WILLIAMSPORT (Pa.) – The Delaware Valley University football team scored 41 unanswered points and forced three turnovers en route to a 41-7 triumph at Lycoming College in a Middle Atlantic Conference bout on Saturday afternoon.

The Aggies, ranked as high as 13^th in the country in one national poll, improved to 4-1 overall and 3-0 in MAC play while the Warriors dropped to 1-4 and 0-2. The win was the 23^rd in-a-row for DelVal during conference play, a streak that dates back to week seven of the 2016 season. It is now just two wins away from tying the all-time win-streak in MAC history, a mark of 25 games set by Lycoming from 1995-2001.

The first-team defense pitched a shutout for the second week in a row and intercepted two passes with one fumble recovery. Billy Walsh and Anthony Tedesco led the way with seven tackles and Walsh added 3.5 tackles for loss, including two sacks.

The 14^th ranked unit in Division III held Lycoming to 121 yards of total offense including 39 yards rushing and 82 yards passing. The Warriors were 0-for-10 on third and fourth down conversions and recorded just nine first downs.

Lycoming got the ball to start the game, but Walsh, the senior linebacker, came up with an interception off a deflected pass on the first play from scrimmage to set up DelVal inside Warriors territory. The Aggies drive stalled, and Nick Restaino attempted a 34-yard field goal, but the attempt missed wide left.

The Warriors drove down the field on their next possession and were aided by two penalties that resulted in a first down. Senior Vincent DiLeo came up with a big sack on third down to force Lycoming into a 44-yard field goal attempt that also sailed wide left and kept the game scoreless.

DelVal took over and Fontana hit Dan Allen down the left sideline for 30 yards on the first play. Allen capped the 11 play, 73 yard drive with his first career rushing touchdown as he scampered to the pylon from three yards out to put the Aggies on top, 7-0, with 5:44 left in the first quarter. The score remained that way into the second.

Lycoming went just 26 yards on its next drive before punting the ball back to DelVal. On the first play, Fontana hit Juwan Manigo over the middle and the senior wide out appeared to be tackled after a decent gain, but he rolled over a defender, stayed on his feet, and sprinted 76 yards to pay dirt to make it 14-0 early in the second.

Later in the second, Lycoming's Elijah Shemory hit Elijah Palmer on a slant over the middle and the wide out broke one tackle and seemed destined for the end zone before he coughed up the football without being touched, and the Aggies jumped on it at the Warriors' 45-yard line. DelVal failed to move the ball at all on the ensuing possession and punted it away.

On the very first play of Lycoming's drive, senior Ryan Barrett jumped in front of an out-route and forced the third turnover of the first half for DelVal with his first interception of the season. That set the Aggie offense up inside the red zone and Fontana hit Donte Simmons on a swing pass from four yards out to put DelVal on top, 20-0, with 1:12 left in the first half.

It remained a 20-point game at the break as the Aggies held Lycoming to just 82 yards in the first half with the three turnovers, to go with three sacks. DelVal racked up 201 yards with 157 coming through the air.
Each team was forced to punt on their first possessions of the second half.

DelVal scored on each of its next two possessions to extend its lead to 34-0. The Aggies took the ball 60 yards on eight plays to increase their lead to 27-0 early in the third as Fontana capped the drive with an 11-yard touchdown run, his fourth of the year. Later, Mario Nigro finished off a seven-play, 55-yard drive with a two yard burst.

Vincent DiLeo halted the Warriors' next drive as he came off the edge and laid a huge hit on the quarterback, forcing the ball loose, and Yusuf Aladinov scooped it and scored from 32 yards out to give DelVal a commanding 41-0 lead going into the fourth quarter. Lycoming managed just five yards of offense in the third.

The Warriors snapped the Aggies' shutout when Jeff Coplin stripped running back Wavell Wint and Gianni Bryant-Lopez recovered and ran it back 21 yards to make it a 41-7 game early in the fourth, and that is how the game would end.

DelVal finished with 436 yards of total offense including 266 yards through the air and another 170 on the ground. Fontana was 13-for-24 for 225 yards and two touchdowns to go with one rushing score. Three different tailbacks carried the ball led by Simmons' 55 yards, and Allen caught five passes for 91 yards. Ezekial Ennis caught three balls for 40 yards.

Shemory completed just 6-of-12 passes with two picks for 56 yards as Lycoming completed just eight passes all together. Keith Batkowski ran the ball seven times for 37 yards and Chase Cramer was held to 14 yards on nine rushes.