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Rice Owls 49 Florida Atlantic Owls 51
Status: Final
1 2 3 4 T
Owls 14 7 21 7 49
Owls 7 16 21 7 51
4 2:51 RICE 49- 51 Braylen Walker 71 Yd pass from Gael Ochoa
(Tommy Bauchiero Kick)
4 3:37 FAU 42- 51 Easton Messer 82 Yd Punt Return (Collin Rogers
Kick)
3 1:12 RICE 42- 44 Gael Ochoa 69 Yd Run (Tommy Bauchiero Kick)
3 1:59 FAU 35- 44 Caden Veltkamp 1 Yd Run (Collin Rogers Kick)
3 6:40 RICE 35- 37 D'Andre Hardeman Jr. 1 Yd Run (Tommy Bauchiero
Kick)
3 11:05 FAU 28- 37 Easton Messer 68 Yd pass from Caden Veltkamp
(Collin Rogers Kick)
3 11:49 RICE 28- 30 Max Mosey 41 Yd Run (Tommy Bauchiero Kick)
3 12:35 FAU 21- 30 Easton Messer 5 Yd Run (Collin Rogers Kick)
2 4:27 RICE 21- 23 Gael Ochoa 74 Yd Run (Tommy Bauchiero Kick)
2 5:19 FAU 14- 23 Easton Messer 1 Yd pass from Caden Veltkamp
(Collin Rogers Kick)
2 9:19 FAU 14- 16 Easton Messer 2 Yd Run (Collin Rogers Kick)
2 13:24 FAU 14- 9 Team Safety
1 0:42 FAU 14- 7 Branden Hoch 30 Yd pass from Caden Veltkamp
(Collin Rogers Kick)
1 6:54 RICE 14- 0 Gael Ochoa 52 Yd Run (Tommy Bauchiero Kick)
1 13:33 RICE 7- 0 Gael Ochoa 55 Yd Run (Tommy Bauchiero Kick)
Passing Yards Caden Veltkamp 29/37, 339 YDS, 3 TD, 1 INT Rushing Yards Leonard Farrow 17 CAR, 86 YDS Receiving Yards Easton Messer 12 REC, 162 YDS, 2 TD Sacks Leon Hart Jr. 0.5 Tackles Blake Burris 8
Passing Yards Gael Ochoa 2/5, 80 YDS, 1 TD Rushing Yards Gael Ochoa 12 CAR, 259 YDS, 4 TD Receiving Yards Braylen Walker 1 REC, 71 YDS, 1 TD Sacks Joseph Mutombo 1 Tackles AJ Brown 8
9 touchdowns of at least 30 yards highlights FAU's 51-49 win over Rice
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Easton Messer piled up 262 all-purpose yards and scored five touchdowns and Florida Atlantic earned a 51-49 win over Rice, which had a four-TD day by quarterback Gael Ochoa in his first start on Saturday.
Ultimately the difference was a blocked punt for a safety by Derrick Rogers Jr. early in the second quarter and a barely short 55-yard field goal attempt by Rice kicker Tommy Bauchiero whose career-long field goal is 45 yards with less than a minute to play.
Messer's final touchdown, the longest punt return for a touchdown in program history , was critical as Ochoa, who ran for 259 yards and scored on runs of 55, 52, 74 and 69 yards, had a 71-yard catch-and-run with Braylen Walker with 2:51 to go.
Messer had 12 receptions for 162 yards a week after making 14 catches for his sixth 100-yard game 1-and 68-yard touchdowns, and lined up in the backfield for three carries and 18 yards with TDs of 2 and 5 yards. Caden Veltkamp was 29-of-37 passing for 339 yards and three touchdowns for FAU (5-2 2-1 American Conference).
Rice (1-7, 0-4) piled up 499 yards on the ground and added 109 yards in the air, with Ochoa and Patrick Crayton Jr ., both filling in for injured starter Jacurri Brown , combining to go 4 of 7. Ochoa finished six yards short of the school single-game rushing record but had the biggest rushing game in the Championship Subdivision this season.
FAU had a 23-21 lead at the half.
Both teams had three touchdown drives in the third quarter all of Rice's covering 75 yards on a total of 12 plays. FAU went 75, 67 and 90 yards.
Rice: At North Texas on Nov. 11.
FAU: At North Texas on Thursday night.
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