Manhattan struck first with a six-play, all-rushing drive to open the game and take an early lead,\u00a0 8-0. The Indians never looked back, taking advantage of three turnovers on Emporia\u2019s first three offensive possessions.<\/p>\n
Manhattan turned each turnover into a defensive touchdown, returning two fumbles for scores and adding a pick-six to build a commanding 45-0 halftime lead.<\/p>\n
The Spartans finally got on the scoreboard midway through the third quarter when Cael Claibourn connected with Garrett LeBlanc on a 23-yard pass. The touchdown ended the shutout, but Manhattan added a late score to close out the 51-6 victory.<\/p>\n
Ben Collins led Emporia\u2019s ground game with 59 rushing yards.<\/p>\n
The loss drops the Spartans to 2-4 overall and 0-3 in league play. Emporia will look to snap its losing streak next Friday when it returns to Welch Stadium to host Field Kindley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan struck first with a six-play, all-rushing drive to open the game and take an early lead,\u00a0 8-0.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-369578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}