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| Noah Garcia and the Cowboys had their way with Mary Hardin-Baylor on Saturday. Hardin-Simmons athletics photo |
Hardin-Simmons dominated Mary Hardin-Baylor in the teams' first meeting, Johns Hopkins came all the way back against Carnegie Mellon, River Falls handled UW-Platteville, UW-Stout knocked off UW-Oshkosh and Franklin & Marshall got past Muhlenberg in action among Top 25 teams. Check out more in the Week 6 Top 25 recap.
Noah Garcia ran for a touchdown less than two minutes into the game, went for two in the first quarter, and the Hardin-Simmons defense kept Mary Hardin-Baylor off the board until the final two minutes in a 34-7 win.
Garcia broke loose for a 43-yard touchdown run less than two minutes into the game, and the Cowboys (5-0, 2-0 ASC) never looked back. The senior tailback finished with 123 yards and two scores on 20 carries as HSU defeated the Cru for the fourth time in the past five meetings, most of them in the past 13 months. No. 9 HSU built a 20-0 halftime lead on Garcia's two scores and a pair of field goals from junior kicker Pedro Altamirano (22 and 34 yards). Braylon Henry punched in a 1-yard touchdown in the third quarter, and Foster's pick-six made it 34-0 with 14:01 left. HSU held No. 22 UMHB to 183 yards of total offense.
"I didn't have to say a word. As soon as we were going in at the half, our guys were taking care of it," HSU coach Jesse Burleson said about his team's halftime lead. "And I think that's the difference right there. It's not a coach having to tell them, 'Hey, you need to do this and you need to do that,' because they know what to do. They know what the expectation and the standard is. The standard is their best. And if they're not playing their best, it's not good enough. We got a lot of things we've got to clean up from today, but this is a good one to build off of."
No. 17 Carnegie Mellon was rolling through the first 25 minutes of its game at No. 3 Johns Hopkins on Saturday, including two 10-play touchdown drives as the Tartans took a 17-0 lead in their first big showdown as a member of the Centennial Conference. Carnegie Mellon (3-2, 1-1) went to halftime up 24-7 as well. But in the second half, Johns Hopkins (5-0, 2-0) went to work, as Bay Harvey ran for a touchdown and threw for one as well to bring his team all the way back for a 28-27 win. CMU scored just once after halftime, on a 19-yard Justin Caputo field goal on the 14th play of the drive, one which stalled after the Tartans had the ball first-and-goal from the 2.
UW-Stout gave up the first 16 points of the game, but scored the final 27 and the Blue Devils defeated No. 11 UW-Oshkosh 27-16. Stout (4-1, 2-0 WIAC) scored on three Adam Moen touchdown passes and a Moen touchdown run to come away with the win. That included a 60-yard TD pass to Davonte Evans and a 58-yarder to Avron Carter, the latter coming with 7:45 left in the game. From there, Brooks Brewer intercepted an Oshkosh pass inside the red zone and Dawson Goodman got a key fourth-down pass breakup in the end zone in the final minute to seal the win. Evans caught six passes for 141 yards and two scores for Stout.
Berry held No. 16 Trinity (Texas) to field goals on two key drives in the first half, and then held the Tigers without any points in the second half as the Vikings improved to 4-1, defeating Trinity 29-6. Andrew Hunter ran for two touchdowns and a two-point conversion for Berry, including a 1980s-style plunge over the line to give his team a 15-6 lead with 8:57 left in the third quarter. From there, the Berry defense found its way to the Trinity backfield, and the offense melted away a big chunk of the second half with a 14-play, 66-yard drive that lasted for 8 minutes and 40 seconds of game time before Hunter found the end zone for the final time of the night.
After executing the two-minute offense to score a potential game-tying touchdown in the final minute, Muhlenberg elected to go for two points and the win rather than the PAT and likely overtime. The conversion pass fell incomplete, however, and Franklin & Marshall recovered the ensuing onside kick to seal a 28-27 win and hand the No. 25 Mules their first loss of the season. F&M took the lead in the back-and-forth game with 11:03 to play as Ty Tremba connected with Gary Lewis for a touchdown pass, his fourth of the day and his second to Lewis.
Kaleb Blaha threw for 443 yards and a touchdown and ran for 41 yards and another score as No. 14 UW-River Falls handed No. 6 UW-Platteville its first loss of the season, 31-21. The Falcons (4-1, 1-1 WIAC) scored on their first play from scrimmage, as Blaha hit Blake Rohrer for an 84-yard touchdown. Platteville never got any closer, as the Pioneers (4-1, 1-1) trailed 24-7 at the half and only scored in the last five minutes to make it a 10-point game at the end. Two Platteville quarterbacks combined to go 24-for-41 passing for 285 yards, throwing two TDs and getting picked off three times. Andre Hall had two of those interceptions for UWRF.
No. 8 Wartburg extended its conference winning streak to an ARC/IIAC-record 30 consecutive games as the Knights locked down Dubuque in a 33-7 victory. Wartburg totaled 441 yards offensively, as quarterback Leo Dodd tossed a career-high 230 yards on 20 completions and a touchdown. On the defensive side, the Knights held the Spartans to just 45 yards rushing.
UW-La Crosse earned its eighth consecutive win over UW-Eau Claire with a 41-21 victory Saturday afternoon. UW-Eau Claire last earned a win (20-14) in the series in 2016 in Eau Claire. The Blugolds haven't won in La Crosse since 2013 (24-21). The fourth-ranked Eagles totaled 640 yards of offense, including 370 rushing and 270 passing. Gabe Lynch scored just six plays into the game and finished with 165 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 16 carries while Braeden Ott totaled 127 yards and one touchdown on 11 attempts.