Bugs Mortimer returned a punt 66 yards for a touchdown and Makai Frisby added an interception score to keep the second-ranked Lumberjacks unbeaten at 9-0.<\/p>\n
Oct 31, 2026<\/p>\n
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NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP) Gavin Rutherford threw two touchdown passes to Clayton Wayland, the special teams and defense contributed touchdowns and Stephen F. Austin<\/a> overwhelmed Houston Christian<\/a> 37-6 on Saturday.<\/p>\n Bugs Mortimer returned a punt 66 yards for a touchdown less than a minute into the second half and Makai Frisby returned an interception 32 yards for a score to close it out for the Lumberjacks (9-0, 6-0 Southland Conference), ranked second in the Stats Perform poll.<\/p>\n Rutherford was 16 of 22 for 185 passing. Wayland had six receptions for 125 yards. Their scoring connections covered 35 and 46 yards. Jaylen Jenkins added a rushing touchdown.<\/p>\n After Jenkins put SFA on top late in the first quarter, the Huskies (4-5, 3-3) got the first of two field goals from Lukasz Smolen. The Lumberjacks answered with the first of the two passing touchdowns one play after a punt and a field goal on the last play of the first half for a 17-3 lead.<\/p>\n Houston Christian quarterbacks threw for 184 yards.<\/p>\n Houston Christian: home against McNeese next Saturday.<\/p>\n Stephen F. Austin: at Lamar next Saturday.<\/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":"Bugs Mortimer returned a punt 66 yards for a touchdown and Makai Frisby added an interception score to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[261,56,20675,58,57,43460],"class_list":["post-482953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-college-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-christian-huskies","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-stephen-f-austin-lumberjacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}