Henicle Accounts for Every Old Dominion Touchdown in Win over Norfolk State
Four touchdowns for Old Dominion, and Quinn Henicle was the answer on every one of them. He ran for two and threw for two, and the team closed out Norfolk State 31-10 in the opener.
Henicle scored first, from 13 yards in the opening quarter, then hit TJ Johnson from 11 yards early in the second. Nathanial Eichner added a 37-yard field goal and it was 17-0. Norfolk State got on the board just before halftime on a 3-yard run from Deljay Bailey, and Marco Peery's 37-yard field goal with 9:03 left in the third made it 17-10. That is a one-score game, and it lasted about five minutes.
Old Dominion answered with Henicle to Johnson from 14 yards at 4:18, then Henicle on a 2-yard keeper with 0:42 to go in the quarter. That was the last scoring of the day. Nobody scored in the fourth quarter, so the 31-10 lead going into it was the final margin, and Norfolk State never got another look at a one-score game.
The team numbers are modest for a 21-point win: 137 passing yards, 186 rushing yards on 39 carries, 323 total. Henicle himself threw one interception and Trey Hall lost a fumble, so this was not clean, but the defense took care of that with three sacks. Old Dominion is 1-0 and Norfolk State is 0-1.
Fantasy-wise, Henicle was the whole show, 36.3 points off 205 total yards and four scores. Johnson turned two catches into 16.5 points, which is a fine rate of exchange. JJ Harrell's three catches for 45 yards were the next best thing, and that is a short list.