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KINGSTON, R.I. — Isaiah DeLoatch had that look of a very large man who had lost himself, spent himself completely in the effort to win a football game, knowing it could be his last.

“I couldn’t give you one more play right now,” he said, after getting hugs from his family outside Meade Stadium. “I gave everything out for this game. I wanted to be the first team in Central history to win a playoff game, but I’ve given these past six years. I wouldn’t change a bit.”

For 3 1/2 hours Saturday, the 335-pound DeLoatch and his fellow offensive linemen struggled to keep their bodies between Rhode Island’s bigger, faster bodies and Central Connecticut quarterback Brady Olson, forced by the circumstances to throw 62 passes. “Toughest battle we had

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