SLIPPERY ROCK - Don King III threw for 527 yards and seven touchdowns, and Marcus Johnson had 10 catches for 237 yards and four scores, as Slippery Rock posted a 57-15 win over East Stroudsburg University in the 2016 season finale for both schools on Saturday afternoon at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium.

ESU (4-7) hung with the Rock for 30 minutes, leading 9-7 late in the second quarter and trailing 14-9 at halftime, before SRU (7-4) scored 30 points in an eight-minute span to start the third quarter.

Junior wide receiver Tim Wilson had a 70-yard TD catch from redshirt senior quarterback Bruce Campbell for the Warriors touchdown, and sophomore kicker Nicolas Ruiz made field goals of 38, 35 and 31 yards in the first half.

Redshirt junior quarterback Tim DiGiorgio started and was 9-for-19 for 87 yards in the first half. Campbell was 8-for-17 for 110 yards and the touchdown to Wilson.

Wilson had three catches for 79 yards, freshman Elijah Rehm had five catches for 46 yards and redshirt junior Tommy House had four catches for 38 yards.

Redshirt sophomore tailback Marquis Fells had 21 carries for 57 yards and two catches for nine yards with redshirt senior Robert Healy (ESU's all-time rushing leader) and sophomore James Bell out of the lineup due to injury.

King was 28-for-38 passing for Slippery Rock. Drew Scales had six catches for 87 yards and two TD and Taishan Tucker added four catches for 92 yards to supplement Johnson's 237 yards and four scores.

Freshman cornerback Jamal Cooley intercepted King to set up a go-ahead field goal by Ruiz late in the second quarter, before the Rock went 71 yards to take a 14-9 lead on a 13-yard pass from King to Johnson with 1:08 left until halftime.

King hit Johnson for a 51-yard TD to start the second half, followed by Campbell's 70-yard TD to Wilson, but SRU answered with two more TD passes from King to Johnson (25 and 70 yards), a safety and a 38-yard TD from King to Andrew Bridgeforth made it 44-15 at the 7:33 mark of the third quarter.

Slippery Rock finished its scoring in the fourth quarter with a five-yard TD pass from King to Scales to complete a 10 play, 99-yard drive and a 63-yard interception return for a TD by Anthony Zappone.

SRU had a 568-225 advantage in total offense, with both teams finishing with less than 50 yards rushing.  ESU ran for 28 yards on 30 carries, and the Rock had 41 yards on 36 carries.

Redshirt junior safety Maurice Jackson had 12 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, two sacks and a forced fumble and junior safety Chase May had 10 tackles to lead the ESU defense.

Redshirt sophomore linebacker Marquis Brownlee made eight tackles and redshirt junior linebacker Mike Wiand (2 TFL, sack) and junior linebacker Dakota Everett had seven stops each.

Zappone had 12 tackles, two TFL, a sack and the interception return for a touchdown to lead Slippery Rock. Joe Phillips had three of the Rock's six sacks.

ESU got off to a 4-2 start to the 2016 season on the strength of Healy, who ranked second in DII in yards from scrimmage (172.6 ypg) through the first nine weeks of the season prior to his injury on the final play of the first half vs. West Chester on October 29.

Healy set ESU's single-season rushing record (1,163 yards) with a three-yard carry on his only snap last week. He did not play at Slippery Rock and concluded his career with ESU records for rushing yards (3,993), yards from scrimmage and all-purpose yards (5,908) while compiling 32 rushing touchdowns and 44 total touchdowns, including 18 rushing TD (19 total TD) as a senior.

Wilson had 58 catches for 910 yards and eight TD in 10 games in his first action since the 2013 season, posting five 100-yard games including 13 catches for 146 yards and three TD last week vs. Lock Haven.

Campbell started the first seven games and was 99-for-190 for 1,511 yards, 12 touchdowns and eight interceptions in nine games overall.

DiGiorgio made the final four starts and was 104-for-186 for 1,226 yards, eight TD and five interceptions in seven games.

Wiand, a second-year starter after transferring from Penn State, finishes the year as ESU's top tackler with 82, including 7 for a loss, 2.5 sacks and two interceptions.

Redshirt freshman safety Justin Johnson had 76 tackles (5 TFL, 3 sacks) in 10 games, and senior free safety Jimmy Verzicco had 69 tackles and an interception in 11 games. Everett and Jackson made 58 tackles each.

Ruiz's 3-for-3 effort gives him a final line of 8-for-14 on field goals and 43-for-46 on extra points for 67 points.