The Bears generated more yards and produced more points than they had since a Week Three loss to Pottstown, but this time the numbers added up to a 42-14 win over host Owen J. Roberts.

Cody Richmond ran 20 times for 183 yards and two touchdowns and Matt Moccia added 72 yards and a touchdown to account for most of the Bears’ 285 yards on the ground. Quarterback Griffin Pasik may have had his best game of the year, passing for 142 yards and two touchdowns – both to Nick Brough – and running for a touchdown that capped the scoring and put it well out of the Wildcats’ reach with 1:52 left.

The second-straight win closed out Boyertown’s Pioneer Athletic Conference season at 3-6 and improved their overall mark to 3-7, with a tentative non-league encounter at home next week against Souderton.

Owen J. Roberts, which has now dropped four in a row after a midseason three-game winning streak, is 3-5 (3-7) with a possible contingency game next week.

As good as Boyertown’s offense was, it didn’t completely overshadow solid defensive efforts sophomore safety Dalton Hughes – who had three interceptions to cut off a OJR drives – and Austin Jacobs, Gray Garber and Brock Johnson, who each had sacks. That combination alone from inside and in the secondary was enough to contain Wildcat quarterback Jarrad Pinelli, who has picked apart more than a few defenses this season.

But against the Bears, Pinelli was pressured into a 11-for-24 showing. Five of his tosses went to Jay Thomas, who stretched the receptions for 71 yards. Will Bradford had an eight-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter, but by then the Wildcats had run out of time.

The hosts actually scored first when Pinelli found Colin Horrocks on a 37-yarder at the 5:08 mark of the first quarter. But after that, Boyertown punched up two unanswered scores – Richmond’s two-yard run and Pasik’s 29-yard strike to Brough – for a 14-7 lead that held until halftime.The Bears didn’t waste any time, or much energy after that, to make it 28-7.

Pasik caught Brough in stride on the first play of the third quarter for a 64-yard touchdown. Just over 3½ minutes later, when OJR ran out of down, Moccia took the second snap of the Bears’ possessionand ran for a 60-yard touchdown.

Boyertown only had the ball for five plays in the entire third quarter ... but upped its lead to that 21-point spread.

Pinelli’s eight-yard toss to Bradford cut OJR’s deficit to 28-14 with 8:42 left in the game, but Boyertown bounced back on Richmond’s 31-yard dash up the middle and Pasik’s two-yard run.

NOTES

OJR punter Zach Jennion boomed a 63-yarder to Boyertown’s one-yard line, which helped with obvious field position and, eventually, to the Wildcats’ first touchdown just under five minutes later. ... Hughes’ three interceptions were his first of the season.