POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – The University of Dayton football team exploded for 59 points and 530 yards Saturday, knocking off the Marist 59-31 on the Red Foxes Senior Day.  The yardage was Dayton's most in four years and the points were the most in 10 seasons.

UD finished the year 9-2, and 7-1 in the Pioneer Football League.  The Flyers will take a seven-game win streak into the 2017 season. 

GAME SUMMARY
• Marist took the opening kickoff and drove 57 yards to opening the scoring with a 41-yard field goal by Mike Maccarone.
• Cameron Stubbs took the kickoff and returned it 94 yards to the five, and one play later, Alex Jeske ran it in from the five to give Dayton a lead it would keep for good.
• Willliam Will added a 38-yard field goal to make the score Dayton 10, Marist 3.
• A six-play, 56-yard drive capped by another Jeske five-yard run made it Dayton 17, Marist 3 after one quarter.
• Red Fox QB Mike White hit Christian Keenan on a 16-yard pass to cut it to Dayton 17, Marist 10.
• The two teams traded 70+ yard drives to end the half, starting with a five-play, 74-yard UD drive.  Jeske hit Jack Euritt for a 40-yard score to make the scoreboard read Dayton 24, Marist 10.
• Marist only two plays to cover 87 yards, 78 of them on a White TD run, to make it Dayton 24, Marist 17.
• The Flyers answered with an 11-play, 75 yard journey.  Jeske ran it in from the three. Dayton 31, Marist 17 at halftime.
• On Marist's first series of the second half, Marcellus Calhoun scored on a one-yard run set up by a fourth-down pass interference call in the end zone. Dayton 31, Marist 24.
• The Jeske-to-Euritt connection made it a two-score game once again.  This catch and run went for 28 yards.  Dayton 38, Marist 24 after three quarters.
• Jared Ruffing scampered untouched from 11 yards out to make the score Dayton 45, Marist 24.
• Marist scored on a quarterback throwback pass to gain some momentum back.  Receiver Lawrence Dickens completed his second pass of the day, this one to White for a seven-yard TD. Dayton 45, Marist 31.
• The nature of the Marist TD fired up the crowd, and with still eleven-and-a-half minutes left you could sense the Red Foxes felt a comeback coming on.  Stubbs took care of that with a 90-yard kickoff touchdown return.  Dayton 52, Marist 31
• A Chris Hagan interception stopped Marist's last real threat on the next possession, and Jeske closed the scoring with four-yard run, making the final score Dayton 59, Marist 31.

STATS
• Alex Jeske ran 18 times for 179 yards and four touchdowns.  He also completed 13 of 20 passes for 198 yards and two more TDs.
• Tucker Yinger returned after missing three games due to injury, and ran for 68 yards on 12 carries.
• Jared Ruffing added 41 yards on eight carries.
• Jack Euritt caught four passes for 99 yards, and Ryan Skibinski added three catches for 55 yards.
• Christopher Beaschler and Chris Hagan led the Dayton defense with eight tackles apiece.  Beaschler had seven solo tackles. 
• Hagan had an interception, as did Luke Welsh and Jason Balogh.
• Mike Gray added two sacks.
• Cameron Stubbs returned four kickoffs for 234 yards (50.8 yards per return).

NOTES
• Rick Chamberlin now has 55 wins in PFL competition, tying him with former Flyer coach Mike Kelly for the most in league history.
• Cameron Stubbs ended his career with a 27.5 yards per kickoff return average, second-best in Dayton history.
• With 12 points at Marist, William Will ended his college career with 323 points, just a field goal away from Mike Duvic's Dayton record of 326.
• Alex Jeske now has 29 touchdowns he is responsible for, the best in the PFL.  During Dayton's seven-game winning streak, he averaged 7.2 yards per rush, completed 61% of his passes and had 12 passing TDs and 12 rushing TDs.
• UD has not been shut out in a school-record 453 straight games, the best such active string in all of college football.