SAN DIEGO – In a battle that went right down to the final minute, the University of Dayton Flyers had a comeback fall just short, with San Diego edging UD 36-34.

Dayton trailed 36-21 after USD burned the Flyers on a 74-yard stop-and-go, but that was it for the home team on the scoreboard.  The Flyers scored a pair of touchdowns in the final 7:42, but the potential game-tying two-point conversion was batted away.  The Toreros recovered the ensuing onside kick, and San Diego quarterback Anthony Lawrence was able to get two first downs, one on a busted play and another on a swing pass on fourth-and-two to run out the clock.

Flyer quarterback Jack Cook was 29 of 42 passing for a school-record 432 yards and a career-high four touchdowns to lead the Dayton offense.  Ryan Skibinski caught eight passes for 117 yards and two TD's.  Defensively, Christian Kelly and David Leisring led UD with 10 tackles.  For Kelly all were solo and his 10 hits were a career-best.

Dayton falls to 3-4 on the year, and 2-2 in the Pioneer Football League.  San Diego's record is now 4-2, and the Toreros are the only remaining undefeated team in PFL play, and 3-0.

FIRST QUARTER
•   San Diego took the opening kickoff, but was turned away as UD blocked its first kick of the season on a 34-yard field goal attempts.  Isaac Sexton had the block.
•   Dayton scored on its first possession, driving 77 yards in five plays.  Jack Cook completed all four of his passes on the drive, the last being a 46-yard catch-and-run to Ryan Skibinski.
•   Just before the end of the quarter, USD went 65 yards on four plays , but Dante Stefanini blocked the PAT to make the score 7-6.
  
SECOND QUARTER
•   The Flyers started the second quarter like the first – scoring on their first opportunity.  UD went 75 yards in seven plays.  Jack Cook ran it in from the nine, and Joseph Bruni's PAT (he was perfect on the day) made the score 14-6.  
•   The Toreros answered right away, driving 62 yards in four plays to make it 14-13.
•   Dayton forced a punt from midfield, but suffered a special teams disaster when the punt struck a Dayton player on the bounce while he was engaged with a USD player.  San Diego fell on the ball and the Dayton two-yard line and ran it in on the next play to take the lead, 20-14.
•   UD had to punt the ball back and San Diego got the ball back with 1:23 left in the half.  On USD's last play from scrimmage, quarterback Anthony Lawrence dropped back, looked downfield moved in the pocked, scrambled out of the pocket and ran across the line of scrimmage and then went wide.  He was upended after a gain of four, but somehow was able to call timeout to set up a Torero field 21-yard field goal with one second on the clock to make the halftime score 23-14. 
 
THIRD QUARTER
•   Both teams exchanged punts to start the second half, and then UD needed just three plays to go 80 yard.  Adam Trautman made a one-handed grab of Jack Cook's 28-yard pass on a post pattern to bring Dayton to within two 23-21.
•   It was the only score of the third quarter.

FOURTH QUARTER
• USD scored twice to take a 36-21 lead with 11:18 left in the game.
• Dayton fought back with a 71-yard drive on nine plays.  Jack Cook scrambled out of the pocket, and kept his eyes downfield, and Ryan Skibinski got himself open to receive a 32-yard TD.
• The Flyers forced a punt, but was pinned back on their own six.  Tucker Yinger took a screen pass and weaved his way up the sideline for 73 yards to put UD back in business.  
• Adam Trautman went up and took the ball away from the USD defender to score from four-yards out.
• Dayton's potential game-tying two-point conversion failed when Jack Cook's pass was batted down.
• San Diego recovered the onside kick with 2:44 to go and after UD used all of its timeouts, the game was clinched when USD quarterback converted a fourth-and-two pass to running back Emilio Martinez with 1:06 left in the game.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
• Tucker Yinger was Dayton's leading rusher with 35 yards on 10 carries.  He also caught three passes for 86 yards. During the game, Yinger became just the 12th runner in PFL history to reach the 3,000 yard mark in his career.
• Cook's 432 yards topped Kevin Johns' 414 yards set on Nov. 14, 1998 at San Diego.  Johns is currently the offensive coordinator at Texas Tech.
• In addition to his blocked kick, Sexton also batted two passes down at the line, had a TFL and a QB hurry.
• Punter Sean Smith averaged 51.4 yards per punt on five kicks.  One of them was downed inside the 20, and he also had his very first touchback of the season (on 26 punts).

UP NEXT
• UD's next home game is Oct. 20 when Drake visits Welcome Stadium.  Drake was picked third in the PFL preseason poll, behind San Diego and Dayton.  
• Kickoff for Drake is 1 p.m. ET.