Stonehill Wins 28-7 Despite Being Outgained by Sacred Heart
Sacred Heart gained 363 yards. Stonehill gained 341. Stonehill won 28-7, and nobody would have guessed that from the yardage.
Stonehill scored on a 6-yard Shane Eason run with 15 seconds left in the first quarter, and led for the rest of the afternoon. Jack O'Connell ran in from 22 yards in the second to make it 14-0, then threw a 21-yard touchdown to Jaylin Baker with 12:40 left in the third. It was 21-0 before Sacred Heart had a point. Then came the play that put the game away: Trevon Baxter returned a fumble 98 yards for a touchdown with 2:05 left in the third, and it was 28-0.
Without that return it is a 21-0 game with a lot of football left, and Sacred Heart still has 236 passing yards to work with. As it is they got one score, a 4-yard pass from Poochie Snyder to Dean Hangey with 12:51 left in the fourth. Sacred Heart had one interception and one lost fumble, and Stonehill had one interception and no fumbles lost, so the turnover edge was one, and the one it had was a touchdown.
Stonehill ran 29 times for 207 yards and threw for 134, which is a team that ran well and let the other side make the mistakes. Sacred Heart ran 38 times for 127 and threw for 236 and still lost by 21.
Stonehill is 2-2 after this one. Sacred Heart drops to 2-3. For fantasy, the best scorer was O'Connell, but the second was on the losing side: Hangey.