TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
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SPORTS
No. 4 Oregon shakes off slow start to beat Stony Brook, 48-7
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
EUGENE — True fresh-
man quarterback Ty Thomp-
son wasn’t fazed at all when
he got the nod for Oregon’s
second half against Story
Brook.
Thompson threw two
touchdown passes and the No.
4 Ducks overcame a sluggish
start to beat the Seawolves
48-7 on Saturday night, Sept.
18 in a game delayed because
of lightning.
Starter Anthony Brown
threw for a touchdown and
ran for another but left the
game at halftime after he was
sacked twice to close out the
second quarter. It didn’t ap-
pear to be serious.
“I thought Ty was very cool,
didn’t flinch at all,” Oregon
coach Mario Cristobal said.
“I’ve seen sometimes that
quarterbacks, you tap them on
the shoulder and say ‘It’s your
turn’ and their eyes get about
yay big. Wasn’t the case with
him at all, there was no flinch.”
The Ducks, coming off their
big win last weekend at Ohio
State, improved to 3-0 as they
head into Pac-12 play next
weekend.
It was Oregon’s 14th
straight win at Autzen
Stadium, as well as its 28th
nonconference victory at
home. But the Ducks looked
lethargic to start a game
that was supposed to be an
easy blowout.
“At the beginning, the
first half, it was choppy, we
played down to their level.
And we need to figure out
how to not do that in the
beginning of the game. But
second half we came back
and we brought it back up to
our level a little bit,” Oregon
running back Travis Dye
said. “But there’s nothing
satisfying about this win
right now. We know we can
do, we know what we should
have done when we came in
here.”
Stony Brook, which plays
in the lower-tier Colonial
Athletic Association, fell to
1-2. The game against the
Ducks was Stony Brook’s
first against a Pac-12 op-
ponent. Oregon was also the
highest-ranked team the
Seawolves had ever faced.
“We took it as another
game. We didn’t worry about
our opponent,” Stony Brook
running back Ty Son Law-
ton said. “It’s about us at the
end of the day.”
Stony Brook quarterback
Tyquell Fields’ pass was in-
tercepted on the team’s first
series of the game, leading
to Camden Lewis’ 40-yard
field goal.
CJ Verdell caught a
9-yard pass from Brown to
give the Ducks a 10-0 lead,
but Stony Brook closed the
gap with Lawton’s 5-yard
scoring run before the first
quarter was over.
NURSING INJURIES
Oregon’s defense was with-
out both Kayvon Thibodeaux
and Bradyn Swinson.
Thibodeaux, mentioned as a
top pick in the NFL draft next
year, injured his ankle in the
Ducks’ opener against Fresno
State and didn’t play against
Ohio State.
Swinson’s injury was not
clear. He had five tackles, a
sack and a pass breakup in
the Ducks’ victory over Ohio
State. Mase Funa and Keith
Brown also sat for the game.
“We weren’t trying to rest
guys, we were just banged up,”
Cristobal said.
THE TAKEAWAY
Stony Brook: The Sea-
wolves are 1-11 against FBS
teams. The lone win came in
2012 against Army. ... Fields
finished with 131 passing
yards and three interceptions.
Oregon: The Ducks jumped
this week from No. 12 to No. 4
in the AP Top 25 following the
35-28 victory over Ohio State.
It was the program’s eighth
win against a team ranked
in the top five. It was also the
teams’ first win on the road
against a top-five team since
2011. ... Verone McKinley III
had two interceptions.
Serena Morones/for The Oregonian
Oregon running back CJ Verdell (7) runs the ball Saturday, Sept. 18, at Autzen
Stadium against Stony Brook.
It was Lawton’s third
touchdown of the season. Last
week he ran for 134 yards
and a score in the teams’ 24-3
victory over Colgate.
Brown’s 7-yard keeper ex-
tended Oregon’s lead to 17-7
going into halftime. Brown,
sacked on the last two plays
of the half, did not return.
He finished with 159 yards
passing.
“Well, he took a pretty
good shot there at the end
of the half and we’re just
making sure that he was OK,
we expect them to be OK,”
Cristobal said. “And he looks
good so we expect them to be
healthy for the week.”
