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University of New Hampshire Athletics
Saturday, October 12
Stony Brook, N.Y.
6 PM
University of New Hampshire
4-2 , 3-0
20
at
14
Stony Brook
4-3 , 1-2
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2nd
3rd
4th
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New Hampshire
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0
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10
20
Stony Brook
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Team Stats
UNH
SBU
Total Yards
316
386
Pass Yards
196
180
Rushing Yards
120
206
Penalty Yards
15
50
1st Downs
19
21
3rd Downs
7
6
4th Downs
0
0
TOP
31:36
28:24
1st Quarter
UNH 7, SBU 0
UNH - Espanet,Brian 15 yd pass from Brosmer,Max (Hughes,Jason kick) 9 plays, 80 yards, TOP 3:46
2nd Quarter
UNH 7, SBU 7
SBU - Jean Constant 15 yd pass from Tyquell Fields (Nick Courtney kick) 12 plays, 78 yards, TOP 6:16
3rd Quarter
UNH 10, SBU 7
UNH - Hughes,Jason 22 yd field goal 7 plays, 62 yards, TOP 2:57
UNH 10, SBU 14
SBU - Ty Son Lawton 1 yd run (Nick Courtney kick), 8 plays, 87 yards, TOP 3:54
4th Quarter
UNH 17, SBU 14
UNH - Espanet,Brian 20 yd pass from Brosmer,Max (Hughes,Jason kick) 13 plays, 73 yards, TOP 5:43
UNH 20, SBU 14
UNH - Hughes,Jason 42 yd field goal 6 plays, 34 yards, TOP 3:30
Game Leaders
CMP
16
TD
2
YDS
196
INT
0
Players Mentioned
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DE
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K/P
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RB
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LB
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CB
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Josh Kania (95) and Cameron Brusko (5) celebrate a stop
Photo by: Jim Harrison
Football upsets No. 22 Stony Brook, 20-14
10/12/2019 10:07:00 PM | Football
STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Max Brosmer (Roswell, Ga.) threw a pair of touchdown passes to Brian Espanet (Hopedale, Mass.), including a 20-yard go-ahead strike with 5:43 left in the fourth quarter, and a bend-but-don't-break defensive effort helped the University of New Hampshire football team upset No. 22 Stony Brook, 20-14, in a CAA game at LaValle Stadium on Saturday night.
With its fourth straight win, UNH improved to 4-2 and remained atop the CAA with a perfect 3-0 conference record.
Stony Brook dropped to 4-3, 1-2.
Brosmer went 16 of 26 for 196 yards and registered his third multi-touchdown game of his true freshman season.
Espanet set career highs in receptions (four), receiving yards (game-high 59) and TD catches (two), and now leads the Wildcats with four scoring catches this season.
The Seawolves outgained the Wildcats, 386-316, but the UNH defense recorded one interception and stopped the home team on three separate fourth-down plays.
Starting in place of injured captain Pop Lacey (Reading, Mass.), safety Max Oxendine (Chester, Va.) made his first career start and recorded a team-high nine tackles (four solo). Evan Horn (Lebanon, Pa.) posted eight stops, including a team-high five solo tackles, and notched his second interception in as many weeks. Prince Smith Jr. (Philadelphia, Pa.) added eight tackles and one of the five Wildcat pass breaksups.
Evan Gray (Centreville, Va.) carried 15 times for a team-best 54 yards, and Dylan Laube (Westhampton, N.Y.) celebrated a return to his native Long Island with a game-high 130 all-purpose yards (48 rush, 77 kick return, five receiving).
Jason Hughes (Atkinson, N.H.) went 2-for-2 in field goals with a 22-yarder in the third quarter and a 42-yarder with 5:07 remaining that proved to be the game's final points. The junior went 2-for-2 in PATs.
Ty Son Lawton carried 23 times for 124 yards and a touchdown for Stony Brook, which tallied 206 rushing yards. Tyquell Fields went 12 of 25 for 180 yards with a TD and an interception. Jean Constant was SBU's top receiver with four catches for 40 yards and a touchdown.
