Undefeated Trinity rolls by Amherst; Wesleyan handles Hamilton
Spencer Fetter threw for three touchdowns and the Trinity defense held Amherst to 145 total yards on Saturday as the Bantams remained undefeated with a 49-0 NESCAC win at Hartford.
Trinity (3-0) led 21-0 after the first quarter and 42-0 at the half.
Tyler Dinapoli rushed for 110 yards and two touchdowns and Colin McCabe added two more TDs, one rushing and one receiving. Fetter, who completed 11-of16 passes for 156 yards, connected on scoring passes with McCabe, Nicholas Zalankas and Max Roche.
Amherst falls to 1-2.
Wesleyan 35, Hamilton 14:
At Middletown, Niko Candido threw for 339 yards and five touchdowns – four to Chase Wilson – as the undefeated Cardinals rolled to the NESCAC win.
Wilson finished with 10 receptions for 158 yards. Hamilton falls to 0-3.
Yale 45, Morgan State 3: At New Haven, Nolan Grooms threw for 363 yards and four touchdowns, leading the Bulldogs.
Grooms added 87 yards rushing to lead the Bulldogs (2-2), giving him a total of 450 yards. He completed 29 of 38 passes. Two of his touchdowns went to Mason Tipton, who caught nine passes for 136 yards.
Morgan State quarterback Dominique Anthony was just 9-of-15 passing for 92 yards with an interception.
Yale outgained Morgan State 521-204 total yards.
The game was billed as the 2023 NAACP Harmony Classic. Yale honored Levi Jackson, who in 1950 was the first black captain of the football team and the first full-season black captain in any varsity sport among the eight Ivy League institutions.
Calvin Hill served as honorary captain for Yale and Mark Washington was honorary captain for the Bears.
Brown 42, Central Connecticut State 20:
At Providence, Jake Willcox threw four touchdown passes, backup Nate Lussier threw another and Brown cruised. Lussier's fouryard touchdown pass to Mark Mahoney opened the scoring midway through the first quarter. Lussier came in after Willcox, the leading passer in FCS, was briefly shaken up.
Willcox, who had a 33-yard completion before leaving, ended up 26 of 39 for a career-high 386 yards. Wes Rockett had eight catches for 148 yards — one shy of his career best — and a touchdown. Solomon Miller had 96 yards with a 68-yard touchdown on four catches. Graham Walker had two receiving touchdowns among his five catches.
Brown (2-1) had 460 total yards and the Blue Devils (1-3) 368, 235 on the ground with Elijah Howard rushing for 147 and a touchdown. The Bears continue to lead FCS with no turnovers and allowing no fourth-down conversions. They also matched their nationbest average of just three penalties.
Merrimack 17, Sacred Heart 7:
At Fairfield, Tre Jordan III returned an interception 35 yards for a go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter and Merrimack grinded the Northeast Conference win.
Jordan took a tipped pass and weaved his way through several would-be tacklers on his way to giving the Warriors a 10-7 lead with 13 minutes to go. Donovan Wadley added a 45-yard rushing score with seven minutes remaining.
Merrimack (2-3, 1-1 Northeast Conference) stayed on the ground with 56 rushes for 225 yards and Wadley led the way with 102 yards on 10 carries. Tyvon Edmonds Jr. had 28 carries for 82 yards. Two Warriors quarterbacks attempted only eight passes, completing none and throwing an interception while finishing with minus18 yards.