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Related: Game story from Morning Call (Tom Housenick)BLOOMSBURG - East Stroudsburg University held No. 6-ranked Bloomsburg to 360 yards and five yards per play, but the Huskies prevailed for a 34-13 win to remain undefeated (9-0, 8-0) in PSAC football on Saturday at Redman Stadium.
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Bloomsburg secured the PSAC East's berth in the State Game on November 15 with the victory and will play at the PSAC West champion.
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Redshirt sophomore quarterback
Bruce Campbell made his first career start for ESU (6-3, 5-3), replacing redshirt junior
Matt Soltes, who was injured in last week's 31-16 loss to Kutztown. Soltes entered the week ranked third in Division II in total offense (381.8 yards per game), fourth in passing (347.3 ypg) and sixth in pass efficiency (165.5) and led the PSAC in all three categories.
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Campbell was 12-for-25 for 109 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. He threw a 12-yard TD pass to redshirt junior wide receiver
Jon Schnaars with 6:46 left in the fourth quarter to bring the Warriors within 27-13.
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Bloomsburg put the game away with a scoring drive and a three-yard TD pass from Tim Kelly to Aaron Allison.
Campbell was the 32nd Warrior to start at quarterback under ESU head coach
Denny Douds, who coached his 427th career game in 41 seasons.
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Bloomsburg led 14-0 after the first quarter on a pair of TD runs by Eddie Mateo (21 carries, 76 yards), but ESU pulled within 14-7 when redshirt senior cornerback
Konrad Mims recovered a Kelly lateral and returned it for a 76-yard touchdown to make it 14-7 with 14:11 left in the second quarter.
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Mateo extended Bloomsburg's lead to 21-7 at halftime with an 11-yard TD run in the final minute of the second quarter. Braden Drexler made two field goals (41 and 37 yards) for the Huskies in the second half.
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Redshirt sophomore tailback
Robert Healy had 44 yards rushing, 27 yards receiving and 14 yards passing for ESU, which gained 140 yards on 49 plays. The Warriors had 123 yards passing and 17 yards rushing, including 40 yards lost on sacks.
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Schnaars caught his 12th touchdown of the season and had two catches for 28 yards, giving him 50 catches (636 yards) on the year. Healy had four catches for 27 yards, redshirt senior tight end
Steven Jones had three catches for 25 yards and senior wide receiver
Dusty Reed had two catches for 25 yards.
Healy moved into ninth at ESU in career rushing yards (1,801), coming in his 20th career game. He was the only player in NCAA football with 500 yards both rushing and receiving entering Saturday.
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Redshirt senior defensive lineman
Bryan Thomson had 13 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, a forced fumble and 2.0 sacks to lead the ESU defense.
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Senior linebacker
Cody Simcox and sophomore free safety
Dean Vitale both had 10 tackles. Redshirt senior safety
Anthony Singlar had five tackles and is tied for 10th in school history with 278 tackles in his career.
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Kelly was 13-for-29 for 146 yards and a touchdown and ran for 66 yards for the Huskies.
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Dai'Shon Munger had 15 carries for 60 yards and Bloomsburg gained 214 yards rushing on 52 carries. Bloomsburg's Tomas Cabrera and Justin Shirk both had interceptions.
ESU hosts West Chester (8-1, 7-1) in its final home game of the season next Saturday (Nov. 8) at Eiler-Martin Stadium. The Golden Rams, who fell 41-10 at Bloomsburg last weekend for their only loss of the season, are the defending NCAA DII Super Region One champions. They are coming off a 58-0 win over Cheyney on Saturday.
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