ROCHESTER, NY – Senior quarterback Justin Redfern threw three touchdown passes in the last 7:37 as the University of Rochester rallied to defeat visiting Union College, 33-30 in a Division III football game at Edwin Fauver Stadium.

Redfern connected on a four-yarder and an 18-yarder to Farid Adenuga to bring Rochester within 30-27, with 2:19 to play. He threw a 50-yard TD pass to Kyle Allegrini right after the Yellowjackets recovered the ensuing kickoff when it bounced off a Union player. That put Rochester up, 33-30.
 
Union quarterback Dante Cioffi completed five of 11 passes and moved the Dutchmen from their own 38 to the Rochester 20 with 50 seconds to play. David Pope's potential game-tying 37-yard field goal attempt was blocked by Rochester's Isaiah Smith on fourth down. The Yellowjackets took over at their own 20 and Redfern knelt twice with the snap.
 
Rochester improved to 5-2 overall, 3-2 in the Liberty League. The win clinched a third consecutive winning season for Rochester which has two games left. Union is 0-7 overall, 0-4 in the Liberty League.

For Union, Cioffi completed 28 of 53 passes for 325 yards, four touchdowns, and one interception. It was his second four TD game of the season, third of four or more in a game in his career, and the second 300 yard passing game of his career. Kyle Reynolds had 11 catches for 161 yards and three TDs, his seventh career 100 yard game. A.J. Baker had eight receptions for 86 yards and one score. The Dutchmen passed for 325 and rushed for 147, 103 of it by Jermain Carn on 17 carries. It was his first career 100 yard game and a career high for Carn.
 
Redfern completed 21 of 35 passes for 384 yards and four touchdowns. He was not intercepted or sacked. The four TD passes tie a single-game school record held by seven other players. Adenuga caught eight passes for 182 yards and three TDs. He had a 67-yard catch-and-run TD reception from Redfern late in the first half that pulled Rochester within 13-10.
 
Rochester totaled 502 yards in offense – 403 in the air, 99 on the ground. Shane Saucier rushed for 42 yards on 11 carries and Redfern gained 41 on five tries.
 
Between the teams, there were 90 passing attempts (54 by Union, 36 by Rochester), 50 completions, and 974 yards in total offense (502 for Rochester, 472 for Union).
 
Reynolds caught two TD passes in the first half – 26 yards from Cioffi late in the first quarter, five yards from Cioffi with 14 seconds left in the second period – and Baker had one – a six yarder from Cioffi early in the second.
 
Union took an early 13-3 lead on the first Reynolds TD catch plus the Baker scoring play. Rochester's offense was a 27-yard field goal by Andrew Haber. Redfern found Adeunga slanting over the middle and he broke two tackles enroute to a 67-yard TD play with 3:36 left. Haber's PAT cut the Union lead to 13-10. Cioffi promptly led Union on a 14-play, 68-yard march to build the lead back to 20-10 14 seconds before halftime. Rochester hurt itself with a roughing-the-passer penalty on 2nd-and-10 with the ball on the UR 20. Cioffi threw two incompletions but on third down, an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty put the ball on the UR five. Three plays later, Cioffi hit Reynolds slanting over the middle for the TD.
 
Pope kicked a 25-yard field goal to push Union's lead to 23-10 with 6:36 left in the third. Rochester matched it on a 35-yarder by Haber with 3:53 left.
 
Cioffi ate up clock and yardage with a 15-play, 65-yard drive that took 8:31. He threw an 18-yard TD pass to Reynolds with 10:28 left in the game. That gave the Dutchmen a 30-13 advantage.
 
Redfern went to a hurry-up offense. He drove Rochester 79 yards in 10 plays, helping his own cause with a 13-yard sprint up the middle to put the ball on the UC26. On the next play, he found Derek Wager for 15 yards and a roughing-the-passing penalty against Union put the ball on the five.  On 3rd-and-goal from the four, he threw to Adenuga in the left side of the end zone. Haber's kick pulled Rochester within 30-20 with7:37 left.
 
Rochester made the first of two big defensive plays on the next Union possession. Carn sped 52 yards through the middle to put the ball on the Rochester 11. Two rushes moved the ball to the seven. After a timeout, Cioffi's pass on third down for Reynolds in the right corner of the end zone was intercepted by Borgolini.
 
The Yellowjackets took over at their own 20 with 3:47 to play, down by 10. Redfern rushed for 25 yards, then after a false start penalty, hit Wager for 35 yards. Nick Perpignan rushed for 12 yards. Another false start followed. On 1st-and-15 from the UC 18, he lofted the ball to Adenuga in the left corner of the end zone. That TD and Haber's PAT brought Rochester within 30-27 with 2:19 left.
 
With Union expecting an onside kick attempt, Pasternak chipped it over the first two lines of returners. The ball struck Ricco Pierre in the chest and Cappotelli recovered for Rochester at the UC 35 in the mad-scramble. A penalty pushed the ball back to midfield. On first down Redfern threw deep for Allegrini down the right side. He caught the ball over his shoulder, escaped one defender and ran into the end zone. Haber's PAT failed with 2:05 left in the game.
 
Cioffi helped the final drive by throwing a 21-yard pass to Baker on 4th-and-15 at the UC 47. That put the ball on Rochester's 32. He nibbled, hitting Baker for seven yards and Packy Brown for five to reach the Rochester 20. Three straight imcompletions – one a breakup by Colin Woods, another by Ugwu Okeke Ewo – left the Dutchmen facing 4th-and-10 at the UR 20. On the field goal attempt. Smith broke through and blocked it. The Yellowjackets recovered the blocked kick and were able to run out the clock.

Union returns home Saturday, October 31 to host Hobart College at 12 p.m.