Quarterback Alex Park hooked up with Dean Bakes for a 9-yard touchdown pass with 1:31 to play as the Dartmouth College football team posted a 21-16 come-from-behind victory at Columbia on Saturday in New York City.

After tailback Marcorus Garrett scored on a 14-yard run to give Columbia a 16-14 lead with 2:46 remaining, Dartmouth (4-2, 2-1 Ivy league) took possession on its own 9-yard line. Park connected with Ryan McManus three straight times to move the ball into Columbia territory. McManus came up with another big grab to push the Big Green into the red zone, and a roughing-the-passer penalty put the ball on the 4-yard line. After a false-start penalty, Park found Bakes wide open to the right side of the end zone for the go-ahead score.

Columbia (1-5, 0-3) started its final drive on the 50-yard line after Riley Lyons’ kick-off sailed out of bounds with 1:09 to play. Sean Brackett’s desperation throw to Garner on fourth down was picked off by Stephen Dazzo with 27 seconds left to seal the victory.

The teams played to a scoreless first quarter before Dartmouth got on the board with 12:06 remaining in the second. The Big Green ran eight consecutive times before taking a 7-0 lead on a 1-yard run by quarterback Dalyn Williams.

A 41-yard strike from Brackett to Connor Nelligan set up a 25-yard field goal by Luke Eddy to cut the deficit to 7-3 with 7:09 before the half. Brackett then hit a diving Chris Conners in the left corner of the end zone to give the Lions a 10-7 advantage at halftime.

After being benched in the first half in favor of Park, Williams re-entered the game with 1:44 left in the third quarter and threw a deep pass to Bo Patterson, who took it 67 yards down the right sideline to put Dartmouth on top, 14-10, setting up the wild fourth quarter action.

Merrimack 81, St. Anselm 35

A record-setting game by the Merrimack offense propelled the Warriors to an 81-35 victory over Saint Anselm at North Andover, Mass.

Merrimack, which has the top-ranked offense in the Northeast-10, accounted for a team-high 524 yards in the first half of play and put up a school record 53 points.

The Warriors broke several Northeast-10 Conference records as they scored 81 points, recorded 801 total yards and racked up 553 passing yards. Senior quarterback Joe Clancy broke the Northeast-10 Conference record for passing yards in a game (553 yards), total yards in a game (561) and tied the conference record for passing touchdowns (seven). All of Clancy’s stats were accumulated in three quarters of action.

Clancy finished the game going 27 for 42 for 553 yards and seven touchdowns. All-American wide receiver Isaiah Voegeli tied a school record with four touchdowns and broke his own NE-10 record with 269 receiving yards.

Justin Bernard had two touchdown receptions for St. Anselm (1-7, 1-6 Northeast-10). Merrimack improved to 4-3 overall and 3-3 in the conference.

WNEC 23, Plymouth St. 3

Western New England scored 20 unanswered points in the second half Saturday en route to a 23-3 victory over Plymouth State in New England Football Conference Boyd Division action at Currier Field in Plymouth.

The Golden Bears improved to 5-3 overall and 3-2 in the NEFC. The Panthers dropped to 2-6 and 1-4.

The game was tied, 3-3, until Western New England’s Tucker Schumitz scored the game-deciding touchdown on a double reverse late in the third quarter. The play covered 33 yards. Schumitz also scored Western New England’s final TD on a 22-yard run in the fourth quarter.

Plymouth State’s only points came on a 24-yard field goal by Nick Cavallo in the second quarter. The field goal was set up by Andrew Foglia’s 31-yard halfback option pass to Zac Iovanella, which moved the ball to Western New England’s 23 yard line.