COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Dominican Panthers football team used a strong defensive effort to pitch a shutout at Panther Stadium against the Northwood Timberwolves on Saturday (Oct. 21) afternoon. 

Ohio Dominican won their third straight game, a 15-0 win, to pull back even at 4-4 overall and 3-3 in the G-MAC. Saturday's game was the first in program history to have a 15-0 final score. 

BOX SCORE NOTES

• Jake Byrd (Fort Wayne, Indiana) completed 12 of his 24 pass attempts with 155 yards passing. He passed for two touchdowns and was intercepted once. 
• Travis Whittaker (Gahanna, Ohio) rushed for 60 yards on 22 carries. 
  • Whittaker is now 5th all-time in rushing yards with 1,846.
• Ty Wiley (Pickerington, Ohio) caught five passes for a team-high 52 yards. 
  • Wiley caught a one-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter, his tenth career touchdown reception. 
• Zach Bartrum (Meigs County, Ohio) was second on the team with four catches for 34 yards total. 
• Jayden Cornell (Kenton, Ohio) started the scoring for the Panthers with a ten-yard touchdown catch in the second quarter. 
• Kobe Barnett (Blacklick, Ohio) tallied a 45-yard catch and run, the longest play from scrimmage for the Panthers. 
• Michael Powers (West Mansfield, Ohio) and Jayden Hill (Gahanna, Ohio) shared the team lead with eight tackles each. 
• Darryl Sinclair (Solon, Ohio), Brady Blattner (Cumberland, Ohio) and Eddie Miller-Garrett (Newark, New Jersey) all had seven tackles. 
  • Miller-Garrett added three tackles for loss and one sack. He now has 46.0 TFL and 23.0 sacks, both second all-time. 
• Qwyn Williams (Gahanna, Ohio) joined with a sack and two tackles for loss.  
• Logan Ortt (New Philadelphia, Ohio) punted 11 times for 467 yards (both Ohio Dominican single-game records), averaging 42.5 yards per kick. 
• The Panthers finished the game with 87 yards rushing and 155 passing yards for 242 yards of total offense.
• With 86 rushing yards allowed, ODU has held teams under 100 yards rushing 15 times since the beginning of the 2021 season.
• Ohio Dominican ended the game, holding Northwood to one-of-four on fourth down conversions and 0-for-3 in the red zone. 
• ODU held the ball for 32:20 of the game, including at least eight minutes of possession in three of the four quarters. 
  • The Panthers possessed the ball for 9:52 in the first quarter and ten minutes for the fourth quarter. 
• The shutout was ODU's 12th in program history (seventh in D2 era).

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The game was scoreless through the first 25 minutes before the Panthers broke the scoreless tie. 
• On the sixth drive of the day for the Panthers, Ohio Dominican drove 55 yards on seven plays for a trip to paydirt. Facing third and five, Byrd connected with Cornell in the right corner of the end-zone from ten yards out. With 5:17 left before halftime, the Panthers added a two-point conversion run from Isaac Allegretto (Lima, Ohio). ODU's lead was 8-0 in the second quarter. 
• Northwood attempted a 39-yard field goal as time nearly expired but the kick was no good. Ohio Dominican held an 8-0 lead at halftime. 
• The Timbies got a long kickoff return to open the second half. The short field did not help the scoring effort as another field goal try, this time from 22 yards was no good as well. 
• On the next drive, Ohio Dominican punted the ball away but got the ball right back on a fumble during the return. Kaden Watts (Zanesville, Ohio) forced the fumble and Clay Caudill (Mansfield, Ohio) recovered the ball. The Panthers could not capitalize and still held an 8-0 lead. 
• Late in the third quarter, Ohio Dominican got their first fourth down stop as Powers stuffed the middle of the line on a fourth and one play. ODU's lead was still 8-0 after three quarters. 
• Two drives later, Northwood was stopped on fourth down deep in Ohio Dominican's territory. On the 13th play of a 78-yard drive, the Timberwolves missed on a fourth and two as the Panthers took over on downs. 
• Byrd completed four passes on the next drive, leading to a one-yard touchdown catch by Wiley. The lead grew to 15-0 with 4:03 left. 
  • On the drive, Byrd and Wiley had a 39-yard passing play before Spencer Klopfenstein (Troy, Ohio) got into the red zone with a 14-yard catch. 
• After two straight first downs, Northwood seemed poised to get something going but the defense held strong on another turnover on downs with 2:24 remaining. 
• Northwood's final drive ended the game after a potential scoring play was wiped out by the buzzer. The Panthers won the game 15-0. 

UP NEXT

• The Panthers will travel to Findlay to take on the Oilers next Saturday (Oct. 28) afternoon. Kickoff at Donnell Stadium is at 12:00 PM.