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James Diggs
38
Winner Muhlenberg MUHL 2-0 , 1-0
9
Dickinson DC 1-1 , 0-1
Winner
Muhlenberg MUHL
2-0 , 1-0
38
Final
9
Dickinson DC
1-1 , 0-1
Score By Quarters
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
MUHL Muhlenberg 14 14 0 10 38
DC Dickinson 3 0 0 6 9

Game Recap: Football |

Football Wins CC Opener

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 Diggs (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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