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October 16, 1999 Homecoming
The Mountain Hawks (6-0) extended the longest regular season winning streak in NCAA Division I football to 18 games and downed the Blue Hens (4-2) for the first time since 1985 after six straight losses. Delaware had a 12-game winning streak vs. non- Division I-A non-league opponents snapped. The game was played before a sellout crowd of 22,032. Lehigh, the third-highest scoring team in NCAA I-AA, piled up 492 total yards and scored in every quarter as Stambaugh, the nation's No. 2 ranked passer, connected on 26 of 41 passes and 410 yards, the fifth highest passing total ever vs. the Blue Hens. Wide receiver Rick Moore caught nine passes for a career-high 224 yards and two touchdowns while tailback Ron Jean ran for 116 yards and two scores. Delaware's Matt Nagy hit on 16 of 29 passes for 230 yards (216 in the second half) and two touchdowns, the final one a 43-yard pass to halfback Butter Pressey that cut the lead to 42-35 with 1:26 left to play. Lehigh then ran out the clock for the win. Lehigh, the defending Patriot League champions and a 1998 NCAA quarterfinalist, built a 35-14 lead on a six-yard scoring toss from Stambaugh to Moore with 8:21 left in the third quarter but the Hens rallied as Pressey (team-high 70 yards rushing) scored on a one-yard dive and Nagy hit Jamin Elliott on an 11-yard scoring toss with 13:04 left in the game to cut the lead to 35-28. But just when Delaware had some momentum, Lehigh stuffed it as Sam Perryman blocked Ryan Bleiler's punt at the Delaware eight-yard line and Avon Mack recovered the fumble in the end zone to up the Mountain Hawk lead to 42-28 with 10:21 left. "I wasn't very happy with our demonstration today," said Delaware head coach Tubby Raymond. "We let too many people in the open and when I thought we could control the game offensively, we couldn't. At times we played well, but we just made too many mistakes to win the game. They (Lehigh) are as good or better than any team we will see in the Atlantic 10." Both teams scored on their opening drive to start the high scoring affair. Delaware's Craig Cummings opened the scoring with a one- yard dive one minute into the game and Jean followed with a two- yard dive 1:20 later. Lehigh eventually went up 21-14 at halftime as Stambaugh hit Moore on a 15-yard scoring pass 2:46 before intermission.
AGATE
LEHIGH...............14.....7.....14.....7.....-
42
SCORING: First quarter D - Cummings 1 run (Sizemore kick), 13:59
left Second quarter D - O'Neal 1 run (Sizemore kick),
12:09 Third quarter L - Jean 11 run (Taaffe kick),
10:23 Fourth quarter D - Elliott 11 pass from Nagy (Sizemore
kick), 13:04 TEAM
STATS................LU............UD INDIVIDUAL STATS RUSHING: LEHIGH: Jean 27-116, Burcher 1-4, B. Snyder 1-2, Hall 1- minus 6, Stambaugh 9-minus 34. DELAWARE: Pressey 8-70, Cummings 8- 47, Ricco 13-45, O'Neal 5-11, Veach 1-6, Nagy 7- minus 15; PASSING: LEHIGH: Stambuagh 26-41-2-410. DELAWARE: Nagy 16-29-0-230; RECEIVING: LEHIGH: Moore 9-224, Fedorcha 8-68, Peltzer 3-31, Jean 2-27, J. Snyder 2-17, Endler 1-38, B. Snyder 1-5. DELAWARE: Elliott 4-95, Pressey 4-61, Veach 4-41, Cummings 2-22, Ricco 2-11. |
