Box Score COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – Ursinus scored 26 straight points to take a 33-9 lead en route to a 33-17 victory over McDaniel in Centennial Conference (CC) football action on Saturday.
Bamasa Bailor (Carlisle, Pa./Carlisle Area) led the Green Terror (0-4, 0-3 CC) with 84 yards receiving. Matty Callahan (Germantown, Md./Northwest) threw for 242 yards on the day. Sean Montgomery (Bethesda, Md./Walter Johnson) finished with 68 yards receiving while Mike Oliveto (Robesonia, Md./Conrad Weiser) caught eight passes for 66 yards.
Salvadore Bello led the Bears (2-2, 1-2 CC) with 465 yards passing, completing 22 of 41 passes.
Montgomery capped a 10-play drive with a 30-yard touchdown grab that covered 80 yards in 3 minutes, 52 seconds and staked McDaniel to a 6-0 lead with 7:57 showing. A blocked PAT kept a 6-0 game.
With 5:58 showing, Shawn Hackett hauled in a 66-yard touchdown to even the game before Eric Boyer made it a 7-6 contest.
McDaniel moved 59 yards on 12 plays to inside the 10-yard line before the drive stalled. Spencer Wiersburg (Salisbury, Md./J.M. Bennett) converted his fifth field goal of the year to make it a 9-7 game with 13:52 showing.
After a short kickoff was bobbled, the Bears needed just two plays to find the end zone. Bello found Matt Raymond on second-and-inches for a 78-yard touchdown with 13:21 remaining.
A 49-yard Nick Lundholm catch keyed a five-play, 65-yard drive. Corey Kelly finished the drive with a three-yard run for a 20-9 lead with 10:42 on the clock.
Kelly found the end zone for the second time with 8:45 to play in the third quarter, catching a short pass and making multiple defenders miss for a 28-yard touchdown. Claude-Michel Richardson (Silver Spring, Md./Montgomery Blair) kept it a 26-9 game.
One play after taking over in Green Terror territory, Bello hit Raymond for a 47-yard touchdown and a 33-9 lead with 45 seconds to play in the third quarter.
On a third-and-9, Ben Kahn (Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove Area) got a sack and knocked the ball out of the quarterback's hand. Richardson scooped up the ball at the Ursinus 40 and sprinted down the sideline for a touchdown. Callahan found Oliveto for the two-point conversion to make it a 33-17 game with 9:16 to play.
Raymond Doh (Silver Spring, Md./Blake), Andy Ullman (Toms River, N.J./Monsignor Donovan), Dan Trainor (Brick, N.J./Point Boro) and Matt Quattrone (Carlisle, Pa./Carlisle Area) led the McDaniel defense with six tackles apiece. Trainor added two pass breakups.
The Green Terror returns to action at home against Gettysburg on Saturday. Game time is 1 p.m.
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