Chowan Hawks set four-year mark

MURFREESBORO,North Carolina  –  From ‘Little Big Man’ to ‘Big Man On Campus’ – as doing the little things made everything else come up huge.

Chowan closed out its 2012 football season with a 35-19 drubbing of fellow Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) member Lincoln University on Hall Of Fame Day.

In fact, fans who witnessed the game may have been watching the play of a future Jim Garrison Hall of Famer.

Senior running back Elliot Smalls – all five-foot-seven inches, 185 pounds of him – used the Lincoln defense as his launching pad and blasted his way to a Chowan football single game rushing record with 200 yards on the ground in the win.

Smalls’ accomplishment eclipsed the old record of 197 yards rushing in a game set by Jawarren Cowles in 2002 against Christopher Newport. Smalls averaged over eight yards per carry on 24 carries and also scored a pair of touchdowns.

“This is just an incredible dream for me and my fellow seniors,” said the exhausted Raleigh native and fifth-year senior after the game as he was mobbed by family, friends, coaches and teammates.

“We stuck to it,” he added with a smile. ”All the time we thought about leaving, but we believed in the coaches and we believed in ourselves. We put in the sacrifice and it all paid off.”

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