Junior Todd Spirt kicked a 20-yard field goal as time expired to give the Muhlenberg football team a 34-31 win at Thomas More.
 
Playing in Kentucky for the first time in 72 years, the 23rd-ranked Mules (6-0) overcame three separate deficits to win in a thrilling game that featured more than 850 combined yards of total offense.
 
In addition to throwing for a career-high 376 yards and two touchdowns, sophomore Michael Hnatkowsky rushed for 26 yards on the winning drive. Junior Ryan Curtiss caught eight passes for 150 yards and a touchdown.
 
Muhlenberg trailed 31-24 after the Saints (5-2) used a 62-yard pass play to set up a 1-yard touchdown pass with 10:10 remaining. The Mules needed only seven plays to tie the game back up, with Hnatkowsky's completions of 20 yards to freshman Gabe Robles and 20 and 29 yards to Curtiss setting up a 3-yard touchdown run by sophomore James Diggs.
 
Thomas More, which received votes in this week's D3football.com poll, took possession with 7:49 left and drove to the Muhlenberg 17 but missed a 34-yard field goal wide right with 2:08 to play.
 
A 20-yard run by Diggs put the Mules in Saints' territory, and on the next play senior Dawid Kowal gained another first down with an 11-yard reception - his first career catch. On second-and-11 from the 22, Hnatkowsky scrambled 15 yards to the seven. After two more running plays, Muhlenberg called timeout with 3.2 seconds left and brought on Spirt for his second game-ending field goal of the season.
 
The Mules took their first lead by scoring two touchdowns in a second-quarter span of 50 seconds. With exactly 5:00 on the clock, sophomore Nick Ugarte scored his first career touchdown, hauling in a 25-yard pass from Hnatkowsky.

On the second play after the kickoff, sophomore Pat Palmer forced the Thomas More quarterback to fumble, and junior defensive end Brian Raguseo scooped up the ball and returned it 12 yards for a touchdown. Raguseo (pictured above) is the first Muhlenberg player to score on a fumble return since 2006.
 
Curtiss caught a 51-yard touchdown pass early in the third quarter to put Muhlenberg ahead 21-17 just two plays after the Saints had taken the lead. A 34-yard kickoff return by Robles, with a face mask tacked on, set up the Mules in good position. Spirt booted a 37-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter to extend the lead to 24-17.
 
Muhlenberg held the eighth-leading rusher in Division III to 70 yards on 23 carries and limited the Saints to 125, well below their average of 273.2 coming in. Sophomore Spencer Kirin led the defense with a career-high 11 tackles, and junior Mickey Kober added nine, including a sack.