Box Score

 Williams also threw a pair of touchdown passes to Gerald O’Hara in a wild sequence over the final 32 seconds of the first half, helping the Red Devils (3-6, 1-4 CC) snap a six-game losing streak and post their eighth straight win over the Bullets (5-4, 2-3 CC).

 The victory also allowed Dickinson to retain possession of The Little Brown Bucket, given to the winner of the annual contest since 1938. The Red Devils have won 15 of their last 17 meetings with Gettysburg.

 Bullet quarterback Joe Gossweiler (Florham Park, NJ/Hanover Park) ran for touchdowns of 3 and 2 yards, but was held to 96 total yards of offense and sacked four times on the day. Mike Schwalb (Bernardsville, NJ/Pingry) carried a game-high 24 times for 86 yards and one touchdown, a four-yard run that staked Gettysburg to a 12-3 lead with 5:54 left in the first half.

 Defensively, Matt Williams paced Dickinson with 10 solo tackles, five tackles for loss and one sack while also forcing a key fumble late in the second quarter. Linebacker Grant Acker (Howell, NJ/Peddie) led the Bullet defense, setting a single-game personal-high for the fifth time this season with 22 tackles (10 solo) while recording his second interception.

 In a game that featured seven turnovers and a misplayed kickoff, the Red Devils used an old-fashioned, run-heavy scoring march to claim the victory.

 After stopping Gettysburg on fourth-and-1 and its own 2, Keven Williams and the Dickinson offense began the winning drive at the Red Devil 3, trailing 20-17 with 12:21 left in the fourth quarter. Williams completed a 13-yard pass to O’Hara on third-and-8 from the 5 and Dwight Phyall, who carried nine times for 39 yards on the march, subsequently pounded for four yards to convert a third-and-2 at the 26.

 Another 13-yard reception by O’Hara and a seven-yard run by Phyall put the ball squarely at midfield. Williams converted the first of two fourth downs with a one-yard keeper to the Bullet 47 and Phyall kept the march alive on fourth-and-1 from the Gettysburg 38 with a three-yard run.

 Williams hit O’Hara on an 11-yard toss to the Bullet 21 and the Red Devils used five more of the drive’s 17 rushes and two face-mask penalties to move to the Gettysburg 1. On third-and-goal, Williams rolled left and found the end zone to cap the 8-minute, 4-second march and make it 24-20 with 4:17 remaining.

 Gettysburg pushed to the Dickinson 41 in its final drive of the game, but a five-yard loss, two incompletions and a delay-of-game penalty put the Bullets back to fourth-and-20 before Gossweiler’s final pass was knocked away from Gentris Bryant (Wilmington, DE/Archmere Acad.).

 Thanks to touchdowns by Gossweiler and Schwalb, the Bullets took a 12-3 lead into the final minute of the second half before a nightmarish sequence of events led to a 17-12 Red Devils advantage at halftime.

 Matt Williams started the comeback by forcing a Bryant fumble that Leevon Floyd recovered at the Gettysburg 31 with 32 seconds remaining.

 Keven Williams followed with a 14-yard run on the first play of the drive, then connected with O’Hara on passes of 14 and 4 yards, the latter into the end zone to pull Dickinson within 12-10 with 4.8 seconds showing on the clock.

 On the ensuing kickoff, Drew Magyar’s kick sailed between members of the Bullet return team and landed untouched at the Gettysburg 24, where Dickinson freshman Victor Johnson recovered the live ball with 2.5 seconds showing.

 With one play left, Williams fired a 24-yard strike to O’Hara in the middle of the end zone to put the Red Devils ahead 17-12 at the break.

 The Bullets were unable to cash in a Phyall fumble on the first play of the second half, but rallied to re-claim the lead on an 11-play, 41-yard scoring drive late in the third quarter. Gossweiler keyed the drive with a 20-yard pass to Nick Nocar (Baltimore, MD/Gilman) on third-and-19 from midfield before capping it with a two-yard scoring run on fourth-and-goal. The junior signal-caller then found A.J. Sutsko (Boothwyn, PA/Archmere Acad. [DE]) on the two-point conversion attempt to give Gettysburg a 20-17 lead with 4:25 left in the third quarter.

 The Bullets held Dickinson on its next possession and came within two yards of an insurance score on its next drive before the Red Devils started their go-ahead march.

 Phyall finished with 23 carries for 90 yards on the afternoon while O’Hara caught six passes for 78 yards and the two last-second touchdowns. Bill Corcoran paced Dickinson with 11 tackles. The Red Devil defense held Gettysburg to only 157 rushing yards, the Bullets’ lowest single-game output this season.

 Gettysburg returns to action on Saturday at Franklin & Marshall. Game time is 1 p.m.