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SPORTS 2 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2010 THE MORNING CALL FIRST-STAfcr LAFAYETTE Lehigh tames Tigers in big finish back to the left side to Wojdowski on a 3-yard TD pass with 2:56 remaining. The same two connected on a similar play for the two-point conversion. "During the week, I try my best to get mentally and physically ready to go in there," Colvin said. "As a backup quarterback, you're only one play away from having to go in. So, once Chris went out and my name was called, I felt like I was ready It took me awhile to get going, but I was happy with the way we bounced back." Colvin, much more comfortable in the second half as Lehigh's offense adjusted to his skills, finished 10-for-14 for 128 yards passing.

He had one interception that led to a Princeton field goal just before halftime. The Tigers, unveiling a no-huddle offense, outgained Lehigh 528327 and had 392 yards in the air. But Princeton, coming off a 4-6 season, had just one TD and that came on a 80-yard pass from QB Tommy Wornham to Trey Peacock in the second quarter. "Our defense bent, but didn't break," Coen said. "We gave up a lot of yards, but held them to five field goals.

"It's a nice, quality win for our guys. It wasn't perfect by any stretch, but we did what we needed to do." DENISE SANCHEZTHE MORNING CALL Lehigh's Jarard Cribbs (right) picked off a pair of second half passes that Lehigh converted into winning drives Saturday. Mountain Hawks get a much-needed win over Princeton. By Keith GroUer OF THE MORNING CALL Lehigh's Jarard Cribbs said he looked at the scoreboard and thought "Not again." The Mountain Hawks trailed Princeton 17-16 deep into the third quarter on Saturday afternoon at Goodman Stadium and the game seemed to be following a familiar pattern that could have led to another heartbreak. The Tigers pulled out 3-point victories over Lehigh the past two seasons and seemed ready to leave the Lehigh Valley with another close win.

But Cribbs. a senior corner-back, picked off a pair of second-half passes that led to 10 Lehigh points and the Mountain Hawks got a much-needed 35-22 win over Princeton before 6,344 fans. The victory was critical on a number of levels. It soothed the wounds after the previous week's 35-0 loss to No. 1 ranked Villanova and insured that Lehigh (2-1) will exit September no worse than .500 considering the Mountain Hawks will be big underdogs this Saturday when they play at nationally-ranked New Hampshire.

It also snapped Lehigh's seven-game losing to Ivy League teams and the 35 points was the most scored by the Mountain Hawks in a home game since tallying 45 against Fordham in Week 5 of the 2008 season. Most importantly, however, Lehigh found a way to win a game that was close late. "Our motto for the season is to finish," Cribbs said. "We're in so many close games and our 4-7 team last year definitely would Continued from SPORTS 1 to Kyle Hayes and another lateral to Vaughn Hebron, who was finally knocked out of bounds at the Penn 8-yard In the final analysis, Lafayette fell to 0-2 for the season but may have found an identity This was a much more intense and focused team than the one that was upset last week by Georgetown. If Penn played for the memory of Owen Thomas, it achieved its objective.

But Lafayette did not make it easy The game had a lot of flashbacks to the Leopards' opener but in reverse. There was the Penn punt on which the snap was low and bobbled by punter Joe Lopano, who tried to kick it anyway Ben Eaton blocked it and Knyi Scott was in the right place at the right time and recovered in the end zone for the first touchdown of his career. Last week, a botched Lafayette punt gave Georgetown the ball on the Leopard 3 and paved the way for a Hoya TD. Penn also had a kickoff roll out of bounds after its second TD Lafayette did that twice against the Hoyas. Then there was a flashback that went against the Leopards when, on a third-and-1 play at the Penn 15, Quilling, under pres: sure, let go with a careless pass that was intercepted by Penn's Jon Saelinger in the end zone the Leopards had a pass intercepted in the end zone a week ago, too.

Saelinger had a total of three interceptions for the night. The Lafayette defense, which seemed uncharacteristically quiet in the season opener, was anything but that Saturday night. The highlight? A Penn pass attempt was tipped by Lafayette's Kyvory Henderson, and Phillips took it out of the air and returned it 25 yards for Lafayette's second touchdown. So, while the Leopards had only 63 yards of offense in the half, they led 14-6. Penn had 212 yards you might say it was another reverse flashback, since Lafayette dominated the offensive stats in the loss last week.

