Visiting Le Roy put together a 17-play, eight-minute drive in the final quarter, scoring with 1:38 remaining to defeat Dansville 29-28 in Livingston Conference football action Friday. Twice the Knights converted on 4th down plays to keep the game winning drive alive. The second was an incredible 10-yard dash by LeRoy QB Quentin Humphrey who literally leaped over several Dansville defenders to barely pick up a crucial first down on a fourth-and-10 with three minutes left to play. Humphrey finished with 22 yards on four carries, including the final winning one-yard TD boost.

LR head coach Brian Moran called timeout and decided to eschew a possible game-tying PAT kick to opt for a potential game winning PAT run worth 2 points. Junior RB Rick Henry converted the two-point conversion run to lift the Knights (1-2). Henry led the team with 141 yards on 25 carries and one TD. On the season Henry has garnered 328 yards rushing against some very strong LCAA D1 defenses.

The Mustangs jumped out to an early lead as Jordan VanDunk caught a 24-yard TD pass from fireballer QB Garrett Hoag. Tim Rauber made the PAT, to give Dansville a 7-0 lead which the Mustangs held through the first quarter of play.

The Knights knotted the contest at 7 when FB Jon Casper crashed over the goal line at the 11:20 mark of the second quarter. Austin Steinbrenner, who went 3-for-3 on extra-point kicks, made the PAT.

Dansville rallied back with a good balance of passing and rushing, scoring twice to take a 21-7 halftime lead. The Dansville scores were both made on the ground, a 1-yard score by RB Tim Rauber and a 61-yard dash by Phil Longo with just over 2 minutes remaining in the first half.

The Knights came out determined in the second half and plowed their way through the Dansville defense with the power running of Casper and Henry. Casper's 2-yard burst 4.5 minutes into the 3rd quarter pumped up the Knights as they trailed by just one TD, 21-14. The LR defense stepped up nicely with newcomer Jevon Johnson registering an inspiring tackle for loss and Casper intercepting Dansville QB Hoag. Minutes later, a Henry 37-yard TD gallop and Steinbrenner PAT tied the game up at 21 each.

Dansville answered right back with a very nice scoring drive capped off by Phil Longo's 2-yard TD up the gut. Prior to Longo's score, Dansville reserve QB Pat McMullin was called into the contest to replace Hoag who was felled by cramps. WR Sam Diaz caught a superb pass from McMullin near the LR goal line to keep the scoring drive alive.

Humphrey would then lead the Knights to the game winning tally with Henry and Casper running hard behind the improved forward push of the LeRoy offensive line.

GAME NOTES by Statistician Barney Mase -----------------------------------------------------------

1) LR only had three possessions in the second half, scoring on all of them.

2) After LR ties the game at 21, Dansville responds with a 19 play 80 yard drive. In the drive, the Mustangs went for 4th-and-1 from their own 29, converting, and then a 4th-and-10 from the LR 20. This is when the starting QB had to leave the field due to cramps
bringing in the backup QB, firing a completion to the 1.

3) LR responds with a 17-play drive spanning 63 yards. In the drive Rick Henry converts a 3rd-and-7 from the Mustang 47, Jon Casper picks up 1 yard on a 4th-and-1 to move the chains, and Quentin Humphrey scrambles for 10 yards on 4th-and-10 to move the chains again.

4) Josh Kosiorek registers a huge sack on the last Dansville drive who were without a timeout.

5) Tyler Fenstermaker`s interception before the first half halted another possible Dansville TD which would have made for a very difficult 3-TD deficit for the Knights.

Friday, September 18, 2009 (07:30 PM)
League game at Ralph Clements Field, Dansville, NY
Livingston County Division I

LeRoy Oatkan Knights 29, Dansville Mustangs 28