Duquesne 56, La Salle 35

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Team Stat Comparison
1st Downs	17	27
Total Yards	419	492
Passing	204	321
Rushing	215	171
Penalties	5-31	5-50
3rd Down Conversions	6-11	6-16
4th Down Conversions	0-1	3-4
Turnovers	3	4
Possession	24:30	35:30

Individual Leaders

Duquesne Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Loebig 13/27 204 3 2	La Salle Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Abrams 24/36 289 4 2 Jump 2/2 32 1 0
Duquesne Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Jacobs 15 157 3 63 McCullough 16 65 1 14 Loebig 1 -7 0 -7	La Salle Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Abrams 27 91 0 18 Brumfield 5 24 0 9 Triboletti 12 23 0 11
Duquesne Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Warfield 7 97 2 32 Hocker 4 89 1 47 Spriggs 2 18 0 14	La Salle Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Russo 7 65 1 28 Triboletti 5 79 2 39 Zabel 5 75 1 31 Vaccaro 3 33 1 17

Scoring Summary
FIRST QUARTER				DUQ	LAS
	TD	11:16	MICHEL WARFIELD 6 YD PASS FROM NIEL LOEBIG (JOHN HARRIS KICK) Drive info: 8 plays, 63 yards.	7	0
	TD	3:20	KEN TRIBOLETTI 13 YD PASS FROM VERNARD ABRAMS (MISSED KICK) Drive info: 6 plays, 58 yards.	7	6
	TD	2:16	GREG VACCARO 9 YD PASS FROM VERNARD ABRAMS (JOSH BRUMFIELD 2PT RUSH) Drive info: 2 plays, 22 yards.	7	14
	TD	0:02	MICHEL WARFIELD 6 YD PASS FROM NIEL LOEBIG (JOHN HARRIS KICK) Drive info: 5 plays, 53 yards.	14	14
SECOND QUARTER				DUQ	LAS
	TD	12:56	LOU RUSSO 28 YD PASS FROM MICHAEL JUMP (GREG DEMPSEY KICK) Drive info: 8 plays, 61 yards.	14	21
	TD	8:11	KEN TRIBOLETTI 39 YD PASS FROM VERNARD ABRAMS (GREG DEMPSEY KICK) Drive info: 8 plays, 87 yards.	14	28
	TD	1:20	JAMES JACOBS 2 YD RUN (JOHN HARRIS KICK) Drive info: 5 plays, 61 yards.	21	28
THIRD QUARTER				DUQ	LAS
	TD	12:09	JAMES JACOBS 63 YD RUN (JOHN HARRIS KICK) Drive info: 2 plays, 63 yards.	28	28
	TD	10:54	MICHAEL FORD 70 YD INTERCEPTION RETURN (JOHN HARRIS KICK)	35	28
	TD	4:28	BRUCE HOCKER 15 YD PASS FROM NIEL LOEBIG (JOHN HARRIS KICK) Drive info: 1 plays, 15 yards.	42	28
FOURTH QUARTER				DUQ	LAS
	TD	14:49	JOHN ZABEL 11 YD PASS FROM VERNARD ABRAMS (GREG DEMPSEY KICK) Drive info: 10 plays, 65 yards.	42	35
	TD	9:32	JAMES JACOBS 5 YD RUN (JOHN HARRIS KICK) Drive info: 6 plays, 31 yards.	49	35
	TD	6:18	JEREMY MCCULLOUGH 3 YD RUN (JOHN HARRIS KICK) Drive info: 6 plays, 76 yards.	56	35

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- James Jacobs ran for three touchdowns and Niel Loebig passed for four scores to lead Duquesne to a 56-35 win over La Salle on Saturday.

Jacobs rushed for 157 yards on just 15 carries and Loebig completed 13 of 27 passes for 204 yards as Duquesne (6-2, 4-0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) outscored La Salle 42-7 after spotting the Explorers a 28-14 lead with 8:11 to go in the second quarter.

Vernard Abrams threw for 289 yards and four touchdowns of his own and also led La Salle (3-7, 1-3) with 91 yards on the ground. Abrams even saw time at safety in what was his final collegiate start.

The Dukes, who had already clinched their sixth straight MAAC title, found themselves down early after Abrams threw a pair of touchdown passes to Ken Triboletti and one to Greg Vaccaro. But Jacobs capped a five-play, 61-yard drive with a 2-yard touchdown run with 1:20 to go in the first half that pulled Duquesne to 28-21 at the break.

The Dukes tied the game with a 63-yard run by Jacobs at the start of the second half. La Salle mounted a drive in response, but Michael Ford picked off a pass by Abrams and raced 70 yards for the go-ahead touchdown. Later in the quarter, Ford forced a fumble that set up Loebig's fourth touchdown pass, a 15-yarder that gave the Dukes 42-28 lead going into the fourth quarter.

Abrams threw a touchdown pass to John Zabel at the start of the fourth quarter, but Jacobs' final touchdown run and a 3-yard run by Jeremy McCullough capped the scoring.

La Salle's Michael Jump tossed a 28-yard touchdown to Lou Russo in the second quarter. The two teams combined for more than 900 yards of total offense.