Merrimack Runs for 318 Yards and Holds Off New Haven 17-10
Merrimack threw for 85 yards and won anyway. Merrimack ran it 56 times for 318 yards, and that was the whole plan on the way to a 17-10 win over New Haven. Matthias Latham alone had 176 of those yards, which is more than half the team total.
It was decided early. Latham broke a 64-yard touchdown run with 38 seconds left in the first quarter, and AJ Hairston Jr found Andrew Korkosz from two yards out in the second to make it 14-0. New Haven did not score until Jake Tripptree plunged in from a yard out early in the third, and from there Merrimack never trailed and never let it get tied. The visitors were down 14-7 entering the fourth.
The fourth quarter was a field goal swap. Guytano Bartolomeo hit from 26 yards with 8:19 to go to make it 17-7, and Liam Quigley answered from 32 with 4:24 left to make it 17-10. That was the last score of the afternoon.
The stat sheet says Merrimack was sloppier and still won. Merrimack lost two fumbles and threw no interceptions, while New Haven turned it over twice, one pick and one fumble. New Haven finished with 170 total yards on 22 rushes for 42 yards. Merrimack had 403 yards and two sacks. A 403-170 yardage edge and a seven-point win. Fine, I will take it.
Merrimack is now 2-2. New Haven drops to 1-3. For fantasy, Latham's 28.6 points were his best of the year by a mile, and nobody else in this game got past 13.