Skip To Main Content

Kutztown University Athletics

nav separator
Jason Cline, University Relations
17
Clarion CLAR 7-4
45
Winner Kutztown KUTZ 7-4
Clarion CLAR
7-4
17
Final
45
Kutztown KUTZ
7-4
Winner
Score By Quarters
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
CLAR Clarion 7 3 0 7 17
KUTZ Kutztown 7 10 14 14 45

Game Recap: Football | | by Bryan Salvadore, Sports Information Director

Football Seniors Lead Golden Bears to Senior Day Victory over Clarion

Photo Gallery
 
KUTZTOWN, Pa. – The Kutztown University football team had production from its entire senior class on Saturday, leading it to a 45-17 Senior Day victory over Clarion University in the season-finale from Andre Reed Stadium.
 
The last two years have gone to overtime between Kutztown and Clarion, with more than 75 combined points scored in each of them. Kutztown's defense prevented that from happening on Saturday by limiting Clarion to nearly 20 points below its season average.
 
KU led 17-10 at halftime, but used four unanswered touchdowns in the second half to open a 45-10 lead in its season-finale. KU scored in all four quarters for the third straight game and closed the season by scoring in 14 straight quarters, spanning over four games.
 
973 yards of combined total offense were recorded on Saturday. KU led the charge with 561, its fourth 500+ game of the season and third of the final four games, to cap the program's school-record season on offense. KU averaged 488.8 yards of total offense in 2015, breaking the previous record of 481.1 from 2012.
 
The Golden Bears (7-4) post their first seven-win season since 2012, and outside of the era of KU All-Time Quarterback Kevin Morton (2009-12), their most since 2000. Jim Clements has led KU to winning seasons in each of his first two years with the program, and moves to 10-0 in his two years when holding opponents to less than 24 points and 8-0 when holding teams to less than 100 rushing yards.
 
Senior receiver Kodi Reed (Hanover, Pa./Delone Catholic) was one of 13 Golden Bear seniors to play in their final game on Saturday, and did so by breaking the final school-record he didn't already own. Reed entered Saturday nine catches shy of tying KU Hall of Famer Mark Steinmeyer's career receptions record of 200. He broke the record in the fourth quarter and ended the day with a career-high 11 catches for 80 yards, his first career double-digit catch game.
 
Reed posted a career-high 995 receiving yards this season, second-most in KU history, with a career-high 69 receptions and 10 touchdowns, both ranking fourth in KU single-season history.
 
Reed caught a pass in all 44 of his career games, a school-record and third-longest streak in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) history. He closes his career with a school-record 202 catches, 15th in PSAC history, a school-record 2,857 receiving yards, 22nd in PSAC history and 37 more than his brother, Dusty Reed, had in his four years at East Stroudsburg, and a school-record 29 touchdowns, 13th in PSAC history.
 
Connecting with Reed was redshirt-senior quarterback Chad Barton (Hollidaysburg, Pa./Hollidaysburg), who threw for 316 yards on 33-for-50 passing and two touchdowns. He is the third player in school history to throw for 3,000 yards in a season (3,097) and his career-high 246 completions this year rank fourth in single-season history at KU.
 
A two-year starter, Barton closes his career ranked third in school history with 57 touchdown passes, fourth with 485 completions, and fifth with 6,024 passing yards and 809 attempts.
 
Also at wideout, senior Anthony Kelly (Pottsville, Pa./Pottsville Area) hauled in his seventh touchdown of the season and the 22nd of his career to finish fourth in school history. His 1,406 career yards and 97 receptions are both 15th-best at KU.
 
Junior wideout Kellen Williams (Chambersburg, Pa./Chambersburg) hauled in a 24-yard touchdown in the first half Saturday, his ninth of the season and 22nd of his career, tying him with Kelly for fourth in school history. Still with a year to play, Williams ranks sixth in school history with 155 career receptions, second with 2,140 yards and fourth with 22 touchdowns.
 
Running backs Darrell Scott (Douglassville, Pa./Daniel Boone) and Terry Williams (West Orange, N.J./Cosby (Phoenix College)) each ran for two touchdowns in their final collegiate game. Scott posted his second straight multi-TD game to close with 13 career touchdowns, 15th in school history. Williams' pair marked his 12th and 13th of the season, fourth-most in a season in KU history, to close his two-year career at KU with 22 rushing touchdowns, sixth in program history.
 
Defensively, junior linebacker Zack Delp (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall) recorded his 200th career tackle, the 21st player in school history to do so. The team captain recorded a team-high 84 tackles this season, six shy of his career-high from last year, and enters his senior season in 2016 with 205 career tackles with 23 consecutive starts at middle linebacker.
 
Tyler Pratt (Northumberland, Pa./Shikellamy) hauled in his team-leading and career-high third interception of the season and nearly took it back for a touchdown for the second straight week. With Clarion driving inside the red-zone in the third quarter, Pratt picked off the Clarion quarterback at KU's 2-yardline and returned it 65 yards before being brought down. Participating in Senior Day on Saturday, Pratt had a career-high 42 tackles this year.
 
Players to participate in Senior Day on Saturday were team manager Kelly Masker, T. Williams, Jamal Abdur-Rahman (Philadelphia, Pa./La Salle College (Villanova)), Barton, Pratt, Kelly, Kurt Kenny (Duncannon, Pa./Susquenita), Darryl Mintz (Philadelphia, Pa./Roman Catholic), Scott, Andrew Deutsch (Kutztown, Pa./Northwestern Lehigh), Reed, Tyler Redding (Biglerville, Pa./Biglerville), Diaire Brison (Lancaster, Pa./Conestoga Valley) and Tyrone Brown (Philadelphia, Pa./Roman Catholic).
 
Deutsch, a punter, closes his career ranked fourth all-time at KU with 169 punts for 6,152 yards for an average of 36.4 yards per punt.
 
Kutztown finished second in the PSAC East this season, exceeding the expectation of the league's coaches this preseason with its pick of fifth. KU is expected to return seven players on offense, including its entire offensive line that had full-year starters at four of the five positions, and seven starters on defense.
 
 

 
 
 
Print Friendly Version
Skip Sponsors