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| UW-Whitewater and UW-Platteville went toe to toe on Saturday. UW-Platteville athletics photo |
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| Gerrel Patton scored twice in the win for N.C. Wesleyan. N.C. Wesleyan athletics file photo |
Dubuque continued its unbeaten run to open the season, while No. 2 UW-Whitewater won at No. 8 UW-Platteville and N.C. Wesleyan dropped No. 15 Huntington in Saturday's Week 5 Division III football action.
Cole Wilber found Canton Larson in the end zone with 3:58 left in the game, capping a 15-play drive with a 4-yard touchdown pass to give the second-ranked Warhawks a 27-24 lead in a game the Warhawks went on to win 30-24.
The Warhawks defense held Platteville to minus-15 rushing yards, though Tom Kelly was 29-for-51 passing for 435 yards and two touchdowns for the Pioneers (3-1). Kelly threw for two touchdowns, including a 14-yard slant to Dan Arnold early in the fourth quarter to give Platteville a 24-20 lead.
Conor Feckley threw for five touchdowns, two to Dylan Schultz and two to Emanuel Jenkins, as Dubuque handed No. 24 Central its first loss of the season, 35-17 in Pella, Iowa.
"When you have 500 yards and just score 17 points, you didn't do something right," coach Jeff McMartin said. Central turned the ball over six times, three interceptions and three fumbles, in the loss.
N.C. Wesleyan handed Huntingdon its first loss of the season, as preseason All-American receiver Malik Adams caught a touchdown pass, returned a kickoff for a touchdown and intercepted a pass as well in a 41-31 win. Gerrel Patton ran for 147 yards and two touchdowns in the win. Luke Bailey completed 21 of 36 for Huntingdon, but threw for just 259 yards and was picked off twice.
Rowan turned a pair of turnovers into first half points and held off the Captains in the fourth quarter to knock off No. 22 Christopher Newport 10-7. Rowan (3-1, 2-1 NJAC) limited K.J. Kearney to 205 yards on 37 pass attempts as CNU fell to 4-1, 3-1. The Profs won with just 256 yards of total offense.
Hobart survived a back-and-forth fourth, scoring the game-winner with 19 seconds left to defeat Merchant Marine 38-35 and remain undefeated. After the Mariners got off to a quick start, the lead changed hands six times in the second half, capped by Statesmen quarterback Shane Sweeney hitting Jack Pfohl for a 57-yard touchdown catch in the closing minute. The pass itself covered about 20 yards, Pfohl's legs and a couple of key blocks did the rest. He ran through a couple of attempted arm tackles and got blocks from sophomore tight end Matt Woods and receiver Sean Cunningham to go all the way to the end zone. Robert Moore, who was one of three Mariners with more than 100 yards rushing had given Merchant Marine the lead just 35 seconds earlier. Sweeney finished the day with five touchdown passes, two to Pfohl and one to Brandon Shed, as No. 21 Hobart improved to 5-0.
Merchant Marine, which has its triple-option offense clicking this season under Moore, rushed for 397 yards, including 113 from Wiley Martine, 112 from Moore and 102 from Luke Tiefenthaler. The Mariners fell to 2-2.
Mount Union jumped out to a 21-0 lead, including a 100-yard interception return by Danny Robinson, but gave up a season-high 21 points as well as the top-ranked Purple Raiders defeated Ohio Northern 38-21. It was ONU's third loss in four outings this season.
The Johns Hopkins offense erupted in the second and third quarter and five different players completed passes for the No. 9 Blue Jays in a 52-17 win vs. Juniata. Jonathan Germano threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more as the Blue Jays broke open a 7-7 game with 45 points in the next two quarters.
With Jackson Erdmann out because of a concussion suffered in last week's Tommie-Johnnie game, No. 10 St. John's turned to backup Ben Alvord, and he had a great first start, going 15-for-17 passing for 211 yards and three TDs in St. John's 42-27 win vs. Bethel.
Illinois Wesleyan led 24-14 late in the first half, but No. 11 Wheaton saw its offense come alive in the second half and the Thunder came away with a 48-24 win. Andrew Bowers went the distance at quarterback for Wheaton, completing 28 of 35 passes for 351 yards and four scores, while Sola Olateju ran for 171 yards and a touchdown.
The Salisbury defense held TCNJ to just 143 yards of total offense and the No. 13 Sea Gulls had little trouble with the Lions in a 41-6 win. Salisbury racked up 611 yards, 420 of them on the ground, in improving to 4-0.
No. 16 Thomas More handed Westminster (Pa.) its first loss of the season, as the Saints improved to 4-1, 3-0 PAC with a 45-35 win. Thomas More rolled up 506 yards of total offense as Brenan Kuntz was 16-of-29 passing for 227 yards and three touchdowns, adding 68 yards on the ground.
Sean Richardson threw four touchdown passes, two of them in a 21-point fourth quarter as No. 25 St. Lawrence pulled away from Springfield 42-14. The Saints throttled the Pride triple-option attack, with nobody picking up more than 26 yards on the ground.
No. 3 UMHB welcomed McMurry back to ASC play with a 66-3 thumping. Blake Jackson threw for five TDs on 16-for-20 passing while safety Baylor Mullins led the Crusaders with an interception and one and a half tackles for loss. ... Fourth-ranked St. Thomas limited Augsburg to just 84 yards of total offense and Michael Alada picked off his third pass in two games, his fifth of the season, returning it for a TD in a 55-7 win. ... Sam Riddle threw six touchdown passes, all in the first half, as No. 7 Linfield took the field for the first time since losing at UMHB and rolled over Lewis & Clark 59-7.