Box Score BEREA, Ohio – T.J. Lattimore (Maple Heights/Maple Heights) ran for a career-high 131 yards and the Mount Union defense held No. 15 ranked Baldwin Wallace to 159 total yards as the top ranked Purple Raiders scored a 38-7 Ohio Athletic Conference victory in Berea.
The win secured the Purple Raiders' at least a share of their 21st consecutive (24th overall) Ohio Athletic Conference championship and a berth in the NCAA Division III playoffs for the 24th time. Mount Union (9-0, 8-0 OAC) is ranked No. 1 by the AFCA and d3football.com and No. 1 in the NCAA North Region.
After a scoreless first quarter that saw Mount Union gain just 20 yards on eight plays, the Raiders exploded for 499 yards over the last three quarters.
Quarterback Kevin Burke (Westlake/Lakewood St. Edward) completed 17-of-22 passes for 202 yards with touchdowns to Jasper Collins (Geneva, N.Y./Geneva) and Julius Moore (Lakeland, Fla./Kathleen Senior). Collins had a game-high 81 yards on seven catches while Moore had four catches for 80 yards.
Lattimore led a ground attack that chewed up 311 yards on the ground. Jake Simon (Parma Heights/Holy Name) had 79 yards on seven carries with a score while Blair Skilliter (Curtice/Genoa) had two touchdowns.
This was all more than enough for a defense that after surrendering 87 yards in the first quarter allowed just 72 yards the rest of the game.
The unit held BW to minus-one yard rushing with five sacks as freshman linebacker Hank Spencer (Greencastle, Ind./North Putnam) had a career-best 11 tackles while fellow linebacker Charles Dieuseul (Winter Haven, Fla./Lake Region) had an interception and Nick Driskill (Wabash, Ind./Southwood) a fumble recovery.
Baldwin Wallace kept the football for 11:47 of a scoreless first quarter and took a 7-0 lead on a deflected pass that Kevin Johnson ended up with for a 24-yard touchdown pass from Ryan O'Rourke.
Mount Union then got things going offensively as Skilliter capped a 75-yard drive with a 14-yard touchdown run on his first offensive touch of the game. Skilliter found the end zone again on the Raiders next possession with a four-yard run and Mount Union took a 14-7 lead with 6:15 left in the second quarter.
On the ensuing BW possession, Dieuseul intercepted a pass at midfield and on the very next play Burke hit Moore on a 52-yard bomb to put the Raiders up 21-7 at the half.
Mount Union outgained Baldwin Wallace, 241-57 in the second quarter.
The third quarter featured more of the same as Tyler Almeida (Elyria/Elyria) hit a 27-yard field goal and Simon ran in a two-yard score to extend the lead to 31-7 while the defense held BW to just 12 total yards in and 1:11 time of possession in the quarter.
Collins hauled in a six-yard scoring pass from Burke early in the fourth quarter to finish the scoring.
Mount Union wraps up the regular season next week at John Carroll with a 6pm kickoff from University Heights.
Box Score (Final)
#1 Mount Union vs #15 Baldwin Wallace (Nov 03, 2012 at Berea, Ohio)
Score by Quarters 1 2 3 4 Score
----------------- -- -- -- -- -----
Mount Union......... 0 21 10 7 - 38 Record: (9-0,8-0)
Baldwin Wallace..... 0 7 0 0 - 7 Record: (7-2,6-2)
Scoring Summary:
2nd 13:36 BW - K. Johnson 24 yd pass from Ryan O'Rourke (Chris Mohler kick), 10-80 5:04, MTU 0 - BW 7
3rd 04:10 MTU -
Tyler Almeida 27 yd field goal, 12-48 0:00, MTU 24 - BW 7
MTU BW
FIRST DOWNS................... 24 11
RUSHES-YARDS (NET)............ 46-311 26--1
PASSING YDS (NET)............. 208 160
Passes Att-Comp-Int........... 23-18-1 29-18-1
TOTAL OFFENSE PLAYS-YARDS..... 69-519 55-159
Fumble Returns-Yards.......... 0-0 0-0
Punt Returns-Yards............ 2-4 0-0
Kickoff Returns-Yards......... 2-14 7-141
Interception Returns-Yards.... 1-3 1-0
Punts (Number-Avg)............ 2-34.5 6-40.0
Fumbles-Lost.................. 2-1 1-1
Penalties-Yards............... 9-78 5-35
Possession Time............... 35:17 24:43
Third-Down Conversions........ 3 of 10 6 of 14
Fourth-Down Conversions....... 1 of 3 0 of 1
Red-Zone Scores-Chances....... 4-4 0-1
Sacks By: Number-Yards........ 5-38 3-20
Baldwin Wallace-Issac Reed III 3-13; Josiah Holt 3-8; S. Zuluaga 5-5; Tyler Lohr
3-5; Andrew Dziak 2-3; Michael Slack 2-2; Ryan O'Rourke 8-minus 37.
Wallace-Ryan O'Rourke 18-29-1-160.
Wallace-Josiah Holt 6-56; Josh Masters 5-42; Gabe Adams 2-26; K. Johnson 1-24;
M. McGervey 1-15; Issac Reed III 1-0; S. Zuluaga 1-minus 1; Tyler Lohr 1-minus
2.
1-0.
FUMBLES: Mount Union-
Kevin Burke 2-1. Baldwin Wallace-Michael Slack 1-1.
0-1. Baldwin Wallace-M. Stacchiotti 2-10; Tom Goebel 4-7; Nick Milano 5-4;
Brandon Russo 5-3; Max Wagner 2-6; Joe Fitch 3-4; Zach Barley 2-4; Sam Gordon
0-6; David Flegal 1-4; K. Johnson 0-5; Corey Meeks 0-3; Brian Ellis 0-3; Andrew
Dziak 1-1; Jon Hofer 0-2; Dan O'Brien 0-2; Josiah Holt 1-0; Tyler Burdoff 1-0;
Lucas Roberts 0-1; Brandon Slater 0-1; Dan Reed 0-1; Austin Cordova 0-1; Spyro
Sondyl 0-1; Reimenschneider 0-1.
