John Anthony's Three Touchdowns Carry Southeast Missouri State past Lindenwood
John Anthony caught four passes and three of them were touchdowns. That is the kind of ratio that wins fantasy weeks and, in this case, a football game.
Southeast Missouri State beat Lindenwood 38-27, and the Redhawks had to do some work to get there. Lindenwood scored first when Pops Battle ran 50 yards, and again when Jared Rhodes broke a 43-yard run early in the second quarter to make it 14-7. Braylen Ragland answered both times: a 19-yard touchdown pass to Anthony in the first quarter, a 29-yarder to him less than two minutes after Rhodes' score, and then Khyair Spain ran in from 4 yards with 27 seconds left in the half to put the visitors up 21-14.
The game was tied three times (7-7, 14-14 and 21-21) and the last tie was the odd one. Brayon Crawford took a fumble back 86 yards for a touchdown with 7:00 left in the third quarter, which was Southeast Missouri State's only lost fumble, and it was 21-21. Ragland and Anthony then connected from 23 yards with 2:24 left in the quarter, Ragland scored from 1 yard early in the fourth, and Justin Keller added a 45-yard field goal. That was 38-21.
Steve Hall's 5-yard run with 5:06 left made the final score a little more respectful. The visitors ran 50 times for 218 yards and threw no interceptions, and Lindenwood had 29 carries for 199 yards.
Southeast Missouri State goes to 3-2 and Lindenwood drops to 1-2. For fantasy, Ragland scored a season-best 34.0 points, and Anthony right behind him at 30.2.