UL Monroe Takes the Lead for Good on a 40-yard Field Goal
The lead changed four times, and UL Monroe owned the last one. Abram Murray's 40-yard field goal with 1:49 left gave the Warhawks a 19-17 win at Arkansas State, and it made up for a blocked extra point early on that nobody ended up needing.
UL Monroe scored first, Aidan Armenta running in from 9 yards for a 6-0 lead after that blocked kick. Arkansas State flipped it with Trey Owens throwing 17 yards to Hunter Summers and Timothy Carter running 4 yards, so it was 14-6 midway through the second quarter and the home team was up eight. Murray's 23-yard field goal with 5 seconds left in the half cut it to 14-9. Armenta's 2-yard run at 9:33 of the third quarter made it 16-14 UL Monroe, Clune Van Andel's 41-yarder with 5:42 left put Arkansas State up 17-16, and then Murray had the last word.
The Warhawks did it on the ground. They ran 48 times for 273 yards and passed for 121, while Arkansas State ran 25 times for 120 and threw for 193. Each team threw two interceptions, UL Monroe's defense had two sacks to one for Arkansas State, and nobody lost a fumble. UL Monroe picked up 394 yards and Arkansas State 313.
UL Monroe moves to 2-7, Arkansas State drops to 4-5. That kick was the last score of the game, so the whole thing really came down to it.
For fantasy, this was a quarterback game with little to see: Owens led at 20.4, Armenta had 18.9 on two rushing scores and two interceptions, and Austin Carlisle ran for 111 yards.