Bethune-Cookman Buries Stetson 43-18 Behind Three Rashon Brown Scores
Four sacks, two interceptions and zero giveaways. Bethune-Cookman's defense did the heavy lifting and the offense just had to avoid messing it up, which it did, and the result was a 43-18 win over Stetson.
Stetson did lead, for about a minute and a half. Trey Hess hit a 40-yard field goal with 6:24 left in the first quarter, and then Rashon Brown punched in a 1-yard run to make it 7-3. That was the only lead change of the day. Brown added an 8-yarder early in the second and a 3-yarder early in the third, and by then it was 21-10. Troy Flowers had cut it to 14-10 with a 3-yard run with 1:02 left in the half, which is as close as Stetson got after that opening exchange.
The fourth quarter is where it got silly. Josh Evans caught a 45-yard touchdown from Amari Jones on the first scoring play of the period, Ryder Goodwin kicked a 28-yard field goal, and Isaiah Daniel ran in an 8-yarder (the extra point failed) to make it 37-10. Stetson answered with a 27-yard pass from Thomas Von Grote to Landon Farco and a two-point conversion to Wyatt Rogers, which made it 37-18, and then Daniel scored again from 12 yards as the clock hit 0:00.
The yardage was nearly even, 321 to 315, which tells you where the game went. Bethune-Cookman ran 39 times for 150 yards and threw for 171, never lost the ball, and held Stetson to 123 rushing yards on 30 carries. Von Grote threw 31 passes for 192 yards and two picks. Yards were a wash. Turnovers were not.
Bethune-Cookman is 1-0 and Stetson is 0-2. For fantasy, the home backfield did the damage: Brown and Daniel combined for five rushing touchdowns on 21 carries.