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EAST STROUDSBURG - East Stroudsburg University redshirt sophomore quarterback Matt Soltes and Bloomsburg senior tailback Franklyn Quiteh traded touchdowns for most of the afternoon, but the No. 6-ranked Huskies had the last two scores to outlast ESU, 52-38, in PSAC East football on Saturday afternoon at Eiler-Martin Stadium.

Soltes was 32-for-48 for 476 yards and five touchdowns, and added 66 rushing yards for 542 yards of total offense, while Quiteh set a Bloomsburg single-game record with 304 yards and four touchdowns on 28 carries.

Soltes became the 4th QB in PSAC history with at least two career games of 500 yards of total offense, joining ESU's Damian Poalucci (4) and Jimmy Terwilliger (2), and Shippensburg's Zach Zulli (2). Soltes had a PSAC record 666 yards last year at LIU Post.

They led their respective offenses which combined for 1,247 total yards, fourth-most in ESU history. Bloomsburg gained 627 yards on 62 plays, while the Warriors had 620 yards on 73 plays. It also marks the fourth time that both ESU and its opponent have gained 600 yards in a game.

Bloomsburg (7-0, 4-0) remains undefeated with its eighth straight win to even the all-time series at 38-38-2. ESU (4-3, 1-3) was coming off a 34-20 loss at No. 17-ranked West Chester and faced top 20 teams in consecutive weeks for the first time since the AFCA poll was introduced in 2000.

The Warriors trailed 14-0 early in the second quarter and battled back for most of the afternoon, catching the Huskies at 21-21 with 27 seconds left in the first half on Soltes' third TD pass, a two-yard shot to R-Sr. WR Robert Bleiler.

Bloomsburg led 24-21 at the half, however, as the Huskies covered 60 yards in three plays and Danny Fisher made a 34-yard field goal at the buzzer.

The Huskies' lead stayed between three and 10 points for the next 20 minutes, until a 31-yard field goal by senior kicker Taylor Groff, a defensive stop and a one-handed, 28-yard touchdown catch by R-So. WR Jon Schnaars tied the game at 38-38 with 9:58 remaining.

Bloomsburg responded with a seven play, 75-yard drive - the key play a 32-yard pass from Tim Kelly to tight end Aaron Allison on third-and-21 from the ESU 49 - and Quiteh scored from 17 yards on the next play to make it 45-38 in favor of the Huskies with 6:23 to play.

ESU drove into Bloomsburg territory on a 24-yard run by Soltes, but his third-and-long pass was intercepted by JP Patrick at the 30. Quiteh broke a 29-yard run on third-and-three to keep Bloomsburg's drive alive, then had a 32-yard run to the one before Kelly plunged in for his second rushing TD and a 52-38 lead with 1:40 left.

Soltes - who left last week's game at West Chester game early in the second quarter - had two 100-yard receivers in Bleiler (8-130, 2 TD), who had his fourth 100-yard game in five weeks, and So. WR Gerard Wendowski (7-111, both career-highs). Schnaars had five catches for 60 yards and two TD, and R-Jr. WR Steven Jones had five catches for 82 yards and a TD.

The Warriors gained 144 rushing yards led by Soltes (12 carries, 66 yards) and R-Fr. TB Robert Healy (12-73), who moved into second on ESU's freshman rushing list with 670 yards this fall.

Bloomsburg, fifth in Division II in rushing with 341.2 yards per game, ran for 389 yards on 39 carries and Quiteh broke BU's school record of 300 yards set by Jerry Marks in 1991. Dai'Shon Munger had eight carries for 48 yards, and Kelly ran three times for 37 yards and two TD, including a 41-yard score.

Kelly was 17-for-22 passing for 238 yards and a 17-yard touchdown to Glenn Hutton, Jr., who had eight catches for 113 yards.

Soltes' 542 total yards and 476 passing yards are both the second-most in his career. His total offense is tied for 6th in school history and his passing yards rank 9th. He set a PSAC record 666 total yards, including 535 passing yards, in a 45-37 win at LIU Post last fall.

ESU put together two drives into Bloomsburg territory to open the game but had a missed field goal and a punt, before Quiteh broke a 46-yard run for the first of his four TD's with 4:38 left in the first quarter.

Kelly's 17-yard TD pass to Hutton, Jr. made it 14-0 with 12:00 left in the second quarter before the Warriors got on the board with three scores in the next 10 minutes.

Soltes hit Jones for a 35-yard TD, his seventh of the season and the 15th of his career for the junior tight end, to cap a three-play, 78-yard drive that took just 1:19.

Bloom pushed its lead to 21-7 as Kelly kept on a third-and-two and scampered 41 yards for the score with 8:47 left in the first half.

The Warriors answered right back as Soltes took ESU 93 yards in five plays and his Schnaars for an 18-yard TD. After an interception by Fr. FS Dean Vitale, his fourth of the season, on a pass by wide receiver Tony Peregrin, Soltes drove the offense the ensuing 65 yards in 11 plays.

