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ATHENS, W. Va. – Isaiah Young's 10-yard touchdown run with 4:32 to play lifted Urbana football to a 31-24 victory over Concord Saturday afternoon.
UU (5-6, 4-6 MEC) snapped a five-game slide and finished the season tied for seventh in the Mountain East Conference standings. CU dropped to 2-9 (2-8 MEC) overall. The Blue Knights have now captured three straight wins against the Mountain Lions.
UU outgained CU 445-396 with a season-high 295 passing yards. The Blue Knights went 7 of 13 on third downs and near perfect in red-zone scoring chances with points on 4 of 5 trips inside the 20.
// HOW IT HAPPENED
CU grabbed the first lead with a 53-yard touchdown run by Josh Maxwell with 6:50 in the first quarter… UU responded with 17 unanswered points off three straight takeaways to take a 17-7 lead at halftime… linebacker
Duray Hall and safety
Tobias Hailey Jr. picked off CU quarterback Kyle Akin and then
Mikal Toliver recovered a fumble on
L.A. Kelly's strip sack…
Shemar Hooks pulled down a one-handed catch for a 48-yard TD to even the score at 7-7 with 4:57 in the first…
Erik Ware followed up with a 34-yard field goal to put UU ahead 10-7…
Bailey Wallen capped an impressive 15-play, 85-yard drive with a two-yard TD plunge to put UU in front 17-7 with 8:39 until halftime…CU opened the second half with a 78-yard kickoff return and scored two plays later to make it 17-14… following a 36-yard catch by Hooks in CU territory, WR
Chad Swanson made a diving catch to haul a four-yard TD to make it 24-14 Blue Knights with 7:19 in the third… CU tacked on a field goal and then Maxwell ran for his second TD on back-to-back possessions to tie the game at 24-24 with 6:43 left to play… on the ensuing possession, QB
Cee Jay Hale found Swanson for a 63-yard strike on a third-and-eight play to put UU on the CU 15… Young found paydirt two plays later to put the Blue Knights ahead for good.
// PLAYER STATS & NOTES
Freshman QB
Cee Jay Hale threw for a career-high 295 yards on 14-of-24 passing with two touchdowns and two interceptions… Hale averaged 21.1 yards per completion… Senior WR
Shemar Hooks produced a career-high 108 receiving yards and his third TD grab of the season… his three touchdown receptions are a new single-season personal best… Sophomore WR
Chad Swanson hauled a team-high five catches for 115 yards and his second TD… Swanson's 63-yard reception is a career-best… Junior RB
Isaiah Young led with 125 rushing yards on 22 carries… Young is the first Blue Knight with back-to-back 100-yard rushing performances since former running back David Hill in 2013… Young's 873 rushing yards this season are the sixth-most in UU history, only two yards behind Hill's 2013 total… Five rushing TDs are a new single-season career-high for Young… freshman RB
Bailey Wallen scored his third career TD… sophomore LB
L.A. Kelly produced a career outing with 15 total tackles, one sack and forced fumble… junior LB
Duray Hall had one sack, six total tackles and his first career interception… sophomore DL
Marcus Omosule recorded his first sack of the season and has 3.5 sacks in his career… redshirt-freshman DB
Tobias Hailey Jr. grabbed his second career interception and recorded a career-long 42-yard return… junior DE
Mikal Toliver posted two tackles for loss… Toliver has a new career-high with 19.5 TFL (10th-best in UU single-season history) for 100 yards (fourth-best in UU single-season history)... senior OL
Doug Hardin started all 44 games in his career… senior P
Brandon Purk leaves the program as the school's all-time leader in punt average (39.9)…
Tyler Haines improved to 15-29 (.341), tied for the second-most wins for a UU head football coach in four seasons.
