New Haven Edges Marist 22-21 on a Late Field Goal
Marist scored 21 points and its offense gained 160 yards. Read that again. Fourteen of those points came from a pick-six and a blocked punt, and Sonny Mannino's 5-yard run in the first quarter was the only touchdown the offense had a hand in. New Haven won 22-21 anyway, which says plenty about how lopsided the yardage was (421 to 160).
It was 3-0 New Haven after an early Liam Quigley field goal, and then Marist took over the scoreboard. Mannino's run made it 7-3, Jordan Caldwell returned an interception 25 yards for a touchdown early in the second quarter, and a blocked punt in the third turned into another score for Zach Garmont. That was 21-10 with the second half barely started, and New Haven's largest hole of the day.
The Chargers climbed out of it with two pieces of AJ Duffy's 311 passing yards. His 39-yard touchdown to Issac Glaudin cut it to 14-10 before halftime, and a 46-yarder to Nate Burleson II late in the third made it 21-19 (the two-point try failed). Between them Quigley hit a 35-yard field goal. Then Quigley's 19-yarder with 4:07 left gave New Haven the lead for the first time since the opening quarter, and Marist did not score again.
That is two lead changes in total, and the second one decided it. New Haven threw an interception and still won; Marist threw none, ran 27 times for 90 yards and passed for 70. Both teams are now a game into the season, New Haven 1-0 and Marist 0-1.
Fantasy owners got their points from the Chargers' air attack: Duffy had 27.9, Glaudin 23.4 and Burleson 15.8, the three best scores of the game.