His two-yard TD pass to Bleiler tied it at 21-21, before Quiteh broke a 20-yard run and Kelly hit Hutton, Jr. for gains of 13 and 27 yards to set up Fisher's go-ahead 34-yard field goal at the end of the half.

Bloomsburg received the second-half kickoff and drove 53 yards on eight plays to take a 31-21 lead, with Quiteh taking a screen pass for 14 yards to the two and scoring his second rushing TD of the game to cap the drive.

ESU once again struck quickly, going 65 yards on four plays after Braden Drexler's kickoff went out of bounds. A pass interference call put the ball on the 44, and Soltes hooked up with Bleiler down the middle on the next play to bring the Warriors within 31-28.

Quiteh ripped off a 51-yard run to stretch the lead back to 10 points (38-28) with 7:12 left, and the Huskies got a defensive stop. ESU forced a punt to get the ball right back, but Soltes was intercepted by DJ Robinson on the next snap - his first in 211 passes since the first quarter of the season opener vs. AIC, a streak which is believed to be a PSAC record.

The Warriors regained possession just two plays later, setting up an eventful fourth quarter. Vitale forced a fumble by Munger which was recovered by Jr. LB Cody Simcox at the Bloomsburg 39, and Groff's 31-yard field goal with 13:05 left in regulation made it 38-31.

Another ESU defensive stop gave the Warriors the ball at their own 25, and Soltes tied it five plays later. He hit Healy for 17 yards, Bleiler for 13, Wendowski for 17 and Schnaars for 28 yards and a spectacular one-handed touchdown catch to knot the score at 38-38 with 9:58 left.

Those would be ESU's last points, and Bloomsburg went 75 yards on seven plays for their go-ahead score, then got a second interception before closing it out.

ESU will look for its fifth win of the season next Saturday with a trip to Kutztown (1-6, 1-3). Kickoff is scheduled for 1:05 p.m.


GAME NOTES
* ESU's 2013 PSAC championship baseball team was recognized at halftime. The Warriors won their first PSAC championship since 1971 last May.
* Four honorees for ESU's "Bat Club" were also introduced in Joel Bennett, Jacob DeBoer, Jeremy Gigliotti and J.D. Stern.

* Soltes' 542 yards of total offense are t-6th in ESU history, and t-11th in PSAC history. ESU QB's have 10 of the 16 games of 500+ total yards in PSAC history.
* ESU's 10 games with 500+ total yards: (1) 666 - Soltes at LIU Post, 2012.  (2) 597 - Damian Poalucci at Mansfield, 1996.  (3) 552 - Jimmy Terwilliger at CW Post, 2005.  (4) 545 - Poalucci vs. Cheyney, 1996.  (5) 544 - Ray Wagner at Kutztown, 2011.  (t-6) 542 - Soltes vs. Bloomsburg, 2013.  (t-6) 542 - Poalucci at New Haven, 1996.  (t-8) 512 - Poalucci at Bloomsburg, 1996.  (t-8) 512 - James Franklin vs. SCSU, 1994.  (10) 501 - Terwilliger vs. Bloomsburg, 2003

* Soltes had his 3rd game with 400+ total yards of the season, the 5th of his career and the 34th in school history.
* He previously had 419 (387+32) at Cheyney on Sept. 28, and 481 (444+37) vs. Clarion on Oct. 5 before leaving last week's game at West Chester with 102 yards (90+12) early in the 2nd quarter.
* Soltes has 5 games with 400+ yards in 14 career starts. Poalucci had 7 in 30 starts, and Terwilliger had 11 in 48 starts.
* Soltes has 350+ yards in 9 of 14 starts, and 300+ in 10 starts.
* Last year, he led DII freshmen and ranked 12th in DII with 315.8 total yards per game, playing in all 10 games and making 7 starts. He averaged 402.7 ypg as a starter, which would have led DII.

* In his 14 career starts, Soltes has 5,213 yards of total offense for an average of 372.4 ypg.
* He is 296-for-482 for 4,396 yards, 41 TD and 12 Int., and has carried 153 times for 817 yards and 4 TD.

* In his career (17 games), Soltes has 5,552 yards of total offense, 7th in school history. Current Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin is 6th with 5,764 yards (1991-94).
* Soltes has 4,681 passing yards, 9th in school history. He is 6 yards behind Franklin, who threw for 4,687 yards.
* Soltes moved into 7th in career TD passes with 42, passing Andy Baranek (41, 1982-84). Bill Dukett is 6th with 45 (1967-69).
* Soltes ranks 3rd among ESU QB's with 871 career rushing yards. Franklin is 2nd with 1,077.
* Soltes has accounted for 46 total TD's in his career (42 passing, 4 rushing). That's tied with Franklin (36+10) for 8th in ESU history.

* Soltes ranks 2nd in the PSAC in total offense (342.0 ypg), 3rd in passing yards (294.1), 4th in pass efficiency (161.5) and leads PSAC QB's with 335 rushing yards.
* Soltes has thrown for 2,059 yards, with 21 TD and 3 Int., through 7 games.

