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EAST STROUDSBURG - James Wah, Jr. ran for 205 yards and Terry Williams added 111 yards rushing, leading Kutztown to a 31-16 win at East Stroudsburg University in PSAC East football on Saturday at Eiler-Martin Stadium.
 
ESU (6-2, 5-2) saw a five-game winning streak come to an end - its longest since the first five games of the 2008 season - as Kutztown ran for 318 yards and added 236 yards through the air.
 
Redshirt junior quarterback Matt Soltes, third in Division II in passing (358.9 ypg) and total offense (402.0 ypg) entering the week, was 20-for-31 for 266 yards and a touchdown before leaving due to injury in the third quarter.
 
Kutztown led 10-9 at halftime after scoreless first quarter, but outscored the Warriors 21-7 in the second half to improve to 4-4 (4-3 PSAC) after losses to PSAC East co-leaders West Chester and Bloomsburg the last two weeks.
 
Kellen Williams (three catches, 107 yards, two TD) took a pass from Chad Barton (12-for-19, 236 yards, two TD) for a 74-yard touchdown on the second play of the third quarter to give the Golden Bears a 17-9 lead.
 
The Warriors moved inside the Kutztown 10-yard line on their ensuing possession, but Soltes was sacked, fumbled and was injured on a second-and-eight from the Kutztown nine-yard line with just under 10 minutes left in the third quarter.

Kutztown went 81 yards in nine plays, capped by a one-yard TD run by Wah, to extend the lead to 24-9 with 5:32 remaining in the third quarter.
 
ESU had an opportunity to get it back to a one-score game early in the fourth quarter after an interception by sophomore free safety Dean Vitale put the Warriors inside the Kutztown 30-yard line, but a fumbled shotgun snap knocked ESU out of scoring territory.
 
Kutztown went ahead 31-9 with an 88-yard, six-minute 40-second scoring drive with Barton hitting Williams for a 14-yard TD.
 
Junior wide receiver Joe Welk returned the ensuing kickoff for a 93-yard TD to close the scoring with 5:35 remaining.

In the first half, Alec Rosenfeld gave KU a 3-0 lead with a 28-yard field goal early in the second quarter.
 
ESU took a 6-3 lead on a six-yard TD pass from Soltes to redshirt junior wide receiver Jon Schnaars with 9:55 left in the second quarter.

Kutztown responded on a 42-yard TD run by Wah with 1:24 left in the half, but Soltes drove the Warriors inside the KU 10-yard line before freshman kicker Matt Smith made a 22-yard field goal to cut the deficit to 10-9 with 10 seconds left in the period.
 
Soltes threw his 30th TD pass of the season and went over 3,000 yards total offense for the third straight season. Soltes had 3,158 yards as a freshman in 2012; 3,716 yards in 2013 and has 3,054 yards (2,778 passing, 278 rushing) through eight games in 2014.
 
Schnaars had eight catches for 79 yards and a TD and senior wide receiver Dusty Reed had five catches for 77 yards in his first action since a 48-21 win over Lock Haven on September 27. Reed ranks fifth at ESU with 163 career receptions and moved into sixth with 2,498 receiving yards.
 
Welk's kick return TD was ESU's second since 2002.
 
Freshman safety Marc Gaudet had 10 tackles (3.0 TFL) and redshirt junior outside linebacker Kaje Cowans had 10 tackles and a sack for the Warriors.
 
Vitale's interception was his second of the season and seventh of his career. Junior cornerback Teron Dobbs had three pass breakups, all in the first half, and leads the PSAC with five interceptions this season.


GAME NOTES
* ESU head coach Denny Douds coached his 426th career game, 9th in NCAA football history, breaking a tie with Bear Bryant (425). Douds has 250 career wins, 20th in NCAA football history.

* Soltes went over the 3,000-yard mark for total offense (3,054) for the 3rd straight year. He is one of 4 QB's in PSAC history with 3+ seasons of 3,000+ total yards:
- Jimmy Terwilliger, ESU (2003-06)
- Zach Zulli, Shippensburg (2011-13)
- Trevor Harris, Edinboro (2007-09)

* Soltes has 9,928 career yards total offense in 29 games (26 starts).
* He moved into 7th in PSAC history in career total offense.
* He moved into 15th in PSAC history in career passing yards (8,644).
* He moved into 10th in PSAC history in career passing TD (85).
* His total offense (9,928) and passing (8,644) are both 2nd-most through a junior year in PSAC history:

Career Total Offense, PSAC, through Junior Year
12,594 - Jimmy Terwilliger, ESU (2003-05)
9,928 - Matt Soltes, ESU (2012-14)

Career Passing, PSAC, through Junior Year
11,384 - Jimmy Terwilliger, ESU (2003-05)
8,644 - Matt Soltes, ESU (2012-14)

Career Passing TD, PSAC, through Junior Year
113 - Jimmy Terwilliger, ESU (2003-05)
88 - Zach Zulli, Shippensburg (2010-12)
85 - Matt Soltes, ESU (2012-14)
85 - Kevin Morton, Kutztown (2012-14)

* Sr. WR Dusty Reed (5 catches, 77 yards) saw his first game action since Sept. 27 vs. Lock Haven.
* Reed ranks 5th at ESU in career receptions (163), 6th in career yards (2,498) and 5th in career TD (24) by an ESU receiver.
* Reed is 6th at ESU in career all-purpose yards (3,566) and 9th in career yards from scrimmage (2,659).

* R-Jr. WR Jon Schnaars (8 catches, 79 yards, TD) had 8 catches for the 2nd straight game.
* Schnaars ranks 18th at ESU in career receptions (115) and t-7th in career TD catches (20). He has 1,638 career receiving yards.
* Schnaars leads ESU with 48 catches, 608 yards and 11 TD (t-8th in school history).

* R-So. TB Robert Healy had a school-record streak of 12 consecutive games with 100+ yards from scrimmage ended on Saturday.
* Healy has gained 100+ yards from scrimmage in 16 of his 19 career games.
* He is the only player in NCAA football with 500+ yards rushing (628) and receiving (521) this season.
* He has 1,149 yards from scrimmage this year and had 1,333 (ESU record for a back) as a freshman in 2013 (PSAC East Freshman of the Year).
* He is already ranked 14th at ESU in career yards from scrimmage (2,482) through 19 games.
* He has 1,757 career rushing yards, and is 22 yards from entering ESU's career top 10.

* ESU has had 14 players make their first career starts in 2014 after R-So. LB Eric Pabst and R-So. OL William Birosik III started against Kutztown.
* ESU has had 5 players miss starts due to injury this season.

* ESU's negative-45 rushing yards were its fewest in 426 games under head coach Denny Douds.

* Douds faced Kutztown's Jim Clements for the first time.
* Douds has faced 106 different head coaches in his career at ESU and is 70-36 against first-time foes.
* Clements was the 2nd coach Douds has faced for the first time this season. ESU posted a 49-21 win over Cheyney (Anthony Johnson) on Oct. 11.
* The Warriors will face Gannon (Brad Rzyczycki) on Nov. 15 unless either team is in the State Game.