PITTSFIELD - St. Josephs assistant football coach Jay Horth breaks out the candy when the Crusaders win. But there was nothing sweet about Easthamptons performance on Sunday afternoon.

The Eagles came to Pittsfield with hopes of earning their first win and keeping the Berkshire County team without a victory. They left on the short end of a 22-8 score.

Statistically, the game was pretty even. Both teams had seven first downs. The Eagles actually ran 46 plays for 162 total yards to 38 plays for 136 total yards for St. Josephs. The story was turnovers, and Easthampton committed a bunch.

The Eagles committed seven turnovers in the game. They lost four fumbles and had three passes intercepted. Two of the turnovers were turned into St. Josephs touchdowns.

We played terrible, Easthampton coach Joe Kocot said. The thing I cant stand is we fumbled when we werent getting hit. You get behind and Berkshire County teams always play tough. We didnt play well.

This isnt us. We scrimmage D-I teams and we go toe-to-toe with them. This isnt a D-I team we just played.

Shane Andrews had the big day statistically, rushing for 99 yards on 16 carries. He ripped off a 51-yard run on fourth down that put the ball on the St. Josephs nine. The Eagles couldnt convert and quarterback Alec Leavitt threw an interception.

The play that sums up this game in a nutshell came in the third quarter. The Crusaders had marched 80 yards in six plays and scored on Levante Wiggins 11-yard run. The big play of the drive was a 34-yard run by Roberson.

Easthampton got the ball on the kickoff and Leavitt returned it 26 yards to the St. Joes 45. The Eagles drive stalled and Leavitt tried to run the ball on fourth-and-4 from the Crusader 49. He lost five yards, Kelly basically took the ball out of Leavitts hands and was pretty much untouched the final 45 yards for his first touchdown.

For his part, St. Josephs head coach Gary Bianchi said he couldnt remember the last time his team forced seven turnovers in a game or scored a defensive touchdown.

St. Josephs had taken an 8-0 lead into halftime and kicked off to the Eagles to start the third quarter. Easthamptons offense quickly went 3-and-out. After a 39-yard punt by Chris Burrell, St. Josephs marched 80-yards in six plays for the touchdown. Quarterback Taverick Roberson had the big play, a 34-yard run and Wiggins went the final 11 yards, running over several tacklers on his way to the end zone.

The days statistical anomaly came shortly after as the Eagles ran the next 15 offensive plays and still fell behind by another touchdown.

Kellys touchdown came on the fourth play. The Eagles still managed 11 more plays before Leavitt was picked off by Jon Bianchi. Bianchi had one pick and two fumble recoveries on the day. That interception was the last of those 15 consecutive plays and Bianchi caught the ball three yards deep in the end zone and brought it out to the 18.

Its awful. I dont know whats going on, said Kocot. I know part of the problem. We have a quarterback issue. That doesnt happen in practice and it didnt happen in the scrimmage. You address the things that go wrong in the games and the practices, and you think you got it. Then new problems are cropping up that arent cropping up in practice.

The Crusaders came into this Sunday afternoon contest not only winless, but having scored six points in their first two games. They surpassed that total when Lavante Wiggins scored on a 33-yard touchdown run with 4:42 left in the first quarter and then scored on the two-point conversion.

Wiggins finished the day with 102 yards on 14 carries and two rushing touchdowns. The St. Joes defense, while giving up more yards than the offense gained, did force seven turnovers. There were four fumbles and three interceptions. One of the fumbles led to Wiggins first touchdown and the second led to Kellys 45-yard return for a touchdown.

Weve got to get better as coaches, and we definitely got to get better as a team, Kocot said. Its real bad right now. The last three weeks have been tough.