NEXT HOME GAME vs. Villanova, Saturday, Nov. 2, 1 p.m. • Tickets
• STEM Day takes center stage when UNH celebrates college football's 150th anniversary against Villanova (Saturday, Nov. 2, 1 p.m., NBC Sports Boston). Kids can take part in the pregame science, technology, engineering and math fair, and winners of the 'Cats Got the Mouse mousetrap car race will be recognized at halftime.
HOW IT HAPPENED
1st Quarter
•The Wildcats jumped in front 7-0 with 5:16 left in the first quarter when Brosmer connected with Espanet for a 15-yard TD strike to cap a nine-play, 80-yard drive. Hughes tacked on the PAT.
•Brosmer went 5-for-8 for 45 yards with completions to four different receivers in the first quarter.
•Oxendine posted a team-leading five tackles in the period. Gunner Gibson (Hailey, Idaho) added four stops, including a half-sack.
2nd Quarter
•The Seawolves responded to the Wildcats' scoring drive with one of their own, a 12-play, 78-yard journey that culminated in a 15-yard TD pass from Fields to Constant with 13:55 left in the second to tie the score 7-7 following Nick Courtney's PAT.
First Half Summary
•Lawton rushed 14 times for 72 yards in the first half, while New Hampshire's backfield combined for 13 carries for 46 yards.
•Brosmer went 4-for-6 for 37 yards in the second quarter and finished the half 9 of 14 for 82 yards with one TD, his sixth of the season.
•Fields was 6-for-14 for 81 yards and a TD.
•Espanet was New Hampshire's top receiver at halftime with a career-high-matching three catches for 39 yards and a score.
•Oxendine, who entered the game with one career tackle, registered a game-high eight tackles (four solo) in the first half.
•The UNH defense notched five pass breakups in the first half, including two for Oleh Manzyk (Langhorne, Pa.), who batted down Fields' 3rd-and-4 pass intended for Constant from UNH's 32-yard line one play before SBU turned the ball over on downs to end the half's final drive.
•The Seawolves outgained the Wildcats, 218-128, in the first half.
•Each team was 1-for-1 in its red zone chance, and neither team committed a turnover.
•The 7-7 halftime score marked the first time the Wildcats were tied at the intermission since Dec. 2, 2017, when they were knotted 7-7 at Central Arkansas in an NCAA second-round playoff win (21-15).
3rd Quarter
•The Wildcats went to the air on their initial drive of the third quarter with Brosmer finding Charles Briscoe III (Bowie, Md.) for a 36-yard pass and, two plays later, an 18-yard throw to the Seawolves' 12.
•UNH reclaimed the lead, 10-7, courtesy of a Hughes 22-yard field goal with 11:58 left in the third.
•The Wildcats' scoring drive was seven plays for 62 yards.
•Stony Brook's next drive stalled when Horn, who recorded a 50-yard Pick-6 last Saturday, made a remarkable one-handed interception of a Fields throw to force the game's first turnover at the UNH 30 with 9:05 left in the third.
•After forcing the Wildcats to go three-and-out, SBU seized its first lead with 5:11 left in the third quarter when Lawton carried for a 1-yard score to make it 14-10.
•The Seawolves go-ahead scoring drive went eight plays and 87 yards. The big play was Fields' 40-yard pass to Nick Anderson on 3rd-and-8 that set the home team up first-and-goal at the Wildcats' 1 before Lawton scored on the next snap.
•On the ensuing kickoff, Laube gave UNH life with a 45-yard kickoff return to Stony Brook's 47, but a Sean Hammonds sack on the next play forced a fumble recovered by Makye Smith at UNH's 46.
•The stout UNH defense rose to the occasion once again with its second fourth-down stop of the game --this time with pressure from Michael Balsamo (Atkinson, N.H.) forcing a Fields 4th-and-3 incompletion from the Wildcat 27-- to keep the score 14-10 at the end of the third.
4th Quarter
•UNH embarked on a game-defining, 13-play, 73-yard drive that took 5:43 off the clock and culminated in Espanet's second TD catch of the game, an acrobatic, leaping 20-yard catch of a Brosmer pass on 3rd-and-14 that was confirmed by video review. Hughes' PAT made it 17-14 with 9:32 left.
