IT WAS A DONE DEAL WHEN...
CB Cole Perez brought down Penn's QB on 4th down. His receivers were covered and he took off to try and run for the touchdown, but he got hauled down well short of the goalline as time expired.

GAME BALLS
SS Antonio Higdon piled up 9 tackles. ... MLB Keith Smith forced and recovered a fumble. ... WR Chris Jenkins caught 5 balls for 151 yards and a score. ... HB Melvin Hawkins ran for 150 yards and 3 TDs.

KEY STATISTICS
Penn won the time of possession battle, as their ground game was really cooking against us today.

NOTES
Melvin Hawkins joins former running backs David Taylor and Charles Baakel as the only players to run for 3 TDs in a game for us. ... John Powell moved ahead of Tony Williams as the #2 passer on our all-time career passing list with 2073 yards. ... We're now 5-1 against Penn.