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43
Geneva GEN 2-4 , 2-3
50
Winner Wash. & Jeff. WJC 7-0 , 6-0
Geneva GEN
2-4 , 2-3
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Final
50
Wash. & Jeff. WJC
7-0 , 6-0
Winner
Score By Quarters
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
GEN Geneva 7 21 0 15 43
WJC Wash. & Jeff. 13 13 10 14 50

Game Recap: Football |

No. 8 W&J provides plenty of Homecoming excitement in 50-43 win against Geneva

WASHINGTON, Pa. – In what has seemingly become an annual tradition on Homecoming at Washington & Jefferson, the Presidents gave the fans all they could handle in a high-scoring, one-score victory as the No. 8-ranked W&J football team downed Geneva, 50-43, at Cameron Stadium.
 
Junior quarterback Jacobs Adams (Louisville, Ohio/Louisville) threw for a career-high 432 yards and five touchdowns, while sophomore wide receiver Andrew Wolf (Ashland, Ohio/Hillsdale) posted his sixth 100-yard game and scored three times. Junior running back Jordan West (Washington, Pa./Washington) rushed for 196 yards and two scores on 39 carries, plus caught four passes for 70 yards to pace the offense in the victory.
  
The scoring opened up at the 9:24-mark of the first quarter. On fourth down from the three-yard line, Adams rolled to the left and hit senior tight end Jake Cullen (Orchard Park, N.Y./Orchard Park) right inside the pylon for the opening score, 7-0.
 
After Geneva answered with a 33-yard scoring pass, the Presidents went 10 plays and 67 yards, capped off by a one-yard rush by West to give W&J the lead back at 13-7 with 1:08 left in the first quarter. It only took 1:14 for Geneva to take its first lead of the game when the Golden Tornadoes answered back six seconds into the second period, 14-13.
 
The first play from scrimmage after a Geneva punt saw Adams hit Wolf on a screen at the Presidents' 26-yard line, and the receiver did the rest as he zigged and zagged through the defense for a 74-yard score, his national-leading 14th of the season. The two-point conversion failed and the Presidents' advantage was 19-14.
 
Geneva took the ensuing kickoff 93 yards to the W&J three-yard line where sophomore wide receiver Josh Burns (Coraopolis, Pa./Moon) chased down the returner, but the first play resulted in a rushing touchdown and a 21-19 lead for the GTs. Wolf brought the kickoff 65 yards to the Geneva 18-yard line and then snuck inside the pylon on the right front corner of the end zone on the fifth play, a 10-yard pass from Adams, his 15th score of the year, tied for the fifth most in a season in program history. At the 6:14-mark of the second period, W&J led by a 26-21 spread.
 
A long pass by Geneva put the Golden Tornadoes ahead, 28-26. W&J had a 26-yard field goal blocked as time expired for the first half, and the Presidents trailed at halftime for the first time in 2018.
 
Junior kicker Adam Napotnik (Gibsonia, Pa./Pine-Richland) gave W&J the lead back, 29-28, at the 9:55-mark of the third quarter from 22 yards out. A three-and-out followed by the defense and West ran in from two yards out after receptions of 11 and 34 yards by senior wide receivers Brandon Barnes (Hagerstown, Md./St. Johns) and Tim Swoope (Venetia, Pa./Peters Township), respectively, to stretch the lead out to 36-28, with 6:48 to go in the third period.
 
Geneva tied the game, 36-36, 1:09 into the fourth quarter when they completed an eight-yard pass and succeeded on the two-point conversion. That would be all of the scoring until 3:56 remaining. West corralled a 16-yard pass from Adams and raced in, but the Golden Tornadoes tied the game on the very next play from scrimmage on a 74-yard halfback pass, 43-43.
 
Adams and West orchestrated an 11-play drive that ran the clock down to 30 seconds remaining with the final play coming on a 12-yard pass to just inside the front pylon to Wolf for his third score of the afternoon. An interception by senior safety Zac Quattrone (White Oak, Pa./Serra Catholic) with no time left sealed the final score and another close Homecoming game.
 
Wolf went over 1,000 yards on the season in the win. He now has 16 receiving touchdowns this season, which is already the fourth-largest single-season total in W&J history. In addition to Wolf's 100-yard effort through the air, Barnes posted his second career 100-yard game as he pulled in a season-best eight passes for 102 yards. Swoope also notched career highs of six receptions and 91 yards.
 
Defensively, junior defensive tackle Jeffrey Oxner (Silver Spring, Md./Bullis School) made a career- and team-best 13 tackles and led all players with 3.0 tackles for loss. Sophomore linebacker Cole Weston (Louisville, Ohio/Louisville) reached double digits for the first time in his career as he made 11 stops. Sophomore linebacker Max Garda (Lower Burrell, Pa./Burrell) and senior linebacker Cody Milsom (Butler, Pa./Knoch) each tallied nine stops, with Garda accounting for the lone W&J sack.
 
Overall, W&J rolled up 630 yards of total offense on 92 plays. The victory was the final regular-season home game for the Red & Black, as the Presidents ran their regular-season home winning streak to 34 straight, dating back to 2012.

W&J will travel to Westminster on Saturday, Oct. 20 for a 1 p.m. kickoff with a 7-0 record, including a 6-0 mark in the Presidents' Athletic Conference.
 
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