Thompson’s 1-yard pass
to Terrance Ferguson put
Oregon up 24-7. Dye added a
3-yard scoring dash to extend
the lead before the end of the
third quarter.
Thompson found Dont’e
Thornton with a 54-yard
scoring pass with 8:26 left
and Trey Benson closed
out the game with a 3-yard
touchdown run. Thompson
completed six of nine passes
for 82 yards.
“I was real proud of how
our team competed from
play one through the last
play. We came here men-
tally prepared, and I think
we proved we were up for
the challenge, certainly
against a quality opponent,”
Stony Brook coach Chuck
Priore said. “And certainly
I thought we gave them
a pretty good scare in the
first half.”
UP NEXT
The game was delayed for
Stony Brook: Hosts Ford-
a little more than a half-
ham next Saturday.
hour because of lightning in
Oregon: Hosts Arizona
the area.
next Saturday.
Nolan, Baylor lead Oregon State’s rout of Idaho, 42-0
The Beavers head into
next Saturday’s Pac-12
opener at USC with a win-
ning record through three
games for the first time
since 2015.
Oregon State has shown
good balance offensively in
the past two games, victo-
ries over Hawaii and Idaho.
Will that translate into
continued success against
Pac-12 opponents?
By GARY HOROWITZ
Associated Press
CORVALLIS — Oregon
State took care of business
Saturday, Sept. 18 against
FCS opponent Idaho, domi-
nating from the outset in a
42-0 victory.
Chance Nolan passed for
three touchdowns and B.J.
Baylor ran for two scores as
the Beavers (2-1) amassed
438 total yards and were
stout defensively.
Oregon State led 28-0 at
halftime and was not chal-
lenged by the Vandals (1-2),
who have lost 17 of the past
18 matchups against the
Beavers dating back to 1953.
It was Oregon State’s first
shutout since a 3-0 victory
over Pittsburgh in the 2008
Sun Bowl.
Idaho was limited to 192
total yards and didn’t get
inside the Beavers’ 20-yard
line until late in the third
quarter after an interception
of OSU backup quarterback
Sam Noyer.
Wide receiver Tyjon Lind-
sey, who missed last week’s
game against Hawaii with
an ankle injury, got the Bea-
vers on the board midway
through the first quarter
with an 18-yard touchdown
catch.
Baylor’s 4-yard TD run
increased the lead to 14-0
late in the first quarter.
Deshaun Fenwick’s
9-yard scamper gave the
Beavers a 21-0 advantage at
11:05 of the second quarter.
Nolan’s 2-yard touchdown
pass to tight end Teagan
Quitoriano late in the first
half gave Oregon State a
TOUCHDOWN MAKER
B.J. Baylor, who came
into the nation second in
the nation with five rush-
ing touchdowns in the first
two games, added two more
against the Vandals.
FAMILIAR WITH
VANDALS
Fourth-year Oregon
State coach Jonathan Smith
was quarterbacks coach at
Idaho from 2004 to 2009.
Leon Neuschwander/for The Oregonian
Oregon State tight end Luke Musgrave tries to elude an Idaho defender on Saturday, Sept. 18 at Reser Stadium
in Corvallis.
28-0 lead at the break.
It was more of the same
in the second half.
On the opening posses-
sion of the third quarter, No-
lan connected with Champ
Flemings on a deep sideline
rout for a 30-yard score,
increasing the lead to 35-0.
Baylor’s 2-yard run
capped the scoring later in
the quarter.
quarter, especially with his
running ability, but it wasn’t
enough to ignite a comeback.
For the second game
in a row, Idaho struggled
THE TAKEAWAY
Idaho: CJ Jordan gave the against a FBS opponent. The
Vandals a lift after replacing Vandals were outscored 98-
14 in losses to Indiana and
starting quarterback Mike
Oregon State.
Beaudry late in the first
Oregon State: Nolan
continues to be efficient at
quarterback since replacing
Game 1 starter Sam Noyer
late in the third quarter of the
season-opening loss at Pur-
due. He was 14 of 19 against
Idaho and had a 25-yard run.
UP NEXT
Idaho: Opens its Big
Sky schedule Oct. 2 at UC
Davis.
Oregon State: Opens its
Pac-12 schedule Saturday
at USC.
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