'08 OH TE Kyle Rudolph (Signed LOI to ND)

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Elder tight end Kyle Rudolph, bound for Notre Dame next year, had four catches for 57 yards and two TDs, including a score that tied it 27-27 with 8:42 left. Elder had rallied from a 27-14 halftime deficit, and the 6-7 Rudolph’s TD grab was the spark that let the Panthers know for sure that they could win.

[johnnd05]

Originally Posted by ND=NC

Elder tight end Kyle Rudolph, bound for Notre Dame next year, had four catches for 57 yards and two TDs, including a score that tied it 27-27 with 8:42 left. Elder had rallied from a 27-14 halftime deficit, and the 6-7 Rudolph’s TD grab was the spark that let the Panthers know for sure that they could win.

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HERES THE LINK

The Enquirer - Elder slays giant

[johnnd05]

Elder slays giant
Ramsey: 'This is something these guys will remember the rest of their lives'

BY TOM GROESCHEN | TGROESCHEN@ENQUIRER.COM

Elder snapped the 109-game winning streak of Charlotte Independence (N.C.) on Saturday night, with a dramatic 41-34 overtime win in the Kirk Herbstreit Challenge at UC’s Nippert Stadium.

The Panthers scored on their second play of overtime, a 14-yard TD pass from quarterback Johnny Groene to wideout Josh Jones. Anthony Miliano’s PAT made it 41-34.

Elder defensive back Keith Hamberg ended the game on an interception, with Independence facing a third-and-9 situation at the Elder 19-yard line. Hamberg snared the ball, which immediately ended the game, and then Hamberg and Elder players charged wildly and happily onto the field.

“This is something these guys will remember the rest of their lives,” an elated Elder coach Doug Ramsey said.

Someone asked Ramsey in the postgame press conference if he ever had a bigger victory.

“I’ve had two of them,” Ramsey said, referring to Elder’s consecutive Division I state titles in 2002 and 2003. “But as far as regular season, against a high-profile team with a streak like that … it’s huge.”

Independence (1-1 this year) is rated No. 3 nationally by USA Today, the highest rated team in the weekend Herbstreit event. The Patriots had not lost since exactly seven years before, on Sept. 1, 2000.

Elder (2-0) is ranked No. 3 in the Enquirer Division I area coaches’ poll.

Panthers fans recognized the moment, with the clock pushing 11:30 p.m. Saturday night, with a jumping-up-and-down standing ovation. Elder players also raced over to their student section afterward, with many players diving into the stands with their cheering classmates.

“When we found out last year that we’d be playing this team,” Groene said, “we said, ‘oh-oh.’ But coach Ramsey this week made us feel we could do it, and we did. It’s awesome.”

Independence has won seven consecutive North Carolina big-school championships.

Independence coach Tom Knotts credited Elder, while saying his team was devastated.

“I’ve told our team for the past year that we’ve been living dangerously,” Knotts said. “We’re everybody’s Super Bowl, and we’ve opened the door too many times. We had it coming.”

Knotts added, “We got outcoached, outplayed, the whole thing.”

Elder tight end Kyle Rudolph, bound for Notre Dame next year, had four catches for 57 yards and two TDs, including a score that tied it 27-27 with 8:42 left. Elder had rallied from a 27-14 halftime deficit, and the 6-7 Rudolph’s TD grab was the spark that let the Panthers know for sure that they could win.

“My teammates look up to me to make that play,” Rudolph said of his leaping catch. “If you want to say I’m the go-to guy, I accept that. We just kept it in the back of our minds all along that we could win.”

Elder fell behind again 34-27, but tied it 34-34 on a 1-yard run by Nick Gramke and PAT by Anthony Miliano with 35 seconds left in regulation. Gramke rushed 27 times for 129 yards and three TDs.

Independence quickly worked into position for a 48-yard field goal attempt with three seconds left, but Robbie Ward’s attempt fell short and the game went to overtime.

In overtime, each team gets a set of four downs starting at the opponent’s 20-yard line. If one team scores, the opposing team then gets its chance. The game continues until someone outscores the other in that given OT period.

Elder’s leaders also included Groene’s 17 for 25 passing for 232 yards and three TDs, Jones’ four catches for 70 yards and a TD, and Nick Olthaus with six catches for 72 yards.

Independence sophomore QB Anthony Carruthers was a 5-foot-7 dynamo, throwing for 346 yards on 25 of 37 passes with two TDs. But, he also was picked off twice.

Independence entered with a 109-game winning streak, second best all-time to De La Salle (Calif.), which won 151 straight from 1991-2004.

Independence was playing Saturday on the seventh anniversary of its last defeat, 34-31 to Shelby Crest on Sept. 1, 2000.

In the third quarter, Elder DB Eric Linneman electrified Panthers’ fans with a 50-yard interception return to the Independence 1-yard line. Gramke then scored from 1 yard out, and Elder had cut its deficit to 27-21 with 6:44 left in the third period.

The Panthers tied it 27-27 on a 10-yard TD pass from Groene to Rudolph with 8:42 left. The PAT kick attempt was low, short and may have been partially blocked. That left the score at 27-27.

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Here's Kyle making a catch: http://cmsimg.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs...W=375&Border=1

And here they are celebrating:
http://cmsimg.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs...W=375&Border=1

[NDboy15]

It's going to be fun to see him play for the Irish.

[Ultimate Penn St. Hater]

Originally Posted by NDboy15

It's going to be fun to see him play for the Irish.

Thats what I was going to say.