DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF) — The University of Dayton football program celebrated Alumni Day in fashion with a roller-coaster 37-32 victory over the University of San Diego Saturday at Welcome Stadium.<\/p>\n
Game Recap<\/p>\n
1st Quarter- Dayton 7, San Diego 10<\/p>\n
Dayton won the coin toss and deferred. San Diego opened the game with a 14-play drive that resulted in a field goal to give the Toreros the early lead.<\/p>\n
After a Dayton punt, San Diego marched down the field, going 60 yards in 1:43, scoring a touchdown to push their lead to 10-0. Dayton responded quickly, as junior LeRoy Lewis IV took the ensuing kickoff 97 yards to the endzone.<\/p>\n
Dayton’s defense settled in, forcing a three and out. The Flyers started at their own 15, and were moving down the field, ending up at San Diego’s 22-yard line as the first quarter came to an end.<\/p>\n
San Diego outgained the Flyers in the opening quarter, generating 149 yards of total offense, compared to just 57 for UD.<\/p>\n
2nd Quarter- Dayton 21, San Diego 10<\/p>\n
Senior Gavin Lochow hauled in an 18-yard reception on the first play of the second quarter to set up a four yard rushing touchdown for senior Mason Hackett.<\/p>\n
San Diego and Dayton traded three and outs, and a Dayton punt set San Diego up on their own 20-yard line. After getting into UD territory, the Toreros were lined up to go for it on fourth and short, but a false start forced them to punt.<\/p>\n
The Flyers quickly moved the ball to midfield, before a San Diego sack and two incompletions led to a great punt, which pinned the Torero defense on their own five-yard line with four minutes to play in the first half.<\/p>\n
Another defensive stand by the Flyers led to a San Diego punt, which was returned 48 yards by junior Paul Kelly to the San Diego ten yard-line. Senior Bryce Schondelmyer connected with Lochow on the next play for a ten yard touchdown pass.<\/p>\n
San Diego then punted again, and the Flyers ran out the clock to end the half.<\/p>\n
3rd Quarter- Dayton 31, San Diego 17<\/p>\n
San Diego’s kickoff went out of bounds, giving Dayton the ball at the 35 yard-line. The offense came out hot, going 65 yards in only three plays, highlighted by a third down, 56 yard rushing touchdown by Lochow, his second score of the game.<\/p>\n
San Diego scored a quick touchdown of their own with a 39 yard pitch and catch, cutting the Flyer lead back down to eleven.<\/p>\n
The Flyers moved the ball down to the Torero’s 26, but a strip sack on fourth and four returned the ball to San Diego in their own territory.<\/p>\n
After getting the ball back, Dayton put together an impressive 10 play, 66 yard drive that ended with a 34-yard field goal Graduate Student David Maurer to push the Flyer lead to 14.<\/p>\n
4th Quarter-<\/p>\n
After a scoreless Dayton drive, San Diego marched down the field, scoring on a one yard rushing touchdown to make it a one score game<\/p>\n
On the ensuing kickoff, Dayton fumbled, giving the Toreros the ball deep in Flyer territory, threatening to tie the game.<\/p>\n
The Dayton defense held San Diego to a field goal attempt, which was blocked by Senior Javawn Brooks, preserving a seven point advantage for the Flyers<\/p>\n
Senior punter Ben Lavelle pinned San Diego deep with just under three minutes remaining with his second punt of the day inside the ten yard line.<\/p>\n
San Diego marched down the field, punching in a five yard score. They opted to go for two to take the lead and were able to convert on a passing play, giving San Diego a one point edge with 1:32 left to play.<\/p>\n
The Flyers marched down the field in just 32 seconds thanks to a 34 yard highlight reel catch by Senior Michael Mussari, which helped set up a Lochow 14-yard reception for the touchdown. The Flyers went for two and failed, giving them a five point edge with under a minute to play.<\/p>\n
The defense held and junior Emmanuel Hardrick broke up a Hail Mary attempt, securing the Flyer’s win.<\/p>\n
INSIDE THE NUMBERS<\/p>\n
3 – Lochow had three touchdowns<\/p>\n
270 – Yards of offense for the Flyers in the second half<\/p>\n
12 – Total tackles for Junior Ross Coppock, tying his season high<\/p>\n
26, 259, and 2 – Bryce Schondelmyer completed 26 passes for 259 yards and two touchdowns, his second most completions and yards in a game this year.<\/p>\n
102 – all purpose yards on fifteen touches for Mason Hackett, including one rushing touchdown<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
The Flyers will return to action next Saturday, Oct. 31 at Stetson in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF) — The University of Dayton football program celebrated Alumni Day in fashion with a roller-coaster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-507149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}