POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – The University of Dayton football team put the first 24 points of the game en route to a 24-7 win at Marist on Saturday.  Dayton led 7-0 at the half, 10-0 after three quarters and then added 14 points in the last three-and-a-half minutes of the game to salt it away.

1^st Quarter – Dayton 0, Marist 0

• A 35-yard return on the opening kickoff by Luke Brenner gave the Dayton solid field position, and the Flyers kept the ball for almost seven minutes before getting stopped on fourth-and-one at the Marist 10.
• Marist was able to move the ball to near midfield, but Dayton got the ball back when the Red Fox punt went out of the end zone.
• UD kept the ball for the remaining 3:26 of the quarter.
• Flyers had 91 yards in total offense, compared to 43 for Marist in its only possession of the quarter.
• Quarterback Shane Hamm completed all four passes in the first quarter of his first career start, for 25 yards.

2^nd Quarter – Dayton 7, Marist 0

• On the second play of the second quarter, Brenner out-maneuvered two Marist defenders to pull in Hamm's 39-yard pass to get Dayton on the scoreboard.
• The two teams exchanged a total of four punts, but then Marist moved the ball as time was running out in the half until UD comer Joey Guagenti pulled down an interception in the end zone with seven seconds left in the half.
• Dayton gained 98 yards in the quarter, while holding Marist to 59.

3^rd Quarter – Dayton 10, Marist 0

• Joe Durham forced a fumble when he sacked Marist quarterback Brock Bagozzi, and Nate Arthur recovered at the Marist 20.
• That set up Sam Webster's 38-yard field goal.
• Dayton only gained 18 yards in the quarter (compared to 61 for Marist) but still burned six-and-a-half minutes off the clock.

4^th Quarter – Dayton 24, Marist 7

• The Dayton D was the story in the final period.
• UD stopped Marist on fourth down three straight possessions – a pass breakup by Elijah Smith, a 21-yard sack by Arthur and an eight-yard sack by Jerrel Lewis.
• Lewis' sack gave the Flyers the ball on the two, setting up Jake Chisholm's two-yard TD run, making the score 17-0 with 3:27 to go.
• On the next series, Cole Hildebrand's interception, 12-yard return and Marist's late hit penalty put the ball on the 17, and two plays later Michael Neel ran it from the 10 to make it 24-0 with 1:28 left.
• Marist was able to drive 67 yards to score with 18 seconds to go to make the final score 24-7.

• Jack Chisholm was the game's leading ball carrier with 90 yards on 27 attempts with a touchdown.
• Redshirt freshman QB Shane Hamm was 11 for 19 passing for 105 yards and a TD in his first career start.
• Luke Brenner caught four passes for 56 yards and the touchdown.
• The Dayton D held Marist to 19 yards rushing.
• Joey Guagenti, Ben Schmiesing and Nathan Arthur all led UD with nine tackles.
• Guagenti led in solo tackles with eight, and he also had an interception in his first career start.
• Arthur also forced a fumble and recovered a fumble, had a sack and 1.5 TFL.
• Cole Hildebrand also intercepted a pass, and he blocked a field goal as well.
• Punter Drew Nieman only averaged 33.0 yards per punt, but three of his six punt were inside the 20 (with no touchbacks), but he kept the ball away from the PFL's most dangerous punt returner, Clayborne  Fields III.  Field only returned two of the punts for a total of 18 yards.
• The Flyers are three wins away from becoming the ninth team playing at the FCS level to win 700 games.

• UD returns home for back-to-back home games, starting with Stetson on Saturday, Oct. 22.  Game time is 1 p.m. ET.
• The Stetson game is UD's alumni game, with members of UD's 1987 team being honored on the 35th anniversary of their NCAA Division III national runner-up season. 
• The Flyers will host Valparaiso on Oct. 29.