Top 10 Games of 2023-24 - #2 Football Rallies Past Apprentice in Final Seconds
BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian University is continuing to look back at its 2023-24 athletic campaign. The next event in the Top 10 Exciting Games from the past year is our No. 2 highlight – the football squad scoring a touchdown and two-point conversion with 19 seconds remaining to defeat The Apprentice School, 29-28.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian University is continuing to look back at its 2023-24 athletic campaign. The next event in the Top 10 Exciting Games from the past year is our No. 2 highlight – the football squad scoring a touchdown and two-point conversion with 19 seconds remaining to defeat The Apprentice School, 29-28.
The game was played at Rocco Calvo Field on September 16, 2023 and was both the first home game and victory for first-year Head Coach Jeff Long. Neither squad scored in the first quarter, and the Greyhounds opened the scoring with just over five minutes left in the first half on a ten-yard touchdown run by senior running back Nate Boyle, who also kicked the extra-point. The Hounds added another TD with just 38 seconds left before the intermission as junior quarterback Jared Jenkins connected on a 37-yard touchdown pass to junior wide receiver Jordan Lewis. Boyle's PAT sent the Blue & Grey to the locker room with a 14-0 lead.
Moravian began the second half with Jenkins finding senior wide receiver Jordan Bingham with a 42-yard touchdown pass. Boyle split the uprights again for a 21-0 lead with a little more than 11 minutes left in the third quarter. Apprentice scored the next four touchdowns to take a 28-21 edge with just 1:49 left in the contest. Jenkins led the Hounds on an 11-play, 75-yard drive that concluded with a two-yard TD pass to Bingham with 19 seconds left on the clock. The Hounds went for the two-point conversion and the win with Boyle hitting Bingham with a jump pass for the conversion.
Read the original game story at https://www.moraviansports.com/sports/fball/2023-24/releases/20230916t129ez with links to the box score, photos and an archive of the game video.
The number one highlight in the Top 10 Exciting Games of 2023-24 will be released on Wednesday, July 3. On Monday, July 1, we'll post our Best of the Rest story with the other games that received votes for the Top 10 but didn't make the countdown.
