INDIANAPOLIS – The UIndy football program ended its 2019 spring ball schedule with the annual UIndy Spring Game Saturday at Key Stadium. After the seniors drafted their rosters earlier in the week, the black squad topped the white squad by a final of 24-7.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
With near perfect weather conditions, the passing game played a huge part of the outcome Saturday. All four touchdowns on the day were scored via the air, including three touchdown passes by incoming senior Bryce Stancombe.
 
After a scoreless first quarter, the black squad jumped in front with a pair of second-quarter scores. Stancombe found fellow senior Maurice Robinson with a 69-yard bomb for the game's first (and longest) score.
 

?? | Stancombe to Robinson for a 69-yd score! Just one of the many exciting plays from a successful @UIndyFB spring game at ?? today! pic.twitter.com/gjKhAnge1h

— UIndy Athletics (@UIndyAthletics) April 13, 2019

 
Stancombe followed that with a 38-yard TD pass to Daveon Bell late in the second, before the white squad generated a little momentum of their own with a lengthy touchdown toss with under a minute left in the half. Junior wideout Ryan Topper hauled in a 38-yard pass from redshirt-freshman Cam Misner to make it 14-7 black at the break.
 
The rest of the day would see just one more touchdown, as the defenses combined to force three second-half turnovers. After the black squad opened the third quarter with a touchdown drive, capped by a 17-yard TD grab by Alex Algee, the white squad drove nearly all the way to the black's goal line only to fumble on the door step.
 
Later, the black squad would also loose a fumble, but redshirt-freshman Loren Strickland earned a fourth-quarter interception and 32-yard return to help keep the white squad at arm's length.
 
The game's final points came from the leg of sophomore Paul Buisman, who split the uprights from 45 yards out to put the final score at 24-7.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
- Both Robinson and Topper finished with six catches for 106 yards.
- Connor Steeb had the biggest return of the game, refunding a white squad fumble 47 yards in the second quarter.
- T'Nahleg Hall led all rushers with 50 yards on just five carries. The redshirt-freshman rumbled 34 yards on one third-quarter carry, good for the longest rush of the game.
- Both Jack Kuerzi (white squad) and Michael Dennison (black squad) were credited with two sacks.
- Redshirt-sophomore Andre Jackson garnered an INT in the first quarter.
 
MORE NOTES
The game's brief halftime intermission featured a special presentation to incoming-sophomore Toriano Clinton. The Calumet, Ill., native was awarded a statistical national champion plague from the NCAA, as last fall the true freshman topped all of Division II in kickoff return average (37.9).