The Stony Brook Seawolves opened up their Empire Conference account with an impressive 53-13 win over Fordham Saturday.

The Seawolves got four unconverted tries in the first half - Steve Kopcho, Jedediah Hedrixson, Jimmy Sheridan, and Shane Wend doing the honors, while Fordham, hurt by a yellow card for a high tackle, managed a penalty goal and a try to make it 20-8.

In the second half, Fordham closed the gap to a converted try with their second try of the game. But Bart Sweeney smartly used Wend as a decoy and went himself to put Stony Brook up 27-13. A second yellow card by Fordham put them behind the eight ball and Phil Salter, Sweeney, and Bryan Michel helped finish the game off.

Moving to 2-0 were Syracuse and Colgate. The Syracuse Hammerheads slammed Brockport with a somewhat shocking winning margin of 74-10.

Alex Hodgkinson scored three tries and kicked for 18 more for 33 points. Eight more Syracuse players scored tries.

Colgate started off well against Binghamton, getting an early Charlie Murphy penalty and three unconverted tries to surged to an 18-0 first-half lead. Colgate cruised to a 39-5 win.