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University of New Hampshire Athletics
Saturday, November 26
Durham, N.H.
2 PM
University of New Hampshire
8-4 , 6-2
64
vs
21
Lehigh University
9-3 , 6-0
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
F
Lehigh
0
14
7
0
21
New Hampshire
15
21
14
14
64
Team Stats
LEHIGH
UNH
Total Yards
399
637
Pass Yards
314
273
Rushing Yards
85
364
Penalty Yards
0
20
1st Downs
21
28
3rd Downs
6
7
4th Downs
2
0
TOP
28:01
31:59
1st Quarter
LEHIGH 0, UNH 7
UNH - Crossan,Dalton 5 yd run (Ellman,Morgan kick), 6 plays, 29 yards, TOP 1:57
LEHIGH 0, UNH 15
UNH - Crossan,Dalton 9 yd pass from Riese,Adam (Riese,Adam pass) 8 plays, 80 yards, TOP 3:43
2nd Quarter
LEHIGH 0, UNH 22
UNH - O'Connor,Neil 35 yd pass from Riese,Adam (Ellman,Morgan kick) 10 plays, 98 yards, TOP 4:28
LEHIGH 7, UNH 22
LEHIGH - Bragalone, Dom 37 yd run (Mish, Ed kick), 7 plays, 76 yards, TOP 2:43
LEHIGH 7, UNH 29
UNH - Riese,Adam 16 yd run (Ellman,Morgan kick), 5 plays, 75 yards, TOP 1:54
LEHIGH 7, UNH 36
UNH - Crossan,Dalton 1 yd run (Ellman,Morgan kick), 4 plays, 60 yards, TOP 0:55
LEHIGH 14, UNH 36
LEHIGH - Pelletier, Troy 20 yd pass from Mayes, Brad (Mish, Ed kick) 2 plays, 38 yards, TOP 0:29
3rd Quarter
LEHIGH 21, UNH 36
LEHIGH - Shafnisky, Nick 3 yd run (Mish, Ed kick), 6 plays, 29 yards, TOP 1:49
LEHIGH 21, UNH 43
UNH - Bryant,Trevon 10 yd run (Ellman,Morgan kick), 8 plays, 61 yards, TOP 3:49
LEHIGH 21, UNH 50
UNH - Presley,Kieran 4 yd pass from Riese,Adam (Ellman,Morgan kick) 12 plays, 80 yards, TOP 4:18
4th Quarter
LEHIGH 21, UNH 57
UNH - Bryant,Trevon 48 yd run (Ellman,Morgan kick), 2 plays, 68 yards, TOP 0:27
LEHIGH 21, UNH 64
UNH - Gray,Evan 25 yd run (Ellman,Morgan kick), 1 plays, 25 yards, TOP 0:06
Game Leaders
Passing Leaders
CMP
18
TD
3
YDS
273
INT
3
Players Mentioned
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/ FootballDalton Crossan scored three touchdowns in Saturday's win over Lehigh.
Photo by: Ryan Szepan
Punishing Offense, Defense Steamroll Lehigh, 64-21, in FCS Playoffs
11/26/2016 7:42:00 PM | Football
DURHAM, N.H. – Senior quarterback Adam Riese (Hamilton, N.J.) directed a potent and punishing offensive attack and a stingy, ball-hawking defense came up with four turnovers to lead No. 22 New Hampshire to a resounding 64-21 win over No. 18 Lehigh on Saturday afternoon in an NCAA Division I FCS tournament first-round game at Wildcat Stadium.
UNH improves to 8-4 on the season and advances to a second-round game at Colonial Athletic Association rival James Madison University on Saturday at 2 p.m. The Wildcats snapped Lehigh's nine-game win streak and the Mountain Hawks finish the season with a 9-3 record.
Senior Dalton Crossan rushed 24 times for 184 yards and junior Trevon Bryant 11 times for 113 yards and each running back scored two rushing touchdowns. Crossan scored a third time on a nine-yard pass from Riese in the first quarter. Sophomore receiver Neil O'Connor (Leominster, Mass.) caught seven passes for 171 yards and a TD.
Riese completed 18 of his 30 passes for a career-high 273 yards and a career-matching three TD passes. Riese led UNH to a win at Maine last week when he came on in relief of sophomore starter Trevor Knight (Amherst, N.H.) who had injured his foot. Knight was on the sidelines but did not play Saturday.
The 64 points were the most since the Wildcats matched their record 70 in a win over Central Connecticut on Aug. 30, 2003.
