PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania football team put it together on both sides of the ball Saturday afternoon at Franklin Field, and the result was a 45-17 romp of Brown. With the win, the Quakers improved to 3-4 overall, 1-3 in Ivy League play while the Bears fell to 2-5 overall, 1-3 in Ivy play.
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn has won six games in a row against Brown.
*Geroge A. Munger Head Coach
Ray Priore is a perfect 6-0 versus the Bears.
*It marked the first Ivy League win for the Quakers in 714 days.
*The Red and Blue are 63-24-2 all-time against Brown and am impressive 43-10-1 versus the Bears at Franklin Field.
*Penn has won back-to-back home games.
*The Quakers had a season-high eight sacks, three of which came from
Jake Heimlicher. The three sacks were a new career-high for Heimlicher.
*Penn forced three turnovers on the day, two interceptions and a fumble.
Jason McCleod, Jr. and
Garrett Morris both had interceptions and
Joey Slackman forced a fumble that
Brian O'Neill recovered.
*Garret Morris returned his interception for a touchdown. It was the first defensive score for the Quakers this year. Penn has scored a defensive touchdown in back-to-back games against Brown.
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Isaiah Malcome rushed for 121 yards and touchdown on just nine carries. He had runs of 65 and 45 yards, the latter of which he took to the house for a touchdown. Malcome has scored a rushing TD in five straight games.
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Trey Flowers also scored a TD on the ground. It marked the third game this year in which both Malcome and Flowers scored rushing TDs.
*Freshman QB
Aidan Sayin was 11-of-16 passing for 97 yards and a pair of TDs. He threw two touchdown passes for the second game in a row.
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Ryan Cragun caught four passes for 65 yards and a TD.
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Joshua Casilli caught his first career TD pass in the win.
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Julien Stokes scored his first collegiate touchdown for the Quakers.
*Owens Goldsberry caught three passes for 23 yards and he also completed a 30-yard pass on a trick play.
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Brian O'Neill had a season-high 12 tackles and recovered a fumble.
How It Happened
Brown went three-and-out to open the game, and Penn immediately took advantage with the game's first score. Starting at its own 43, the Quakers mixed the run and the pass over eight plays, culminating in
Aidan Sayin fooling the Brown defense and lofting a pass over the Bears to a wide-open
Ryan Cragun in the end zone. The scoring play covered 13 yards.
Brown looked like it might be in trouble on its next drive, facing third-and-17 from its 18-yard line. Instead, EJ Perry found Wes Rockett to cover the ground—barely—and from there the Bears moved methodically down the field (converting a pair of fourth-down plays along the way). In all, the drive took 15 plays and took nearly seven minutes, ending when Perry hit Allen Smith on a screen and he ran untouched to paydirt along the right side.
Penn was flagged for roughing the passer on the Brown TD play, allowing Bruno to kick off from the Quakers' 45-yard line. Not surprisingly, the visitors tried an onside kick but Penn was ready with its "hands team" and
Trey Flowers fell on the ball. From there, Sayin found Cragun for 20 yards along the right sideline and then
Isaiah Malcome busted through the gut into daylight and a 45-yard touchdown rush.
Brown went three-and-out on its next drive, and Penn doubled its lead as the game moved into the second quarter. The Quakers used eight plays to cover 69 yards and made it 21-7 when Sayin rolled out to his right and threaded a pass over one Bears defender and in front of another, hitting
Joshua Casilli right in the numbers for a 12-yard score that was the sophomore's first as a collegian.
Just two plays later, Penn's defense got into the scoring act when Perry overthrew his receiver and the ball went into the arms of
Garrett Morris. The senior briefly bobbled the ball but pulled it in and took it 42 yards to the house, winning a footrace with Perry to the right pylon.
Brown made it a 28-10 game on its next drive, the Bears getting to Penn's 23-yard line before having to settle for a 48-yard field goal that Christopher Maron put between the uprights. Penn got those points right back after
Lawson Nash recovered another onside-kick attempt by the Bears on the Quakers side of midfield. Penn drove to Brown's 16-yard line, and the lead went back to 21 when
Daniel Karrash hit a 40-yard field goal.
Brown had two more chances to score before halftime, but Jason McCleod intercepted a Perry pass in the end zone and then
Micah Morris blocked Maron's 54-yard field goal attempt to send the teams into the locker rooms with Penn leading, 31-10.
The third quarter didn't have nearly the fireworks of the first half, until late in the period when Penn started on its own 25. On second-and-10, Malcome again busted through the middle and soon he was off to the races. He was ultimately tracked down at the 10-yard line by Treyvon Hobbs who took him down with a horse-collar tackle that moved the ball to the 5. On the next play,
Julien Stokes went around the left side for his first collegiate touchdown and Penn's lead was 38-10.
Penn capped its scoring early in the fourth, taking advantage when Brown was unsuccessful on a fourth-down play at its own 17. The Quakers handed the ball off to Flowers four times in five plays, the fourth getting him into the end zone. Brown closed out the scoring in the game late in the period, Perry hitting Walker for 21 yards.
Up Next
Penn is back at Franklin Field against next Saturday, hosting Cornell. The Trustees Cup will be on the line when the Quakers and Big Red kick off at 1 p.m.
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