WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – After a tough stretch of three straight losses, the Mount Greylock football team bounced back by defeating visiting Drury, 18-13, on Friday night.

The Blue Devils made it tough on Greylock, though, as they put together a 14-play drive in the final six minutes of the game with hopes of getting a late score to steal the win but came up a yard short on fourth down and 8 from the Mounties 37-yard line.

"It was fun. It was a nail biter," Greylock coach Shawn Flaherty said. "I'm very proud of the kids, and it was a much needed victory tonight. I've seen it in a lot of sports, that victory is great medicine.

“It was an old school type of football game and was great to see us play tough with our backs against the wall and to hold on to a five point lead. So we still need to get better but we are going to use this and build off of it."

It was a back-and-forth affair to start the game as Drury came out on its first drive and drove 80 yards down the field with quarterback Nate Stump plunging in from 3 yards out for the first touchdown of the game. Kirby Bryce nailed the extra point and the Blue Devils were up early, 7-0. Senior running back Brendan Faas made a big impact on the drive with a 45 yard run on Drury's fourth play.

But Greylock came right back at them with a five-play drive that was culminated by a 22-yard scamper for a touchdown by sophomore running back Patrick Storie. The two-point conversion was no good but after a quick three-and-out by the Drury offense, the Mounties took back over and fed their running back, Storie, six straight times with the sixth going for a 35-yard touchdown. Another failed two-point conversion put the score at 12-7, Greylock.

This time though, when Drury got the ball back it was able to put some plays together. The key was using a plethora of backs to get the job done. Stump, Faas, Bryce, and Marquise Hamilton all contributed with positive yardage on the drive, but the most unlikely player ended up with the score for the Blue Devils.

On second down from the Mountie 29, quarterback Stump kept the ball on a keeper up the middle and though it looked like he would be taken down for a short gain, he emerged from the pile and dashed towards the end zone. But as he reached the goal line a Greylock defender caught him from behind and knocked the ball loose into the end zone. Senior captain lineman Kyle Clairmont though was there and fell on it for the score. The extra point was no good but Drury took back over the lead 13-12 and that's how it stayed into halftime.

Coming out of half trailing by one, the Mounties put together a 13-play drive, all runs, that chewed up seven minutes of the third quarter and ultimately ended with the game-winning touchdown. Greylock picked up four first downs including a big 17-yard bootleg run by quarterback Brodie Altiere to convert a long third down and 11. Of the 13 plays, Storie rushed 11 of them including the final one that went saw him take a sweep off the left side, cut up field and sprint away for a 26-yard score.

"We definitely saw some bright spots and positive stuff at half. We felt that we could get a lot of positive yards on those outside plays. The toss sweeps and our other sweeps," Flaherty said about the drive. "But I told the team though, we can't just run Pat into the ground. We've got to get other people involved just for the sake of rest. Brodie came up big with some nice plays. We got Colby [Massey] to get some positive yards and be a little bit more effective. But that was a real impressive drive, just in the sense that next thing you know it seemed like the third quarter was over and we are right in the fourth."

Drury got one final shot in the fourth after stopping another long Mountie drive deep into the Devils' territory. The Blue Devils took over on their own 19 with just less than six minutes to play, and – despite two fumbles, a false start, and a holding penalty – were able to move the ball down to the Greylock 37. Facing fourth and 8, Stump found senior Justin Girard for his third catch of the day but he came up just a couple feet short, turning the ball back over to Greylock to kneel out the clock.

Storie was instrumental in the win for Greylock as he carried the ball 28 times for 191 yards and three touchdowns.

"It was all the line," said Storie. "The line was just getting pushes. On those sweeps to the outside, we were getting everyone lead blocking and I was able to make the right cut. Make it up the hole into the end zone."

He added that the win meant a lot, "Brings momentum back to us, going into South Hadley we got to win, the momentum, were just bringing it."

More photos of this game here.