The Morning Journal (Lorain, OH)
Local interest
• 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.