Box Score The Griffin football team opened their 2015 season on the road with a non conference matchup with PSAC foe Shippensburg on Saturday afternoon. Shippensburg jumped out to a 27-7 halftime lead and cruised to a 64-14 victory.
Shippensburg scored twice in the first quarter to take a 14-0 lead after one quarter. The Raiders scored from one yard out with 8:49 to play in the first quarter to take a 7-0 lead. Ship followed that up with another one yard touchdown plunge on their next drive to push the lead to 14-0 with 4:01 remaining in the first quarter.
The Griffins finally cracked the scoreboard on their first drive of the second quarter. The Griffins traveled 70 yards on 8 plays to cut the lead to 14-7.
Khalil Howard scored from 4 yards out for the touchdown at the 12:55 mark of the quarter.
Brandon Stout set up the drive with a 29 yard rush on the first play of the drive. Ship increased their lead to 20-7 with a 38 yard touchdown pass at the 6:18 mark of the second quarter. The Raiders added a 19 yard TD pass with 40 seconds left in the half to take a 27-7 lead.
Larry Joshua returned the kickoff to the Ship 47 to set up the Griffins final drive of the half. After three incompletions,
Dan Pietrangelo hit
Jarvis McClam with a 46 yard pass to move the ball to the one yard line with 3 seconds to play. Howard was then stopped on the next play short of the goal line and the half ended.
Shippesburg opened the half with a 36 yard field goal to push their lead to 30-7. On the next Griffin possession, SHU was sacked and fumbled the ball and Shippensburg recovered the ball and went in from 13 yards out for a 37-7 lead with 12:10 left in the third period. Ship continued to extend their lead on their next possession with a 30 yard touchdown pass with 10:23 left in the third period. Seton Hill completed a 15 play, 74 yard drive with a 9 yard touchdown pass from Pietrangelo to
Nick Halfhill with 4:51 to play in the third quarter. The Raiders scored twice more before they intercepted a pass with 38 seconds and returned it for 29 yards for the game's final score.
Dan Pietrangelo was 25-46 for 255 yards and 1 touchdown.
Jarvis McClam pulled in 6 receptions for 80 yards.
Ardell Brown added 4 receptions for 49 yards.
Brandon Stout rushed for 55 yards on 17 carries.
Robert Brown and
Nicholas Boynton each led the team with 11 tackles.
SHU will host Lock Haven next Saturday.
