Box Score COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Mount Union football team won its third straight Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) game with a 45-23 win at Capital on Saturday.

Mount Union wide receivers junior WR Mason Ashby (North Canton, OH/North Canton Hoover) and sophomore WR O.P. Knox (Lauderdale Lakes, Fla./North Broward Prep.) both had career days.

Ashby (North Canton, OH/North Canton Hoover) led all receivers with 14 catches for 191 yards (both career bests), including a one-handed touchdown to put the Raiders up by three scores in the fourth quarter. It marked the most receptions by a Raider in a game since Wayne Ruby Jr. did it against Alma in 2023. Ashby now has five straight 100-yard games.

Knox caught a game- and career-high three touchdown receptions. It marked the first time a Mount player had three touchdown receptions in a game since Ruby achieved it in 2023 against Otterbein.

Junior QB Mikey Maloney (Concord Township, OH/Painesville Riverside) went 32 for 44 (72.7%) for a career-high 389 yards, while tying a career high with five passing touchdowns, to go along with a rushing touchdown and a career-high 91 yards on the ground - including a truck stick run in the fourth for an exclamation point. His six total scores tied a career high.

Following Mount Union's missed field goal on its first drive, the Purple Raiders scored on back-to-back drives, led by Maloney. Maloney ran it in from six yards out for the first points of the game for his second rushing TD of the season, followed by an 8-yard touchdown pass to Knox, capping off an 11-play, 75-yard drive, and the Raiders led 14-0 with 13:55 to play in the second quarter.

Capital (3-3, 2-3 OAC) got on the scoreboard with a one-yard TD run by Zion Solomon with 3:36 left in the first half, after converting on 4th-and-15 from Mount's 31-yard line.

The Raiders quickly responded with a 4-play drive, taking less than two minutes off the clock, as Knox grabbed his second touchdown of the half – this time from four yards out.

Sophomore K Connell Rafferty (Macedonia, OH/Nordonia) kicked a career-long 40-yard field goal as time expired and Mount Union led 24-7.

In the second half, the Comets scored nine straight points after causing a safety, and Xavier Rodriguez ran it in from nine yards out.

The Raiders responded with a pair of touchdowns from Maloney. Maloney connected with junior TE Grant Anderson (Naples, FL/Gulf Coast) from five yards out for Anderson's first career TD, followed by a 25-yard pass to Knox for his third of the game. Mount led 38-16 with 11:38 to go.

Freshman RB Bo Bokman (Lakeville, MN/Lakeville South) finished with 113 yards on the ground for his third 100-yard game of the season. 

Mount Union (4-2, 3-1 OAC) is back home next Saturday, October 24, as it hosts Wilmington at Kehres Stadium with a 1:30 p.m. kickoff.

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