With 10 touchdown passes and nearly 1,000 yards of offense between the teams, Rochester won an offensive slugfest against Gettysburg, 54-42, at Fauver Stadium on Saturday.
Freshman quarterback Kapps Killingstad tied a school record by throwing four touchdown passes - two to Jay Jay Vanderstyne, one to Pat McCarthy, and one to Mike Sondericker. In his first varsity start, he completed 10 of 16 passes for 178 yards with no interceptions.
Aaron Molisani threw a 28-yard TD pass to Mike Freeman to complete Rochester's scoring late in the fourth quarter. The Yellowjackets also got a two TD runs by Matt Bielecki (56 yards, 5 yards) and a 52-yard interception returned for a touchdown by Jim Milks.
Gettysburg was led by freshman QB Matt Flynn. He completed 18 of 31 passes for 288 yards and five TDs - two to Dusty Green, one each to Matthew Welsh, Pete Meggers, and Spencer Davidson.
Bielecki led the Yellowjackets on the ground with 215 yards. Rochester rushed for 241 yards and passes for 206 more. Molisani was 1 of 1 for 28 yards - the TD to Freeman.
Gettysburg totaled 534 in offense - 218 on the ground (Tom Sturges had 159 on 27 carries) and 316 in the air.
Killingstad threw a 50-yard TD pass to Vanderstyne on Rochester's first play from scrimmage. Milks returned an interception of a Mark Campo pass 52 yards for a TD early in the second quarter for a 14-0 lead.
The Bullets rallied. Green caught a 59-yard pass from Flynn. After Bielecki's 56-yard breakaway gave Rochester a 20-7 lead, Flynn found Green (15 yards, 5:08 left) and Meggers (30 yards, 1:18 left) to put the Bullets up, 21-20 at halftime.
Sturges capped a 7-play, 81-yard drive with a 32-yard run to start the third quarter. Rochester answered with a 13-play, 71-yard drive and the one-yard scoring pass to McCarthy. Rochester's try for two failed (28-26).
It is Rochester's highest point total since October 30, 1982 in a 54-10 victory over Brockport.
