Box Score
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, Va.
– Conrad Singh caught a pair of touchdown
passes and CW Clemmons also scored twice to
lead 18th-ranked Hampden-Sydney over Gettysburg
31-13 in non-conference football action on Saturday.
Making his second collegiate
start, sophomore quarterback J.D. Ricca
threw for 204 of his 266 passing yards and both touchdown
strikes in the decisive first half as the Tigers (2-0) posted
their sixth consecutive victory over the Bullets (1-1).
In addition to his two touchdowns, Clemmons finished with
15 carries for a team-high 97 yards.
Singh scored on Ricca
passes of 63 and 19 yards, hauling in all eight of his catches
in the first half for 141 yards.
Gettysburg
fullback Mike Schwalb (Bernardsville,
NJ/Pingry School)
led Gettysburg
with 17 carries for 100 yards and one touchdown in his first
action of the 2003 season. The junior captain missed the
Bullets’ season opener due to injury.
Quarterback Joe
Gossweiler (Florham
Park, NJ/Hanover
Park) completed 7 of 23
passes for 162 yards, including a 59-yard touchdown pass
to Nick Nocar (Baltimore,
MD/Gilman)
that pulled Gettysburg
within 21-13 late in the third quarter.
After a slow start by
both offenses, Hampden-Sydney opened the scoring on its
third possession of the day.
Ricca
kept the drive alive with a 22-yard strike to Ben
Dull on third-and-6, then
found Singh on an 11-yard pass to the Gettysburg
13. Three plays later, Clemmons scored on a seven-yard run
to put the Tigers up 7-0 with 5:09
left in the first quarter.
On the Bullets’ next
possession, Schwalb ripped off
runs of 20 and 11 on his first two carries of the season,
but the visitors’ drive stalled at the Hampden-Sydney
37 following an unsuccessful fake punt.
Ricca
needed one play to double the lead, halting the Gettysburg
defense with a play-action fake and finding Singh long down
the middle of the field for a 63-yard touchdown strike that
made it 14-0 with 2:25 left in the first quarter.
The Bullets used the first
of a number of big plays to answer with their first touchdown
of the game. On first-and-10 from the Gettysburg
31, Gossweiler found Gentris
Bryant (Wilmington,
DE/Archmere Acad.) down the right sideline for a 46-yard
completion to the Tiger 23. Three plays later, Schwalb
scored from 10 yards out on the first play of the second
quarter to pull the Bullets within 14-6.
Minutes later, Ricca
marched Hampden-Sydney
80 yards on seven plays for his squad’s third touchdown,
completing all six of his attempts on the drive. Ricca
kept the march going with a 15-yard toss to Singh on third-and-7
from the Bullet 47, then connected with Singh on a 19-yard
scoring toss two plays later to give the Tigers a 21-6 lead
heading into halftime.
Gettysburg
grabbed the momentum after the break, going 86 yards on
four plays to pull within 21-13 late in the third quarter.
On first-and-10 from the Bullet 41, Gossweiler lofted a pass down the left sideline for Nocar, who went the rest of the way for his fifth career touchdown
against the Tigers.
A Hampden-Sydney fumble
at the end of Tripp Murchison’s 33-yard
reception gave Gettysburg
the ball back at its own 46, but the ensuing drive stalled
on the Tiger 39 and the Bullets were forced to punt.
Hampden-Sydney managed
only 18 yards on its next possession, but Bo Wilkinson’s
punt was mishandled at the Gettysburg
20 and recovered by Warren Poirier at the
Bullet 16.
The Bullet defense kept
the Tigers out of the end zone, but Alex Bland
knocked through a 27-yard field goal to make it a two-possession
game at 24-13 with 11:54
remaining.
Gettysburg
was forced to punt on its next two possessions before Clemmons
scored on a 16-yard run to cap a 4-play, 32-yard drive and
set the final margin at 31-13 with 4:04 remaining.
The Bullets return to
action on Saturday against Waynesburg. Game time is 1
p.m.
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