East Stroudsburg, Pa. – Jaret Frantz caught three touchdown passes to help the Edinboro football team to a 29-14 victory over host East Stroudsburg handing head coach Matt Scott his first win as the head coach of the Fighting Scots.
 
Edinboro got off to a fast start taking the opening kickoff and moving the ball to the Edinboro 46-yardline before facing a third down and 15. The Warriors appeared to get the stop, but a roughing the passer call moved the ball to the East Stroudsburg 36. Nico Marchitelli hit DaeDae Allen for 15 yards and Jerry Dinkins rushed for seven to move the ball to the 14. Marchitelli moved the chains with a three-yard run on third and three and then found Frantz in the corner of the endzone from 11-yards out. The Scots converted the swinging gate two-point conversion as Evan Low found Jarrett Wallick to make it 8-0 with 8:49 left in the first quarter.
 
The teams traded punts before the end of the first quarter and the Fighting Scot defense set up the offense in plus territory. With 1:13 left in the opening quarter, Logan Dexter intercepted Sean McTaggart at the Warrior 22 and returned it all the way to the East Stroudsburg 11. After a pair of incompletions, Marchitelli connected with Frantz again to extend the lead to 15-0 with 57 seconds remaining in the first.
 
The Edinboro defense got a red zone stop at the beginning of the second quarter after a Tyler Quintois missed field goal. The Scots capitalized going 79-yards in eight plays capped by a seven-yard touchdown run by Bo Swartz to extend the lead to 22-0 with 5:46 left in the second quarter.
 
East Stroudsburg got on the board on a 17-yard touchdown run by McTaggart cutting the Scots halftime lead to 22-7.
 
The Scots started to shorten the game in the second half. After forcing a Warrior punt with 9:46 left in the third quarter, the Edinboro offense took the field from their own 12. Over the next 13:05 of game time, the Scots marched down the field capping the drive with a 12-yard strike from Marchitelli to Frantz to push the lead to 29-7.
 
McTaggart closed the gap to 29-14 with a 16-yard touchdown run, but the Scots kept East Stroudsburg off the board in the fourth with a Nate Deanes interception and a turnover on downs.
 
The Scot offense racked up 21 first downs and converted on 7-of-12 third downs and were 4-for-4 in the red zone. The defense were held the Warriors to 3-of-10 on third down and kept East Stroudsburg off the board on 2-of-4 red zone attempts.
 
Frantz finished the game with six catches for 78 yards and three touchdowns. Allen added six catches for 43 yards. Marchitelli went 19-of-24 for 178 yards three touchdowns. Dinkins rushed for 47 yards and Caron Robinson added 43 yards.
 
Deanes made five tackles while recording three pass breakups to go with his late-game interception. Ty Reali also notched five tackles. Carlos Morales, Amari Jones and Nick Pennucci each tallied four stops.
 
The Scots return to action on Sept. 13 when they host Kutztown at 1 p.m. inside Sox Harrison Stadium.