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BOCA RATON, Fla. — \u2014 Leonard Farrow returned two kickoffs for touchdowns, Caden Veltkamp threw for four scores \u2014 three of them to Kelby Valsin \u2014 and Florida Atlantic routed Football Championship Subdivision-member Texas Southern 66-10 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Farrow returned the opening kickoff 98 yards for a score, then after a Texas Southern field goal he returned that kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown. Wilky Denaud returned a fumble 31 yards for a score on Texas Southern’s next possession and the Owls led 21-3 before their offense took the field.<\/p>\n
Not to be outdone by the defense and special teams, Veltkamp led the Owls to touchdowns on each of their first four possessions, building a 49-10 lead at halftime. All four drives culminated in TD passes by Veltkamp, including throws of 19, 55 and 8 yards to Valsin.<\/p>\n
The Owls (4-1) had 323 yards passing, 130 rushing and 214 on kick and punt returns.<\/p>\n
Veltkamp was 13-for-16 passing for 247 yards and Valsin caught seven passes for 126 yards.<\/p>\n
Athean Renfro Jr. had 101 yards rushing for the Texas Southern (1-4).<\/p>\n
The FAU record for points in a game is 69, set against North Texas in a 69-31 win in 2017.<\/p>\n
The last Division I player to return two kickoffs for touchdowns was Ja\u2019briel Mace of Villanova last season against William & Mary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links BOCA RATON, Fla. — \u2014 Leonard Farrow returned two kickoffs for touchdowns, Caden Veltkamp…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-456039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}