Box Score MANSFIELD, Pa. – A nine-yard pass from Brendan Miller to Michael Crawford with nine seconds remaining capped a 20-point fourth quarter, as sprint football beat Mansfield 26-24 in its final game of 2013 to finish 2-5 on the season.
 
The pass was Miller's only touchdown through the air on the afternoon as he finished 11 of 17 with 92 yards. On the ground, Miller was second only to teammate Benjamin Herrera with 51 yards and two touchdowns. Herrera finished with 98 yards on 13 carries.
 
In a back-and-forth affair, Cornell got on the board first with a 33-yard field goal by senior kicker John Rodriguez, who capped a six-play, two minute and 44-second Big Red drive with 1:37 to play in the first quarter.
 
Mansfield answered in the second when Rodriguez's counterpart, Kirk Haskill, converted a 19-yard field goal with 2:23 remaining in the second to send the teams to the locker room tied at three.
 
Rodriguez put the Big Red on top again in the third, this time with a 32-yard kick for a 6-3 Cornell lead with 12:35 to play in the quarter.  
 
From then on out, the team's traded touchdowns.
 
Mansfield took its first lead of the game when quarterback Mike Maniscalco completed a 25-yard touchdown pass to Kurt Logan to end a five-play, 35-yard drive. Haskill added the extra point to put the Mountaineers up 10-6 with three and a half minutes remaining in the third quarter.
 
Just 55 seconds into the final frame, a 12-play, 60-yard Big Red drive culminated with Brendan Miller's first rushing touchdown from the one yard line. Rodriguez converted the extra point and gave Cornell a 13-10 lead.
 
Mountaineers' wide receiver Kurt Logan threw one pass on Saturday afternoon and it was a 59-yard completion to Edward Larcom at the 8:14 mark of the fourth quarter to help Mansfield regain the lead, 17-13.
 
Less than two minutes later, Miller punched in his second rushing touchdown from 10 yards out to cap a five-play drive that spanned 77 yards, and put Cornell up 20-17.
 
The Mountaineers marched 70 yards down field in two minutes and 29 seconds and David Wallace ran the ball from the one-yard line to again give Mansfield the lead, 24-20, over the Big Red with just 3:40 to play in the season.
 
But with time winding down on what could potentially have been Cornell's worst season since 1999, senior co-captain Miller answered the call, finding Crawford in the end zone with nine seconds remaining to give the Big Red the 26-24 victory.
 
The final Cornell drive was 12 plays and spanned 62 yards.

On defense, Chris Sitko led the Big Red with 10 tackles, including six solo.