Grooms’ 4 total TDs lead Yale past Penn

Nolan Grooms passed for 283 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for 113 yards and two scores to help Yale beat Penn 42-28 on Saturday at Yale Bowl in New Haven.

Grooms and Elliott McElwain each had a short rushing touchdown less than three minutes apart to extend Yale’s lead to 21 points late in the third quarter.

Mason Tipton caught five passes for 132 yards, with a long of 47 yards, and a touchdown for Yale (3-3, 2-1 Ivy League). Ryan Lindley also caught a touchdown pass, and Spencer Alston had a rushing score.

Tony Reno became the sixth coach in program history to reach 50 career wins with Yale.

Aidan Sayin was 12 of 28 for 114 yards with two touchdown and one interception for Penn (2-4, 0-3). Isaiah Malcome rushed for 81 yards and a score, his forth straight game with a touchdown, and Trey Flowers also had a rushing TD.

Sayin threw his first career touchdown pass to Owen Goldsberry, also his first scoring grab, for 15 yards to pull to 28-21 early in the third. Goldsberry also had a 70-yard kickoff return.

LIU 30, Central Connecticut 13:

Camden Orth passed for two touchdowns, Paul Inzerillo made three field goals and Long Island University beat CCSU in New Britain

for its first victory of the season.

The Blue Devils cut the deficit to 23-13 with 8:13 left in the fourth quarter, but LIU answered with a 12-play, 76-yard drive capped by Kevin Wilson’s 23-yard run. The drive took six-plus minutes off the clock.

Orth was 14 of 26 for 146 yards for Long Island (1-5, 1-2 Northeast Conference). Wilson finished with 32 yards on four carries.

Long Island turned it over on its first two drives but took a 10-6 lead in the second quarter on Orth’s 8-yard connection with Derick Eugene.

Inzerillo’s 47-yard field goal, his longest, gave LIU a 16-6 lead, and Orth’s 3-yard touchdown pass to Owen Glascoe made it 23-6 late in the third.

Shon Mitchell was 20 of 38 for 201 yards with one touchdown and one interception for Central Connecticut (1-6, 1-2). Tyshaun James caught six passes for 113 yards and a score.