STONY BROOK, N.Y. - Charleston Southern's first Big South game was won in the last moments, their second went the other way as CSU fell 20-19 to Stony Brook, Saturday. The victory gave SBU their first Big South victory on homecoming, moving them to 2-5, while CSU fell back below .500 at 3-4. Both teams now have a 1-1 Big South record.

A touchdown pass with 1:06 on the clock proved the difference as Stony Brook took a one-point lead and held on for the victory. Leading for the majority of the game, CSU trailed for just 3:22 in the game, but found themselves on the short-end of the scoreboard when it was over.

"I really want to give credit to Stony Brook," said CSU Head Coach Jay Mills. "They came out and played very hard and really played well. It was a ballgame that seemed like it came down to one play, but really as you look at it there were about 20 different plays that if you change one of them, the entire look of the game changes. It hurts and is disappointing, but I felt like we played well enough in all three phases of the game."

For the fifth time this season, CSU had more than 300 yards of total offense (331), but surrendered 417 to the Seawolf offense, including 225 yards on the ground.

Tribble Reese finished the game with 218 yards through the air on a 19-of-33 day in which CSU had just one costly turnover at the end of the game. All three of Reese's touchdown passes went to Gerald Stevenson, who had 143 yards on seven catches, the most by any CSU receiver this year, and became the first CSU wide out to top 100 yards in a game this season.

Defensively, CSU was led by Andrew McKain, who had nine tackles, two for loss and a fumble recovery, leading to the first CSU touchdown.

Chris Richards tied McKain for game-high honors with nine stops to lead the Seawolves. Dayne Hoffman finished 17-for-31 for 210 yards. Conte Cuttino and Edwin Godwins just missed making it two 100-yard backs as they ran for 107 and 97 yards, respectively.

Both teams suffered miscues early in the game as CSU's John Paglia missed a 30-yard field goal, and Stony Brook failed on a fourth-down fake punt and suffered a first-quarter fumble.

Late in the first, David Jackson forced the ball out of the hands of Cuttino and Andrew McKain jumped on the ball, setting up the first score of the day. CSU needed just five plays to go 42 yards as Reese found Stevenson open in the end zone for a 30-yard touchdown strike making it 7-0 with 2:01 on the clock.

Thanks in large part to 45 yards of personal foul penalties against Stony Brook, CSU moved the ball all the way down the field to the SBU two yard line. A fourth-down gamble by the Bucs failed as a play-action pass to Tyrese Harris fell incomplete.

The Seawolves scored their first touchdown since September 20 on the ensuing drive, Hoffman found Eley from nine yards out to cap a 98-yard drive and tied the game at 7-7.

Facing a third-and-22, CSU elected to quick kick the ball out near midfield, but SBU was able to utilize the short field as they moved down to the 20 yard line. Luke Gaddis' 37-yard field goal gave SBU the lead with 2:24 in the first half.

A pass interference call set up CSU on the 19 yard line as time continued to wind down. With 7.7 seconds left, Reese found Stevenson in the corner of the end zone again. Paglia missed the extra point, but CSU took the 13-10 lead into the break.

On their first drive of the second half, the Seawolves drove down inside the CSU 10, but the Buc defense held, forcing a 25-yard field goal by Gaddis, which tied the game at 13.

Stevenson made it a triple for the day as he caught a pass across the middle, broke a number of tackles and scampered 39 yards for the touchdown. Paglia's extra point again found the upright and was no good to make it 19-13.

Down to their last chances of the game, Hoffman found Adrian Sawyer wide open in the endzone on a third-and-20 to put SBU up 20-19 with under two minutes to go.

Reese's pass found Tim Jones across the middle, and as Jones tried to flip the ball to Stevenson to gain additional yardage and try to get in Paglia's field goal range, the ball was knocked loose and Andre Jean-Pierre and recovered by the Seawolves to essentially win the game.