No. 25 'Cats Rally, Fall Short vs. No. 6 JMU, 42-39

Saturday, October 15

Durham, N.H.

12 PM

University of New Hampshire

4-3 , 3-1

James Madison

6-1 , 4-0

Team	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Final F
James Madison	7	14	7	14	42
New Hampshire	0	9	3	27	39

Neil O'Connor had career highs in catches (10) and yards (192).

Photo by: Ryan Szepan

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DURHAM, N.H. – Sophomore Neil O'Connor (Leominster, Mass.) caught a career-high 10 passes for a career-high 192 yards and the No. 25 UNH football team mounted a fierce fourth quarter comeback, but came up just short and lost to No. 6 James Madison, 42-39, on Saturday in front of 8,316 in Wildcat Stadium.

The Wildcats trailed 42-10 with 10 minutes left in the fourth period when they started their rally.

Senior quarterback Adam Riese (Hamilton, N.J.), subbing for the injured Trevor Knight (Amherst, N.H.), passed for a pair of touchdowns and ran for another in the final 10 minutes.

UNH set records for passes attempted (70) and completed (44) in the game.

Knight completed a career-high 31 passes of a career-high 49 attempts for 314 yards and a touchdown. Riese completed 13 of his 21 passes for a career-high 198 yards and two scores. UNH had 512 passing yards in the game.

UNH is now 4-3 overall and 3-1 in the Colonial Athletic Association.

James Madison improved to 6-1 and 4-0.

COMING UP

The Wildcats play at Towson on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 3:30 p.m.
Towson lost, 20-17, at Dartmouth on Saturday.
The Tigers are 1-5 overall and 0-4 in the CAA.
UNH returns to Wildcat Stadium to face Stony Brook on Saturday, Oct. 29 at noon.
Buy tickets online at www.unhwildcats.com, by calling (603) 862-4000 or in person at the Whittemore Center box office.

1^st QUARTER

Quarterback Bryan Schor hit Brandon Ravenel for a 30-yard TD pass for the only score of the first period.
Knight completed 10 of his 12 passes for 58 yards.

2^ND QUARTER

Schor and Ravenel combined for a second score, this one for 20 yards.
Knight teamed with senior tight end Jordan Powell (Forked River, N.J.) for a 29-yard TD pass for UNH's first score.
Schor ran for a 5-yard score to up JMU's lead to 21-6 with 7:03 left.
Sophomore Morgan Ellman (Scotch Plains, N.J.) kicked a 37-yard field goal with 46 seconds left in the half and it was 21-9 at the break.

3^RD QUARTER

An Ellman 21-yard field goal with 12:13 left in the period cut JMU's lead to 21-12.
Schor threw a 54-yard touchdown pass to Terrence Alls with 10:40 left.

4^TH QUARTER

Alls caught a second TD pass from Schor with 10:04 left in the fourth quarter.
Charles Tutt returned a fumble on the ensuing kickoff six yards for a TD and JMU's lead was at 42-12 with exactly 10 minutes to play.
Riese relieved Knight, who was shaken up after a roughing the passer penalty, and scored on a 2-yard run with 7:01 left.
After Schor lost a fumble, UNH drove to a TD. Riese connected with Dalton Crossan (Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) for a 19-yard score.
Riese relieved Knight, who was shaken up after a roughing the passer penalty, and scored on a 2-yard run.
UNH recovered an onsides kick and marched to another score, a 1-yard run by Crossan and the lead was down to 42-31.
The UNH defense forced a punt and the offense took over again.
Riese hit sophomore Rory Donovan (Canton, Mass.) who made a nice catch in the corner of the end zone. A Riese to O'Connor conversion pass cut it to 42-39 with 1:15 left.
JMU recovered an onsides kick and ran out the clock.

'CAT NIPS

The Wildcats passed for a season-high 512 yards.
They had 57 rushing yards for a season's best 569 yards of total offense.
UNH ran a whopping 100 plays to JMU's 67.
JMU had 437 yards of offense.
Redshirt freshman receiver Malik Love (Alcoa, Tenn.) had 12 catches for a career-high 127 yards.
Powell had nine catches for 92 yards.
Junior safety D'Andre Drummond-Mayrie (Lawrence, Mass.) led UNH with eight tackles.
Senior defensive back Casey DeAndrade (East Bridgewater, Mass.) had seven tackles.
Freshman safety Pop Lacey (Reading, Pa.) had six tackles and recovered a fumble.
Junior defensive tackle Rick Holt (Portsmouth, N.H.) forced a fumble.
Junior Trevon Bryant (St. Augustine, Fla.) rushed 11 times for 52 yards.
Junior Max Pedinoff (Newtown, Pa.) averaged 41.2 yards on four punts.
Ellman made both of his field goals, from 37 and 21 yards.
Crossan carried 13 times for 37 yards and scored two touchdowns.

TEAM STATS
Rushing: UNH 30-57. JMU 43-195.
Passing: UNH 44-70-512-0, 3 TDs. JMU 15-24-242-0 4 TDs.
Total Offense: UNH 100-569. JMU 67-437.
1^st Downs: UNH- 34. JMU 21.
Time of Possession: UNH 34:46. JMU 25-14.
Penalties: UNH 7-50. JMU 5-57.
Turnovers: UNH 1. JMU 1.

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing: UNH - Crossan 13-35. JMU – Schor 12-70.
Receiving: UNH- Love 12-127. JMU – Alls – 4-95, 2 TDs.
Passing: UNH- Knight 31-49-314, 1 TD. JMU – Schor 15-24-242, 4 TDs.
Tackles: UNH- Drummond-Mayrie 3-5-8. JMU – Jordan Brown 12-4-16.