Lehigh Stays Unbeaten, Shutting Out Penn Until the Final Minutes
Lehigh threw for 49 yards. Forty-nine, total. The Mountain Hawks still won 20-7 at Penn, because they ran the ball 45 times for 175 yards and the other side threw two interceptions.
It was slow going early. A 48-yard Connor Poole field goal with 1:47 left in the first quarter was the only scoring of the first half, so Lehigh took a 3-0 lead into the break and not much else. The third quarter is where it opened up: Derek Morgan ran 11 yards for a touchdown with 10:37 left, then threw 20 yards to Jamaire Harden with 6:16 to go, and it was 17-0. Poole added a 29-yard field goal early in the fourth to make it 20-0.
Penn did not get on the board until Tommy Lafayette ran in from a yard out with 2:14 left, which made the final look closer than the game was. Penn finished with 182 total yards to Lehigh's 224, and Miles Teodecki went 18 of 37 for 133 yards with those two picks (and minus 15 yards on his eight carries). Lehigh did not turn it over at all. Penn's Teodecki had the kind of day where two interceptions were the headline and the rest was just background.
The result moves Lehigh to 5-0, the only perfect record in this pairing. Penn is 1-1.
For fantasy, this was a low-volume game. Morgan led everyone with 17.1 points on a modest 6 of 15 passing, and Penn's Mason Page caught 8 balls for 44 yards to finish second. When the quarterback throws 15 times, the scoring is going to be thin.