Lehigh Runs past Holy Cross Behind a Three-touchdown Day from Yoder
Lehigh scored three touchdowns in the first quarter, all on the ground, and Holy Cross spent the rest of the afternoon trying to catch up to a 21-0 deficit. It never did. Lehigh won 35-10.
Hayden Johnson broke the game open with a 65-yard run on the first possession that scored, and Luke Yoder followed with runs of 4 and 33 yards. Holy Cross got a 26-yard field goal from Owen Saraceno in the second quarter and nothing else until the fourth. Lehigh never trailed and the game was never tied.
Johnson, the quarterback, threw a 14-yard touchdown to Nick Palumbo in the third quarter for 28-3, then Holy Cross cut it to 28-10 on a 15-yard pass from David Lynch to Drae Tyme early in the fourth. Yoder answered with his third touchdown, a 6-yarder with 9:59 left, and that was the final margin.
The yardage tells you how different the two teams' days were. Lehigh ran 40 times for 281 yards and threw for just 117. Holy Cross did the opposite, passing for 313 and running 22 times for 78, and it threw two interceptions and lost a fumble. Lehigh had zero turnovers. Three giveaways and no running game is a rough way to start a season. Lehigh starts 1-0, Holy Cross 0-1. The Mountain Hawks never trailed and the game was never tied, and the Crusaders' passing numbers (313 yards) were the kind that usually win you something. Not this time.
Fantasy managers who started Yoder got 32.9 points. Anyone with Myles Abernathy got a lot of catches for a team that lost by 25.