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Sprint Football Drops Heartbreaker To Mansfield
October 24, 2009 | Sprint Football
The Princeton sprint football team played its best - and guttiest - 43 minutes in many years Friday night. Unfortunately for the Tigers, the final 17 minutes weren't as much fun.
Mansfield scored three touchdowns in the final 17 minutes to rally past Princeton 26-14 on a soggy night on Powers Field at Princeton Stadium.
The win left Mansfield at 2-4 on the year, while Princeton fell to 0-6.
The game was a far cry from the season-opener, when Mansfield defeated Princeton 33-0. Since then, the two teams went 0-8 against the other four teams in the league, managing just one touchdown between them in those eight games. The game Friday night, though, was a spirited, hard-hitting contest in which neither side looked like a team that was mailing in the end of the season.
In the end, Mansfield wore down the Tigers, with a 90-51 edge in total plays run and a 42-18 edge in time of possession.
The Mounties were able to put the game out of reach with a 15-play, 81-yard, 7:57 march that took up much of the fourth quarter. It ended on a Lucas Bailey one-yard run with a little more than two minutes to go, and it was only then that Mansfield had more than a one-possession lead.
Princeton's touchdowns were on a pair of long passes from Jay Zachariah to Kees Thompson, one for 44 yards in the second quarter to make it 7-0 and the other for 36 in the third to make it 14-7.
Andrew Gabriele made 13 tackles for Princeton, who finishes its season at home against Penn Thursday night.