Panther Football Blanks Mount Ida
Justin Siewierski
Editor-in-Chief
jrsiewierski@plymouth.edu
P lymouth State football put up the green sheet on the road Saturday, routing Mount Ida 27-0 in their first away contest. Junior Zack Edwards (Brookfield, Mass.) went 15-for-22, throwing for 191 yards and three touchdowns.
Graduate student Zach Ziemba (Manchester, N.H.) added to his outstanding Plymouth State career with his eighth interception in a
green-and-white uniform, as the Plymouth defense would hold Mount Ida to under 200 total yards.
Plymouth got on the board early, with the first of three touchdown passes from Edwards putting the team up 7-0. A drive that lasted seven plays and 66 yards, the junior found sophomore Jacob Szulc (Concord, N.H.) for a 21-yard hookup.
With seven seconds left in the first quarter, the Panthers doubled their lead in a drive that lasted less than three minutes. After five plays and 30 yards, sophomore David Hamilton (Westville, N.J.) pounded in his first touchdown of the day from four yards out.
The combo of Edwards and Szulc hooked up two more times for scores, both in the third quarter. Just five minutes into the second half, a 22-yard touchdown capped off a nine play, 50 yard drive.
In PSU’s final score, Edwards tossed his longest completion to Szulc, a 37-yard touchdown with just over two minutes left in the game.
Hamilton finished with a game-high 49 yards on the ground. Szulc finished six yards shy of 100 total receiving, the best of any Panther wide out this season.
Mount Ida’s Michael Pina threw for 141 yards, completing 19 of 24 passes.
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