Game Recap: Football | 10/5/2024 4:26:00 PM
| Nate LaRiccia (Photo Credit: Ed Hall Jr.)
Football: #3 Mount
Union Shuts Out Otterbein in Road
OAC Matchup
WESTERVILLE, Ohio – The No. 3 Mount Union football team shut
out Otterbein, 21-0, in a road Ohio
Athletic Conference (OAC) contest Saturday afternoon.
The shout out was Mount
Union's fourth of the last five
meetings against the Cardinals, and eighth of the last 13.
Junior quarterback Noah Beaudrie (Monroe, MI/Erie-Mason)
went 14 of 19 with 205 yards and touchdown – a four-yard pass to senior Tyrell
Sanders (Indianapolis, IN/Pike)
in the second quarter. Sanders led all receivers with 107 yards, his second
career 100-yard game, from a team- and career-high seven catches. Senior
Darnell Williams (Cleveland, OH/John Adams) ran 83 yards and a touchdown (a
27-yarder), while classmate Tyler Echeverry (Naples, FL/Barron Collier) added
42 yards and a touchdown (also a 27-yarder).
Senior Rossy Moore (Lima, OH/Lima
Central Catholic) led the defense with two sacks and three tackles for loss –
both game-highs. Moore passed Matt
Campbell (1999-02) and Lambert Budzinski (2007-10) for fourth all-time in
program history in career sacks, now with 28.0. Senior Von Factor (Fair Haven,
NJ/Rumson-Fair Haven) added a sack, the 19th of his career.
Senior Brandon Yanssens (Columbiana,
OH/Crestview) and classmate Marcus Jackson
(Dallas, TX/Richardson)
both had seven tackles, while Yanssens had an interception.
In the scoreless first quarter, Mount
Union (4-0, 3-0 OAC) orchestrated
drives of eight and nine plays, respectively, however turned the ball over on
downs including at the one-yard line. The Purple Raider defense stopped
Otterbein (0-4, 0-3 OAC) on fourth down, following its game-opening 10-play
drive.
In the second quarter, the Mount
Union defense forced a punt and the
Raiders drove the field 70 yards on nine plays, capped off with a four-pass
touchdown pass from Beaudrie to Sanders. The Raiders led 7-0 at halftime.
Williams and Echeverry scored their 27-yard touchdown runs in the second half.
The Purple Raiders will next host Wilmington
on Saturday, Oct. 12 at 1:30 p.m. on
Homecoming.
4th Quarter UMU OTT
UMU
09:35 - UMU -
Echeverry,Tyler 27 yd run (Maric,Ivan kick), 7 plays, 51 yards, TOP 03:42
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