Mack, Russo help Temple top ECU

• Branden Mack (Wyncote/ Cheltenham) caught nine passes for a game-high 107 yards as the Temple football team opened its American Athletic Conference schedule with a 27-17 victory over East Carolina last Thursday.

Quarterback Anthony Russo (Doylestown/Archbishop Wood) was 23-of-34 passing for 208 yards and a touchdown — a sixyard scoring strike with seven seconds left in the third quarter that made it 24-10 — as the Owls earned their second straight win to improve to 4-1 overall.

• Rhode Island women’s cross country’s Lotte Black (Ambler/ Wissahickon) took seventh last Saturday at the Paul Short Run at Lehigh University, finishing the race in time of 19:55.4.

Penn’s Maddie Villalba (Doylestown/Central Bucks West) came in 12th with a time of 20:09.0 while Quaker teammate Ariana Gardizy (Lansdale/North Penn) took 33rd with a time of 20:38.6 as Penn took third place out of 38 teams in the Women’s College Gold race.

• VMI football quarterback Reece Udinski (North Wales/North Penn) threw his ninth career 300yard passing game, finishing with

335 yards and three touchdowns on 25-of-35 passing as the Keydets ended a 12game losing streak to The Citadel and win the Military Classic of the South 34-21 last Saturday.

Udinski threw a nineyard TD pass at 1:07 in the first quarter, a 28-yard scoring pass at 11:50 in the third then tossed a 61-yard TD with 2:18 remaining in the fourth. Udinski has also thrown a SoCon-record 252 passes without an interception, besting the previous mark of 218 set by Elon’s Scott Riddle in the 2008 and 2009 season.

• Ryan Quigley (Lansdale/ Lansdale Catholic) scored the Princeton football team’s final touchdown last Saturday, finding the end zone on a 31-yard run at 9:24 in the fourth quarter as the Tigers began Ivy League play with a 21-10 win over Columbia. Quigley finished with 49 yards rushing on nine carries and also caught a pair of passes for six yards as the Tigers moved to 3-0 overall on the season.

• La Salle men’s soccer goalkeeper Brett Werner (Philadelphia/La Salle) made a season-high nine saves as the Explorers shut out St. Joseph’s 2-0 last Saturday. For Werner, the shutout was his second of the season.

• UMBC women’s soccer’s Erin Stevenson (Sellersville/Pennridge) collected her first goal of the season Sunday, the junior scoring in the 72nd minute of the Retrievers’ 4-1 loss to UMass Lowell.

• Shippensburg football’s Luke Durkin (Doylestown/ Central Bucks West) had three rushing touchdowns as he ran 25 times for 95 yards last Saturday as the Raiders fell to West Chester 29-21.

Durkin had two touchdown runs in the first quarter — a 7-yarder at 3:51 then scoring from 13 yards out at 1:20 — and added a oneyard TD run at 5:03 in the third.

Winston Eubanks (Philadelphia/La Salle) added three catches for 20 yards for Shippensburg. West Chester’s Shamar Edwards (North Wales/North Penn) made six tackles — five solo, one assisted.

• Florida football’s Kyle Pitts (Philadelphia/Archbishop

Wood) caught a game-high eight passes for 65 yards as the Gators moved to 6-0 with a 24-13 win over Auburn last Saturday.

• Penn women’s soccer’s Sizzy Lawton (Fort Washington/Upper Dublin) had a goal and an assist as the Quakers rallied for a 2-1 second-half deficit to defeat Cornell 4-2 last Saturday.

Lawton, a freshman, scored her second goal of the season at 20:58 to give Penn a 1-0 lead. Lawton then assisted on the Quakers’ fourth goal of the contest at 74:56. Penn freshman Sara Readinger (Telford/Souderton) finished with a pair of shots.

• Fairfield field hockey’s Julianna Kratz (Erdenheim/Mount Saint Joseph) had a goal Sunday as the Stags defeated Holy Cross 3-1. Last Friday, Kratz assisted on Luzi Persiehl’s overtime game-winner as Fairfield edged Sacred Heart 1-0. Kratz is second on the Stags in points this season with four goals and five assists.

• Kutztown women’s volleyball’s Holly Owen (Hatboro/Hatboro-Horsham) collected 13 kills, nine digs and two blocks last Friday as the Golden Bears lost 3-0 to Edinboro. Owen had 12 kills and eight digs last Saturday in a 3-1 loss to Gannon then finished with 11 kills and eight digs Sunday in KU’s 3-0 defeat to Mercyhurst.

• In Ursinus football’s 32-29 loss to Johns Hopkins last Saturday, Stacey Gardner (North Hills/ Upper Dublin) had six carries for 30 yards, Octavious Carter (Souderton/ La Salle) had two catches for 33 yards while Matt Gallagher (Huntingdon Valley/Lower Moreland) hauled in two passes for 29 yards. Defensively for the Bears, Danny Freeman (Doylestown/Archbishop Wood) had eight total tackles — six solo, two assisted.

• Virginia men’s soccer’s Spencer Patton (Morrisville/La Salle) scored his second goal of the season last Friday, finding the back of the net at 70:34 as the No. 1 ranked Cavaliers defeated Louisville 2-0.

• Bloomsburg football’s Nyfease West (Philadelphia/North Penn) finished with 33 yards on seven carries and three catches for 15 yards in the Huskies’ 27-12 loss to Kutztown last Saturday.