Ohio Pulls Away from Stonehill in a 35-7 Win
For a short while, Stonehill had Ohio's attention. Jack O'Connell found Cole Clarke on a 32-yard touchdown early in the second quarter to tie it 7-7, which was as close as the game ever got. Ohio then scored the next 28 points and finished it 35-7. Stonehill is 0-2. Ohio is 2-2, and the Bobcats now have a 28-point win to show for the week.
The Bobcats did it on the ground and with a quarterback who ran as well as he threw. Matt Vezza scored the first touchdown of the game on an 18-yard run, then added a 1-yard keeper in the third quarter, and in between he threw a 42-yard touchdown to Dom Dorwart. Victor Rosa scored twice, from 4 and 6 yards. Ohio piled up 525 yards, 303 of them rushing, with one interception its only giveaway.
Irving Brown ran 8 times for 97 yards, which is a nice way to spend an afternoon, and Mike Taylor Jr. added 48 on 10 carries. That is five Ohio ball carriers named so far in a 35-7 game, and I have not even gotten to the receivers: Neer had 113 yards on 5 catches and Jake Furtney added 25 on 3, so the passing game had a day too.
The fantasy takeaway is that the quarterback and running back both set season highs. Vezza's 30.2 points were the most he has scored this year (his four-game total is only 67.7, so this was nearly half of it), and Rosa's 22.1 was a season high of his own.