KUTZTOWN-- The fourth-ranked Bloomsburg University Huskies extended their road winning streak to 11 games with a 31-12 win over Kutztown University on Saturday night.

Bloomsburg (4-0, 1-0 in the PSAC East) took the lead midway through the first period when sophomore Derrick Price (Burlington, NJ, Burlington City), seeing his first action of the season, scored on a three-yard run with 5:39 left in the first period. The score capped a 91-yard drive with the big play being a 56-yard completion from Dan Latorre (Elysburg, Southern Columbia) to Jordan Weisman (Mt. Laurel, NJ, Lenape). 

Kutztown (2-2, 0-1 PSAC East) got on the board at 10:18 of the second on a 30-yard field goal by Matt Dineen. The points were the first scored against the Huskies defense in the first half this season.

The final minute of the first half would prove to be a turning point in the game. Bloomsburg would score with 33 seconds to go before half when Dylan Manni (Bensalem, Bensalem) caught a two-yard pass from Latorre to make it 14-3.

On Kutztown's next possession, BU linebacker Anthony Smith (Pottstown, Pottstown) made an interception for the second straight game and returned the ball 34-yards to the Kutztown three-yard line with just 16 seconds to play in the half. Two plays later Latorre hit Chris Tressler (Lewistown, Lewistown) with a three-yard scoring pass to extend the Huskies lead to 21-3. The extra point on the play by Jon Koenig (Pine Grove, Pine Grove) came from 40-yards out due to two penalties and pushed Koenig's streak of consecutive PAT's to 72.

Late in the third period Kutztown looked like it would be driving in for its first score of the day when it got to the Bloomsburg 10-yard line. But a sack by Smith and Todd Givler (Glenmoore, Downington West) pushed the Golden Bears back and forced them to settle for a 33-yard field goal by Dineen early in the fourth period.

Koenig pushed the Huskies lead to 24-6, when, after Bloomsburg's ensuing drive stalled at the Kutztown 33-yard line, the senior stepped back and drilled a career-long 50-yard field goal. It was just a week ago that Koenig hit a then career-long 47-yard field goal.

Later in the period the Huskies made it a 31-6 game when Price would run 29-yards for a score with 5:39 left in the game. Kutztown tacked on a late score to make the final 31-12.

Price finished with 105 yards rushing and two scores, while Smith was one of four defenders with seven tackles each for the Huskies.

Bloomsburg will host CW Post at noon on Sept. 26 at Redman Stadium.