{"id":58233,"date":"2014-10-02T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58233"},"modified":"2014-10-01T19:50:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T23:50:33","slug":"steffen-nabs-national-patriot-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58233","title":{"rendered":"Steffen Nabs National, Patriot Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/COLGATE-C-GATE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-54047\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/COLGATE-C-GATE-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"COLGATE C-GATE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/COLGATE-C-GATE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/COLGATE-C-GATE.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Junior Defensive Lineman Hogs Special Teams Spotlight After Blocking Two Punts in 19-0 Win<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0By John Painter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Hamilton, NY \u2013 Sept. 29, 2014) Colgate completed the awards hat trick Monday when Victor Steffen was named Corvias Patriot League Special Teams Player of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>The conference special teams star performer has been decked out in Colgate maroon now three Saturdays in a row. Head coach Dan Hunt\u2019s points of emphasis are turning into points on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p>Jonah Bowman picked up honors for performances against Delaware and Cornell, and now Steffen is awarded after blocking two punts in Colgate\u2019s 19-0 shutout of Georgetown. The blocked punts accounted for the game\u2019s first nine points, and Bowman added the closing field goal to make it 12 of the 19 directly from special teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s all Coach (Ryan) Knowles,\u201d Steffen said his veteran defensive line coach, who also is in his first season as special teams coordinator. \u201cHe\u2019s really emphasizing that special teams can make a difference in games. Obviously,\u00a0on Saturday\u00a0they did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides the punt blocks, our kickoff team was flying down there and making big hits on kickoffs. It really set the tone on special teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steffen\u2019s first blocked punt sailed through uprights for a safety, and his second one was picked up and waltzed in for a touchdown by Pat Afriyie. Steffen also contributed from his defensive end position, posting three tackles for loss (minus-22 yards) and one of five Colgate sacks.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his Patriot League honors, Steffen also was named FCS Co-Special Teams Player of the Week by The Sports Network, and Patriot Defensive Player of the Week by College Sports Madness.<\/p>\n<p>Steffen for the season leads the team with 5\u00bd tackles for loss, accounting for minus-29 yards. He\u2019s tops in sacks with two for minus-20, and has 18 tackles overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior Defensive Lineman Hogs Special Teams Spotlight After Blocking Two Punts in 19-0 Win \u00a0By John Painter (Hamilton, NY \u2013 Sept. 29, 2014) Colgate completed the awards hat trick Monday when Victor Steffen was named Corvias Patriot League Special Teams Player of the Week. The conference special teams star performer has been decked out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}