* Soltes unofficially broke the PSAC record for consecutive passes without an interception with 211. He entered the game with 180 and threw 31 passes before being intercepted by DJ Robinson late in the 3rd quarter.
* Shippensburg's Zach Zulli, who was the 3rd PSAC player to win the Harlon Hill Award last year, had a stretch of 200 consecutive passes without an interception.
* Jimmy Terwilliger held ESU's previous record with 170 passes, spanning the 2005 and 2006 seasons.

* Healy moved into 2nd on ESU's freshman rushing list with 670 yards, passing Henry Mowery (624, 1961). He trails only Stewart Ford, who ran for 1,109 yards in 1997.
* Healy gained 73 yards on 12 carries, and also had 53 yards on 3 catches. He has 780 all-purpose yards this year (670 rushing, 110 receiving) for an average of 111.4 yards per game.
* He ranked 4th among DII freshmen in yards per game entering the week with 99.5.
* He ranks 5th in the PSAC with 95.7 ypg entering the Kutztown game.

* Bleiler had 100+ receiving yards for the 4th time in 5 games, and the 7th time in his career with 8 catches for 130 yards and 2 TD.
* In the last 5 games, he has 37 catches for 614 yrds and 7 TD - at Shippensburg (9-115, 2 TD), at Cheyney (7-154), vs. Clarion (8-130, 2 TD), at West Chester (5-85) and vs. Bloomsburg (8-130, 2 TD).
* Bleiler ranks 3rd in the PSAC in both receptions (6.6) and yards (104.1) per game. He has 46 catches for 729 yards and 8 TD this year.
* Bleiler moved into 8th at ESU in career receiving yards (2,144), passing Ed Kiser (2,109, 2008-10), Dusty Reed (2,093, 2010-present) and Sam Shuman (2,043, 2006-09). He is 2 yards behind Tim Bishop (2,146, 1982-85) for 7th.
* He moved into 12th at ESU in career receptions with 128. John Kotarsky is 11th with 129 (1998-01) and John Jeffries (2000-03) and Dennis McWhite (1992-95) are tied for 9th with 130.

* Wendowski had career-highs with his 7 catches for 111 yards, surpassing his previous bests of 4 catches for 77 yards at Cheyney.
* He is the 5th active ESU receiver with a 100-yard game, joining Bleiler (7), Schnaars (2), Jr. WR Ray Dominguez and R-Jr. TE Steven Jones.
* Schnaars had his first career 2 TD game, with 5 catches for 60 yards and TD's of 18 and 28 yards.
* Jones had his 7th TD of the season and the 15th of his career, extending his ESU career record for tight ends.
* Jones entered the week tied for 3rd among DII tight ends with 6 TD, and 5th in receiving yards (62.3 ypg). He had 5 catches for 82 yards.

* ESU (620) and Bloomsburg (627) combined for 1,247 total yards, 4th-most in school history.
* It's also the most total yards in an ESU-Bloomsburg game, breaking the previous mark by 3 yards. In 1996, they combined for 1,244 yards (ESU 636, Bloomsburg 608) in Bloomsburg's 58-42 win.
* The record for combined yards is 1,353 (ESU 712, SCSU 641) in a 55-33 win vs. Southern Connecticut State in the 1st round of the 2005 NCAA Playoffs.
* 2nd is last year's 45-37 win at LIU Post (1,326 - ESU PSAC record 828, LIU Post 498) in which Soltes set a PSAC record, NCAA all-division freshman record and ranks 2nd in DII history with 666 total yards (535 passing, 131 rushing).
* 3rd is a 59-56 loss at New Haven in the 1996 season opener (1,286 - ESU 736, New Haven 550).

* ESU head coach Denny Douds, in his 40th season, remains one win from tying Mel Tjeerdsma (NW Missouri State) for 3rd on the all-time DII wins list. Douds is 241-170-3 in 414 games - the most in DII history, 2nd-most among active coaches and 12th in college football history.
* Douds faced Bloomsburg interim head coach Paul Darrah for the first time. Darrah is the 102nd different coach to face Douds during his career. He faced previous Bloomsburg head coach Danny Hale 26 times, between his career at BU and West Chester.
* Douds is 67-35 against first-time foes. He will also see a new head coach in 2 of the next 3 weeks. This coming week, he faces Kutztown's Drew Folmar (former QB at Millersville), and on Nov. 9 he faces Millersville's Greg Breitbach. He faced his 101st opponent, Seton Hill's Isaac Collins, in a 70-7 road win on Sept. 14.

* Bloomsburg Sr. TB Franklyn Quiteh, 3rd in the Harlon Hill voting last year, holds the PSAC career rushing record with 6,734 yards. The DII record of 7,962 was set by Danny Woodhead of Chadron State (2004-07).
* Quiteh's 304 yards are the most-ever against ESU, and Bloomsburg's 389 yards rank 6th. Quiteh also had games of 282 vs. ESU in 2012, and 246 as a freshman in 2010. The previous mark of 286 was set by Chris Morgan (IUP) in 2006.