STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Coming into the squad's eighth game of the season, the Stony Brook football team had forced eight turnovers.
Tonight, they forced six as the Seawolves defense locked down Richmond's offense en route to a Homecoming victory, 27-14, for their second win in as many weeks. The hosts jumped out with the first 20 points of the game, scoring on four of its first six drives and the squad outgained Richmond 214-94 to establish its dominant advantage.
Fields finished 20-for-35 for 226 yards, throwing a pair of touchdown passes and running for another.
Randy Pringle aided the defense with his first two career interceptions as part of the defensive lockdown for
Chuck Priore's club.
On the defensive side, Stony Brook held Richmond without points in its first nine drives, as the visiting Spiders only averaged 11.5 yards per possession.
STATS AND NOTES
- Pringle joined a club of 13 players in Seawolves Division I history that have recorded a multi-pick contest. It is the first time since November 21, 2016 that a Stony Brook defender intercepted two passes in a game (Tyrice Beverette at UAlbany).
- Stony Brook's six forced turnovers are the most since November 12, 2011 when it created the same number against Gardner-Webb in a 76-28 victory.
- Flowers was all over the field making plays on defense for the Seawolves. He recorded a career-high 14 tackles, the most by any Seawolf in a game this season. Eight of his tackles were of the solo variety. He registered a pair of tackles for loss and one sack. Flowers also forced a pair of fumbles as the Seawolves forced a total of six turnovers in the win.
- Shawn Harris Jr., caught his second touchdown pass of the season, his first since September 11 against Colgate.
- Tyler Devera more than doubled his season receiving totals, hauling in four passes for 46 yards and a touchdown. He bested his career best by five.
- Tyquell Fields recorded his first multi-passing touchdown game of the season and his first since November 23, 2019 against UAlbany.
- Stony Brook did not miss in the red zone, scoring on all four of its possessions.
QUOTES FROM THE SEAWOLVES
"Winning feels good. Very competitive game even though the score didn't look like that in the first half. Richmond is a physical good team and I was very proud of our effort. Certainly, our defense did a tremendous job with the takeaways and getting us good field position for opportunities to be successful as an offense. When you're a team, you have to take care of all phases. You play great on special teams, which we did. We did a great job covering kickoffs, punting and controlling the field possession through that game. I'm proud of the team being able to put together a win as a team." - head coach
Chuck Priore.
"[The two interceptions] don't feel real. It just feels unreal right now but I'm so happy to be able to help the win get this win today. We worked hard for this all week and saw it pay off tonight. The second one was my favorite because it was a more challenging interception, having to snag it out of the air, but getting both was surreal." - defensive back
Randy Pringle.
"It feels great. I talked to the other seniors and they felt the same way. It's definitely a topic of conversation before the game that this was our last homecoming, We have to win and have to go out with a bang and that's exactly what we did so I'm very happy about that. We are starting to finish better and start the game better and that obviously goes a long way towards our wins now. Coach P believes that we can have success both running and throwing and when he put the ball in my hands today, we executed what we needed to do." - quarterback
Tyquell Fields.
UP NEXT
The Seawolves return home one final time in the regular season on November 20 when they battle for the Golden Apple against UAlbany at 1 p.m. at LaValle Stadium.
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