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Mark Riggio rushed for two touchdowns and the defense allowed only 234 total yards as the Muhlenberg football team defeated Dickinson, 25-6, in its Centennial Conference opener.
Max Kirin caught seven passes for 93 yards and amassed 162 all-purpose yards. Matt Gibbon completed 14 of 23 passes for 133 yards to improve to 2-0 as a starter.
Linebackers Jake Morra and Matt Musilli led the defense with 10 tackles apiece, with Morra breaking up two passes. Kwasi Ampomah sealed the win by sacking the Red Devil quarterback on the final two plays of the game.
The unsung hero of the game was punter Joseph O'Hagan, who downed two punts at the one-foot line in the second half. The Mules got the ball back on a punt three plays later both times and converted the short fields into a touchdown and a field goal to pull away.
Muhlenberg scored the game's first points on its second drive, capped by a 3-yard touchdown pass from Gibbon to Josiah Wright. The 11-play, 52-yard drive was extended by Kirin's 23-yard pass play to the 6 on third-and-21.
Dickinson drove into Mule territory on each of its first four drives but came away without any points. Twice the Muhlenberg defense made a fourth-down stop, and the other two times it forced a punt.
Todd Spirt booted a 35-yard field goal with 6:51 left in the half to make it 9-0.
Dickinson scored its lone points on its first drive of the second half, with Robert Geiss finding Kyle Donahue in the end zone from 13 yards out to cap a 12-play, 77-yard drive.
Kirin returned the ensuing kickoff 45 yards into Dickinson territory, and although that drive did not result in any points, it ended with O'Hagan deadening the ball at the 1. Muhlenberg got the ball back at the 29 after the Red Devils' punt and needed only five plays to score, with Riggio running in from 2 yards out with 4:08 to play in the third.
Spirt, whose streak of consecutive PATs was snapped at 41, booted a 26-yard field goal to cap a drive that began at the Dickinson 33 following O'Hagan's second punt.
Riggio, filling in for reigning CC player of the week Nick Savant, who left in the second quarter with an injury, capped the scoring on a 9 yard run with 1:20 to play.
Geiss played the majority of the game at quarterback for Dickinson, after starter Billy Burger suffered an early injury, and threw for 90 yards on 12-of-23 passing. Jeremy Walsh rushed for 94 yards on 31 carries.