Bryant Posts Career-Best Day, But No. 21 'Cats Fall

Saturday, November 12

Durham, N.H.

12 PM

University of New Hampshire

6-4 , 5-2

University at Albany

6-4 , 3-4

Team	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Final F
Albany	0	7	15	14	36
New Hampshire	8	14	3	0	25

Junior running back Trevon Bryant rushed for a career-high 112 yards against Albany.

Photo by: Paige O'Donnell

11/12/2016 10:58:00 AM | Football

Box Score Post Game Press Conference

DURHAM, N.H. – Junior running back Trevon Bryant (St. Augustine, Fla.) ran for a career-high 112 yards and sophomore quarterback Trevor Knight (Amherst, N.H.) passed for a pair of touchdowns, but it was not enough and the No. 21 University of New Hampshire football team lost to the University at Albany, 36-25, in front of 7,012 fans in Wildcat Stadium on Saturday.

The Wildcats dropped to 6-4 overall and 5-3 in the Colonial Athletic Association. Albany improved to 6-4 and 3-4.

UNH closes out the regular season with a game at Maine on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 1 p.m.

Albany sophomore running back Elijah Ibitokun-Hanks carried 39 times for a school record 298 yards and scored three touchdowns.

Bryant had 18 carries and scored a UNH touchdown on a 3-yard run late in the first half. Knight completed 19 of his 33 passes for 176 yards and the two scores.

COMING UP

The Wildcats close out the regular season at Maine on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 1 p.m.
Maine won at Stony Brook, 27-21, on Saturday afternoon.
The Black Bears, like New Hampshire, are 6-4 overall and 5-3 in the league.
Both teams will look to get to 7-4 to stay in contention for a possible spot in the NCAA Division I FCS tournament.

1^st QUARTER

Senior running back Dalton Crossan (Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) scored the only TD of the period on an 18-yard pass from Knight.
Knight ran for a two-point conversion
Crossan left the game later in the period with an injury.

2^ND QUARTER

Knight pushed the lead to 15-0 with an 8-yard TD pass to sophomore Rory Donovan (Canton, Mass.) with 8:12 left.
Bryant's 3-yard TD upped it 22-0 with 2:56 left in the half.
Jordan Crockett scored on an 11-yard pass from redshirt freshman quarterback Will Brunson with 34 seconds left to cut the lead to 22-7.

3^RD QUARTER

The Great Danes outscored UNH 15-3 in the third quarter to enter the fourth down 25-22.
Ibitokun-Hanks scored his first TD on a 1-yard run with 13:18 left in the period.
Junior Morgan Ellman (Scotch Plains, N.J.) upped UNH's lead to 25-14 with a 20-yard field goal with 8:38 left in the period.
Ibitokun-Hanks scored on a 2-yard run with 1:14 left in the quarter.

4^TH QUARTER

Albany scored a pair of touchdowns for the only points of the fourth quarter.
Brunson, making his first start, scored the first on a 4-yard run to give Albany its first lead at 29-25 with 8:32 left.
Ibitokun-Hanks closed the scoring with a 13-yard run on a 4^th and 1 play with 3:19 to go.

'CAT NIPS

The Wildcats had 376 yards of total offense, 194 passing and 182 rushing.
Ibitokun-Hanks had his 298 yards. Albany as a team, thanks in part to a couple of knee-downs in the closing minute, had 295 rushing yards as a team.
Albany had 441 yards of total offense.
Crossan rushed five times for 37 yards and caught three passes for 39 yards and the score before leaving the game with concussion issues.
The TD reception was his third of the season.
Donovan led the Wildcats with seven catches for 79 yards.
The touchdown catch was his third of the season.
Freshman Pop Lacey (Reading, Pa.) led the Wildcats with nine tackles.
Senior defensive end Cam Shorey (Calais, Maine) had UNH's lone quarterback sack.
Shorey also forced a fumble and had five tackles total.
Redshirt freshman Michael Balsamo (Atkinson, N.H.) also forced a fumble.
Albany, which leads the CAA in turnover margin, did not lose a fumble or interception.
Knight was intercepted once for UNH's lone turnover.

TEAM STATS

Rushing: UNH 40-182. ALB 46-295.
Passing: UNH 21-35-194-1, 2 TDs. ALB 12-20-146-0 1 TD.
Total Offense: UNH 75-376. ALB 66-441.
1^st Downs: UNH- 23. ALB 22.
Time of Possession: UNH 29:34. ALB 30:26.
Penalties: UNH 7-53. ALB 9-93.
Turnovers: UNH 1. ALB 0.

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

Rushing: UNH – Bryant 18-112. ALB – Ibitokun-Hanks 39-298.
Receiving: UNH- Donovan 7-79. ALB – Ellis – 3-44, 1 TD.
Passing: UNH- Knight 19-33-176, 2 TDs. ALB – Brunson 12-20-146, 1 TD.
Tackles: UNH- Lacey 9-0-9. ALB – Michael Nicastro 7-4-11.