SPORTS BRIEFING
Hinchliffe runs for 304
LISBON — Lisbon junior Ashton Hinchliffe is climbing the charts.
Hinchliffe ran for 304 yards and four touchdowns on 42 carries in the Blue Devils’ 35-28 win at Wellsville on Friday. It was the third most in a single game in school history. He finished the season with 1,385 yards rushing, which also ranks third most
Hinchliffe has rushed for 2,807 yards and 25 touchdowns in his career.
DeShields scores again
ADA – Mount Union quarterback T.J. DeShields had a touchdown run for the second straight week as third-ranked Mount Union turned back Ohio Northeran, 42-13, Saturday.
DeShields, a West Branch High School graduate, scored on a 5-yard run with 1:59 remaining.
Starting quarterback Noah Beaudrie passed for 145 yards and four touchdowns and Tyler Echeverry ran for 106 yards and a score and added two touchdown catches.
Mount Union led 14-7 at halftime, but Darnell Williams’ 76-yard kickoff return to open the second half set up a touchdown pass that put the Purple Raiders on their way.
Mount Union (7-0) will play at Capital at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
Wash your mouth out
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The Mountain West Conference issued a public reprimand to Wyoming coach Jay Sawvel on Sunday in response to his public criticism of game officials following the Cowboys’ game against Utah State on Saturday.
Sawvel was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct in the fourth quarter of the Cowboys’ 27-25 loss for arguing a pass interference call against Wyett Ekeler. The combined 30 yards in penalties moved Utah State into position to score a touchdown.
Sawvel addressed the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during his postgame news conference.
“… Yeah, I regret that,” he said, according to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. “I thought it was a pretty quick hair trigger, too. I don’t want to say a whole lot else about that stuff, because, to be honest, right now, I’d say I’m a horse (expletive) head coach, and I think we’ve had some horse (expletive) officiating.”
The Cowboys are 1-7 in Sawvel’s first season.
Sawvel was a starting linebacker on Mount Union’s first NCAA Division III championship team in 1993.
and was the Purple Raiders’ second-leading tackler.