NORTH CHARLESTON, SC – Monmouth University (2-1, 1-0 Big South) wrapped up a three-game road swing on Saturday night with a convincing 41-14 win over Charleston Southern (1-1, 0-1 Big South).
 
Juwon Farri ran for three first half touchdowns while Tony Muskett threw two more and the defense forced two turnovers and had four sacks in Monmouth's conference opening victory.
 
Farri piled in for three short touchdowns to give the Hawks 21-0 lead with 12:12 left in the second quarter. CSU QB Jack Chambers scored his first of two touchdowns on the ground to cut the lead to two scores but Muskett and Greene connected for 10 yards with 1:53 remaining in the frame to push the lead to three TDs. Lorenzo Hernandez blocked a CSU punt that led to a 30-yard Nick Null field goal to end the first half scoring at 31-7.
 
Charleston Southern tallied the first score in the second half on a 20-yard Chambers run up the middle. The Hawks answered back with a 24-yard Assanti Kearney TD reception to push the Monmouth lead to 38-14 with 7:38 left in the third. Null converted a 22-yard field goal with 11:04 to play in regulation to finish the scoring.
 
NOTES & QUOTES
"It was a really good road win, a good way to begin conference play. We came down here to be 1-0 on the night and 1-0 in the conference and I think we accomplished that in an impressive way. Having said that, there are still a lot of things I think we can do better, things we need to improve. I was very happy with the way we complimented ourselves as a team. Defense would get turnovers, the offense put it in the endzone and when they did score our offense answered right back." Monmouth Head Coach Kevin Callahan

• Monmouth has now won five straight against CSU and are 5-1 all-time against the Bucs
• Lonnie Moore finished with 71 all-purpose yards, which gives him 3,633 in his career and puts him third all-time at Monmouth past
• After the first quarter, Monmouth had 154 yards on 31 plays to -3 on six plays for CSU
• John Sieczkowski had his first career sack in the second quarter on third down
• Juwon Farri had the first three of Monmouth's first half touchdowns, his first career game with three scores in a half
• Farri now has 22 touchdowns in 18 career contests
• True freshman linebacker Remi Johnson made his first career appearance, finishing with six tackles
• The Hawks registered four sacks, including the first of Matt Clark's career
• Monmouth is 18-2 since the 2017 season in Big South conference play
• Greene had

 
NUMBERS CRUNCH

• The 41 points were the most scored by a Monmouth team in the series
• Muskett finished the day 18-of-29 for 208 yards and two TD passes
• All four Monmouth running backs got touches in the game
• Monmouth held a 35:09 to 24:51 time of possession advantage
• The Hawks held CSU to 6-of-16 on third down
• Monmouth held a 384-344 advantage in yardage

 
UP NEXT
Monmouth will host Patriot League two-time defending champion Holy Cross at 1 PM on Saturday. Tickets can be purchased at MonmouthHawks.com