The Morningside (Iowa) College Mustangs showed why they are the two-time defending NAIA champions Saturday, running out to a 54-0 lead in a 54-7 win over the University of Jamestown football team Saturday afternoon at Taylor Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Mustangs (4-0 overall, 4-0 Great Plains Athletic Conference) had scoring drives of 55, 85, 42, and 60 yards in the first half as they took a 34-0 lead into the intermission. Morningside had one drive end with a punt and another with the end of the first half.<\/p>\n
Jamestown struggled to find any offense in the first half, going three-and-out on four of their six first-half possessions.<\/p>\n
Morningside scored three second-half touchdowns, and following an Anthony Sims 10-yard touchdown run, led 54-0 with 14:47 to play.<\/p>\n
UJ capped off an eight-play, 69-yard drive with a 26-yard touchdown pass from Cade Torgerson<\/a> (JR\/Billings, Mont.) to Ryan O’Brien<\/a> (FR\/Murrieta, Calif.). The Izaak Myles<\/a> (JR\/Apple Valley, Calif.) extra point made it 54-7 with 1:19 remaining.<\/p>\n Joe Dolincheck completed 25-of-35 passes for 358 yards and four touchdowns for Morningside. Reid Jurgensmeier caught five balls for 123 yards and three scores, while Jamal Albousafi had six grabs for 84 yards and a touchdown. Sims finished with 103 yards rushing on 13 carries and Arnijae Ponder added 90 yards on 20 carries, finding the end zone twice.<\/p>\n Torgerson finished 21-of-41 passing for 162 yards. O’Brien, Javon Bowie<\/a> (JR\/Sacramento, Calif.), and Sidney Luna-Long<\/a> (JR\/Pasadena, Calif.) all had three catches.<\/p>\n Jayden McCombs<\/a> (FR\/Kit Carson, Colo.) had 36 yards rushing on nine carries.<\/p>\n Manuel Najera<\/a> (SR\/Los Angeles, Calif.) registered 14 total stops to lead the defense. Jordan Olson<\/a> (JR\/Prior Lake, Minn.) had 11 tackles, including five solo. Cedric Terry<\/a> (SR\/Minneapolis, Minn.) was credited with two pass breakups.<\/p>\n Next Saturday the Jimmies (0-3, 0-3 GPAC) travel to Midland (Neb.) University for a 1 p.m. kickoff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday College Football Taylor Stadium Home Opener Morningside 54 Jamestsown 7 The Morningside (Iowa) College Mustangs showed why they are the two-time defending NAIA champions Saturday, running out to a 54-0 lead in a 54-7 win over the University of Jamestown football team Saturday afternoon at Taylor Stadium. The Mustangs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210604,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210581\/revisions\/210604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}