{"id":513958,"date":"2026-10-31T08:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/513958\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T08:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:42:35","slug":"sacramento-state-earns-first-mac-win-with-31-10-rout-of-kent-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/513958\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento State earns first MAC win with 31-10 rout of Kent State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)  Freshman Isaiah Ene had a career-high 107 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 19 carries, Donovan Turner returned an interception 36-yards for a score and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/SACST\/sacramento-state-hornets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento State<\/a> beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/KENTST\/kent-state-golden-flashes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kent State<\/a> on Friday night to win its first Mid-American Conference game.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State (2-7. 1-5) is in its first season at the Bowl Subdivision level, moving from the Big Sky Conference to the MAC. The Hornets snapped a six-game losing streak (by an average of 30 points).<\/p>\n<p>Ene ran off left tackle, stepped out of a would-be tackle near the 30 and juked another defender just inside the 20 as he raced the end zone for a 35-yard touchdown. The 5-foot-8, 212-pound freshman then ran in the 2-point conversion that made it 17-10 with 2:58 left in the third quarter and gave Sacramento State its first second-half lead against an FBS opponent this season.<\/p>\n<p>DeShields hit Wayne Harris near midfield on his way to a 92-yard touchdown that gave Kent State (3-6, 2-3) a 7-0 lead midway through the first quarter. Tommy Newcomb kicked a 29-yard field goal as time expired that made it 10-6 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Flashes are 0-5 on the road this season.<\/p>\n<p>Turner&#8217;s pick-6 made it a 14-point game with 9:04 to play, the first of five straight Golden Flashes turnovers (one on downs) to end the game. Miles Bailey recovered fumbles by Dru DeShields to end Kent State&#8217;s next two possessions forced by Xavier Williams&#8217; strip-sack and Fata Puloka&#8217;s punchout before Malikai Nichols&#8217; first career interception with 1:55 left.<\/p>\n<p>Ene&#8217;s 5-yard rushing TD capped the scoring with 2:55 left.<\/p>\n<p>Grant Meadors made field goals of 42, 28 and 36 yards for Sacramento State.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State: Hosts Toledo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kent State: Visits Bowling Green on Nov. 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here, visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\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":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Freshman Isaiah Ene had a career-high 107 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 19 carries,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1321,13610,121,123,122,17685],"class_list":["post-513958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-college-football","tag-kent-state-golden-flashes","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\/513958","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=513958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}