EDINBORO -- When the Lock Haven University football team visited Sox Harrison Stadium Saturday for its PSAC-West opener with Edinboro, it appeared to be a matchup of two teams headed in opposite directions.

Going into the contest, the Bald Eagles were winless at 0-5, while the Fighting Scots were 5-1 overall, winners of their last five outings after a season-opening loss.

After a marathon game that took nearly three-and-a-half hours to complete, the directions of the two teams remained the same as the Bald Eagles came out on the short end of a lopsided 70-19 Boro win.

"I think it is a combination of the youth we have on our team with a lot of injuries," said LHU coach John Klacik. "It is a long season and I think it is catching up with some of our younger players. Basically, what we need to do is find some way on both sides of the ball to get some results. We just have to keep working hard to get better. Sometimes I look out there and see where we are getting better, and then are some things that we need to fix really fast."

From the Scots initial possession, it became evident of their game plan. Put the ball in the hands of quarterback Trevor Harris and let his right arm do the rest.

In the opening period, Harris completed his first 15 passes while tossing a pair of touchdowns, the sophomore signalcaller finishing with 25 completions on 29 attempts for 340 yards and three scores. Harris also utilized a wealth of receivers as his passes went to no less than 10 different receivers.

"When we watched him on film, you soon pick up on the fact that they realize their success is going to be on his right arm," noted Klacik. "They are not the Edinboro of old where they are just going to line up and try to pound you. He really does some nice things and right now, he is the difference-maker for them."

Although the Scots led by the 14-0 count after one period, the Bald Eagles weren't without their opportunities as well as they put together a pair of nice drives, but came up with an empty bucket in terms of points.

"You have to be able to finish those type of drives when we had some success moving the ball," Klacik said. "On the offensive side of the ball, I think we are slowly getting better because I see us making improvements since day one. However, on defense, we are not getting any better and that is what worries me on that side of the ball."

After the Boro extended its lead to 20-0 with a 13-yard interception return by Taurean Valentine, the Bald Eagles got on the board for the first time in the game following an interception of a Harris aerial by Corey Gildea, setting up an Ilio DiPaolo to DeMar Dowell, Jr 30-yard scoring hookup.

Dowell caught the ball in the Edinboro 3-yard line, and simply refused to go down as he dragged no less than three Fighting Scot defenders into the end zone for the touchdown. For the game, Dowell finished with eight catches for 136 yards and a pair of scores.

"He (Dowell) has been injured all year and this is only his second game," said Klacik. "He is really going to be something for us down the road. Right now he is a good player and he is going to nothing but get better. He has a chance to be like Rafael Smith was for us. He blocks and plays physical. He is a special player and we are lucky to have him."

Trailing by the 21-6 count, the Scots came up with the backbreaker as they scored a pair of touchdowns in less than three minutes just prior to halftime for a 35-6 lead at the break.

"Those two touchdowns really killed us, especially the second one," noted Klacik. "We were down 21-6, and although we continued to play hard, we didn't stop them very much in the first half. They did pretty much what they wanted to do."

If Klacik, his assistant coaches and players thought things were bad in the first half, they would get even worse in the third period when the Scots scored four more times for a 63-12 lead after three periods before setting the final at 70-19 in the final 15 minutes.

Although the Bald Eagles came up well short on the final score, DiPaolo, despite suffering with some concussion problems in recent weeks, showed some improvement. For his afternoon, the sophomore quarterback completed 17 of 30 attempts for 186 yards and a pair of scores, but was intercepted three times.

"I thought he got better today," praised Klacik. "I though he played his best game of the year today, but we need better quarterback play from him. He still tries to force too many things to happen. The big difference between him (DiPaolo) and (Harris) is that the Edinboro quarterback never seems to force anything. He has to learn to make better decisions at times when to throw the ball and when to pull it down and take off with it."

Now 0-6 overall and 0-1 in the conference, things don't get any easier for the Bald Eagles as they host conference powers California and IUP the during the next two weekends.