FERRUM, Va. - In a tale of two halves, the Bridgewater Eagles (2-1) football squad tied the game twice late after falling behind 24-7 at the intermission, before eventually falling 37-34 in overtime to the Ferrum Panthers (1-1) at WB Adams Stadium on the Ferrum campus.

The loss for the Eagles was the squad's first of the season.

After both teams saw their opening possessions stopped by an interception, Ferrum would start its second drive of the game at the BC 26.

With a third and seven for the Panthers just outside of the redzone, a Matt Dobson screen pass turned into six, before the PAT put Ferrum ahead by a 7-0 score.

Bridgewater would cross midfield on its second drive of the game, before things would stall out at the Ferrum 40 yard line giving Ferrum the ball back inside their own 20 following a Tim Newman punt.

Ferrum would make things look easy with a quick score to put the Panthers up by a 14-0 score.

Senior Seth Little would set BC up with great field position following a kick return to near midfield as the game entered the second stanza.

All things would continue to go Ferrum's way in the second as BC's drive stalled out just over the 50 yard line giving the Panthers the ball back.

Ferrum would drive the ball downfield with relative ease again until a Panther miscue gave the Eagles the football back.

BC's woes would continue after the Ferrum defense forced a Driskell fumble to set the Panthers offense up with great field position.

Three plays later, Ferrum would hit paydirt again to go ahead 21-0 following the PAT, putting BC in a deep hole midway through the second quarter.

Following a BC conversion on fourth down, the Eagles would find the endzone a few plays later off a Nathaniel Jackson touchdown blast to bring the score to a 21-7 tally with under a minute left in the first half.

BC's bad luck would continue when the first half expired, after a personal foul would give Ferrum another field goal attempt, this time much closer, from the 31. Ferrum would connect as time expired to take a 24-7 halftime lead.

Bridgewater would receive the ball to open the second half as the BC offense got clicking with a 39 yard gain on a Ryan Richmond pass in the flat.

Richmond would barrel through the Ferrum defense two plays later, across the middle again, as the Eagles found the endzone to bring BC within ten at a 24-14 margin.

BC would force Ferrum's first three and out of the game to get the ball back in a hurry before a Driskell pass across the middle to Patrick Smoot nearly went the distance, setting up a one yard run from Thomas Tate to give the Eagles new life at a 24-20 score following a missed PAT from kicker Will Davis.

Bridgewater's defense would go on to force back-to-back three and outs, before a Driskell interception gave Ferrum excellent field position at the BC 16.

Ferrum would then boot a 19 yard field goal to extend its lead to 27-20 with 12 and change remaining.

BC would waste little time as the Eagles utilized a no-huddle offense to punch in the equalizer with a short touchdown strike to Tyler Beiler with 9:05 left in the game to tie things up at 27.

After things were all Eagles for the first quarter of the second half, Ferrum would answer in a hurry with a 1:40 drive to take the lead back at a 34-27 tally with 7:25 left.

Bridgewater's offense would remain relatively unstoppable when Driskell would connect with Richmond for a one-yard strike to knot the game up at 34-34 with 1:31 left.

Ferrum would setup shop across midfield following an exceptional kick return before a penalty would pull the ball back to the Panthers' side of the field.

BC's defense put up another magnificent three and out to give BC's offense one final chance with 20 seconds left in the ball game.

The Eagles would take a knee to let time expire, pushing things to overtime.

Ferrum declined after winning the toss, giving BC the choice, where the Eagles chose to receive.

BC would pick up the first down, but a costly fumble by receiver Leigh Bradley would be recovered by the Panthers, giving Ferrum a chance to end the game.

Ferrum would have a touchdown averted before a run up the middle set up a 28 yard field goal attempt.

Following a Bridgewater timeout, the field goal would split the uprights to give Ferrum the 37-34 overtime victory.

On the afternoon, the Eagles outgained Ferrum at a 429-399 clip, lead by a 287 yard effort through the air.

Driskell ended the game at 19-of-29 for 287 yards and three touchdowns. Driskell also threw two costly interceptions.

On the ground, Nathaniel Jackson led the Eagles with 43 yards on 10 carries.

Smoot ended the day with 109 yards on four catches.

Joel Francis and TJ Montague led the Eagles defense with six tackles a piece.

Ferrum's Steven Harris ended the day with 103 yards and a touchdown on nine runs. Dobson ended the day with 94 yards and two touchdowns on a 9-15 afternoon. Dobson also  tossed one pick.

Bridgewater is back in action on Saturday, September 26 at 1:00 p.m. when Lycoming visits Jopson Field for the Eagles' final out of conference contest of the year.