Bucknell Scores 14 in the Fourth to Bury VMI
Bucknell trailed 3-0 with seven minutes left in the fourth quarter. It won 14-3. Fourteen points in the last 6:51, none before that, and VMI never got another score after a Jack Joyce 26-yard field goal late in the second quarter.
That field goal was the whole VMI night. The Keydets (0-2 now) ran the ball 36 times for 104 yards, threw for 155 on 11 of 27 from Ian Reynolds, and gave it away once. Bucknell outgained them 347 yards to 259 and never turned it over, which tells you the first three quarters were more about a stalled offense than a great defense. Credit the Bison for waiting out their own slow start.
The break came with 6:51 to play, when Christopher Dietrich hit Jackson Nowinski for 27 yards and Juan Garanton's kick made it 7-3. Then Michael Cadden finished off the game with an 8-yard run with 2:19 left, and the extra point made it 14-3. Two drives, two touchdowns, and a game that looked like a slog turned into an 11-point win (a score that flatters nobody, but a win is a win).
Bucknell moves to 1-2. VMI is 0-2 and has scored 3 points in this one, which is an easy number to remember and a hard one to build on.
For fantasy, this was a quiet one with a clear top three: Dietrich, Cadden and Nowinski, all Bucknell, all on the two fourth-quarter scores or the passing yards that set them up. If you wanted points out of VMI, you went home with Reynolds at 8.8 and not much else.