Maine Black Bears 3 Buffalo Bulls 52
UB Stadium
Amherst NY
65 degrees and clear
Winds SE 0-6 mph
Bulls send the Black Bears Packing
The University of Buffalo Bulls were able to avoid the upset against the Division 1 Maine Black Bears Saturday afternoon. The Black Bears, better known for their nationally ranked Hockey program were outsized and outgunned as the fell to the Bulls 52-3 in front of 23,572 at UB Stadium. Aware of the upset Maine pulled over Mississippi State in 2004, Coach Griggs had his team fired up for the fray.
Bulls Quarterback Aaron James threw for three touchdowns and completed twelve of twenty-eight for two hundred thirty-nine yards. Halfback Adam Moore broke the century mark for the sixth consecutive game rushing for one hundred fifty yards and two touchdowns. Lamar Campanella had one hundred fifty yards receiving on six catches and one touchdown as he yet again broke the one hundred yard mark in yards. Campy also had his first punt return for a touchdown (91 yds) this season.
Ranked sixth in the Nation, the Bulls defense tallied up nine sacks with Lawrence Lowe and Matt Reese tied for three in the game. Lowe is ranked second in the nation with a total of sacks for the season.
"I'd like to thank the Black Bears for travelling to Buffalo to play us today." Coach Griggs said in his postgame press conference. "It is always difficult to make the jump and play the bigger schools, although the score didn't reflect it, they [Maine] played with alot of hear today. Frankly speaking, I was getting worried when we put up that goose egg in the first quarter. Maine was blitzing and held our running game in check for the first fifteen minutes. I think if you look at all of our games this season, we have been outscored, or haven't scored, much in the first quarter of the game." Griggs added.
Box Score:
Maine 3 0 0 0=3
Buffalo 0 14 17 21=52
Scoring Summary:
First Quarter:
3-0 Main 36 yd fg
Second Quarter:
7-3 Buffalo 1 yd run by Moore (Miller kick) 6:15
14-3 Buffalo 27 yd pass from James to Campanella (Miller kick) 3:36
Third Quarter:
21-3 Buffalo 37 yd run by Moore (Miller kick) 6:30
28-3 Buffalo 14 yd pass from James to Campanella (Miller kick) 3:57
31-3 Buffalo 35 yd FG by Miller :29
Fourth Quarter:
38-3 Buffalo 91 yd punt return by Campanella (Miller kick) 6:03
45-3 Buffalo 2 yd run by Rox (Miller kick) 2:15
52-3 Buffalo 28 yd pass James to Moore (Miller kick) 1:13
Statistics Summary:
Score
3 52
1st Downs
12 15
Total Offense
164 366
Rush/ Yds
30-5 32-134
Passing
15-33-0 11-26-3
Passing Yds
159 232
Sacked
9 2
3rd downs
4-17 (23%) 4-13 (30%)
4th downs
0-0 2-4 (50%)
2 pt conv.
0 0
Red Zone
1-0-1(100%) 4-2-1 (75%)
TO
51
Fumbles/ lost
3-3 0-0
Int.
2 1
Punt Ret yds
19 113
Kick Ret yds
208 52
Total
391 531
Punts
8-30.5 4-42
Penalties
7-74 3-30
T.O.P.
15:45 16:15
Notable Performances:
Quarterback
Aaron James 12-28 239 yds 3 td and 1 int
Running Back
Adam Moore 150yds 5.1 avg 2 td's
Wide Receiver
Lamar Campanella 6 rec 150 yds 1 td rec 1 td punt return
Sean Moore 4 rec 72 yds 1 td
Field Goals
Miller 1-1 35 yds
01-01-2010, 09:05 PM
. Thanks to those who have been following along. I'll be posting mid season statistics for the Bulls this Weekend along with updating recruiting- kind of giving a mid-season roundup so to speak.
