UMass Runs Off 33 Straight Against Stonehill, Wins 36-14
T.Y. Harding scored twice for UMass, once on a 56-yard run and once on a 51-yard catch, and those two plays are 107 of his 129 yards. The Minutemen needed both.
Stonehill had the lead briefly in the first quarter. Derek Morris kicked a 30-yard field goal to open the scoring for UMass, Jack O'Connell hit Alijah Turner from 13 yards to put the visitors up 7-3, and Harding's 56-yard run flipped it to 10-7 with 7:33 left in the quarter. Morris added a 55-yard field goal with 1:38 left in the first, and it was 13-7 at the break after a scoreless second quarter. That was two lead changes and the only time Stonehill led.
The second half belonged to the home team. Curtis Kimmons IV scored from a yard out with 9:31 left in the third (the two-point pass failed), and Morris kicked a 33-yarder to make it 22-7. William Watson III ran one in from a yard out early in the fourth and then found Harding for the 51-yarder with 10:54 left. That is 33 straight points after Stonehill's touchdown, and 36-7. Drew Eason threw a two-yard touchdown to Derek Varley with 3:32 left for the final.
UMass finished with 355 yards, 195 on the ground on 35 carries, and threw one interception. Three of its scores were Morris field goals, nine points of a 22-point margin. The Minutemen are 3-0. Stonehill is 0-1. For fantasy, this was a Harding game, and nobody else on either side came close to his 28.9 points.