Marist Outruns Stetson 28-14 Despite Fewer Yards
Stetson put up 334 yards. Marist put up 328. Marist won 28-14. That is the whole story, and it is a strange one.
Stetson led first, 7-0, on a 10-yard Tom von Grote pass to Shawne Jones early in the second quarter. Marist answered 1:52 of game clock later with a 30-yard Sonny Mannino touchdown pass to Lance Martinez, and then Isaiah Simmons broke a 44-yard run to make it 14-7. Stetson tied it at 14-14 early in the third on a second Jones touchdown. Then Marist scored twice more before the quarter ended (Reece Beauchamp from 29 yards, Simmons from a yard out with 0:56 left), and the fourth quarter had no points in it at all.
Here is where the yardage gets odd. Stetson threw for 335 yards and ran for negative one, on 15 carries. Marist threw for just 210 on 13-of-29 but ran 33 times for 118. Stetson also threw an interception, while Marist lost one fumble. Four touchdowns for Marist, two for Stetson, and all those passing yards never got Stetson past 14 points. Von Grote threw 49 times and found the end zone twice. Mannino, for his part, completed 13 of 29 and still threw touchdowns of 30 and 29 yards.
Marist is 2-2 now. Stetson is 0-4, and it is losing games where it moves the ball, which is the harder kind of 0-4 to explain.
For fantasy, Simmons ran for two touchdowns and led everyone with 22.7 points. Von Grote and Mannino both landed in the 20s, so two quarterbacks who played very different games finished within a point of each other.