Football

Delaware Valley 38, Lebanon Valley College 7

DOYLESTOWN (PA) - Adam Knoblauch passed for 277 yards and three touchdowns while Jake Sheffield rushed for 99 yards and two scores, leading undefeated and 13th-ranked Delaware Valley to a 38-7 win over visiting Lebanon Valley College in a Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) football game.

Delaware Valley which won its 16th straight regular-season game, improved to 5-0 overall and 5-0 in conference play. The Flying Dutchmen fell to 1-4 overall and 1-3 in the MAC.

The Aggies scored the game's first 38 points and notched 508 yards of total offense to give them 93 points and 1,126 yards in the last two years against Lebanon Valley (a 55-14 victory last year).

Delaware Valley scored on its first drive of the game as the Aggies went 68 yards on five plays, capped by Knoblauch's 38-yard touchdown pass to a wide-open Don Marshall. Bill Miller added the extra-point for a 7-0 lead with 10:59 remaining in the first quarter.

Miller added a 23-yard field goal on the next drive for a 10-0 score with five minutes to go in the first. The Aggies then made it 17-0 in the first two minutes of the second quarter (13:06) as Sheffield ended a six-play, 80-yard drive, with a three-yard plunge into the end zone.

Sheffield scored his second touchdown of the day with a two-yard run and Miller added the point after for the lone points of the third quarter. Knoblauch then tossed a pair of touchdown passes in a span of two minutes and 35 seconds in the fourth quarter. The first was a 15-yard pass to David Carmon with 13:33 remaining and the second was 43-yard catch-and-run by Joel Foreman with 11:08 to go.

Lebanon Valley's points came on its last drive of the day, a 15-play, 91-yard push that was capped by Jon Fiaschetti's 12-yard touchdown run with 3:42 remaining.

Knoblauch completed 17 of 23 passes for the 277 yards and three scores. He also rushed for 50 yards on eight carries and became just the second quarterback in school history (1991 grad Tim Ford the other) to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a career (1,036).

Knoblauch also remained on pace to become just the fifth quarterback in NCAA history (all levels) to throw for 10,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in a career. His passing career numbers stand at 9,293 yards with five regular-season games remaining (postseason games would also count towards the total should the Aggies reach the playoffs for the second straight year).

Marshall caught five passes for 91 yards and one score and Carmon added four catches for 51 yards and a touchdown. Sheffield netted his 99 yards on 14 carries and saw the majority of the time on Saturday as starting tailback Steve Cook nursed an injury from last week. Cook did have four carries for 35 yards on the opening drive of the day.

Defensively for Delaware Valley, linebackers A.J. Neal and John Pursell led the charge with 10 and nine tackles respectively. Pursell also added a sack on the day. Lineman Anthony Silver made seven stops and intercepted a pass and cornerback Matt Murphy recorded his fifth interception of the season.

Lebanon Valley quarterback Dan Kelly, who entered the game leading the MAC in total offense (309.8 yards per game), completed 11 of 21 passes for just 101 yards and two interceptions. He also rushed 10 times for 39 yards. Fiaschetti came off the bench in the fourth quarter and netted a team-high 55 yards on 10 carries. Luke Rendine made six catches for 36 yards.