CJ Hester Scores Four as Stony Brook Beats Rhode Island 56-24
Stony Brook scored 42 of the last 49 points in this game, and a lot of them came on one-yard runs. Stony Brook beat Rhode Island 56-24, and the score was tied at 14 midway through the second quarter.
Rhode Island scored first (Terrence Campbell, 8 yards) and led again at 17-14 after a Josh Hamel field goal with 3:49 left in the second quarter. From there it was one-way traffic. CJ Hester ran in from a yard at 0:50 and again at 0:12, two touchdowns 38 seconds apart, to turn 17-14 into 28-17 at the half. Quinn Boyd added a 69-yard touchdown pass to James Dely in the third, and Hester got his fourth with 0:30 left in that quarter.
Rhode Island found one answer, a 36-yard pass from Tyler Budge to Marquis Buchanan, but Jeremiah Coney scored from a yard out and then from 3 yards to close it out. Stony Brook ran 54 times for 326 yards and finished with 524 total yards to Rhode Island's 311. It had no turnovers and four sacks.
Both teams are 2-1. For fantasy, this was a game of rushing touchdowns: Hester had four, Coney three, and Boyd ran for 153 yards on 14 carries (29.2 points) in addition to his 69-yard strike. If you had a Stony Brook back, you did well, and if you had a Rhode Island player you likely did not. Tyler Budge threw for 209 yards and a score, and Marquis Buchanan caught 7 passes for 124 yards, but the scoreboard never let them matter.