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May 27, 2009
Four IUP football players have been selected to the Consensus Draft Services Division II preseason All-America team for the 2009 season. Kicker Craig Burgess and cornerback Akwasi Owusu-Ansah were named to the first team while quarterback Andrew Krewatch and tailback Tobias Robinson were honorable mention choices. Last season Burgess led the PSAC with 16 field goals in 22 attempts, was second in the nation with an average of 1.60 per game and was second in the conference with a 72.7 percent success rate. He also converted all 46 of his extra point tries, the most without a miss in school history. His 9.40 points per game ranked him first in the PSAC and 14th nationally. His 16 field goals were just two shy of the IUP single-season record set by Mike Geary in 1993 and matched by Jon Ruff two years later, and he tied the school record with four field goals versus Gannon. He is sixth in school history with 22 career field goals. Burgess' nine PATs versus Millersville and Clarion set a new school record, and he is 76 for 77 in his career. Owusu-Ansah intercepted eight passes in 2008 to lead the PSAC, and he was second in the nation with an average of 0.80 per game. He fell one shy of the school record for most picks in a season and had seven in the final four games of the year, including three versus Gannon and two each versus Mercyhurst and Kutztown. No IUP player had three interceptions in a game since Reece Brown did so in a playoff victory over Virginia Union in 1991. Owusu-Ansah added a 74-yard interception return for a touchdown in the opener at C.W. Post and had 222 return yards for the season to set a school record. Adding in his 10 pass breakups, Owusu-Ansah defended 18 opponent aerials on the year, the top mark in the PSAC. Krewatch completed 201 of 320 passes, a percentage of 62.8, for 2,449 yards and 22 touchdowns last season. He had at least two touchdown passes in nine of 10 games, including four scoring tosses versus Mercyhurst and three versus Millersville when he threw for a season-high 333 yards and set a school record by completing 88.9 percent of his attempts (24 of 27). Krewatch already holds the IUP career records for pass attempts with 983 and completions with 561. He enters his senior season with 7,263 yards and 63 touchdowns and needs 1,147 yards and 22 touchdowns to move past Brian Eyerman for the school marks in those categories. Last season he ranked 30th in the nation in both passing efficiency with a rating of 143.54 and total offense with 242.8 yards per game. Robinson rushed for 1,203 yards and 13 touchdowns and led the PSAC while ranking eighth nationally with an average of 120.3 yards per game. He is the ninth running back in IUP history with a 1,000-yard season, including six 100-yards games and two with over 200. Robinson rushed for 229 yards versus Clarion, tied for the fifth highest total in school history, and 215 versus Kutztown. He is the first IUP running back since James Suber in 1996 to have two 200-yard rushing games in a single season and had touchdown runs of 89, 84, 79 and 77 yards during the course of the year. Robinson also tied for 25th in the nation in all-purpose yards (133.5) and 31st in scoring (7.8). |
