THE BASICS

-Score: Saint Anselm 61, Assumption College 23

-Records: Assumption (6-4, NE10 5-3), Saint Anselm (4-7, NE10 4-4)

-Location: Manchester, N.H. (Grappone Stadium)

-The Lead: The Assumption College football team fell to the Hawks of Saint Anselm College in the final game of the 2019 season. After losing at Assumption earlier in the season in a non-league game by a 54-23 score, the Hawks put up 721 yards of total offense and scored nine touchdowns en route to the 61-23 final victory.

HOW IT HAPPENED

-Saint Anselm opened the game with back-to-back passing touchdowns from senior Eric Fairweather to his classmate Shawn Donovan, opening up a 13-0 lead. First year Brevin Easton (Odenton, Md. / Archbishop Spalding) countered for Assumption with a 47-yard touchdown score, but the Hawks tacked on the next two touchdowns, the first coming on a Fairweather seven-yard sprint and the second coming on a JC King reception that totaled 47 yards.

-Ahead 27-7 with 9:59 to go in the first half, Assumption added three points on a 20-yard field goal by Conor Hickey (Sutton, Mass. / Saint John's) prior to Donovan's third touchdown reception on the next Hawks offensive drive. Saint Anselm went into the break with a 34-10 advantage, thanks to 479 total yards of offense in the first half. The Hawks averaged 14.5 yards per play in the opening 30 minutes.

-The Greyhounds would not go quietly, receiving the second half kick and scoring only 1:57 in thanks to a Carlins Platel (Everett, Mass. / Everett) fumble recovery touchdown. The Hawks punched right back, using a 42-yard touchdown pass by freshman wide receiver Anthony Brown that found the hands of senior Franklin Holgate.

-Assumption scored their last touchdown of the day on the very next offensive sequence as senior Khaleed Exum-Strong (Norwichtown, Conn. / Norwich Free Academy / Trinity Pawling) capped a four-play, 52-yard drive with an eight-yard rushing score to cut the Hawks lead to 41-23 with 11:05 left in the third quarter.

-From that point on, King added two additional rushing touchdowns and Fairweather's last offensive play as a Hawks student-athlete was a 26-yard rushing score to set the final score at 61-23. The Hawks defense forced three punts, a fumble and an interception on the last five Assumption drives and made the guests punt a total of seven times in the game.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

-First year Jordan McAfee (Peabody, Mass. / Everett) was 8-for-20 under center for Assumption, throwing for only 81 yards – 47 of those came on one passing play. Exum-Strong and senior Doug Santos (Peabody, Mass. / Peabody Veterans Memorial) each logged 97 rushing yards and Easton's 47-yard touchdown reception was the most yardage by a Greyhounds wide out. Senior Calvin Milliner (New York, N.Y. / Cardinal Hayes / URI) had a team-leading nine tackles for Assumption.

-The Hawks finished the day with 721 yards of total offense and averaged 9.7 yards per play. Fairweather went 26-for-34 to collect 605 yards of offense for the Hawks. Donovan made seven receptions including three touchdowns for a total of 184 yards. King matched Donovan with three touchdowns, two rushing and one receiving. Junior Joey Cody had seven extra points in the game.

-Senior CJ Miller posted 17 total tackles, added two sacks and had two quarterback hurries against the Greyhounds. Junior Ryan Sullivan had 11 tackles on the day for the Hawks, adding a sack for four yards.

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