ALTOONA -- Bishop McDevitt scored 27 consecutive points in the second and third quarters and outlasted Montour, 41-32, in the PIAA semifinals Friday at Mansion Park Stadium.

Montour's Dillon Buechel passed for 324 yards and Darren Massey set a PIAA Class AAA record with 200 receiving yards, but the District 3 champion Crusaders of Harrisburg held the Spartans offense in check in the second half, limiting them to a fourth-quarter touchdown.

"We had no flow there in the second half," Montour coach Lou Cerro said. "We didn't have the ball for a long time, or anything like that. They put us in that position."

Bishop McDevitt held Spartans running back Julian Durden to zero second-half rushing yards after he rushed for 99 in the first half.

"We just tackled," Bishop McDevitt coach Jeff Waechter said. "In the first half we had guys there but he was just spinning off of us."

The Crusaders came out of halftime trailing, 26-20, and scored three consecutive touchdowns to take control of the game.

First, Alec Werner found Andre Robinson on a 10-yard screen pass for a score. Werner finished 17-of-25 passing for 216 yards and three touchdowns.

Darnell Holland added two rushing touchdowns of 3 and 5 yards to put the Crusaders up, 41-26, after three quarters.

Montour had a chance to make a comeback late, but trailing by nine with 7:23 left, Devin Wilson dropped a pass on fourth-and-3 that would have been a first down. Wilson had 10 catches in the game for 101 yards.

Buechel also threw three second-half interceptions that cut Montour drives short.

"Dillon's a big-time player," Cerro said. "Hat's off to him."

The game looked as if it would be an offensive shootout early. Both teams traded punches offensively in the first half, combining for just one punt in the first 24 minutes.

The Spartans opened the scoring on their first drive. On second-and-10 from the Bishop McDevitt 30, Buechel completed a screen pass to Durden to the 15. Durden fumbled, and the ball squirted forward to the 5, where Aaron Reed scooped it up and ran it in for a touchdown that put the Spartans up, 6-0.