Box Score
Jake Davis (Cincinnati, OH/Anderson) scored the go-ahead touchdown with 59 seconds to play, and Brian Weimer (Cincinnati, OH/Oak Hills) added the PAT, to give the Mount a 42-35 lead en route to a victory over the Anderson University Ravens. The Mount (2-0, 1-0 HCAC) will play at HCAC-foe Bluffton University (1-2, 0-1) on Sept. 25.
After Davis’ touchdown, Anderson drove to the Mount 35-yard line and had a first-and-10, but quarterback Mitch Grider threw four straight incompletions as the Mount held on for the conference victory. Davis had 135 yards rushing as the Mount totaled 382 yards on the ground. They were led by Noah Joseph, (Roswell, GA/Blessed Trinity) who had 20 carries for 150 yards and score. James Clay (Louisville, KY/Manual Dupont) added 85 yards rushing and a TD while Rob Domaschko (Florence, KY/Boone County) had two, one-yard TD runs.
Chris Howland (Loveland, OH/Loveland) got the Lions on the scoreboard first with an eight-yard TD strike to Ronald Regula (Miami, FL/Miami Palmetto) with 1:25 left in the first quarter. The Mount led by a 28-14 margin at the half. Howland completed nine-of-20 passes for 74 yards and was intercepted five times, two of which were returned for touchdowns. The second interception return for touchdown by Anderson’s Jared Millikin tied the score at 28-all in the fourth quarter. Joseph scored on a 19-yard run with 8:04 to play in the game to put the Lions up 35-28 before Anderson’s Marcus Spann raced 13 yards to pay dir to tie the game at 35-all with 5:46 to play.
Grider was intercepted twice by the Mount, and Anderson quarterbacks threw three pickoffs total. Ben Parr (Newport Central Catholic/Bellevue, KY), Joseph Howard (Cincinnati, OH/Hughes) and Justin Berry (Cincinnati, OH/Roger Bacon) had interceptions for the Mount. Will Palmer (Atlanta, GA/Westlake) led the Mount with six tackles and a forced fumble -- recovered by Tyler Hopperton (Walton, KY/Simon Kenton) -- while Adam Bigelow (Cincinnati, OH/Anderson) had a sack.
The Mount out-gained Anderson, 456-380 in total yards and converted nine-of-16 third down conversions to the Ravens’ four-of-13. The Lions had 28 first downs to Anderson’s 21.
