St. Thomas Wins 35-7 as Nick Peipert Is in on Every St. Thomas Touchdown
Nick Peipert accounted for all four St. Thomas touchdowns: three rushing, one passing. The Tommies beat Davidson 35-7, and the second half was a formality.
Davidson did lead, once. Casey Bullock found AJ Adams from 11 yards with 12:49 left in the first quarter, and that was the whole Davidson scoreboard for the day. Two minutes later Peipert ran in from 19 yards and it was 7-7. Ben Hoiland kicked a 27-yard field goal with 15 seconds left in the quarter to make it 10-7, and Davidson never saw the lead again.
The second quarter was a landslide. Peipert scored from 4 yards at 10:16 (with a two-point conversion by Joseph Koch, so 18-7), from a yard out at 6:25 for 25-7, and threw a 19-yard touchdown to Pierce McCrary at 2:45 for 32-7. Hoiland added a 28-yard field goal with 6 seconds left in the half. That was the last scoring of the game. St. Thomas scored 35 straight points after Davidson's touchdown, and all of them came before halftime.
The yardage backs it up: St. Thomas had 492 yards (257 passing, 235 rushing) and turned it over zero times, against 193 for Davidson (134 passing, 59 rushing) and one interception. Davidson got seven points and about two minutes of a lead out of it. Take away Peipert's 116 rushing yards and three touchdowns and St. Thomas would have needed a different plan, but nobody had to find out.
St. Thomas goes to 5-2. Davidson is 2-5, and its second half did not change the scoreboard at all, which suits St. Thomas fine.