Football: #2 Mount
Union Clips Cardinals at Home
10/28/2023
| Football | Box Score
ALLIANCE, Ohio
- The No. 2-ranked Mount Union
football team won, 51-14, over Otterbein at home on Saturday.
Mount Union
(8-0, 7-0 OAC) led 44-0 after three
quarters. Otterbein (0-8, 0-7 OAC) scored its two touchdowns in the fourth
quarter.
Senior Wayne Ruby (Pembroke Pines,
Fla./Charles W. Flanagan) led all receivers with 120 yards and
three touchdowns - his eighth career game with at least three touchdowns and
third 100-yard game this season.
Senior Tyrell Sanders (Indianapolis,
Ind./Pike) caught an 11-yard touchdown pass from classmate
Braxton Plunk (Plant City, Fla./Plant
City) on the Purple Raiders' opening drive.
On the Cardinals' ensuing drive, the Raider defense forced a
three-and-out and sophomore Derek Blum (Aurora,
Ohio/Aurora) blocked the fourth-down punt
which went through the back of the end zone for a safety.
Later in the first quarter, sophomore Nick Turner (Strongsville,
Ohio/Strongsville)
returned a punt 62 yards for a touchdown - the first of his collegiate career.
Sophomore tight end Wyatt Stiehl (Tampa,
Fla./East Lake)
started the second-quarter scoring with a four-yard touchdown grab for his
first collegiate score.
Ruby scored the next three touchdowns (from 36, 23, and 41
yards out).
Senior wide receiver Noah Mangan (Avon, Ohio/Avon) caught a
19-yard touchdown pass from freshman Jackson Akins (Phoenix, Ariz./Lake Gibson
(FL)), Mangan's first touchdown of his collegiate career. On the same drive,
Mangan caught a 15-yard pass on third down for his first career catch as a
Raider.
Plunk finished 26 of 34 with 330 yards and season-high five
touchdowns. Junior running back Darnell Williams (Cleveland,
Ohio/John Adams) led on the ground with 53
yards from 12 carries.
Senior linebacker Mason McMillen (Wadsworth,
Ohio/Wadsworth)
added to his team-leading tackle total with a team-best seven on Saturday, to
go along with a forced fumble and a break up. Junior defensive lineman Von
Factor (Fair Haven, N.J./Rumson-Fair Haven) registered a sack, while junior
linebacker Marcus Jackson (Dallas, Tex./Richardson)
and senior Ian Sexton (Dover, Ohio/Dover)
each had a half sack.
The Purple Raiders will travel to No. 8 John Carroll with at
least the share of the OAC Title on the line. Kickoff is set for 1:30 p.m.