Jamarion McDougle’s 55-yard scoring grab put the Cardinals ahead for good in the second quarter as the defense held the visitors to 266 yards, handing the Hornets their sixth consecutive defeat.<\/p>\n
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MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) Keldric Luster threw touchdown passes of 65 yards to Isaiah Thacker and 55 yards to Jamarion McDougle and added a 6-yard rushing TD to help Ball State<\/a> beat Sacramento State<\/a> 34-17 on Saturday.<\/p>\n Luster was 14-of-27 passing for 234 yards with two interceptions and had 68 yards rushing on 10 carries for Ball State (3-5, 2-2 Mid-American Conference). TJ Horton added two rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n Sacramento State (1-7, 0-5) has lost six straight since a 52-0 home win over Mississippi Valley State on Sept. 5.<\/p>\n Jackson Sharman was 17-of-27 passing for 187 yards and two touchdowns for the Hornets.<\/p>\n Sharman connected with Jace Wilson for a 65-yard touchdown down the left sideline to give Sacramento State a 10-7 lead. Two plays from scrimmage later McDougle’s TD reception gave the Cardinals the lead for good 5:25 left in the second quarter at 13-10 after Brody Boehm’s PAT kick was no good.<\/p>\n Horton’s first touchdown, from 1 yard out, made it a 10-point lead with 15 seconds remaining until halftime.<\/p>\n The Hornets had just 266 total yards and were 3 of 12 on third-down conversions.<\/p>\n Sacramento State: Hosts Kent State on Friday.<\/p>\n Ball State: Plays Nov. 4 at UMass.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here. Visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here.<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamarion McDougle’s 55-yard scoring grab put the Cardinals ahead for good in the second quarter as the defense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[13707,1321,121,123,122,17685],"class_list":["post-507029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-ball-state-cardinals","tag-college-football","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-state-hornets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}