"It was unfortunate, but we came up on the short side of a tough game," Tavani said after the game. "I think we were better prepared for this one while we might have relaxed a little last week." O'Neil was not expected to play, and Tavani admitted he was "hesitant" to make the late change. O'Neil got in three series in the final six minutes and was 8-for-13 for 94 yards. He was also sacked a couple of times and threw one interception, but he, like his teammates, didn't run out of guts. They ran short on time.

Colavita, Marsh and Jeff Jack gave Penn a strong three-headed running back attack; but the Quakers had their hands full until mustered that lone drive that brought an end to their three-game losing streak to Lafayette and picked up the 800th victory of their 133-year history 3 10 6 3-22 7 7 6 15-35 Princeton Lehigh have gave this game up. We would have handed it over to them and they would have walked out of here with a win. But everybody stepped up and said 'we really need this Everybody had to believe in each other, do the right technique, and good things would be done." This one got done thanks to some clutch plays on both sides of the ball. Sophomore Michael Colvin came off the bench early in the second quarter to replace injured starter Chris Lum sprained ankle at quarterback for Lehigh and engineered a pair of short touchdown drives that decided the see-saw battle that featured seven field goals five by Princeton. The Tigers, playing their season opener and first game under new coach Bob Surace, had pulled to within 20-19 with eight seconds left in the third quarter and tried to catch the Mountain Hawks off guard with an onside kick.

Princeton appeared to have recovered the ball, but the Tigers were penalized for an illegal touch before the ball traveled the required 10 yards. Lehigh took over at the Princeton 37 and scored on Jay Campbell's 18-yard, halfback-option pass to tight end Alex Wojdowski. It was Campbell's second career TD pass. It was a left-handed floater, and not a spiral, but just as effective. "Michael Colvin came in and made some nice throws, but none were as nice as Jay's," kidded Lehigh coach Andy Coen.

"Jay has an awesome quarterback rating for his career now. He's 2-for-2 with two touchdowns." After Cribbs came up with his second pick with 6:16 left, Campbell went back to carrying the ball to help Lehigh put the game away. On the game-clinching drive, Campbell had a 15-yard run, Colvin hit Jake Drwal for 15 yards and then found Alex Wojdowski for 12 more and a first-and-goal at the Princeton 3. Those two were just getting started. Colvin rolled right and threw FIRST QUARTER L-Chris Lum 2 run (Jake Peery kick) 8:40 (Drive: 8 plays, 52 yds, 2:51) P-Patrick Jacob 24 FG 3:57 (Drive: 4 plays, 7 yds, 1:01) SECOND QUARTER p-ltey Peacock go pass from Tommy WOrnham (Jacob kick) 8:47 (Drive: 3 plays, 80 yds, 0:23) L-Sean Farrell 1 run (Peery kick) 5:03 (Drive: 7 plays, 58 yds, 3:29) P-Jacob 24 FG 0:00 (Drive: 7 plays, 46 yds, 120) THIRD QUARTER P-Jacob 35 FG 9:37 (Drive: 8 plays, 26 yds, 3:15) L-Peery 31 FG 5:52 plays, 61 yds, 3:38) L-Peery 25 FG 3:30 (Drive: 4 plays, 7 yds, 1:39) P-Jacob 39 FG 0:08 (Drive: 9 plays, 68 yds, 332) FOURTH QUARTER L-Alex Wojdowski 18 pass from Jay Campbell (Peery kick) 13:14 (Drive: 5 plays, 37 yds, 1:49) P-Jacob 43 FG 8:05 (Drive: 12 plays, 39 yds, 5:03) L-Wojdowski 12 pass from Michael Colvin (Peery kick) 2:56 (Drive: 9 plays, 55 yds, 3.20) 22 36-136 392 32-51-2 4-37 1-1 10-91 17 45-129 198 14-26-1 6-43 2-1 4-33 First downs Rushes-yards Passing Comp-Att-Int Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Culbreath 9-56, Mills 7-35, Zimmerman 7-18, Wornham 7-17, Kerr 3-10, Sharp 2-0, McCray 1-0.

Campbell 21-79, Colvin 16-37, Farrell 2-8, Lum 3-7, Barket 1-2, Team 2K-4). PASSING Wornham 32-51-2-392. Colvin 10-14-1-128, Lum 3-11-0-52, Campbell 1-1-0-18. RECEIVING -P: Kerr 11-125, Peacock 8-196, Serwanga 4-34, Flaherty 4-29, Zimmerman 2-6, Culbreath 2-4, Sharp H-2). Wojdowski 4-79, Zurn 4-47, Drwal 3-34, Spadola 1-22, Campbell 1-13, Wickware 1-3.

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