Box Score

 Huson’s game-winning kick capped a 10-play, 51-yard drive that followed a four-yard touchdown run by Meikos Parker and a game-tying two-point conversion from Tom Wenrich to Jamie Unger with 5:15 left in regulation. Huson provided the Bullets’ only other second-half points with his first collegiate field goal, a 48-yarder that matched a 29-year-old program record.

 Nathan Smith (Hanover, PA/Cooperstown Central [NY]) sparked the victory by returning the opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown, his third in five games this season. Smith matched the CC single-season record (3) for kickoff-return touchdowns and snapped a tie with Muhlenberg’s Joshua Carter for the conference’s career record (5).

 Tom Sturges (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield) powered the Gettysburg offense with 187 yards on 37 carries, his fourth 100-yard performance in five games this season. An energized Bullet defense held the CC’s top scoring offense 15 points below its season average while recording three sacks and breaking up nine passes.

 Wenrich completed 13 of 28 passes for 129 yards and led two fourth-quarter McDaniel scoring drives that erased a 17-3 deficit. He also carried seven times for 35 yards and one touchdown.

 Parker finished with 45 rushing yards and scored his fifth touchdown of the season while Jon Green made five receptions for a game-high 74 yards.

 Playing in a steady rain from the opening kick to the final horn, Gettysburg (2-3, 1-0 CC) utilized all three phases of the game to snap a three-game losing streak and deal the Green Terror (4-1, 1-1 CC) its first conference loss.

 Smith’s return, Huson’s leg and a 49-yard scoring drive late in the second quarter to build a 17-3 lead heading into the final 15 minutes. The 14-point lead proved vital when Wenrich led fourth-quarter scoring drives of 55 and 66 yards to pull McDaniel even at 17 with 5:15 remaining.

 Unfazed, sophomore Hunter McMillan (Middletown, DE/Wilmington Friends) and the offense had an answer, thanks in large part to the hard running of Sturges.

 Starting from their own 33, the Bullets used six Sturges carries and one option pitch to Jesse Jeffers (Morristown, NJ/Morristown-Beard) to march to the Green Terror 20. Three more Sturges rushes netted four yards, moving the ball to the McDaniel 16 with 1:16 remaining.

 Following a timeout on fourth-and-6, Huson sailed a 34-yard kick through the uprights to put Gettysburg ahead, 20-17.

 The Green Terror started its final drive on its own 33, but a five-yard pass from Wenrich to Unger followed by three straight incompletions sealed the Bullet victory.

 Smith gave Gettysburg a jolt on the game’s opening kickoff, racing 95 yards down the right sideline to make it 7-0 just 14 seconds into the contest.

 Bullet defensive back Daniel Silva (Lanham, MD/Eleanor Roosevelt) – a two-year letterwinner at McDaniel before transferring to Gettysburg – ended his former team’s first series with an interception, setting the tone for a defense that allowed only three points in the game’s first three quarters.

 Jay Leonard provided those points with a 40-yard field goal to cut the Green Terror deficit to 7-3. McMillan’s one-yard plunge capped a 49-yard scoring drive to make it 14-3 late in the second quarter and Huson extended the lead to 17-3 with a booming 48-yard field goal, joining Dick Eppleman’s 48-yarder against Bucknell during the 1976 season in the Bullet record book.

 Held to 172 total yards into the early moments of the fourth quarter, McDaniel rallied to tie the game. The Green Terror needed only 60 seconds to march 55 yards and cut into the Gettysburg lead on Wenrich’s 11-yard keeper. A bad snap on the extra point kept the score at 17-9.

 McDaniel forced two Bullet punts before using an eight-play, 66-yard drive to knot the game at 17. A 21-yard run by Wenrich followed by a personal foul set up the Green Terror on the Gettysburg 13 and Parker found the end zone on fourth-and-1 from the 4 to make it 17-15.

 On the two-point conversion, Wenrich rolled right and found Unger amidst a host of orange shirts to knot the score.

 Michael Schmidt (Huntington Station, NY/Walt Whitman) led the Bullets with 11 tackles while fellow linebackers Ryan McGarry (Cliffside Park, NJ/Cliffside Park) and Harold Barton (Somerdale, NJ/Sterling) recorded seven stops apiece. Silva finished with six tackles, one interception and one pass breakup.

 Anthony Catucci led all players with 12 tackles and one sack for McDaniel. Drew Abbamonte added 11 tackles, two pass breakups and his fifth interception of the season.

 Gettysburg returns to action on Friday at Johns Hopkins. Game time is 7 p.m.