Box Score
KINGS POINT, NY -- Junior fullback
Kyle Holmes rushed for a career best 114 yards and
Chris Coney joined the 1,000 yard single season club while rushing for two scores as Union won at Merchant Marine, 37-6 Saturday at Captain James Harvey Tomb Field.
Zach Epley booted a season best three field goals for Union.
The Dutchmen improved to 7-2 overall and 6-0 in the Liberty League. Susquehanna is now 5-1 in the league after a 35-21 home win over WPI Saturday. Next Saturday, Susquehanna plays at Union at 12 p.m. with the winner taking the Liberty League Championship and the automatic NCAA playoff bid.
Jared Gourrier had six catches for 87 yards and Coney rushed for 92 on the day with two touchdowns.
Coney now has 1,004 rushing yards this season for Union, as he became the seventh Dutchman in history to eclipse the 1,000 yard mark. Andrew Connolly finished the game with 119 yards and four interceptions. Eric Baxter led the defense for Union with seven tackles and one interception while # Steve Modliszewski# added six tackles. The Dutchman defense held the Mariners to just 137 total yards of offense and forced five turnovers.
Union held the Mariners to 137 yards in total offense.
Quarterback Derrick Ventre (7-15) was good for 35 yards while quarterback Carlton Hobkirk (4-8) threw for 31 yards. The Mariners finished with only 71 total rushing yards in which 25 came on one play. Andrew Price led the receiving core with two catches for 21 yards. Senior Calder Kaatz finished with a game high 17 tackles while juniors A.J. Hunt and Marcus Broeder each added 10 tackles. Hunt added two interceptions while Broeder added one. Jacob Fabricius recorded the Mariners fourth interception and also finished with seven tackles.
Union took an early lead in the first quarter when Coney rushed for a 13-yard touchdown with 9:14 remaining in the quarter. The score finished a nine play 60 yard drive by the Dutchmen. The Mariners would answer on their next possession as they took 11 plays to go 65 yards to set up a Grennen 23-yard field goal, 7-3.
With 13:23 to go in the second quarter Union put up there second points of the game. Epley knocked through a 27-yard field to go give the Dutchmen a 10-3. After a Mariner punt nine minutes later, Union would strike again. This time Epley would split the uprights with a 21-yard field, 13-3. As time was winding down in the second quarter, Broeder picked off pass by the Dutchmen quarterback and returned it 37 yards to the Union 33 with eight seconds left in the quarter. After Ventre hit Price with a 14 yard pass, the Mariners would send out the field goal unit with three seconds left. Grennen then connected on a 41-yard field goal attempt to make it a 13-6 game at the break.
The second half proved to be all Union as they outscored the Mariners 24-0. The Dutchmen made it a 20-6 game after Coney rushed for his second touchdown of the game with 13:21 left in the third quarter. Epley put the Dutchmen up 23-6 with his second 21-yard field goal of the game.
In the fourth quarter, Union would add two more touchdowns to put the game out of reach. Holmes found the endzone for the first time of the game with 9:14 to go to make it a 30-6 game. Four minutes later, Tim Mogan put the nail in the coffin with a 25-yard touchdown run as the Dutchmen went onto the 37-6 victory.
