Boston College Holds Maine at Bay for a 22-16 Win
Sixteen of Boston College's 22 points came in the first quarter, and the Eagles spent the rest of the game making sure that was enough. It was, by six. The Eagles scored on a run, a safety, a pass and then nothing but field goals.
Evan Dickens opened the scoring with a 39-yard run with 9:01 left in the first quarter. A safety followed with 3:40 left, and Mason McKenzie threw 31 yards to Johnathan Montague Jr. with 1:42 left for a 16-0 lead. Maine did not score until the second quarter, when Samuel Tremblay kicked a 27-yard field goal. Luca Lombardo answered with a 26-yarder for Boston College, and Eddie Buehler threw five yards to Nick Laughlin with nine seconds left in the half to make it 19-10 at the break.
The third quarter brought one score, another Lombardo 26-yard field goal, for 22-10. Buehler threw a seven-yard touchdown to Laughlin with 4:34 left, but Tremblay's extra point was blocked, so it stayed a six-point game and stayed there. Boston College never trailed and was never tied.
The Eagles picked up 363 yards, 190 on the ground on 36 carries, sacked Maine four times and threw two interceptions. They are 2-1, and Maine is 0-2. For fantasy it was an unusually flat game: Montague and McKenzie both finished with 18.2 points and Dickens was right behind at 18.