The defense was impressive as well. The Wildcats came up with four turnovers on interceptions by senior cornerback Casey DeAndrade (East Bridgewater, Mass.), freshman safety Pop Lacey (Reading, Pa.) and redshirt freshman linebacker Quinlen Dean (Greenbelt, Md.) and a fumble recovery by redshirt freshman defensive end Josh Kania (Milton, Ga.).
Lehigh had turned the ball over only eight times - a number that led all of FCS - coming into the game.
COMING UP
- The Wildcats play at James Madison Saturday at 2 p.m. on Saturday in a second-round game in the NCAA Division I FCS tournament game.
- The Dukes have a 10-1 overall and their only loss was at North Carolina, 56-28, on Sept. 17.
- They ran the table in the Colonial Athletic Association at 8-0.
- James Madison beat UNH, 42-39, on Oct. 15 in Wildcat Stadium.
- The Dukes led that game 42-12 with 10 minutes left in the fourth period.
- UNH mounted a wild comeback that came up just short.
1st QUARTER
- DeAndrade ended Lehigh's opening possession of the game with an interception.
- The Wildcats turned the pick into a Crossan 5-yard touchdown run.
- Crossan scored on a nine-yard pass from Riese with 6:28 left in the period.
2ND QUARTER
- Riese hit O'Connor for a 35-yard passing TD five minutes into the second quarter.
- The TD completed a scoring drive that started after Lacey's interception and covered 98 yards in 10 plays.
- Dom Bragalone scored on a 37-yard run for Lehigh with 7:19 left in the quarter.
- Riese scored on a 16-yard run with 5:25 left.
- Crossan scored his third TD of the game on a 1-yard run with 2:58 to go.
- Lehigh's Troy Pelletier scored on a 20-yard pass from Brad Mayes with 1:43 left.
3RD QUARTER
- The Mountain Hawks cut the lead to 36-21 early in the third quarter on a Nick Shafnisky three-yard run.
- The Wildcats answered with two touchdowns to push it to 50-21 at the end of the period.
- Bryant scored on a 10-yard run with 8:39 to go.
- Riese connected with Kieran Presley (Amherst, Mass.) for a four-yard score with 3:01 left.
4TH QUARTER
- Bryant broke away for a 48-yard touchdown on the first play of the period.
- Redshirt freshman Evan Gray (Centreville, Va.) scored a 25-yard touchdown 45 seconds after the second Bryant TD.
- Gray's score came one play after Kania recovered a Lehigh fumble.
'CAT NIPS
- The offense piled up 637 total yards, the most since it put up 646 on Lehigh on Sept. 13, 2014.
- Saturday's total included 364 rushing yards, just over the 362 that UNH had in a win over Holy Cross on Sept. 10.
- The Wildcats held UNH to about half its average in points (40.5).
- The Wildcats held Lehigh to 85 rushing yards.
- Junior Morgan Ellman (Scotch Plains, N.J.) was eight-for-eight on conversion kicks.
- O'Connor passed to Riese for a 2-point conversion after UNH's second score.
- Lehigh starting quarterback Nick Shafnisky was ill and saw only limited time.
- Backup Brad Mayes started and played most of the game.
- UNH senior tight end Jordan Powell (Forked River, N.J.) caught six passes for 64 yards.
- DeAndrade led UNH with nine tackles. He returned his interception 27 yards.
- Dean was next with seven tackles. He returned his pick 43 yards.
- Senior defensive end Cam Shorey (Calais, Maine) had one of three UNH quarterback sacks.
- Senior linebacker Ryan Farrell (Westwood, Mass.) also had a sack.
- Junior defensive tackle Rick Holt (Portsmouth, N.H.) and Kania each had half a sack.
- Crossan averaged 7.7 yards per carry.
- Bryant averaged 10.3 yards a carry.
TEAM STATS
Rushing: UNH 52-364. LEHIGH 30-85.
Passing: UNH 18-30-273-3, 3 TDs. LEHIGH 29-56-314-3 1 TD.
Total Offense: UNH 82-637. LEHIGH 86-399.
1st Downs: UNH- 28. LEHIGH 21.
Time of Possession: UNH 31:59. LEHIGH 28:01.
Penalties: UNH 2-20. LEHIGH 0-0.
Turnovers: UNH 3. LEHIGH 4.
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing: UNH – Crossan 24-184. LEHIGH – Dom Bragalone 13-65.
Receiving: UNH- O'Connor 7-171 1 TD. LEHIGH – Troy Pelletier – 8-138, 1 TD.
Passing: UNH- Riese 18-30-273, 3 TDs. LEHIGH – Brad Mayes 24-43-273, 1 TD.
Tackles: UNH- DeAndrade 6-3-9. LEHIGH – Sam McCloskey 5-3-8.
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