waynesburg freshman running back Robert Heller (Ringgold) rushed for a game-high 157 yards on 39 carries. The leading rusher in Division III, Heller finishes the season with 2,176 yards, breaking the NCAA all-divisions record for yardage by a freshman. Heller surpassed the previous record of 2,065 yards set last season by Joique Bell of Division II Wayne State.
Waynesburg had a chance to win on its final drive in regulation. The Yellow Jackets drove from their own 20 to the Red Devils' 26, but quarterback Andy Lauterbach was intercepted by Michael Maxwell with 33 seconds remaining.
Lauterbach completed 12 of 28 passes for 158 yards with three interceptions.
The teams traded field goals in the first quarter. Waynesburg's Kyle McBride made a 25-yarder and Dickinson's Gordon Craig was good from 20 yards.
The Red Devils took a 1-0-3 lead when Wells capped a 47-yard drive with a 18-yard run early in the second quarter. The Jackets answered with a 10-play drive that was capped by Aaron Davis' one-yard plunge that made it 10-10.
There was no further scoring until overtime. Waynesburg turned the ball over on downs at the Dickinson 26 in the third quarter and at the Red Devils' 28 early in the fourth quarter.
The Yellow Jackets' defense was led by defensive end Mike Czerwien and linebacker Brendon Steele. Each made 11 tackles. Czerwien had one sack and finished the season with a school-record 23, one shy of the NCAA all-divisions record.
Freshman single-season rushing records for each of the NCAA's four classifications:
Division I: 1,925 yards, Adrian Peterson, Oklahoma, 2004.
Division I-AA: 1,932 yards, Adrian Peterson, Georgia Southern, 1998
Division II: 2,065 yards, Joique Bell, Wayne State, 2005
Division III: 2,176 yards, Robert Heller, Waynesburg, 2007