Sacred Heart Runs 56 Times and Holds Off New Hampshire 20-13
Sacred Heart is 1-2 and New Hampshire is 1-3, and the gap between them was a lot of running. Sacred Heart carried the ball 56 times for 251 yards and beat New Hampshire 20-13, scoring its last points in the third quarter and then simply not letting anything else happen.
It was close for a half. Sacred Heart kicked a 23-yard field goal, New Hampshire answered with a 29-yarder, and it was 3-3 late in the first quarter. John Michalski ran in from a yard out to make it 10-3, and 42 seconds later Myles Thomason ripped off a 49-yard touchdown run to tie it at 10-10. Ryan Bocklet's 30-yard field goal with 2:03 left in the half put Sacred Heart back in front, 13-10, and it never gave the lead up again.
The third quarter decided it. Sacred Heart scored on a 2-yard run with 9:07 left to make it 20-10, and New Hampshire got a 23-yard Lucas Glassburn field goal with 4:25 left in the quarter to cut it to 20-13. That was the last score of the day. There were no points in the fourth quarter at all, which means New Hampshire had a full quarter to find a touchdown and did not.
The yardage tells it plainly: Sacred Heart had 346 total yards to New Hampshire's 262, and only 95 of those came through the air. Neither team threw an interception, and Sacred Heart lost one fumble. It was a low-scoring, ground-bound game that the winners did a little better.
For fantasy, nothing here moved the needle. The top score of the game was only 16.5, which is what happens when 56 carries meet 95 passing yards.