BUIES CREEK, N.C. -Campbell's football team (3-8, 2-6 Pioneer Football League) dropped the season finale to Jacksonville (7-4, 6-2 PFL) by 34-14 score on Saturday, Nov. 21 at Barker-Lane Stadium.

Redshirt sophomore C.J. Oates led the offensive charge with 125 yards rushing and a touchdown. The Camels ran for 173 yards as a team and ended the year with 2,087 yards on the ground. Redshirt junior Daniel Polk ran for 38 yards and also completed 12 passes for 93 yards. Redshirt junior Mike Stryffeler caught three passes for 34 yards. Jacksonville's Josh McGregor completed 22 passes for 222 yards and two scores.

Jacksonville started the scoring on the opening drive on three-yard run from Rudell Small. The Small run finished off a four-play 57 yard drive. The big play on the drive was a 39-yard pass from McGregor to Elliot Finkley. The Donovan Curry extra point was good to make the score 7-0 with 13:25 remaining the opening period.

The Camels answered on their opening drive with redshirt sophomore Jordan Cramer surging in from less than a yard out on fourth down. The drive covered 11 plays, 67 yards in 5:54. The Adam Willets kick was good to tie the game at seven all with 7:26 remaining in the first quarter. The touchdown was the first in the career of Cramer.

The Dolphins untied the game on the next drive with Small again punching it in.from a yard out. The drive covered 54 yards in eight plays and took 3:41 off the clock. The Curry extra point was good to increase the margin to 14-7. The drive was aided by a 15-yard personal foul penalty on Campbell.

The JU offense added another touchdown on the next drive with Josh Philpart coming up with a 12-yard scoring reception. The drive went 64 yards in 11 plays for the Dolphins.

After a potential productive Campbell drive ended in a turnover, the JU offense promptly marched down the field and added another score. Sam Bell was able to haul in a three-yard McGregor pass to make the score 28-7 after the made Curry extra point.

After another defensive stop the Dolphins offense was able to add a late 42-yard Curry field goal to make the score 31-7 heading into the break.

CU started the second half with a strong 12-play drive but it ended in another turnover that was returned to the Campbell three-yard line on Joseph Fennell's interception return. The Camels defense were able to prevent the touchdown but still gave up a 30-yard field goal from Curry to increase the score to 34-7 with 8:23 remaining in the third quarter.

The Campbell offense answered with a touchdown on their next possession with Oates rushing it in from four-yard out. The Willets extra point was good to draw Campbell to 34-14 with 3:50 remaining in the third quarter. Oates had 26 yards rushing on the drive. The drive would be the last score of the game for either team.

"Obviously we are disappointed," head coach Dale Steele stated. "Every time you go out you want to win. One of the things that we have tried to teach the kids all year is that with adversity comes lessons. We have had adversity strike us twice this year, when things didn't go well for us early. The first time we did not respond well but this time we responded like champions, we kept fighting until the end. We came back and held them to just three in the second half and gave ourselves a chance to win. When we started this journey 108 days ago, we said that we were just going to work to get better everyday and we got better today. "