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 shut 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 19
th 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.
