Junior running back Jed Lober ran for a career-high 135 yards and five touchdowns as the Husson University Eagles scored 28 unanswered points in the second half to pull away from Framingham State en route to a season-opening 56-14 non-conference win at the Winkin Sports Complex in Bangor on Saturday afternoon.
The 5-foot-11, 220-pound native of Bellows Falls, Vermont ran for touchdowns of four, 23 and 32 yards in the first half, and his 15- and three-yard TD runs in the third period broke the game open as the Eagles turned a 14-point halftime lead into a comfortable 42-14 lead.
Junior quarterback Max Clark from Bangor, who is taking over signal-calling chores from the departed Nic Visser, completed 10 of 16 passes for 162 yards and two touchdowns.
He tossed an eight-yard strike to Jacob Lenz in the second quarter and a 23-yarder to Cam Holmes early in the fourth quarter,
Beau Lasher capped the scoring with a three-yard run late in the fourth quarter.
Freshman quarterback Treyvon Fields threw a pair of TD passes for the Framingham State Rams: a 24-yarder to Elijah Nichols in the first period and a four-yarder to Ayden Ramirez with 1:03 left in the half to pull the Rams within 28-14.
But on their first possession of the second half, the Eagles strung together an eight-play, 63-yard drive to swell the lead to 35-14.
Clark connected on a 26-yard pass to Nason Berthelette down to Framingham State’s 28-yard line, and Lober carried the ball four straight times with the last one covering 15 yards into the end zone.
On the Rams’ next drive, they fumbled at their own 14-yard line and Husson’s Jahmye Tyson recovered it.
Three plays later, Lober ran into the end zone from three yards out.
Husson took a lead it would never relinquish by scoring twice in the game’s first 2:12.
Berthelette, a second team All-Commonwealth Conference (now Conference of New England) return specialist last season, returned the opening kickoff 37 yards, and a 47-yard run by Ja’Quan Myles set up Lober’s four-yard run.
Just 25 seconds later, Lober scampered 23 yards after Anthony Harris recovered a Ram fumble at the FS-28.
Fields’ TD pass to Nichols cut the lead in half but Lober’s 32-yard run and Clark’s TD pass to Lenz made it 28-7 before Fields found Ramirez to make it 28-14.
Myles was Husson’s top receiver with three catches for 60 yards. Berthelette had two for 39 and Cullen Casey had two for 12.
Nichols had a game-high five catches for 55 yards. Joshua Ramos had three for 32 and was the Rams’ leading rusher with 68 yards on 15 carries.
Husson’s Tyler Armeen and C.J. Nicely and the Rams’ John Burke shared game-high tackle honors with six each.
Husson will host Springfield College next Saturday, and Framingham State will entertain Castleton (Vermont). Both games kick off at 1 p.m.
