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EAST STROUDSBURG - East Stroudsburg University football head coach Denny Douds announced that he is stepping aside as head coach, addressing his team on the field as Saturday's 2018 home finale, a 48-35 setback to Ohio Dominican, concluded at Eiler-Martin Stadium.

ESU associate head coach Jimmy Terwilliger, who was named to that position last February, will be ESU's interim head coach effective immediately for the final two games of the 2018 season - next Saturday at Shippensburg, and November 10 at Clarion.

Coach Douds will be changing roles in the Warriors athletic department, taking on increased fundraising responsibilities. He will remain as assistant professor of Sport Management, and was the only current coach in Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education to hold a faculty rank.

Douds was the NCAA active leader in career wins (264) and games coached (471). He set the PSAC record for wins in 2008. He ranks 16th all-time in NCAA all-division history in career wins, and seventh in games coached. He was in his 45th season as head coach at ESU, and 53rd with the Warriors overall.

His 45 seasons as head coach rank tied for seventh in NCAA history. He ranks fifth in years coached at one school, and fourth among head coaches who spent their entire tenure at one institution.

Redshirt freshman quarterback Jake Cirillo was 34-for-59 for 418 yards and three touchdowns passing for ESU (1-8), which trailed 31-0 late in the third quarter before the Warriors scored five TD in the final 18 minutes.

Redshirt sophomore TB Devante Robinson had 13 carries for 133 yards, including a 50-yard touchdown, and four catches for 43 yards. Senior WR Jylil Reeder, 4th in the PSAC with 86.8 receiving ypg, had nine catches for 123 yards, and redshirt freshman TB Gunner Anglovich had six catches for 71 yards and a TD, along with a touchdown run.

Redshirt freshman Evan Ernst was 27-for-38 for 282 yards and two touchdowns, and EJ Colson had 14 carries for 98 yards and three TD along with a TD catch for Ohio Dominican (7-2). David Turner had 11 catches for 119 yards.

Cirillo threw a 19-yard TD pass to redshirt freshman WR Clifford Brinkley to get ESU on the board with 2:33 left in the third quarter, cutting the deficit to 31-7.

Robinson had a 50-yard TD run with 9:47 remaining, but Ernst finished a short drive with a 12-yard TD to Colson for a 41-14 score with 7:05 left.

After Anglovich scored on a six-yard run following a five-play, 77-yard drive – including a 53-yard pass from Cirillo to Reeder – ESU recovered the onside kick and Cirillo hit Anglovich for an 18-yard TD to get the Warriors within 41-28 with 2:53 remaining.

Colson scored on a 47-yard run just 15 seconds later.

Cirillo threw a 14-yard TD to senior WR Hassan Evans to make it 48-35 with 1:54 left. ESU recovered an onside kick and also got the ball back after an Ohio Dominican punt, but the Panther defense held.

Anglovich (2), Brinkley and Evans all scored their first career TD's for ESU.

The Warriors recognized 14 seniors prior to the game, including left tackle Michael Fleming, a three-time All-PSAC East selection who made his 37th career start, and tailback Jaymar Anderson, 14th in DII in rushing (116.7 ypg), who missed the game due to injury.

The Warriors honored the life of Bill Bergen '80 prior to the coin toss. Bergen, a Hall of Fame defensive end at ESU and member of teams that won three PSAC titles (1975, 1976, 1978) and had a 35-3-1 record, passed away suddenly last Sunday. The 1978 team led DII in total defense and rushing defense in Douds' fifth season as head coach.

Douds' career included nine PSAC championships, including outright state titles in 1975, 1978 and 1982, and PSAC East titles in 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1991, 2002 and 2003.

He led ESU to four NCAA Division II postseason appearances (1991, 2004, 2005, 2009).

The 2005 team - quarterbacked by Terwilliger, who set 18 DII records and was the Harlon Hill Award recipient as DII's top player as a junior - won the Northeast Region title and advanced to the national semifinals.