Nov 3, 2018 2 min read

LATROBE – Jacob Adams passed for 205 yards and three touchdowns, including two to Andrew Wolf, as Washington & Jefferson retained the inside track to the Presidents’ Athletic Conference football title with a 33-9 victory over Saint Vincent on Saturday at Chuck Noll Field.

W&J improved to 7-1 in the PAC and 8-1 overall. The Presidents are tied for first place in the conference with Case Western Reserve but hold the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Spartans.

The Presidents end the regular season Saturday at Waynesburg.

The Presidents overcame a 9-6 deficit midway through the second quarter against Saint Vincent (1-7, 1-8). Adams threw a five-yard scoring pass to Wolf to cap an 11-play, 69-yard drive and give W&J a 13-9 lead.

Three minutes later, E.J. Thompson scored on a five-yard run, and Adams hooked up again with Wolf for a 32-yard scoring pass as time expired in the first half as the Presidents took a 26-9 lead into halftime.

The only scoring in the second half was an eight-yard TD pass from Adams to Tim Swoope in the third quarter.

The W&J defense held Saint Vincent to 10 first downs and only 33 rushing yards on 24 attempts. Two Bearcats quarterbacks were intercepted three times.

Saint Vincent forged a 2-0 lead when Adams was sacked in the end zone for a safety less than four minutes into the game. The Bearcats led 9-6 early in the second quarter when Mike Stasko scored on a one-yard run, which was set up by a blocked punt.

Jordan West, who paced W&J’s ground game with 77 yards, had a three-yard TD run in the first quarter.