Box Score

Ithaca, N.Y. -- Junior quarterback Josh Felicetti (Central Bucks East/Doylestown, Pa.) threw for 431 yards – 10 short of the school record – as the 22nd-ranked Ithaca Bombers rolled to a 49-7 win over Lycoming before a Homecoming crowd of 2,951 fans at Butterfield Stadium. The win marked the 21st time in 23 years that the Bombers have won their Homecoming game.

Felicetti completed a career-best 25 passes in 34 attempts, falling 10 yards short of Mike O’Donovan’s school-record total of 441, set in a 40-13 Homecoming win over American International in 1997. He raised his career total to 4,324 yards, moving into third on the program’s all-time list, and upped his season total to 1,025 yards to become the fastest Bomber to go over 1,000 yards and the second Ithaca quarterback with three career 1,000-yard passing seasons.

Felicetti threw two touchdown passes to senior wide receiver Jeff Welch (Ithaca/Ithaca) – a 71-yard completion in the first quarter and a five-yard completion in the third quarter. Welch caught six passes for 130 yards; he and junior teammate Justin Esposito (Fayetteville-Manlius/Manlius), who caught six passes for a career-best 137 yards, became the first two Bombers to go over 100 receiving yards in the same game since 1993.

Senior fullback Jamie Free (The Gunnery/Brookfield, Conn.) scored three touchdowns – rushing for a pair and catching a 10-yard pass. He became the first Bomber in 38 games to score a rushing and receiving touchdown in the same game.

Ithaca scored a pair of touchdowns in a nine-second span of the fourth quarter; sophomore Jamie Donovan (Sidwell Friends/Washington, D.C.) rushed for a one-yard touchdown and the Warriors’ first play of their ensuing possession resulted in a fumbled snap that Bomber junior linebacker Chris Medici (Sanford H. Calhoun/Merrick) recovered in the end zone for his first career touchdown.

Junior linebacker Dustin Ross (Salamanca/Salamanca) collected 12 tackles – including career-high totals of four tackles for loss and two sacks – to lead a Bomber defense that held Lycoming to 180 yards of total offense. Senior defensive end Bryan Steele (Hudson Falls/Hudson Falls) matched a career-high with 10 tackles and junior linebacker Jose Colon (Thomas R. Proctor/Utica) finished with eight tackles, including three tackles for loss and two sacks.

Sophomore Brett Kitenplon (Admiral Farragut/Seminole, Fla.) kicked extra points after Ithaca’s first five touchdowns and sophomore Chris O’Neill (Riverdale Day County/Bronx) added the extra point after Medici’s touchdown. Ithaca’s 583 yards of total offense marked the program’s highest output since 1993. The Bombers have scored 179 points through their first four games to mark their highest total ever through four games.