Box Score SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--The Western New England University football team sent out its 12 seniors in style on Saturday with a convincing 38 to 27 New England Football Conference comeback victory over visiting Curry College on Senior Day at Golden Bear Stadium. The Golden Bears improve to 3-5 overall and the Colonels fall to 2-5 on the season, while both teams now standing 2-3 in the league standings.

Senior quarterback John Krafick completed 23 of 36 passes (without any interceptions) for 319 yards and two touchdowns, and junior running back Kevin Cook rushed for a game-high 151 yards along with two more TDs to carry an WNE offense that compiled 563 total yards. The WNE offensive line didn't allow a sack.

Phil Bigelow carried 18 times for 94 yards and a touchdown to pace Curry, which had 494 yards of total offense.

Trailing 14-0 at the end of the first quarter, Western New England got on the scoreboard to start the second when Cook plunged into the end zone from a yard out with 11:30 left to cap an eight-play, 80-yard drive that consumed only 2 minutes on the clock in the Golden Bears' no-huddle offense.

That ignited 31 unanswered points for the Golden Bears, who turned a 14-point deficit into a 31-14 lead with 11:57 remaining in the third quarter on a Cook 2-yard TD run. The scoring streak was also highlighted by Tucker Schumitz 25-yard TD reception from Krafick to put WNE ahead to stay at the 4:54 of the second quarter and freshman Kevin Patterson's career-long 43-yard field goal as the half expired.

Curry took a 7-0 lead on a Tyran Harrigan 23-yard touchdown pass from Kevin Fruwirth at the 4:16 mark of the opening stanza, capping a 9-play, 84-yard drive in 2:57 time of possession. Brett Kane made it 14-0 after hauling in a 91-yard catch-and-run from Fruwirth with 24 seconds remaining.

Sophomore linebacker Nathan Fleming led WNE with 13 tackles, followed by Kenny Strecker and Kyle Jones with 11 apiece. Senior co-captain Kevin Soule added eight tackles, including two for loss of 7 yards and a sack worth 6.

Curry defensive back Jean Charles led all players with 16 tackles, including three for loss of 10 yards. Jeff Claffey (12), Jose Rodriguez (11), Stanley Sainterlien (10) and Jeff Janoski (10) also had double-digit stops for the Colonels.

The Golden Bears out-gained the Colonels in total yards, 563 to 494, and first downs, 27 to 23. Krafick completed passes to 10 different receivers, including Cook with five catches and Alex McMurray with 87 yards on three balls.

Western New England capitalized on a few Curry miscues. In the second quarter, Cook got the Golden Bears on the scoreboard with his 1-yard touchdown run following a missed 32-yard field goal. Then in the third stanza, Cook made it a 17-point lead after the Colonels had a bad snap on a punt and WNE took over on downs at the CC 30. (Cook set it up with a 28-yard rush to the 2-yard line.) Freshman Isaiah Berrios had an interception to eventually lead to a Krafick-to-Adam Dunne 7-yard TD pass play to round the scoring for the Golden Bears.

With the home finale in the books, WNE hits the road next Saturday at Endicott in a 5 p.m. NEFC tilt.