Football suffers a minus to Ursinus
Despite an exciting end to the game against Dickinson, the Hopkins football team (2-5) struggled against Ursinus (5-1) last Saturday, Oct. 13 when they fell to the Bears 17-10. Ursinus celebrated its third straight win over the Jays at Homewood Field when they came from behind in the fourth quarter.
Ursinus was behind 10-7 after the first three quarters but changed pace of the game when the Bears defense sacked sophomore quarterback Mike Murray on a fourth-and-two with only 34 yards to the end zone.
Junior offensive lineman Kevin Beishline thinks "part of it was because we got off to a lsow offense."
Due to the the change of momentum, it took only nine plays for Ursinus to tie the game up.
Junior Ursinus quarterback Nicholas Dye replaced starting quarterback Matt McHugh, and marched his team down the field into scoring position. After two carries from sophomore running back Aaron Harper totaling 18 yards and hitting sophomore wide receiver Shea Wisler for another 22 yards in the air, the Bears were first-and-goal on the Jays eight-yard line. The Hopkins defense stepped it up a bit, and kept Ursinus out of the end zone, but Erich Wolf booted the pigskin 22 yards right down the middle of the pipes to tie it up 10-10 with 9:19 left on the game clock.
Hopkins took the field after the kick and Murray put in a great effort on the possession. He took the Jays from their own 40-yard line down into Ursinus's 28-yard line, but the ball was turned over on downs with 3:52 left in the game. Dye and company didn't waste any time; it took them only six plays to reach the end zone. He started with a 17-yard completion to Harper, ran for 14 himself, and then tossed another 22 to Harper. At third-and-six, from the Hopkins 11-yard line, Dye fired it to the end zone to sophomore wide receiver Jesse Ordonio, for what would be the game-winner with only 1:54 left in the game.
The Jays started at their own 35-yard line with just under 1:50 to play and Murray once again moved the team down to the Ursinus 30-yard line with less than 20 seconds left on the clock. However his attempt on third-and-four was intercepted by junior defensive back DeVohn Butler and the Bears took a knee to capture the win.
Ursinus was behind 10-7 after the first three quarters but changed pace of the game when the Bears defense sacked sophomore quarterback Mike Murray on a fourth-and-two with only 34 yards to the end zone.
Junior offensive lineman Kevin Beishline thinks "part of it was because we got off to a lsow offense."
Due to the the change of momentum, it took only nine plays for Ursinus to tie the game up.
Junior Ursinus quarterback Nicholas Dye replaced starting quarterback Matt McHugh, and marched his team down the field into scoring position. After two carries from sophomore running back Aaron Harper totaling 18 yards and hitting sophomore wide receiver Shea Wisler for another 22 yards in the air, the Bears were first-and-goal on the Jays eight-yard line. The Hopkins defense stepped it up a bit, and kept Ursinus out of the end zone, but Erich Wolf booted the pigskin 22 yards right down the middle of the pipes to tie it up 10-10 with 9:19 left on the game clock.
Hopkins took the field after the kick and Murray put in a great effort on the possession. He took the Jays from their own 40-yard line down into Ursinus's 28-yard line, but the ball was turned over on downs with 3:52 left in the game. Dye and company didn't waste any time; it took them only six plays to reach the end zone. He started with a 17-yard completion to Harper, ran for 14 himself, and then tossed another 22 to Harper. At third-and-six, from the Hopkins 11-yard line, Dye fired it to the end zone to sophomore wide receiver Jesse Ordonio, for what would be the game-winner with only 1:54 left in the game.
The Jays started at their own 35-yard line with just under 1:50 to play and Murray once again moved the team down to the Ursinus 30-yard line with less than 20 seconds left on the clock. However his attempt on third-and-four was intercepted by junior defensive back DeVohn Butler and the Bears took a knee to capture the win.
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