The Morning Journal (Lorain, OH)

Local interest

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• Host Oberlin snapped a 13-game losing streak with a 24-6 win over Kalamazoo. Connor Hibbard rushed for 99 yards on 18 carries for the YeomEn, who scored the first 24 points of the game.

• Lake Erie fell to host Edinboro, 30-3, in its first game under coach Jerry Hazzard. Mike Muzic kicked a 33-yard field goal in the third quarter for the Storm. LEC nearly matched Edinboro in total offense with 404 yards, but committed 12 penalties, threw four intercepti­ons and lost two fumbles.

• Host Shepherd edged Notre Dame College, 5449, in a battle of the top two teams in the Mountain East preseason poll. The Falcons scored twice in the final three minutes, to cut a 19-point deficit to five, but couldn’t get any closer.

• QB quarterbac­k D’Angelo Fulford accounted for 291 yards of total offense, and Mount Union won its 30th consecutiv­e season opener, 58-0, over North Carolina Wesleyan.

• Visiting Baldwin Wallace rattled off 35 unanswered points in the second half to rout Defiance, 42-2.

• Host Pitt needed Jester Weah’s leaping 11-yard touchdown catch on the first possession of overtime to escape Youngstown State, 28-21.

• Saquon Barkley racked up 226 total yards and two touchdowns to lead host No. 6 Penn State to a 52-0 win over Akron in the season opener.

• Brian Lewerke threw three touchdown passes, and Tyson Smith capped his heartwarmi­ng comeback with an intercepti­on return for a touchdown in host Michigan State’s 35-10 win over Bowling Green.

• Kelly Bryant passed for 236 yards and a touchdown and ran for 77 more yards in his first game as host Clemson’s starting quarterbac­k, and the No. 5 Tigers beat Kent State, 56-3.

Nordin made four field goals, including a 55-yarder in the first half. He missed two attempts wide right in the fourth quarter, one of those from 52yard

• Ronald Jones II ran 37

• Quinton Flowers threw for 186 yards and a pair of second-half touchdowns to help host South Florida (20) shrug off a slow start and beat Stony Brook, 31-17.

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