TOWSON, Md. (AP) - Shane Simpson returned the opening kick 96 yards for a touchdown and Tom Flacco threw four touchdown passes as Towson upset Stony Brook in a Colonial Athletic Association showdown Saturday.
The Tigers’ 52 points was the highest scoring game since routing New Hampshire 64-35 in 2012. Towson now has scored 44 points or more in three straight games for the first time in program history.
Simpson ran eight yards for a touchdown and Flacco hit Chris Clark from 12-yards out to give Towson (4-1, 2-0) a 21-0 lead after a quarter.
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Joe Carbone brought the Seawolves back with two long touchdown passes, 53 yards to Marshall Ellick and 25 yards to Donald Liotine, to make it 21-14, but Flacco answered with a pair of touchdown passes of his own to make it 35-14 at intermission.
Flacco was 23 of 33 for 319 yards passing, with one interception. Shane Leatherbury caught nine passes for 129 yards.
Carbone was 15-of-24 passing for 195 yards and two TDs for Stony Brook (4-2, 2-1).
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