Junior
James Diggs rushed for 112 yards and two touchdowns and the defense forced five turnovers that led to 24 points as the Muhlenberg football team won at Dickinson, 38-9, in its Centennial Conference opener.
Junior
Michael Hnatkowsky threw for one touchdown pass and ran for another for the eighth-ranked Mules (2-0), who led 38-3 until the Red Devils scored a touchdown with less than two minutes to go.
Senior
Frankie Feaster recorded seven tackles, including a sack, recovered a fumble and blocked an extra point to lead a defense that allowed only one rushing yard in the first half. Senior
Joseph O'Hagan finished with six stops, including a sack, forced two fumbles, picked off one pass and broke up another.
On the second play of Dickinson's second drive, O'Hagan sacked the quarterback to force a fumble that was recovered by senior
Mickey Kober at the Red Devil 23. Three plays later, Hnatkowsky connected with senior
Max Kirin for a 9-yard touchdown pass.
After the Red Devils (1-1) got on the board with a field goal late in the first quarter, Muhlenberg needed only six plays after the kickoff to score its second touchdown. Hnatkowsky completed passes to juniors
Mitch Daniel and
Nick Ugarte on back-to-back plays of 40 and 21 yards, then ran it in from 2 yards out.
Feaster's fumble recovery at the Dickinson 26 early in the second quarter led to the Mules' third TD, on a 1-yard run by senior
Mark Riggio.
The game appeared to be headed to halftime at 21-3 after the Mules downed a punt inside the Dickinson 15 with just over a minute on the clock, but on the next play from scrimmage, sophomore
John Washington picked off a pass and returned it to the 2-yard line. Diggs' fourth-down run from a yard out made it 28-3 with 10 seconds left in the half.
A 38-yard scoring run by DiggsÂ
(pictured above) early in the fourth quarter extended the lead to 35-3, and senior
Todd Spirt booted a 35-yard field goal three plays after junior
Christian Nazare recovered a Dickinson fumble.
The 100-yard game was the fifth in Diggs' career and moved him into the top 10 on the program's all-time list with 1,662 career rushing yards.
Sophomore
Owen Daddona recorded 1½ tackles for loss among his six stops.
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