ADA, Ohio – The Mount Union football team won its fifth straight game with a 58-14 victory at Ohio Northern on Saturday afternoon.
The game was tied 7-7 at the end of the first quarter, before Mount Union scored 28 unanswered points and led 35-7 at halftime.
Junior QB Mikey Maloney (Concord Township, OH/Painesville Riverside) finished with 18 of 26 for 226 and four touchdowns – three of those 20+ yard dimes to freshman WR Brayden Harris (Northfield, OH/Cuyahoga Valley Christian) – a career high for Harris. Harris finished with his first career 100-yard game, 125 yards off a game-high seven catches – averaging 17.9 yards a catch. Maloney added two rushing touchdowns and 57 yards rushing.
Junior WR Mason Ashby (North Canton, OH/North Canton Hoover) caught a touchdown, now leading the team with seven on the season.
Just in the first half, Maloney accounted for four touchdowns, two rushing and two passing – both TD tosses to Harris. It marks the second game in a row that Harris grabbed a pair of touchdowns in the first half.
In the beginning of the second quarter, Maloney connected with Harris for a 29-yard touchdown on 3rd and 14. On the ensuing kickoff, sophomore LB Jace Radford (Temple, GA/Villa Rica) forced a fumble and junior CB Lincoln Wade (Kent, OH/Kent Roosevelt) returned it 11 yards for a touchdown. The Raiders led 21-7 with 13:52 to play in the second. Harris caught his second touchdown of the half, once again on 3rd and long, this time from 26 yards out with 7:20 on the clock. Maloney capped off the first half scoring with a 1-yard plunge with five seconds left, and the Raiders led 35-7 at halftime.
Mount Union's defense forced three fumbles. In addition to Radford, junior linebackers Dagan Meyers (Port Clinton, OH/Port Clinton) and Greyson Siders (Dalton, OH/Dalton) had a forced fumble. Mount held ONU to 75 rushing yards. Sophomore S TJ Griffin (Saint Cloud, FL/Saint Cloud) led the team with a career-high six tackles.
Freshman RB Ezra Jones (Avon Lake, OH/Avon Lake) had a highlight reel 64-yard touchdown on his first carry of the game in the third quarter – the longest run by a Raider this season. Jones finished with a career- and game-high 80 yards rushing.
Mount Union (6-2, 5-1 OAC) will next host Baldwin Wallace next Saturday, Nov. 7, in an OAC showdown. Kickoff is set for 4:03 PM. The game will be streamed on the FloSports Channel on Amazon Prime (also live on FloCollege). The M Club Hall of Fame Class of 2026 will be recognized at halftime.
More information at athletics.mountunion.edu.
