Your Saturday wrap:
Princeton 24, Columbia 6
Princeton’s Blake Stenstrom completed 21-of-35 passes for 257 yards and one touchdown while Columbia QB Joe Green was picked off three times as the Tigers (3-0) won their Ivy League opener over the Lions (2-1). Dylan Classi had 133 yards on six catches for Princeton, which saw Stenstrom sacked six times. The Tigers managed just 19 rushing yards. Stenstrom, a first-year starter, has thrown for at least 250 yards in each of the Tigers’ three games. Columbia’s only score came on a backward pass carried into the end zone. Attendance at the northern tip of Manhattan was 4,071.
Holy Cross 30, Harvard 21
Leading by three points through three quarters, the No. 10 Crusaders (5-0) used two field goals in the fourth to complete their first-ever season sweep of Harvard (2-1) and Yale. They defeated the Bulldogs two weeks ago, 38-14. Matthew Sluka led Holy Cross against Harvard with 300 yards and two touchdowns through the air and 63 yards and one touchdown on the ground. Aidan Borguet ran for 80 yards and two TDs for Harvard, which got 262 yards passing from Charlie Dean. Attendance in the rain at Harvard Stadium was 7,726.
Cornell 34, Colgate 31
Quarterback Jameson Wang’s nine-yard touchdown run tied the score early in the fourth quarter and Jackson Kennedy’s 45-yard field goal with 1:55 left provided the winning points as Cornell (2-1) won at Colgate (1-4) in front of 2,432. Wang was 18-of-27 for 284 yards and a touchdown and ran for 98 and two more scores for the Big Red. Thomas Glover was on the receiving end of seven passes for 160 yards and one touchdown and also ran for a score. With the victory Cornell guaranteed itself a winning nonconference record for the first time since 2016.
Yale 34, Howard 26
The Bulldogs (2-1) had a 27-6 lead midway through the third quarter only to see the visitors tally back-to-back touchdowns to make it a one-score game in the fourth. Yale got some breathing room on a 44-yard touchdown run by Tre Peterson with 2:18 left before Howard (1-4) closed out the scoring on a touchdown pass with no time on the clock. Yale (2-1) ran for 366 yards, with Groom registering 144 on 12 carries and quarterback Nolan Grooms 130 on 16 runs. Attendance on a rainy day in New Haven was 9,200.
Rhode Island 38, Brown 10
The No. 25 Rams (3-2) vaulted out to a 17-3 lead in the first quarter and added 21 points in the second half while cruising past the Bears (1-2) before 5,028 in the rain at Kingston. Rhode Island piled up 546 yard of total offense to just 261 for Brown. Bears’ quarterback Jake Wilcox was intercepted three times. Brown’s lone touchdown came when Allen Smith took a direct snap and ran in from the one with 3:22 remaining.
Western Michigan 44, New Hampshire 7
The days of the Wildcats beating FBS teams continue to fade into the past as the Broncos (2-3) jumped out to a 21-0 first-quarter lead and cruised to an easy win over UNH (3-2). Running back Dylan Laube caught a 26-yard touchdown pass late in the second quarter to cap a 93-yard drive for the Wildcats’ only points. Laube recorded 73 yards rushing on 22 carries. UNH allowed only 12 first downs but turned the ball over four times. Attendance in Kalamazoo was 20,119.
Sacred Heart 31, Norfolk State 14
Tied at 14 until kicking a field goal with no time left in the second quarter, the Pioneers (3-2) went on to reel off 17 straight points to keep the Spartans (0-5) winless. Malik Grant gained 132 yards and had one touchdown on 24 rushes to lead Sacred Heart, which sealed the game on a pick six midway through the fourth quarter. Quarterback Marquez McCray was 17-of-27 for 176 yards and one touchdown for the Pios. No attendance was listed.
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EXTRA POINT
Is there anything more annoying than fruit flies? OK, a lot of things are, but those little buggers (or bugs, as it were) are maddening. Here's the deal: If you let the bananas over-ripen a bit your reward is the baker in the house makes yummy banana bread, but if you wait too long you get fruit flies instead. (Might be a poem in there somewhere.) Anyway, it would appear I waited too long.
