Mount beats Wilmington

WILMINGTON — No. 2 Mount Union looked every bit the part of a national contender Saturday, rolling past Wilmington 59-0 for its first shutout of the season in Ohio Athletic Conference play.

The Purple Raiders (5-0, 3-0 OAC) racked up 609 yards of offense on 59 plays, averaging 10.3 yards per snap while holding Wilmington (1-4, 0-4) to just 108 rushing yards.

Freshman quarterback Mikey Maloney went 10-of-15 for 141 yards and two touchdowns and added 70 yards and a score on the ground. Graduate running back Darnell Williams ran for 163 yards — his third 100-yard game in the last four weeks — while sophomore Kayden Minner added 120 yards and two touchdowns. It marked the first time since 2022 that Mount Union had two 100-yard rushers in the same game.

Defensively, the Purple Raiders forced five turnovers, including four fumbles. Senior Kaleb Brown recorded a sack, a forced fumble, a recovery and a pass breakup, moving into seventh place on Mount Union’s all-time sack list with 25.5.

Mount Union scored on its first three drives and led 21-0 after one quarter, sparked by Maloney’s 38-yard touchdown run and a pair of Wilmington turnovers.

The Purple Raiders visit Heidelberg on Saturday, Oct. 18, for a 1:30 p.m. kickoff.

DeShields leads Flashes

KENT (AP) — Da’Realyst Clark scored on the opening kickoff and West Branch graduate Dru DeShields threw four touchdown passes as Kent State routed Massachusetts, 42-6 on Saturday.

The Golden Flashes (2-4, 1-1 MAC) snapped a four-game losing streak and took the lead on the opening kickoff after Clark’s 91-yard return.

DaShawn Martin, Sebastian Brown, Ardell Banks, and Terik Mulder each had scoring receptions in Kent State’s highest-scoring game since Sept. 17, 2022 (a 63-10 win over Long Island University).

The Flashes outgained the Minutemen 330-271 and had four sacks.

UMass (0-6, 0-2) has lost ten straight games stretching back to last season.

YSU falls at North Dakota

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Jerry Kaminski threw three touchdown passes and Gaven Ziebarth ran for a pair of scores in North Dakota’s 35-17 win over Youngstown State on Saturday.

Kaminski found BJ Fleming for two touchdowns in the first half, as the Fighting Hawks had four consecutive touchdown drives to open the game. Fleming had five catches for 82 yards, all in the first half. Kaminski was 17-of-27 passing for 146 yards.

Ziebarth had 72 yards on the ground, mostly from a 51-yard score early in the second quarter to give North Dakota a 21-0 lead.

The FCS No. 13 Fighting Hawks (4-2, 2-0 Missouri Valley Football Conference) held Youngstown State to 3 of 14 on third downs.

Beau Brungard was 18 of 33 for 269 yards with a pair of touchdown passes for the Penguins. Kylon Wilson caught four passes for 102 yards, including a 37-yard score. Brungard had 72 rushing yards on 19 attempts to lead Youngstown State.