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Mark Troyan
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Sept. 9, 2006
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The win was Duquesne's fourth in the past five meetings with Robert Morris and evened the overall series at 4-4
Head coach Jerry Schmitt is now 2-0 versus the Colonials
DU is now 4-1 against teams from the Northeast Conference since 2003
Junior receiver Bruce Hocker (Upper Marlboro, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt) caught five passes for 133 and a pair of touchdowns, giving him nine catches for 228 yards and four touchdowns on the young season ... he is averaging 25.3 yards per catch ... his four TD grabs - the first two in the season-opener at Bucknell - have covered 32, 34, 68 and 30 yards ... Hocker set career highs for catches (8) and yards (163) in last year's season-opening win over Robert Morris before being injured the next week vs. Fordham and missing all but one of the remaining eight games
The Dukes, who held Robert Morris to a 2-of-14 effort on third down, finished with six sacks ... back-up defensive end Travis Decker (Allentown, Pa./Parkland) had 2.5, Mykol Gardiner (Cleveland, Ohio/Benedictine) had 2.0, Ronnie Garvin (Aiken, S.C./Aiken) had 1.0 and Lou Levine (Export, Pa./Franklin Regional) had 0.5 ... Gardiner, who finished with six tackles also forced a pair of fumbles
Aaron Strader's (Pittsburgh, Pa./Westinghouse) 96-yard interception return for a third-quarter TD tied the school record set by Bryan Cornell at Iona in 1997
Mark Troyan (Ford City, Pa./Ford City) connected on a pair of field goals, including a career-best 42-yarder for DU's finals points of the game ... Troyan's previous long kick was 40 yards versus Columbia last season
