LORETTO, PA- The Richmond Spiders scored with two seconds remaining, answering a Zach Campbell (Upper Marlboro, Md./Riverdale Baptist) go-ahead touchdown with 70 seconds left and added a touchdown on the final play of the game in a 35-27 thriller over the Red Flash at DeGol Field on Thursday night. 

COACH V's REACTION

"A heartbreaker, a tough one to swallow for sure," head coach Chris Villarrial said after the game. "But we will learn from this, learn to finish, clean things up and get ready for a good Albany team next Saturday."

RED FLASH HIGHLIGHTS

Red shirt sophomore Zach Campbell (Upper Marlboro, Md./Riverdale Baptist) caught a 12-yard touchdown in the back corner of the end zone from Bear Fenimore (Austin, Texas/Westwood) to give Saint Francis a 27-23 with just over a minute remaining. For Campbell, it was his second grab of the night after a key 49-yard catch and run earlier in the second half and his first touchdown. Fenimore threw three second-half touchdown passes including two to Kamron Lewis (Fresno, Calif./Edison) and finished with 208 yards passing on the evening. On the ground, Jymere Jordan-Toney (Philadelphia, Pa./Franklin) ran for a tough, game-high 71 yards on 24 carries. 

The defense held a Richmond team to just 249 yards of total offense after they rolled up over 500 in their 52-7 win over Fordham a week ago. The "dark side" was led by Gibbs Tinne (Burtonsville, Md./Paint Branch) as the linebacker had 10 tackles, 3.5 of them for loss and a sack. The Red Flash brought down quarterback Kevin Johnson five times on the evening, including two more for edge rusher Da' Jon Lee. 

The special teams blocked a punt as Melvin Benjamin (Beaumont, Texas/West Brook) got free and stuffed a kick to set up the first touchdown for Kamron Lewis (Fresno, Calif./Edison). Eric Bofenkamp (Warren, Ohio/John F. Kennedy) hit his pair of field goals but Richmond got a safety off a snap over punter Andrew Zecca's (Berkeley Heights, N.J./Gov. Livingston) head and Dejon Brisset had a 94-yard kick-off return for a touchdown. 

FIRST QUARTER RECAP

• The Red Flash got the ball first and went three-and-out, the ensuing punt led to the bad snap and the safety to give Richmond a 2-0 lead
• Both defense stood tall as neither side could build much of a drive
• SFU flipped field possession after a Zecca punt pinned the Spiders inside their own 10
• The defense would hold and the Flash would get the ball back at midfield at the tail end of the quarter
• The first quarter ended with Richmond up 2-0, but the Red Flash driving to start the second quarter

SECOND QUARTER RECAP

• A pair of Jymere Jordan-Toney (Philadelphia, Pa./Franklin) runs, one for eight  and another for 14, put the Red Flash in field goal range
• Fenimore found Cyrus Holder (Uniondale, N.Y./Milford Academy) for 12 yards over the middle to get SFU in field goal range
• The drive would stall and Bofenkamp drilled a 27-yard field goal to give Saint Francis a baseball-esque 3-2 lead
• The lead didn't last long as Dejon Brissett took the kickoff 94 yards for a score to give the Spiders back a 9-3 edge
• The SFU defense held strong after the Red Flash couldn't do anything on the following possession, forcing a bad punt that put the ball at midfield
• Fenimore would be picked off at the Richmond 35 yard line on the ensuing drive, as Markus Vinson stepped in front of Cyrus Holder (Uniondale, N.Y./Milford Academy)
• Hakeem Kinard (York, Pa./York Catholic) made a big stop on a fourth-and-inches on the following drive, giving SFU back the ball at midfield
• The Flash again couldn't do anything with the ball and a Zecca punt landed inside the five where Richmond would kneel out the clock
• The Spiders would lead 9-3 at the half

THIRD QUARTER RECAP

• Richmond wouldn't be able to do anything with the opening kickoff of the second half and Melvin Benjamin (Beaumont, Texas/West Brook) got a hand on the punt that set SFU up at the Richmond 15
• A play-action fake by Fenimore found Lewis on a post route in the middle of the end zone as SFU took a 10-9 lead after the extra point
• Again Brissett would get loose on a kick return, bringing it out to midfield
• Brissett would have a pair of catches on the drive and Kevin Johnson scrambled for 16 as Richmond moved the ball into the SFU red zone
• Sam Cummings (Verona, N.J./Verona) would make a stop in the backfield on a third-and-short and the 29-yarder for Griffin Trau was good to make it a 12-10 Richmond lead
• On a key third-and-five, Zach Campbell (Upper Marlboro, Md./Riverdale Baptist) took a crossing pass 49 yards on the catch-and-run to set up a first-and-goal for the Red Flash
• On third-and-goal Fenimore found Lewis in the corner of the end zone and after review was ruled to get two feet in for the score to make it 17-12
• Richmond would go three-and-out on the next drive and again had a punt partially blocked to set up SFU at the Richmond 40
• A pair of tosses to Lewis brought the Red Flash into a goal-to-go situation at the Spiders' six 
• The drive stalled after an incomplete pass and a stalled run, but Bofenkamp connected from 29 yards to make it 20-12
• SFU would take that eight-point lead into the fourth

FOURTH QUARTER RECAP

• The Spiders would march down the field after the touchdown, putting together an 11-play drive that saw four completions to Brissett
• Jermaine Ponder (Rochester, N.Y./Bishop Kearney) stalled the drive on a pass break up in the back of the end zone on third-and-goal
• Richmond had to settle for three to make it 20-15
• The Red Flash would get a first down but nothing more on the drive, giving the ball back to the Spiders at their 25 yard line
• Again the Spiders would find success on offense with the biggest play of the day, a 40-yard strike to Cordarrelle Simpson for a touchdown
• Richmond would get the two-point conversion to go up by three, 23-20
• SFU got to work on an 11-play drive that started at their own 30
• Jordan-Toney, Holder, and Lewis all got key first downs on the drive including a nine-yard run by Jordan-Toney on fourth-and-one
• Fenimore found Campbell again, this time on a post route into the corner of the end zone to cap the drive and give SFU a 27-23 lead
• Richmond again turned to Brissett, who drew a pass interference penalty and brought in an 18-yard catch to put Richmond in the red zone
• After moving down to the six-yard line, Johnson found Tyler Wilkins in the back of the end zone with two seconds left to put Richmond up 29-27
• On the final play of the game, the Red Flash threw a series of laterals, but Richmond's Maurice Jackson intercepted the final lateral and rolled 29 yards in for a score with no time left

The loss drops the Red Flash to 1-2 on the season while Richmond improves to 2-1. Saint Francis stays in the CAA next weekend as they travel to Albany to take on the Great Danes. Kick off is set for 7 p.m.