Stony Brook Erases a 15-point Hole to Edge Lindenwood
Stony Brook trailed for all but the last 7:39 of this one, and that was enough. Stony Brook went down 22-7 before halftime, then outscored Lindenwood 29-10 the rest of the way to win 36-32.
Lindenwood did its damage early. A field goal, then Pops Battle runs of 24 and 26 yards, a 50-yard Will Graham kick and a safety made it 22-7 with 5:02 left in the second quarter. Stony Brook got one back on a 28-yard Quinn Boyd pass to Keiden Gutierrez, but it needed a second-half rally. Boyd found Seth Sweitzer from 29 yards in the third, Michael Mannino kicked a 33-yard field goal, and it was 25-17 going to the fourth.
Then the fourth quarter turned into a track meet. CJ Hester ripped off a 52-yard run at 14:52 (the two-point try failed), Jared Rhodes answered with a 1-yard score, and Hester struck again from 5 yards at 12:11 to make it 32-30. Boyd put Stony Brook in front for good with an 8-yard run at 7:39. Two-point tries failed on two of those touchdowns, and Stony Brook still won by four. Lindenwood did not score again after that.
The box score is a funny one. Lindenwood ran 43 times for 155 yards, Stony Brook 28 times for 135, and neither team lost a fumble or threw an interception. The difference was through the air (298 yards against 209) and in the backfield, where Stony Brook sacked Battle four times to Lindenwood's two. Both teams sit at 1-1.
For fantasy, this was Sweitzer's day: a dozen catches for 157 yards. Boyd was the other name to own, and both of them came from the same side of a 4-point game.