The Tigers struggled to move the ball on offense all day, so they finally took to the air to claim one of the most thrilling football victories in recent memory over visiting Allegheny College, 21-17, before a Homecoming crowd of 3,509 last Saturday. Wittenberg, ranked No. 19 in the country and riding a 23-game North Coast Athletic Conference win streak, came from 10 points behind on a pair of touchdown passes from junior quarterback Greg Cornett (Franklin, Ohio/Franklin) to Michael Aljancic (Louisville, Ohio/Louisville), the last one coming with just 16 seconds on the clock. The win moved the Tigers, the four-time defending North Coast Athletic Conference champions, to 4-1 overall and 2-0 in the conference.

After taking an early 7-0 lead, Wittenberg fell behind by 10 points in the fourth quarter before the offense finally got untracked to go 58 yards on six plays before Cornett hooked up with Aljancic from four yards out with 6:37 left to play. The Cornett to Aljancic connection produced 45 of those 58 yards on three receptions. The Tigers then came up with another defensive stand and took possession of the ball again with 2:42 remaining. All they did from that point was convert four third downs in a drive that took 2:26 off the clock, culminating in a game-winning six-yard touchdown pass from Cornett to Aljancic with 16 seconds left.

Aljancic caught 11 passes for 130 yards in the game, 10 of them for 105 yards in the second half alone. He is closing in on several Wittenberg receiving records, including yards, receptions and touchdowns, all of which he ranks in the top three in school history. And the 11 receptions were one short of the 27-year-old school record of 12 set by Ron Duncan, a 2001 Athletics Hall of Honor inductee.

All of those accomplishments earned Aljancic NCAC Offensive Player of the Week honors.