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30
Pace PAC 1-10
39
Winner Saint Anselm STA 3-8
Pace PAC
1-10
30
Final
39
Saint Anselm STA
3-8
Winner
Score By Quarters
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
PAC Pace 7 13 10 0 30
STA Saint Anselm 14 15 0 10 39

Game Recap: Football |

Football Pulls Out Wild Win Against Pace in Season Finale, 39-30

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Freshman Eric Fairweather (Londonderry, N.H.) ran for 125 yards and a touchdown and junior LB Kyrel Jaundoo (Mattapan, Mass.) registered a pick-six with five seconds left in the game to seal a 39-30 victory for the Saint Anselm College football team as the Hawks defeated Pace University in a Northeast-10 Championship Weekend matchup at Grappone Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

STANDOUT PERFORMERS

  • Fairweather rushed for the 125 yards on 14 carries and also went 4-for-8 passing for 59 yards and another score.
  • Senior RB Elad Covaliu (Rockville, Md.) carried 21 times for 60 yards and two touchdowns, as he went over the 1,000-yard mark on the season.
  • Sophomore LB Eric Mercer (Melrose, Mass.) registered a game-high 12 tackles, including a sack.
  • Jaundoo, who also made five tackles, recorded his first career interception.

For the foes…

  • QB Delaney Wallace amassed 177 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 18 carries. Wallace was also 2-for-5 passing for 31 yards and a touchdown.
  • RB Michael Scotman ran for 119 yards on 30 carries.
  • RB Marquis Pickering carried 15 times for 77 yards and a touchdown.
  • LB Matthew Corrie rang up nine tackles and recorded an interception.
  • DL Tyler Owens tallied seven tackles, including 2.0 for a loss, and recovered a fumble.

HOW IT HAPPENED

  • Saint Anselm struck first as it received the opening kick and went 79 yards in just five plays and 2:11, with Fairweather capping the series on a 60-yard touchdown sprint that made it 7-0.
  • The Hawks then surprised the Setters in the final game of the year with an onside kick that Saint Anselm recovered at the Pace 30-yard line. It took the hosts six plays to cover the 30 yards, with Covaliu scoring on an 8-yard run that doubled the lead to 14-0 at the 10:12 mark of the opening quarter.
  • Pace answered right back with an eight-play, 72-yard drive that was polished off by a 5-yard Wallace touchdown run to slice the deficit in half with 6:07 left in the first quarter.
  • Following a short punt and a kick-catching interference call in the second quarter, Saint Anselm began the drive at the Pace 18-yard line and used a pair of rushes by Covaliu, including another 8-yard touchdown run, to go up 21-7 just 3:37 into the second stanza.
  • The Saint Anselm defense then forced a three-and-out on the ensuing drive and a big punt block from junior DL Richie Curran (Freehold, N.J.) again gave the offense great field position at the Pace 15-yard line. On the following play, Fairweather found sophomore WR Ryan Head (Loudon, N.H.) for another touchdown that made it a three-score game. The Hawks faked the extra point and senior LB Joel Jorgensen (Eldersburg, Md.) hit Head for the two-point conversion that widened the Saint Anselm lead to 29-7 with 10:48 on the clock in the second quarter.
  • Later in the frame, a long punt return set Pace up at the Saint Anselm 27-yard line and it took the Setters just three plays to find the end zone as Pickering scored on a 3-yard touchdown run that trimmed the Pace deficit to 29-14 with 4:40 left before the half.
  • Pace climbed right back in it, taking advantage of a Saint Anselm fumble as Wallace hooked up with Prince Unaegbu on a 22-yard touchdown throw with just 29 seconds on the clock. Senior DB Carroll Bailey (Clinton, Mass.) blocked his second extra point in an as many weeks to keep it a two-score game at 29-20.
  • The Setters opened the second-half scoring on a five-play, 76-yard drive that was capped by a 42-yard Wallace run, which pulled Pace within 29-27 at the 6:30 mark of the third quarter.
  • Pace continued to steal momentum as Corrie picked off Fairweather and converted the takeaway into a Nick Fountis 32-yard field goal that gave the Setters their first lead of the afternoon at 30-29.
  • Saint Anselm leapfrogged back in front on the ensuing drive, using 11 plays to set up a 27-yard field goal from senior K/P Shane Grayson (Ormond Beach, Fla.) that made it 32-30 just 2:32 into the fourth quarter.
  • Pace looked like it was going to regain the lead, but a 15-play drive fizzled out at the Saint Anselm 22-yard line as the Setters turned the ball over with just 3:14 on the clock.
  • The Setters had one more shot after forcing a punt, but Saint Anselm sealed the victory as Jaundoo intercepted Wallace and returned it 19-yards for a pick-six that made it 39-30 with just five seconds on the clock.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

  • Pace outgained Saint Anselm in total offensive yards, 429-270, including 398-211 on the ground. Saint Anselm held a slight 59-31 edge in passing yards.
  • The Setters were 5-for-16 on third-down conversions, while the Hawks were 1 of 9 on third down. Pace was an efficient 3 of 5 on fourth down.
  • Saint Anselm turned it over two times, while Pace, despite fumbling three times, only turned it over one time.

NOTES

  • With his 55th rushing yard of the day, Covaliu became just the second player in program history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season, but did fall 129 yards shy of Marc Wilson's record from the 2008 season.
  • Despite his field goal, Grayson fell one shy of matching Michael Garcarz' all-time record of 24 field goals that he set from 2003-06.
  • As a team, the Hawks became the second Saint Anselm squad to reach the 2,000-yard rushing plateau, but fell 153 yards short of the 2008 team's single-season record.

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