Marist Holds Off Drake After a 9-point Deficit
Sonny Mannino threw two interceptions, completed 13 of 26 passes, and one of those 13 went 57 yards for the touchdown that put Marist in front for good. That is a fair summary of a 27-22 win over Drake that Marist trailed by nine in the second quarter.
Drake got going first with a 31-yard Griffin Kollhoff field goal, and Marist answered with a 2-yard Mannino run for a 7-3 lead. Then came the Drake burst: Riley Warzynski hit Hank Foley from 3 yards (the extra point failed), and Kyle Cottee ran one in from a yard out to make it 16-7 with 13:06 left in the half. Mannino scored from 2 yards again with 49 seconds left before the break, and Marist went to the locker room down 16-14. Luke Stenson's 18-yard field goal late in the third put Marist ahead 17-16. Zach Garmont's 57-yard catch made it 24-16 with 12:59 left, Warzynski found Mitchell January from 23 yards to get within 24-22 (the two-point try failed), and Stenson's 37-yard field goal with 4:58 to play ended the scoring.
Drake actually outgained Marist 410 yards to 387, with 269 through the air to Marist's 215, and it threw one interception to Marist's two. It was not the yardage that decided it. Drake missed an extra point and a two-point try, and lost by five. Marist sacked Warzynski twice and Drake never got to Mannino.
Marist moves to 3-3 and Drake falls to 2-4. For fantasy, this was a good one to own either quarterback: Mannino 32.7 and Warzynski 29.2, with Garmont's 156 yards on seven catches the real separator.