WEEK 10 WRAP
Yale 23, Harvard 18
A crowd of 51,127 saw Nolan Grooms hit David Pantellis with a 12-yard touchdown pass with 5:47 remaining to give Yale the lead and the Bulldogs make two stops down the stretch to force a three-way tie atop the Ivy League standings. Yale (7-3, 5-2 Ivy League) blocked two punts and held what had been the Ivy League's most prolific run game to just 73 yards on the ground. Harvard (8-2, 5-2) trailed 10-0 early and never led until Jaden Craig found Ledger Hatch for a seven-yard touchdown with 10:45 left to make it 18-17 Crimson. After the Pantellis TD gave the lead back to Yale the visitors marched deep into Bulldogs' territory with 3:36 left only to have hurried passes on third-and-two and fourth-and-two at the six fall incomplete.
Princeton 31, Penn 24
The Tigers picked off four passes and recovered three fumbles to win a game in which Penn had a 499-277 advantage in total yards and racked up 27 first downs to Princeton's 17. A Franklin Field crowd of 5,256 looked on as the game ended with a wild final stretch that featured the Quakers pulling within seven points on a TD pass with 44 seconds left, recovering the onsides kick, and making it to the Princeton 18 before throwing their final interception. Aidan Sayin passed for 385 yards and three TDs for Penn but was picked of four times. Princeton's Blake Stenstrom was 18-for-32 for 155 yards and two touchdowns without an interception. Jared Richardson had six catches for 138 yards and three touchdowns and Bisi Owens 11 grabs for 123 yards for Penn (6-4, 3-4 Ivy League). Princeton (5-5, 4-3) scored 24 points off turnovers.
Columbia 29, Cornell 14
The Lions (3-7, 1-6 Ivy League) roared out to a 22-0 halftime lead and then ended the Big Red's comeback bid when Hayden McDonald returned an interception 71 yards for a touchdown with 2:49 remaining in front of 3,743 in Ithaca. Cornell (3-7, 2-5) suffered four interceptions against a Columbia team that had just one take-away in its previous four games combined. Columbia gashed the Big Red for a season-high 247 yards on the ground to win the Empire State Bowl for the third year in a row.
New Hampshire 44, Maine 25
No Dylan Laube, no problem for UNH (6-5, 4-4 CAA) as the Wildcats got three passing touchdowns and one on the ground from Max Brosmer to win the annual Brice-Cowell Musket game. Running back Myles Thomason did a fair Laube impression with 174 all-purpose yards, including an 89-yard punt return for a touchdown. Maine (2-9, 1-7 CAA) threw for 315 yards. The game drew 6,727.
Colgate 21, Fordham 14
The Raiders (6-5, 4-2 Patriot League) won for the sixth time in their final seven games after starting the season 0-4. Michael Brescia, Colgate's starting quarterback until an ankle injury the week before their game against Dartmouth, came off the bench and ran eight times for 63 yards and two touchdowns to power the Raiders in front of 1,723 in Hamilton. The Rams' ( 6-5, 2-4) last chance to pull out the win ended when they forced a punt with 44 seconds remaining but were called for roughing the kicker.
Lafayette 49, Lehigh 21
The Mountain Hawks (2-9, 1-5 Patriot League) led at the half, 21-14, only to see Lafayette run off 35 unanswered points in the second half to win going away in front of 14,453 in Bethlehem. Lafayette (9-2, 5-1) needed just over 19 minutes to record its five second-half TDs, closing the scoring on a 46-yard Jamar Curtis touchdown run midway through the fourth quarter. With the win in the 159th renewal of the most-played game in college football Lafayette clinched the Patriot League title and a berth in the FCS playoffs.
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EXTRA POINT
I have no earthly idea how you are supposed to pick up arrivals at Logan Airport – particularly on a weekend in advance of a major holiday – but there absolutely, positively has to be a better way.
