Youngstown State Rallies from 14 Down to Beat North Dakota 31-28
Youngstown State scored the last 17 points of this game, and Lynn Wyche-El caught a third touchdown with 2:04 left to make it 31-28 over North Dakota. The Penguins are 7-1. North Dakota is 6-3 and wondering about the second half.
Youngstown State scored first, a 49-yard pass from Beau Brungard to Wyche-El with 11:19 left in the first quarter. North Dakota then ran off 21 straight. Jerry Kaminski threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Haydn Stay (the extra point was blocked), Charles Langama ran in from two yards, and Kaminski caught a 9-yard touchdown pass himself from Javance Tupou'ata-Johnson in the second quarter. It was 21-7 and the game looked settled.
Jaden Gilbert ran in from five yards to make it 21-14 early in the third, and Kaminski answered with an 11-yard run with 8:33 left in the third for 28-14. That was the last North Dakota score. Brungard and Wyche-El connected from 15 yards to make it 28-21, Andrew Lastovka kicked a 37-yard field goal for 28-24, and then Brungard and Wyche-El hit again from 20. Kaminski finished with a passing, a rushing and a receiving touchdown, which is a nice trick, and two interceptions, which is less of one.
Brungard went 19 of 29 for 268 yards and three touchdowns and added 64 rushing yards. Youngstown State had 455 yards to North Dakota's 367 and did not throw an interception.
Fantasy-wise, Wyche-El gave you 39 points on 148 receiving yards and three touchdowns, even with a lost fumble. Brungard had 35.1 and Kaminski, on the losing side, 32.1.