Dunmore, PA — When Dunmore needed one or two yards, Thomas Bowen got the job done. When the Bucks needed four or five yards, Jacob Hickey got the call. And when the Bucks needed a momentum spark in the second half, Danny Pigga delivered. Bowen scored on a pair of short quarterback sneaks in the first half and Pigga broke a 54-yard touchdown run on the second play of the second half to give No. 5 Dunmore a 20-12 win over No. 8 Western Wayne in a Lackawanna Football Conference Division II game on Friday at Dunmore Veterans Memorial Stadium. Bowen averaged less than three yards per carry but in addition to his two touchdown runs, four of his carries gave Dunmore a first down, including one on the final drive to help run out the clock. “(The quarterback sneak is) not a pretty play but we run it successfully and he came up in key situations,” Dunmore coach Kevin McHale said. “He got the big first down at the end there. He’s been playing great football for us and he’s a great leader for us.” Bowen’s first touchdown on a 2-yard sneak capped a 13-play, 86-yard opening drive for Dunmore (6-2 overall, 3-0 in Division II). But Western Wayne answered back, going 58 yards in seven plays. Frankie Leyshon hit Sean Owens for a 17-yard gain on the drive and Josh Vinton powered in for an 8-yard touchdown run to tie the game at 6-6. Dunmore fumbled away its next possession and Western Wayne struck again on the next play as Owens beat two defenders for a ball down the right sideline and ran in for a 52-yard touchdown reception to give the Wildcats (5-3, 2-1) a 12-6 lead. Hickey had five carries for 25 yards on Dunmore’s next drive and Bowen scored on a 1-yard sneak on fourth-and-goal. The extra point was successful and Dunmore led 13-12 at halftime. Dunmore got the ball to start the second half and, after Hickey had a 3-yard gain on first down, Pigga ran up the middle, cut left and raced 54 yards for a touchdown to push Dunmore’s lead to 20-12. “I saw the cutback lane,” Pigga said. “It was a great play call. They knew that they were flying off the edge and the hole was there and I saw it and it was daylight from there. When you come out after halftime on your first drive and you go and score, that’s hard to come back from.” Leading by a point at halftime, McHale had a simple message for his players: ‘if they don’t score, they don’t win’. The Bucks’ defense took the message to heart, pitching a shutout in the second half to earn the win. (SOURCE: Herb Smith, The Scranton Times-Tribune)