Information for this story is courtesy of the DuBois Courier-Express/Tri-County

DUKE CENTER – Brockway quarterback Derek Buganza threw for a state record 594 yards while tossing six touchdown passes in a 74-28 win at Otto-Eldred Friday night.

Unofficial numbers from DuBois Courier-Express/Tri-County Sunday, had Buganza 33 of 45 for the 594 yards and six scores while also throwing two interceptions.

Going into the game, the state record for passing yards in a game was 511 set by Downingtown East’s Pat Devlin in 2003.

The game was tied at 21 before Brockway scored late in the first half to take a 28-21 lead. The Rovers then blew the game away in the second half. Buganza threw for 328 yards in the first half alone.

Buganza threw two first-quarter TD passes of 30 yards to Zack Freemer and Chris Marshall. He threw three TD passes in the third quarter within a span of 2:05 to blow the game open, all of them to Mike Vervoort on plays of 32, 53 and 7 yards. Ryan Terwilliger then scored 1:31 after Buganza’s third TD pass, his second of the game, on a 3-yard run.

The Rovers, who led 53-21 going into the fourth quarter, got one more TD pass from Buganza to Vervoort covering 12 yards with 11:30 on the clock. Vervoort caught nine passes for 175 yards to go along with his four TD grabs. Freemer made six catches for 154 yards, Jacob Shaffer made 10 catches for 148 yards and Marshall had five receptions for 91 yards.

The Rovers added two more scores late in the game on Kyle Braun’s 41-yard run and Tom Vervoort’s 6-yard run.

Otto-Eldred turned the ball over eight times. Quarterback Noah Colbert threw three TD passes of 5, 85 and 52 yards respectively to Drew Coscia, Justin Bird on Zach Williams, but he also threw four interceptions. Coscia rushed for 184 yards on 20 carries.

BROCKWAY 74, OTTO-ELDRED 28

Score By Quarters

Brockway       14        14        25        21        —        74

Otto-Eldred    14        7          0          7          —        28

Scoring Summary

First Quarter

B - Zack Freemer 30 pass from Derek Buganza (Phillip Esposito kick), 9:20.

O - Drew Coscia 5 pass from Noah Colbert (Pass failed), 3:48.

B - Chris Marshall 30 pass from Buganza (Esposito kick), 2:56.

O - Justin Bird 85 pass from Colbert (Coscia run), :31.

Second Quarter

B - Ryan Terwilliger 5 run (Esposito kick), 7:42.

O - Zach Williams 52 pass from Colbert (Jake Knapp kick), :58.

B - Tom Vervoort 1 run (Esposito kick), :04.

Third Quarter

B - Mike Vervoort 32 pass from Buganza (Kick blocked), 9:55.

B - M. Vervoort 53 pass from Buganza (Esposito kick), 8:50.

B - M. Vervoort 7 pass from Buganza (Kick failed), 7:50.

B - Terwilliger 3 run (Kick failed), 6:19.

Fourth Quarter

B - M. Vervoort 12 pass from Buganza (Esposito kick), 11:30.

O - Bird 9 run (Knapp kick), 5:09. 

B - Kyle Braun 41 run (Conversion failed), 2:44.

B - T. Vervoort 6 run (T. Vervoort from Braun), 1:04.

            B         0

First Downs    22        11

Rushes-Yards  14-83   43-213

Passing Yards 607      172

Passes: Comp-Att-Int 34-46-2            8-14-4

Total Yardage 690      385

Punts-Average            1-33     1-0

Fumbles-lost    2-0       4-4

Penalties-Yards           6-56     6-41

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

Rushing - Brockway: Ryan Terwilliger 5-9, Zack Freemer 2-13, Tom Vervoort 2-7, Derek Buganza 2-(-15), Kyle Braun 1-41, Mike Vervoort 1-0, Team 1-(-6). Otto-Eldred: Drew Coscia 20-184, Justin Bird 11-55, Noah Colbert 4-(-21), Cody Baxter 3-2, Tyler Carlson 3-(-3), Brent Dietze 1-0, Team 1-(-4).

Passing - Brockway: Derek Buganza 33 of 45, 594 yards, 6 TDs, 2 INTs; Kyle Braun 1 of 5, 13 yards, 0 TD, 0 INT. Otto-Eldred: Noah Colbert 8 of 14, 174 yards, 3 TDs, 4 INTs; Tyler Carlson 0 of 0, 0 yards, 0 TD, 0 INT.

Receiving -Brockway: Jacob Shaffer 10-148, Mike Vervoort 9-175, Zack Freemer 6-154, Chris Marshall 5-91, Ryan Terwilliger 3-26, Ethan Gillespie 1-13 Otto-Eldred: Justin Bird 3-98, Drew Coscia 3-14, Zach Williams 1-52, Robert Wallin 1-8.

 Interceptions - Brockway: Seth Galluzzi, Ethan Gillespie, Mike Vervoort, Joe Caruso. Otto-Eldred: Drew Coscia 2.