Lehigh showed it will be difficult to unseat as the Patriot League champion, taking command in the first half Saturday on the way to whipping William & Mary 44-20 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. \u00a0Luke Yoder rushed for 169 yards and scored three touchdowns for the Mountain Hawks (3-0 overall and in the conference).<\/p>\n
The Mountain Hawks rushed for 366 yards and went over 100 for the 36th consecutive game. They scored five rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n
Lehigh, ranked No. 9 in the Stats Perform FCS Top 25, scored 37 points in the first half and went ahead over the No. 16 Tribe 44-14 with Yoder\u2019s third touchdown, an 11-yard run with 8 1\/2 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
The Mountain Hawks attempted only 10 passes, with starting quarterback Hayden Johnson completing 4 of 6 for 84 yards.<\/p>\n
Winston Watkins was 18 for 22 for 164 yards and Jah\u2019Kei Chavis scored two rushing touchdowns for the 16th-ranked Tribe (2-1, 1-1). which is in its first Patriot League season. W&M\u2019s Carter Carroll was 7 of 17 for 34 yards and an interception<\/p>\n
Christopher Newport 37, Western Connecticut State 7: The Captains (2-0), ranked 20th by d3football.com, pulled away in the fourth quarter from the Wolves (1-1) in Danbury.<\/p>\n
Alex Jreige rushed for 98 yards on 15 carries, and Jordin Lennon ran for two touchdowns and 56 yards on 15 carries. CNU amassed 248 yards on 50 rushes.<\/p>\n
CNU\u2019s Braylon Addy caught two passes from Brandon Pena, both for TDs. Pena was 9 of 14 for 149 yards. Ethan Barham paced the Captains with three receptions for 98 yards.<\/p>\n
The Captains\u2019 defense held the Wolves to 40 yards on 20 carries. The hosts passed often, completing 20 of 34 for 168 yards, and only trailed 17-7 after three quarters.<\/p>\n
But Lennon\u2019s 7-yard run, Addy\u2019s 27-yard catch and Cooper Meads\u2019 5-yard run all went for touchdowns in the final quarter.<\/p>\n
North Carolina Wesleyan 42, Apprentice 0: The Bishops (2-0) shut out the Builders (1-2) in Rocky Mount. N.C. Wesleyan forced four turnovers and limited Apprentice to 141 yards of offense.<\/p>\n
Nahjir Seagraves opened the scoring with a 47-yard run just 2:12 into the game. Braden Selvage threw a pair of touchdown passes to Jimmie West III and ran for a 12-yard TD, giving the Bishops a commanding lead before halftime.<\/p>\n
James Madison 87, Wagner 3: Michael Scott returned two punts for touchdowns and Miles Halbert blocked and returned another for a score as the Dukes romped in Harrisonburg. They tied the NCAA record for punt-return TDs and set program records for points and victory margin.<\/p>\n
The three punt-return touchdowns tied a record set several times, the last by Southern California against California in 2013. The Dukes\u2019 previous scoring high came in an 84-7 win over Rhode Island in 2016.<\/p>\n
Former Nansemond-Suffolk Academy star George Pettaway rushed for three touchdowns, and Nick Herman ran for 132 yards and two more scores. Camden Coleman passed for 171 yards and a score, and Arrington Maiden completed 7 of 8 passes for 111 yards with two TDs. Scott\u2019s punt-return TDs covered 76 and 69 yards.<\/p>\n
The FCS Seahawks (1-2) then got their lone points on Johnny DiSalvatore\u2019s field goal in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Liberty 24, Gardner-Webb 23: Jaylen Henderson connected with Darius Copeland for a 54-yard touchdown with 2:34 remaining in Lynchburg as Liberty (1-1) survived an FCS foe for the Flames\u2019 first win since Nov. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n
LU trailed 23-17 after Gardner-Webb scored 20 unanswered points and held the Flames scoreless in the third quarter. Henderson, who completed 2 of 4 passes for 64 yards, entered late and found Copeland for the go-ahead score.<\/p>\n
Deshawn Purdie threw for 122 yards and opened Liberty\u2019s scoring with a 65-yard touchdown pass to Makai Jackson. Jaylon Coleman added a 20-yard touchdown run as the Flames took a 14-3 first-quarter lead. Gardner-Webb (0-3) answered with Sabin McLaughlin\u2019s 35-yard fumble return for a touchdown and Randy Young\u2019s 65-yard scoring run to take a 20-14 lead.<\/p>\n
Bucknell 14, VMI 3: A week after giving up 73 points at Virginia Tech, the Keydets (0-3) held the Bison (1-2) scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns to win in Lexington.<\/p>\n
Jack Joyce, who missed two field goals, kicked a 26-yarder to give VMI a 3-0 lead with 1:51 to go in the second quarter.
Christopher Dietrich\u2019s 27-yard TD pass to Jackson Nowinski put Bucknell in front with 9:28 left in the game, and Michael Cadden\u2019s 8-yard run, which finished a five-play, 46-yard possession, all but sealed the outcome.<\/p>\n
VMI\u2019s Ian Reynolds was 11 of 27 for 155 yards and an interception. He led the Keydets with 26 yards on seven carries.<\/p>\n
South Florida 28, Army 24: After going ahead by 10 points with 4:59 remaining, the Black Knights (1-1, 0-1 American) couldn\u2019t hold off the Bulls (2-0, 1-0) before 23,670 in West Point, New York.<\/p>\n
USF\u2019s Michael Van Buren ran for a 24-yard touchdown with 3:13 remaining, cutting Army\u2019s lead to 24-21. After the Bulls quickly forced the Black Knights to punt, Van Buren found Joshua Porter for a winning 38-yard TD pass with 19 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n
Army\u2019s Cale Hellums completed 9 of 10 passes for 91 yards and two touchdowns and ran 18 times for 55 yards.<\/p>\n
LATE SATURDAY<\/p>\n
NC State 73, Richmond 0: Duke Scott rushed for 128 yards and two touchdowns \u2014 all in the first half \u2014 and the Wolfpack shellacked the Spiders on a stormy night in Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
Quarterback CJ Bailey was 13-for-17 passing for 281 yards with one touchdown pass and another TD on the ground for the Wolfpack (1-1).<\/p>\n
Richmond (2-1), receiving votes under the Stats Perform FCS Top 25, was held to 110 yards of offense.\u00a0Ashten Snelsire was 8 for 23 for 76 yards and an interception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh showed it will be difficult to unseat as the Patriot League champion, taking command in the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,2300,241,726],"class_list":["post-285045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-college-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}