HARTFORD, Conn. - The Trinity College football team, which pounded Bowdoin at home last weekend, 38-3, to remain alone in first place in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) at 7-0, will play its final road game of the season on Saturday, November 5 at 1 p.m. at Bates College.  Coached by Jeff Devanney (17th season, 111-20), Trinity owns a 25-game winning streak against the Bobcats including a 45-7 victory in Hartford last fall.  The Bantams will clinch at least a share of the NESCAC title with a win on Saturday or a Middlebury loss against Hamilton.  Trinity is also currently ranked No. 2 in the latest New England Football Writers Division III Poll: Endicott (8-0), 2. TRINITY (7-0), 3. Mass.-Dartmouth (8-1), 4. Springfield (6-2), 5. Middlebury (6-1), 6. Plymouth State (7-1), 7. Wesleyan (5-2), 8. Western Connecticut (5-3), 9. Salve Regina (5-3), 10. Castleton (6-3).

Trinity senior QB Spencer Fetter (Winter Park, Fla.) completed 20 of 26 passes for 361 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions against the Polar Bears.  Junior RB Colin McCabe (Madison, Conn.) scored Trinity's other touchdown on a three-yard run set up by a 59-yard scamper by junior LB Dan Calderon (Levittown, N.Y.) on a fake punt.  Fetter found Bantam WR DeVante Reid (London, England) for touchdown passes of 10 and 23 yards, tossed a 21-yard scoring toss to TE Thomas Walsh (Pelham, N.Y.) and added a 25-yard touchdown pass to sophomore WR Sean Clapp (Wyckoff, N.J.).  Trinity sophomore Matt Jumes (Franklin, Mass.) rounded out the scoring with a 23-yard field goal.  Clapp caught eight passes for 159 yards and Reid had five grabs for 115 yards, while several Trinity rushers combined for 189 yards on the ground.  Defensively, LB Brian Casagrande and senior DL Cooper Mandel (Ramsey, N.J.) had eight tackles each for Trinity, while DE Noah Glantz (Scarsdale, N.Y.) had five tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss.  Mandel also batted down two passes, DB Aidan Kennedy (Longmeadow, Mass.) finished with four pass breakups, and senior LB Wigs Crowley (Milton, Mass.) had an interception for the Bantams.  

Trinity tops the NESCAC in scoring offense (29.6), defense (10.0 ppg), total defense (231.7), rushing offense (171.4), rushing defense (43.6, 2nd in nation), passing defense (188.1), pass efficiency defense (102.9), first downs allowed (86), third down conversions (47.5, tied with Bates), opponent third down conversions (25.7), red zone offense (25-for-30 with 19 touchdowns), and time of possession (32:54 per game).  Fetter ranks second in the league in passing in terms of both yards (1,822) and efficiency (162.5), touchdown passes (16), and in total offense (264.4 ypg), while McCabe and Kirby are fourth and fifth in the conference with 370 and 369 rushing yards, respectively.  Clapp is fifth in the league with 562 receiving yards on 38 catches (6th in NESCAC), and Reid is tied for second in the conference with seven touchdowns.  Jumes tops the conference in scoring with 43 points on seven field goals in nine tries and 25 PATs, while junior Hampton Trout (Belmont, Mass.) has been the best punter in the NESCAC at 41.6 per attempt and the best kickoff specialist at 58.2 per attempt.  Bates, coached by Matt Coyne (1st Season), is 2-5 and has lost two straight games including a 41-28 loss at Williams last weekend. Colton Bosselait has thrown 12 touchdowns and Mohamed Diawara is a receiving threat with 446 yards.  Tony Hooks is the top tackler in the NESCAC with 76 and Mohamed Couliba has eight pass breakups for the Bobcats.