Furman Beats Mercer 20-13 on a 47-yard Run with 47 Seconds Left
Ben Croasdale ran 47 yards for a touchdown with 0:47 left, and that was the difference. Furman beat Mercer 20-13 in a game with four lead changes, two ties and a lot of giveaways, and the Paladins are 1-0 while Mercer is 2-1.
It was mostly field goals for a long stretch. Nathan Chapman kicked a 44-yarder for Furman, Simon Zeidan answered with a 54-yarder, and there were no points in the second quarter. Zeidan hit another from 47 yards in the third to put Mercer up 6-3, and then Jake Garcia threw a 46-yard touchdown to Daniel Haughton to make it 10-6 Furman after three quarters.
Mercer got the lead back at 13-10 on JP Pickles' 1-yard run with 13:20 left. Chapman's 43-yard field goal tied it with 4:53 to go, and Croasdale's run settled it.
The turnovers were the real story, and Mercer lost that count 5 to 3. Mercer threw four interceptions and lost a fumble, while Furman threw two interceptions and lost a fumble of its own. Furman, for its part, gained 316 yards to Mercer's 361 and still won, which is a sentence that makes more sense once you see the pick count. Furman sacked Mercer's quarterback three times and Mercer got four on Garcia.
For fantasy, Haughton had the top mark on the day with 25.6 points on eight catches, and Travion Solomon of Mercer had 18 on 120 receiving yards without a touchdown. Garcia was the other name on the list, at 15 points despite two interceptions and a lost fumble.