Brooks Davis Scores Three as Montana Beats Eastern Washington
Brooks Davis caught nine passes for 231 yards and three touchdowns, and his 61-yarder with 1:54 left turned a two-point game into a nine-point one. Montana beat Eastern Washington 42-33.
Davis opened the game with a 75-yard touchdown from Keali'i Ah Yat on Montana's first score, then added a 51-yarder as the first half expired to make it 21-13. Those two plus the 61-yarder came to 187 of his 231 yards. His three scores account for 21 of Montana's 42 points, exactly half.
Eastern Washington would not go away. Nate Bell threw touchdowns of 24 yards to Drew Carlson, 29 to Wesley Garrett and 28 to Jaxon Branch, and ran one in from 4 yards with no time left in the third to make it 28-27. Branch's score with 3:00 to play made it 35-33 (the two-point try failed). The Eagles led nowhere, though. Montana scored first and was never tied or behind. Eli Gillman's 68-yard run early in the fourth gave them the 35-27 cushion.
Montana is 6-2 and Eastern Washington is 2-6. Bell threw three interceptions to Ah Yat's two, which mattered, but Montana's 494 yards to 379 mattered more. Take away the last Davis touchdown and the Eagles would have had a chance at a tying drive down two.
For fantasy, Davis's 50.1 points was a season high, and Ah Yat (37.1) and Bell (36.1) were close together just behind him.