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EAST STROUDSBURG – Senior quarterback Kevin Morton was 35-for-42 for 490 yards and three touchdowns and Curtis Wortham ran for 92 yards and three scores as defending PSAC champion Kutztown knocked off East Stroudsburg University, 59-33, on Saturday at Eiler-Martin Stadium.

Redshirt freshman quarterback Matt Soltes was 28-for-40 for 363 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions and junior wide receiver Dusty Reed had six catches for 64 yards and two touchdowns for ESU (3-4, 2-3).

Reed had 320 all-purpose yards, second-most in school history, and set the school record with 247 kick return yards on nine returns. Reed moved from 19th to 13th on ESU's career all-purpose yards list (2,737), ranks seventh with 134 career catches and is less than 100 receiving yards away from cracking the top 10 in his third season at ESU.

Junior kicker Taylor Groff was 4-for-4 on field goals, hitting from 20, 28, 32 and 46 yards. He is the fourth ESU kicker to make at least four field goals in a game, and the third PSAC kicker to make four field goals in a game this season. He moved within one field goal of Mark Brubaker's 39 for the second-most in school history and is 11-for-18, including 7-for-10 inside 40 yards, this season.

Kutztown (4-4, 2-3) scored on five of its six first-half possessions for a 35-16 halftime lead, as Groff made three of his four field goals in the first half.

The Warriors struck first on a 46-yard touchdown pass from Soltes to redshirt freshman wide receiver Jon Schnaars, the first of his career, on its opening drive before Kutztown responded with a long kick return by Shahaid Smith and a 38-yard pass from Morton to Zack Snyder to make it 7-7 on the first of three TD runs by Wortham.

Kutztown got a stop but fumbled away the ensuing punt at its 10-yard line, and ESU managed a 20-yard field goal by Groff after getting a goal line stop as the Warriors went ahead 10-7 with 6:01 left in the first quarter.

Kutztown took the lead for good with an eight-play, 71-yard drive capped by a four-yard run by Smith and extended it with a seven-play, 80-yard drive and a seven-yard TD pass from Morton, the two-time PSAC East Offensive Player of the Year, to Josh Mastromatto early in the second quarter.

ESU cut the deficit to 21-13 on a 28-yard field goal by Groff, but continued to answer touchdowns with field goals. Morton ran for a 16-yard TD, Groff hit a 32-yard field goal with 1:01 left in the half and Morton drove Kutztown 75 yards in four plays in 40 seconds, completing the half with a 29-yard TD pass to Smith for its 35-16 halftime lead.

ESU's second-half scoring came on Groff's 46-yard field goal and two fourth-quarter TD passes from Soltes to Reed, covering 10 and 11 yards, respectively.

Redshirt junior wide receiver Robert Bleiler had a career-high eight catches for 75 yards, Schnaars had three catches for a career-high 90 yards and redshirt senior Jordan Hallman had four catches for 67 yards to join Reed as Soltes' top targets. His 28 completions went to nine different receivers.

Soltes, who threw for a career-high 366 yards in the Warriors' 35-28 upset of West Chester in their last home game on October 6, accounted for 91 percent (396 of 437) of ESU's total offense. The 396 yards are third-most by a freshman in school history, trailing games by Jimmy Terwilliger against Bloomsburg (501) and Mansfield (421) in 2003. Soltes had 373 yards total offense in the win over West Chester.

Kutztown had three 100-yard receivers, becoming the first ESU opponent to put three players over 100 yards in program history. Colby Tuell had nine catches for 103 yards and a TD, Brett Fox had seven for 118 and Zack Snyder had seven for 109. Morton's 490 yards broke the Kutztown record (479) he set last week in a 73-35 loss to Shippensburg and are the second-most by an ESU opponent, trailing Shippensburg's Zach Zulli (496) in a 63-21 win over ESU on September 15.

The two teams combined for 1,036 yards of total offense (599 by Kutztown, 437 by ESU) after going for 1,221 (621 Kutztown, 600 ESU) in Kutztown's 49-32 win last season.

The Warriors are on the road for their final three games, at LIU Post next Saturday, Millersville on November 3 and Mercyhurst on November 10.