North Dakota Scores 42 in the First Half and Coasts
Forty-two points by halftime. North Dakota did all of its damage before the break, led 42-0 at the half, and then watched Long Island University score three touchdowns after it. The final was 42-21, and the first half was the whole story.
It started on North Dakota's first score, a 14-yard Jerry Kaminski pass to Korey Tai, and kept going. Matt Lawson ran in from 4 yards and the Fighting Hawks went for two and got it, so it was 15-0. Kaminski found Nathan Hromadka from 5 yards, then Caleb Goodloe from 28, Charles Langama ran in from 13, and Lawson added a 1-yarder with 2:27 left in the half (the extra point failed, which is the only reason it was not 43). Six touchdowns, five different scorers, and North Dakota never trailed.
Long Island got going after intermission. Tyselle Spencer ran in from 13 yards in the third, Luca Stanzani hit Boakai Veikei for 65 yards with 13 seconds left in the quarter, and Stanzani ran in from a yard out with 3:38 to play. That was 21 straight second-half points, which made the scoreboard look more respectable than the game was. North Dakota out-gained them 465 yards to 255,, with 168 of those on the ground on 46 carries.
Both teams turned it over (North Dakota threw one interception, LIU had an interception and a lost fumble), so it was not a turnover game either. North Dakota is 1-0, LIU 0-1.
For fantasy, Kaminski's 17 of 21 for 232 yards and three touchdowns produced 26.9 points, the most in the game, with Goodloe next at 22.8.