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Kutztown
Football
Game Recap
Oct. 4, 2008
Kutztown (2-4, 1-2 PSAC East) 31
Cheyney (0-6, 0-3 PSAC East)
13
BOXSCORE
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CHEYNEY, Pa. -
Maurice
Adams (sr. West Chester/Henderson)
ran for two touchdowns and Kutztown scored 24 unanswered points to
defeat Cheyney 31-13 in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC)
Eastern Division contest.
Adams scored on runs of 4 and 3 yards. His second score gave
Kutztown a 17-13 led with 4:17 left in the third quarter.
Joel Irwin
(so. Coatesville/Bishop Shanahan)
scored on a 20-yard fumble return and
Le'Anthony Fleming (jr. Lakeland, Fla./Sonrise Christian)
went in from 1 yard out for the 31-13 final.
Matt Dineen
(so. Wilmington, Del./Concord) added a 29-yard field goal.
The win was KU's 15th straight over Cheyney.
Kutztown totaled 237 rushing yards. Adams finished with 66 yards
on 19 carries, while Fleming had 59 yards on 11 rushes. Shane
Martin (jr. New Holland/Garden Spot)
attempted just 14 passes, completed seven for 95 yards. He
also ran for 42 yards.
KU's defense held CU to just 69 rushing and 200 total
yards. Irwin finished with seven tackles and a half sack, in
addition the fumble return.
Mike
Gardier (jr. Dunmore/Dunmore)
had seven hits, two for loss and a sack.
Cheyney took a 13-7 lead into halftime. The Wolves tied it at 7
early in the second on a 14-yard reception by Darryl Jones from
Ronald Thompson. CU then went up on a 3-yard run by Chinoso Okoro 25
seconds before halftime.
Thompson completed 18-of-28 for 131 yards. Jones caught seven
passes for 64 yards.
Kutztown got on the board first, late in the
first quarter. KU needed just 43 yards for its first scoring drive,
covering the distance in six plays. Adams ran the last four plays,
including a 4-yard run for a 7-0 lead with 3:17 left in the first.
After
a KU fumble gave the Wolves the ball at Kutztown's 25 early in the
second, Thompson hit Jones on a fade into the end zone with 10:20
left in the second to tie the score.
The Wolves failed to capitalize on another
Golden Bear fumble, and the teams traded punts until CU put together
a seven-play, 59-yard drive. The march, kept alive by a pass
interference penalty on fourth down, was capped by Okoro's TD run
just before the half. The PAT failed, keeping it 13-7 heading into
the break.
Kutztown's
fumble woes continued to start the third quarter, when the Wolves
recovered a loose ball on the kickoff. CU's ensuing drive stalled
at the KU 20. Kutztown was then forced to punt and seemed headed to
disaster when Earnest Polite partially blocked Ryan Nye's punt, but
CU's Randolph Newton recovered and fumbled the ball. KU's
Keith
Massey (so. Allentown/William Allen) pounced on Cheyney's
first lost fumble this year.
Kutztown took advantage, going 49-yards to set
up a 29-yard field goal by Dineen. It was Dineen's eighth
three-pointer this season, one short of the single-season KU record.
The Golden Bears got the ball back two plays
later when
Nick Cresta
(sr. Wallingford/Strath Haven)
recovered another Wolf fumble. Adams ran on five of the next
drive's six plays, including a 3-yard run to score and make it 17-13
in favor of KU with 4:10 left in the third.
Three
plays later, the Wolves fumbled for a third-straight possession.
This time, Thompson was sacked by Gardier and the ball came
loose. Irwin scooped it up and rumbled 20 yards for a TD and a 24-13
lead wtih 2:52 remaining in the third.
In the fourth, KU chewed more than seven
minutes off the clock with its final scoring drive, covering 92
yards on 14 plays. Fleming's first TD at KU, a 1-yard
plunge, capped the drive and the scoring with 7:35 left in the game
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