Northern Arizona Beats Incarnate Word 38-28 Despite 606 Yards Allowed
Incarnate Word gained 606 yards and lost by 10. Northern Arizona won 38-28, and a 47-yard fumble recovery touchdown from Jordan Pigram is the reason it was not 31-28.
Yes, 606. Emmett Brown threw 50 passes and completed 33 of them for 426 yards, and the team put up 430 in the air and 176 on the ground. It also threw three interceptions and lost three fumbles. Six turnovers will cancel out a lot of yards. Northern Arizona had zero interceptions, one lost fumble, and 336 total yards, 183 of them on the ground.
It started close. Northern Arizona kicked a 55-yard field goal, Jayden Hibbler ran in from 4 yards to put Incarnate Word up 7-3, and Kenveon Stone answered with a 4-yard run with 0:13 left in the first quarter. Stone added a 28-yarder in the second and Myseth Currie caught a 13-yard touchdown from Ty Pennington with 0:19 left in the half, so it was 24-7 at the break. Zach Phipps got a 56-yard score from Brown to start the third, and Quran Gossett answered with a 30-yard run to make it 31-14 entering the fourth.
Damashja Harris ran in an 11-yarder early in the fourth to cut it to 31-21. Then came the fumble return, 38-21 with 8:38 left. Lontrell Turner scored from 5 yards with 5:05 left to make it 38-28, and that was the last scoring.
Northern Arizona is 2-0. For fantasy, it was the Incarnate Word receivers who paid: Phipps led the game with 22.5 points on 125 yards, and Brown was right behind at 20.8 even with a minus-22 rushing line.