Air Force Edges Navy 14-9 Despite Two Interceptions
Navy gained 68 yards on one pass play and 185 on everything else combined. That one play was a touchdown, and Air Force still won 14-9.
Air Force got both of its touchdowns from Liam Szarka, a one-yard run with 9:11 left in the second quarter and an eight-yarder with 33 seconds left in the half. Navy's 29-yard field goal with 2:21 left sat in between, so it was 14-3 at the break. The only scoring of the second half was Jackson Gutierrez's 68-yard pass to Truman Brasfield with 6:59 left in the third quarter. The two-point pass failed, which left Navy at 14-9. Flip that conversion and it is 14-11, which is still a three-point game. After that, nobody scored.
Air Force did it with a passing game that barely existed. Szarka went 6 of 11 for 82 yards and threw two interceptions, but the team ran 58 times for 190 yards and finished with 272 total yards to Navy's 253 (143 passing, 110 rushing). Navy did not throw an interception and lost one fumble. It just could not turn the yards into points.
The supporting cast was quiet. Luke Hutchison caught three passes for 48 yards for Navy, Jonah Dawson three for 39 for Air Force, and Michael Barrow carried nine times for 44 yards for Navy.
Air Force moves to 3-1. Navy drops to 1-3. In fantasy terms, this was a low-scoring game with two quarterbacks at the top of the sheet: Szarka with 23.4 Promethium points on two rushing touchdowns, and Gutierrez with 14.9.