Morehead State Outlasts Winless Stetson 38-31
Stetson is 0-7, and it scored 31 points and threw for 350 yards. That is the kind of season it is. Morehead State won 38-31, and Blake Fisher did most of the damage.
It was tied three times and the lead changed hands twice. Morehead State went up 7-0 on a Bryce Patterson touchdown pass to Cannon Dinger, Tom von Grote answered with a 37-yard strike to Landon Farco, and Fisher's 11-yard run made it 14-7. Von Grote hit Farco again from 43 to tie it, and Troy Flowers ran in from three yards to put Stetson up 21-14 before halftime. The third quarter was a trade of field goals and one Patterson-to-Fisher touchdown, which left it 24-24 entering the fourth.
That is where Morehead State pulled away. Patterson found Fisher again from 11 yards with 9:42 left for a 31-24 lead, and Jackson Lanier added a five-yard run with 1:41 to go to make it 38-24. Von Grote hit Shawne Jones from two yards with 59 seconds left, which made the final closer than the game was.
Farco finished with four catches for 102 yards and two touchdowns, Jones had six for 76 and a score, and Flowers ran 15 times for 52 and caught five more. Stetson's offense moved, with 428 yards against Morehead State's 438. It simply could not stop anyone in the fourth quarter, when the home team scored 14 straight points before the late Stetson touchdown.
Morehead State ran 45 times for 204 yards and did not turn it over. Stetson ran 24 times for 78 and threw one interception. Morehead State moves to 1-5, while Stetson stays winless. Fisher's line is the fantasy story: 35.8 points in one afternoon, out of 47.4 for his whole season.