Vols Commitment Alden Hill Sets School Record With 315 Yard Night

LEXINGTON TWP. Big-time college football recruits feel pain, too. Just ask Alden Hill, who found himself gasping for air after the first two plays from scrimmage of the season. Welcome back to reality.

But Hill, the Tennessee recruit, spent the rest of the night making sure St. Thomas Aquinas huffed and puffed.

Hill broke two long touchdown runs and finished with an obscene amount of yards in the Dukes’ 46-19 win over the Knights on Friday night at Marlington Stadium.

“I took a step back on the option fake and I wasn’t watching and I got nailed right in the stomach,” Hill said. “I wasn’t paying attention. I just forgot. But I remembered real quick.”

Hill broke his own school record for rushing yards in a game. He gained 315 yards on 20 carries and scored five touchdowns. His old record was 279 set last year.

“I did energize,” Hill said of getting the wind knocked out of him. “I think any time you’re laying on the turf you want to make sure you get up and make them feel it then.”

Hill broke the record on a 57-yard run.

“We’re smart enough to know to get out of the way of good players,” Marlington head coach Ed Miley said. “We get out of the way of great players and let them play. If you feed them enough, they’re gonna make plays.”

At halftime, the Dukes had just 17 offensive plays. It seemed like Hill broke more tackles than that, but he only had seven carries in the first half.

No matter.

He still gained 208 yards on those seven carries, a sick 30-yard-per-carry average. Hill scored twice on oxygen-sucking runs. The first was a 71-yard TD run in which Hill ran between the tackles, lowered his shoulder to shake two tackles and then broke to the outside.

“Tennessee doesn’t recruit bad players,” Aquinas head coach Tim Budd said.

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