Nov. 13, 2004
Final Stats
(San Diego, CA) - The USD football team closed out their 2004 season on a high note with a 35-14 win over the visiting Wagner Seahawks. The win was the Toreros 5th straight and 6th over the final seven. San Diego, under first year head coach Jim Harbaugh, finished the year 7-4 while Wagner ends with a 6-5 mark. QB Todd Mortensen had another big game completing 26-of-42 passes for 310 yards and 4 TDs.
USD jumped out to a 7-0 in the 1st quarter on Evan Harney's 1-yard TD run with 3:25 to go in the quarter. It was Harney's 18th rushing TD of the season and breaks his own single season mark. Both teams heated up in the 2nd quarter and scored two TDs each. Wagner knotted the game at 7-all on QB John Sciarra's 6-yard pass to Shaun Grover at the 9:48 mark. Mortensen then threw back-to-back TD passes to Dustin Owen (3 yards) and Nick Garton (50 yards) for a 21-7 lead with 4:14 left in the half. Wagner pulled to within 21-14 on Sciarra's 4-yard run and that was the halftime score.
In the 2nd half, the USD defense held the Seahawks scoreless, and Mortensen threw a TD in each period: a 7-yarder to Harney in the 3rd period and a 30 yard connection to TE Matt Koller. Besides Mortensen, offensive highlights were turned in by Harney (27 rushes for 111 yards and 1 TD), WR Adam Hannula (8 catches for 71 yards), and Nick Garton (4 catches for 70 yards).
The defense was paced by senior LB Jeff Langdon (11 tackles) who also picked off his 6th interception of the season and returned it 52 yards. Junior DB Philip Bretsch chipped in with 8 tackles and had a game-high 4 pass breakups. Linebacker Jordan Johhnson also added 7 stops for the Toreros.
Mortensen, a first-year graduate student playing his final year of college football, finished the season with 234 completions on 389 attempts for 2,874 yards and 25 TDs. The completions and attempts are new USD single season marks, while his passing yards is 2nd all-time and TDs ties for 3rd all-time. Evan Harney finished with 1,334 yards rushing and 18 TDs. Wide receivers Adam Hannula (58 for 680 yards, 5 TDs) and Michael Gasperson (54 for 894 yards and 7 TDs) were Mortensen's main targets. Langdon finished as the team's top tackler with 104 stops and 6 interceptions.