•UNH converted three third downs on that drive. Brosmer hit Griffin Helm (Jacksonville, Fla.) for 16 yards on 3rd-and-9 to advance the ball to the UNH 44. On 3rd-and-1, Gray gained two yards to the SBU 16, and following a timeout, Brosmer's throw to Espanet put New Hampshire ahead to stay.
•Hughes hit a 42-yard field goal with 5:07 left to up the lead to 20-14. The junior improved to 5-for-6 from 40-yards plus this season.
•The Wildcats' defense compelled SBU to turn the ball over on downs for the third time in the game with 2:56 remaining at the Seawolves' 46.
•UNH ran the clock out to preserve the fourth straight victory.
NEWS AND NOTES
•Balsamo (five tackles) saw his first action since being injured in the opening game at Holy Cross (Sept. 7).
•Benyeal Hill Jr. (Stafford, Va.) made his first career reception --a critical 8-yard catch from Brosmer on a 3rd-and-3 from the SBU 24 in the first quarter-- to extend the Wildcats' first scoring drive.
NEXT UP at Delaware, Saturday, Oct. 19, 1 p.m.
•The Wildcats hit the road for the second straight week to challenge the Blue Hens (1 p.m., FloFootball.com) at Delaware Stadium.
With its fourth straight win, UNH improved to 4-2 and remained atop the CAA with a perfect 3-0 conference record.
Stony Brook dropped to 4-3, 1-2.
Brosmer went 16 of 26 for 196 yards and registered his third multi-touchdown game of his true freshman season.
Espanet set career highs in receptions (four), receiving yards (game-high 59) and TD catches (two), and now leads the Wildcats with four scoring catches this season.
The Seawolves outgained the Wildcats, 386-316, but the UNH defense recorded one interception and stopped the home team on three separate fourth-down plays.
Starting in place of injured captain Pop Lacey (Reading, Mass.), safety Max Oxendine (Chester, Va.) made his first career start and recorded a team-high nine tackles (four solo). Evan Horn (Lebanon, Pa.) posted eight stops, including a team-high five solo tackles, and notched his second interception in as many weeks. Prince Smith Jr. (Philadelphia, Pa.) added eight tackles and one of the five Wildcat pass breaksups.
Evan Gray (Centreville, Va.) carried 15 times for a team-best 54 yards, and Dylan Laube (Westhampton, N.Y.) celebrated a return to his native Long Island with a game-high 130 all-purpose yards (48 rush, 77 kick return, five receiving).
Jason Hughes (Atkinson, N.H.) went 2-for-2 in field goals with a 22-yarder in the third quarter and a 42-yarder with 5:07 remaining that proved to be the game's final points. The junior went 2-for-2 in PATs.
Ty Son Lawton carried 23 times for 124 yards and a touchdown for Stony Brook, which tallied 206 rushing yards. Tyquell Fields went 12 of 25 for 180 yards with a TD and an interception. Jean Constant was SBU's top receiver with four catches for 40 yards and a touchdown.
NEXT HOME GAME vs. Villanova, Saturday, Nov. 2, 1 p.m. • Tickets
• STEM Day takes center stage when UNH celebrates college football's 150th anniversary against Villanova (Saturday, Nov. 2, 1 p.m., NBC Sports Boston). Kids can take part in the pregame science, technology, engineering and math fair, and winners of the 'Cats Got the Mouse mousetrap car race will be recognized at halftime.
HOW IT HAPPENED
1st Quarter
•The Wildcats jumped in front 7-0 with 5:16 left in the first quarter when Brosmer connected with Espanet for a 15-yard TD strike to cap a nine-play, 80-yard drive. Hughes tacked on the PAT.
•Brosmer went 5-for-8 for 45 yards with completions to four different receivers in the first quarter.
•Oxendine posted a team-leading five tackles in the period. Gunner Gibson (Hailey, Idaho) added four stops, including a half-sack.
2nd Quarter
•The Seawolves responded to the Wildcats' scoring drive with one of their own, a 12-play, 78-yard journey that culminated in a 15-yard TD pass from Fields to Constant with 13:55 left in the second to tie the score 7-7 following Nick Courtney's PAT.
First Half Summary
•Lawton rushed 14 times for 72 yards in the first half, while New Hampshire's backfield combined for 13 carries for 46 yards.
