WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – The Lycoming College football team held Moravian University to 108 yards of offense and junior
Terrence Oliver (Sharon Hill, Pa./Academy Park) accounted for 216 yards of total offense himself as Lycoming downed Moravian, 17-0, to open the Landmark Conference season on Saturday, Oct. 4, at David Person Field at Girardi Stadium.
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Oliver rushed a career-high 36 times for 194 yards and a touchdown, as Lycoming (1-4 overall, 1-0 Landmark) racked up 211 yards on 48 rushes to control the ball for 36:05. The Warriors ran 75 offensive plays and limited Moravian (0-5 overall, 0-1 Landmark) to just 44.
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Sophomore
Joe Lyons III (Margate City, N.J./Atlantic City) finished 13-of-27 for 110 yards passing with a touchdown pass to senior
Karson Kline (Clearfield, Pa./Clearfield Area), who caught five passes for 49 yards.
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The defense granted associate head coach and co-defensive coordinator
Steve Wiser the 71
st shutout of his 52-year coaching career, as Lycoming allowed just six first downs and didn't allow Moravian into the red zone in the game.
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Sophomore
Daniel Atsou (Capitol Heights, Md./Suitland) paced the Warrior defense with eight tackles, one for a loss. First-year
Christon Mitchell-Brown (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) added five stops and a sack fumble that was recovered by sophomore
Owen Bird (Trout Run, Pa./South Williamsport Area). Sophomore
Khalil Johnson (Laurel, Md./Atholton) added five stops, two for loss, as Lycoming had nine tackles for loss in Moravian's 48 snaps.
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Lycoming got on the board with a 14-play, 66-yard drive midway through the second quarter, with Lyons finding Kline for a three-yard score to break the ice. After the strip sack by Johnson led to a recovery from Bird at the Moravian 30-yard line, the Warriors drove 20 yards in six plays to set up a 27-yard field goal from first-year
Vasco Granitto (Dover, Del./Polytech).
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Oliver kicked off Lycoming's last scoring drive with a 43-yard rush on the second play of the drive before finding the end zone five plays later on a three-yard rush.
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R.J. Hart was 7-of-17 passing for 37 yards for the Greyhounds. Josh Ludlow had three catches for 10 yards and Dorian Thomas rushed eight times for 29 yards. Ethan O'Neil had 11 tackles and Hunter Johnson had two tackles for loss and a sack. Shea Endean had three pass breakups.
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The Warriors get back on the field on Saturday, Oct. 11, when they head to 25
th-ranked Susquehanna University for a 12 p.m. Landmark Conference game.
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