Sacred Heart Erases an 18-point Hole to Beat Stony Brook 32-31
Stony Brook led 31-13 with 0:57 left in the third quarter. It lost 32-31. Sacred Heart scored 19 points in the last 15 minutes, the last one a 6-yard touchdown pass to Jason Palmieri with 0:09 left, and the Pioneers went to 4-3. Stony Brook fell to 5-3, and Quinn Boyd's four touchdown passes went to waste.
Sacred Heart started with two Ryan Bocklet field goals and a 33-yard touchdown run from Dean Hangey, and led 13-7 late in the second. Boyd answered with a 31-yard touchdown to CJ Hester, then a 19-yarder to D.J. Linkins with 0:05 left in the half, so Stony Brook took a 14-13 lead into the break. Two more Boyd touchdowns to Andrew Riggs (13 and 18 yards) and a Michael Mannino field goal built it to 31-13.
Then it flipped. John Michalski scored from a yard out with 5:45 left (the two-point try failed), Steven Dowdy Jr. caught a 4-yard pass at 2:09 to make it 31-26, and Palmieri's touchdown came after that. The two-point try failed again, which did not matter, because 32-31 was enough. Jack Snyder threw for 309 yards, and Sacred Heart gained 507 total yards to Stony Brook's 432. Stony Brook threw no interceptions and lost one fumble. The Pioneers threw one interception.
Fantasy-wise, Boyd had 38.9 points on 333 passing yards and four touchdowns, and Linkins had 28.8. Snyder gave you 26.5 on the winning side, and two of his touchdown passes came in the final 2:09, when the game looked finished. Hester also had 62 rushing yards and 91 receiving yards for Stony Brook.