•Brosmer went 4-for-6 for 37 yards in the second quarter and finished the half 9 of 14 for 82 yards with one TD, his sixth of the season.
•Fields was 6-for-14 for 81 yards and a TD.
•Espanet was New Hampshire's top receiver at halftime with a career-high-matching three catches for 39 yards and a score.
•Oxendine, who entered the game with one career tackle, registered a game-high eight tackles (four solo) in the first half.
•The UNH defense notched five pass breakups in the first half, including two for Oleh Manzyk (Langhorne, Pa.), who batted down Fields' 3rd-and-4 pass intended for Constant from UNH's 32-yard line one play before SBU turned the ball over on downs to end the half's final drive.
•The Seawolves outgained the Wildcats, 218-128, in the first half.
•Each team was 1-for-1 in its red zone chance, and neither team committed a turnover.
•The 7-7 halftime score marked the first time the Wildcats were tied at the intermission since Dec. 2, 2017, when they were knotted 7-7 at Central Arkansas in an NCAA second-round playoff win (21-15).
3rd Quarter
•The Wildcats went to the air on their initial drive of the third quarter with Brosmer finding Charles Briscoe III (Bowie, Md.) for a 36-yard pass and, two plays later, an 18-yard throw to the Seawolves' 12.
•UNH reclaimed the lead, 10-7, courtesy of a Hughes 22-yard field goal with 11:58 left in the third.
•The Wildcats' scoring drive was seven plays for 62 yards.
•Stony Brook's next drive stalled when Horn, who recorded a 50-yard Pick-6 last Saturday, made a remarkable one-handed interception of a Fields throw to force the game's first turnover at the UNH 30 with 9:05 left in the third.
•After forcing the Wildcats to go three-and-out, SBU seized its first lead with 5:11 left in the third quarter when Lawton carried for a 1-yard score to make it 14-10.
•The Seawolves go-ahead scoring drive went eight plays and 87 yards. The big play was Fields' 40-yard pass to Nick Anderson on 3rd-and-8 that set the home team up first-and-goal at the Wildcats' 1 before Lawton scored on the next snap.
•On the ensuing kickoff, Laube gave UNH life with a 45-yard kickoff return to Stony Brook's 47, but a Sean Hammonds sack on the next play forced a fumble recovered by Makye Smith at UNH's 46.
•The stout UNH defense rose to the occasion once again with its second fourth-down stop of the game --this time with pressure from Michael Balsamo (Atkinson, N.H.) forcing a Fields 4th-and-3 incompletion from the Wildcat 27-- to keep the score 14-10 at the end of the third.
4th Quarter
•UNH embarked on a game-defining, 13-play, 73-yard drive that took 5:43 off the clock and culminated in Espanet's second TD catch of the game, an acrobatic, leaping 20-yard catch of a Brosmer pass on 3rd-and-14 that was confirmed by video review. Hughes' PAT made it 17-14 with 9:32 left.
•UNH converted three third downs on that drive. Brosmer hit Griffin Helm (Jacksonville, Fla.) for 16 yards on 3rd-and-9 to advance the ball to the UNH 44. On 3rd-and-1, Gray gained two yards to the SBU 16, and following a timeout, Brosmer's throw to Espanet put New Hampshire ahead to stay.
•Hughes hit a 42-yard field goal with 5:07 left to up the lead to 20-14. The junior improved to 5-for-6 from 40-yards plus this season.
•The Wildcats' defense compelled SBU to turn the ball over on downs for the third time in the game with 2:56 remaining at the Seawolves' 46.
•UNH ran the clock out to preserve the fourth straight victory.
NEWS AND NOTES
•Balsamo (five tackles) saw his first action since being injured in the opening game at Holy Cross (Sept. 7).
•Benyeal Hill Jr. (Stafford, Va.) made his first career reception --a critical 8-yard catch from Brosmer on a 3rd-and-3 from the SBU 24 in the first quarter-- to extend the Wildcats' first scoring drive.
NEXT UP at Delaware, Saturday, Oct. 19, 1 p.m.
•The Wildcats hit the road for the second straight week to challenge the Blue Hens (1 p.m., FloFootball.com) at Delaware Stadium.
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