St. Thomas Hangs 64 on Winless Stetson
Sixty-four points. St. Thomas scored nine touchdowns, and the Tommies went from a 7-7 tie to a 57-7 lead without breaking stride.
That is the real story. After Stetson tied it on Wyatt Rogers' 3-yard catch late in the first quarter, St. Thomas scored 50 straight points. Nick Peipert threw touchdown passes of 26, 30, 38 and 12 yards and ran for scores of 2 and 1. Gabriel Abel added a 2-yard run with a two-point conversion, and Owen Lyons took a punt back for a 6-yard touchdown. By halftime it was 36-7, and by the end of the third quarter it was 57-7.
Stetson did score three times, which is something, and it never quit. Tom von Grote's touchdown passes to Rogers and Shawne Jones and a 48-yard Chris Stephenson run made the final 64-21. The Hatters gained 471 yards, 334 of them through the air, and still lost by 43. St. Thomas had 619 yards, 305 on the ground on 40 carries, and threw one interception. Peipert was 14 of 16, with two incompletions, one of which was the interception. Quentin Cobb-Butler caught two touchdown passes and Joseph Koch, Stefano Giovannelli and the rest shared the others.
St. Thomas goes to 3-2. Stetson is 0-5, and the box score will not make that easier to explain: nearly 500 yards, and a 43-point loss.
For fantasy, Peipert scored 60.5 points on 247 passing yards, 146 rushing yards and six touchdowns. Six of the nine touchdowns St. Thomas scored were his.