ADRIAN, Mich. -- The Adrian College football team hosted Olivet College in its final home game of the 2021 season. The Bulldogs honored their senior class before the contest before dropping the game 35-28. Adrian trailed early, but came back and took the lead after erasing a 14-point defecit.

Olivet got on the board early with a pair of touchdowns in the first quarter. The Comets scored on a 51-yard run and a 54-yard pass to lead 14-0. Adrian answered with a touchdown from Preston Smith on a 13-yard pass from Jack Wurzer. Jimmie Clark added a 1-yard run at the end of the half to head into the break with the score tied at 14-14.

The start the second half, Wurzer found Palus for a 54-yard pass to take a 21-14 lead. Olivet scored ten minutes later to retie the game at 21-21. The Comets too advantage of a blocked punt inside the 20-yard line and scored on the next play from the 2-yard line. With time winding down, Wurzer struck again and found Donald Scott in the back of the endzone for a touchdown 39-yard pass. The Bulldogs got the ball back and started to drive down field, but was later stopped and turned the ball over on downs in the final minute of play.

Wurzer finished 17-for-30 with 257 yards passing and three touchdowns. Wurzer nows extends his passing touchdowns record to 62 for his career and his career passing yards record to 7,587.

The backfield rushed for a total of 221 yards on the day with 114 from Malik Ray, 76 from Jimmie Clark, and 32 from Steven Moses. Palus led the recievers with 80 yards recieving followed by 74 from Scott, and 38 from Smith.

Brandon Kwiatkowski finished the game with a team-high 11 tackles and one tackle for loss. Just Wiseman had a day with a pair of sacks and six tackles. Jimerie Cannon recorded four tackles and an interception on the afternoon.

The Bulldogs will return to action on Saturday, November 13 on the road to finish the season at Kalamazoo College. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:00 PM.