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Football Drops High-Scoring Game to Cortland
Golden Eagles let halftime lead slip away in loss November 7, 2009
 Jake Graci threw for over 300 yards in the loss to Cortland(credit: Michael Pratt, MLPhoto) The College at Brockport Football team scored over 40 points in a game for the third consecutive week but dropped a 56-42 decision to SUNY Cortland Saturday in the final home game of the season for the Golden Eagles in a New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) game on Bob Boozer Field at Special Olympics Stadium in Brockport.
After falling behind 21-7 in the first quarter, Brockport (3-6 overall, 2-6 NJAC) scored 28 points, including a touchdown with eight seconds remaining in the first half, to take a 35-28 lead into the intermission.
In the first half, Brockport had two touchdown runs by senior Aaron Zurn (Sidney, NY/Sidney), a rushing TD by senior quarterback Jake Graci (Farnham, NY/Lake Shore) and two touchdowns through the air with Graci connecting with senior Matt Newman (Unadilla, NY/Unatego) and then throwing an 11-yard scoring pass to sophomore Tamere Shannon (Buffalo, NY/McKinley) to end the half.
Cortland (7-2, 7-2) answered with three rushing TDs in the third quarter for a 49-35 lead and then scored with less than five minutes to play for a 56-35 lead.
Brockport added one more late touchdown when Joe Scibilia (North Tonawanda, NY/Starpoint) connected with senior Hector Rosas (Angola, NY/Lake Shore) for the final score.
Graci finished with 305 yards passing on 21-of-42 and three touchdowns. Newman, Rosas and senior Felipe Diaz (Syracuse, NY/Onondaga) each had six catches with Newman leading the way with 94 yards. Zurn led the Brockport rushing attack with 71 yards and scored two touchdowns.
Junior Nathan Bull (Brockport, NY/Brockport) had 13 tackles while Derek DeCandia (Beacon, NY/Beacon) and Jake Ekross (Weedsport, NY/Weedsport) each finished with nine tackles.
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X-Country @ NCAA Championships (at Baldwin-Wallace College) 11:00 AM | Men's Wrestling @ Springfield Invitational 12:00 PM | Men's Basketball v. Green Mt College (at University of Rochester Tournament) 1:00 PM | Swimming & Diving @ SUNY Oswego 1:00 PM | Women's Basketball v. St. Lawrence (at RIT Tournament) 3:00 PM |
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