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Coast Guard and Nichols set the D-III record for most combined points in a game, Benedictine snapped Aurora's 46-game NACC win streak, Redlands scored 21 in the fourth to win at Whitworth and much more in D-III in Week 3. Check out more in the Week 3 recap.
The Coast Guard-Nichols game makes one want to pull out all the basketball cliches and recap this game on D3hoops.com, but what the Bears and Bison did do is combine for the most points in a game in Division III football history as Coast Guard won 92-60. They also combined for the most touchdown passes in a game, with 14. The previous scoring record for all games, including overtime, was 143, set by Hartwick and Utica in 2007 and tied by Rose-Hulman and Illinois College in 2014. The record for most TD passes in a game was 13, set in that Rose-Hulman/Illinois College game and matched in 2019 by UW-La Crosse and UW-River Falls. Sean Burns threw for six touchdowns and ran for another, while Harrison Hensley had 153 yards rushing and four scores. Ian Snow threw seven touchdowns for Nichols, which fell to 0-3. The teams combined for 1,412 yards of total offense.
Benedictine snapped Aurora's Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference win streak at 46, rallying after one of the day's many weather delays to get past the Spartans, 36-35. Benedictine scored three touchdowns in the fourth to rally from down 35-17. Benedictine got a quick strike from Jack Moses to Santino Florio for a 59-yard score in the opening minute of the fourth. Jake Diamantos recorded an interception to set up the second score on a short field. Dino Stephens drew Benedictine within 35-30 by scoring from seven yards away at the 12:34 mark of the fourth. Aurora responded by driving down the field but missed a field goal before mother nature halted the game for over an hour. The stoppage did not slow the Benedictine offense, who marched 80 yards to record the winning score. Moses hit Alex Siebens with back-to-back passes including a go-ahead 25-yarder with 2:07 left. Aurora drove to midfield, but the Benedictine defense closed out the win.
Jacob Erickson sacked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps quarterback Robert Litscher on fourth-and-15 deep inside Stags territory with 1:19 left, and it seemed that was going to be the end of the game, that George Fox was going to get out of there with a 21-20 win. However, in attempting to run out the clock, George Kruger forced a fumble from JJ Leman with 1:11 to play, and CMS got the ball back. Two plays later, Litscher avoided a sack in the end zone, recovered and found Jaden Rattay open about 30 yards downfield, and Rattay took it the rest of the way for a 96-yard touchdown, and CMS came out the victor 28-21. Rattay, who was part of the CMS 4x400 relay team in track and field season that qualified for nationals in the spring, took care of a much shorter 70-yard sprint, racing past the George Fox defense and down the sideline for the go-ahead touchdown with 51 seconds remaining. Litscher then added a two-point conversion on a quarterback keeper to make it a seven-point lead.
The game winner! 96 yards with 1:06 left! #d3fb @CMSStagsFB pic.twitter.com/oIdbCuWqFM
— Kyle Sweeney (@CoachSweeneyCMS) September 21, 2025
Hanover came from 13 points down in the fourth quarter as Eian Roudebush threw two touchdown passes to Scotty Johnson, the final one with 32 seconds left, to lift the Panthers past Alma 24-23. Alma had a chance at a 43-yard field goal on the final play of the game, which was blocked, but also resulted in a roughing the kicker penalty, and an injury to kicker Dylan Day. After an injury delay, Chase Vogt came out to attempt a 30-yard field goal from the right hash mark, but pushed it wide left, and Hanover survived with the road win. Roudebush finished 27-for-37 passing for 233 yards and three touchdowns and also ran for 47 yards in the win.
Visiting Redlands outscored Whitworth 21-0 in the fourth quarter to pull away for a 34-17 win over the Pirates in a SCIAC-NWC matchup at the Pine Bowl. Laurence Williams returned an interception 20 yards for a touchdown on the key play of the fourth quarter for the Bulldogs (2-0), who defeated the Pirates (1-2) for the sixth straight time in a series that had not been played since 2011. Redlands limited Whitworth to 9 yards of offense in the final period. The Bulldogs outgained the Pirates 415-207. Whitworth had only 29 yards after halftime.
Hobart earned its first win of the season and handed Utica its first loss in a 20-17 showdown on Boswell Field this afternoon. E.J. Taylor scored his third rushing touchdown of the game with 1:08 remaining in the game to provide the winning margin. Taylor rushed for 105 yards and three touchdowns against the Pioneers. It's his sixth 100-yard rushing game in the past seven outings and his fourth three TD game in his last five. Taylor scored on TD runs of 5 and 2 yards in the first quarter and punched the game-winning score in from 1 yard out in the final frame. Hobart contained a Utica offense which came into the game averaging 45 points and more than 500 yards per game, sacking Tyler Szalkowski four times and keeping him to 287 yards on 42 attempts.
Calvin gave up a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter, but came through in overtime, as Thomas Vaccaro hit big receiver Luke Michmerhuizen for an 11-yard touchdown catch and the Knights improved to 3-0, knocking off Heidelberg 40-37 in just their second season of football. It was the second Vaccaro-to-Michmerhuizen connection on the night, and Vaccaro's third touchdown pass of the game. Hunter Hogan led the way for Calvin with 41 carries for 233 yards and two touchdowns in the win.
3-0!!! #GoKnights ⚔️�� pic.twitter.com/xcR8wPUBkA
— Calvin Knights Football (@CalvinKnightsFB) September 21, 2025
Ethan Beamish threw four touchdown passes, including the game-winning 19-yard strike to freshman wide receiver Jordan Barnett with 18 seconds left, as Brevard (2-1) stormed back from a 21-point deficit to stun Division II Erskine (0-3) 38-34. The Tornados trailed by 21 points late in the second quarter before Beamish found Reggie Taylor II for a 12-yard score just before halftime. Brevard then outscored Erskine 31-13 after the break, highlighted by Adam Douglas' 77-yard touchdown reception early in the fourth quarter and Barnett's game-winner.
Marcus Gabriel racked up 217 yards and two touchdowns on 26 carries and JeVaughn Sargent threw for two scores and ran for two more as Gallaudet got off to a 1-0 start in its first season in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, defeating Averett 39-30. It was the first win for new head coach Stefan Lefors. Sargent threw a high arcing pass into the corner of the end zone where wide receiver Jaylen Johnson climbed the ladder and stretched out to make an amazing one-handed grab as he came down in bounds in the end zone. Johnson's four-yard score was the eventual game-winner as GU led 33-24 with 12:57 left in the fourth quarter. Sargent started his career as a defensive back at Stevenson before transferring to Gallaudet.
Brian Dym hit a walk-off 22-yard field goal as time expired to complete Lebanon Valley's thrilling 24-21 comeback victory vs. Eastern. Logan Klitsch hit Dion Bryant for a 20-yard touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter to tie the game at 21, and the teams traded punts, then Eastern went three-and-out for a second consecutive time, giving Lebanon Valley the ball at midfield with 3:26 left. Bryant, Klitsch, and Avrey Grimm used a strong rushing attack to get the Dutchmen into field goal range as time ticked down. Klitsch had a 14-yard gain to get LVC to the 16 with around a minute left. As both teams used timeouts, the Dutchmen were able to get excellent field position, moving the ball down to the six with two seconds left. Dym stepped up and calmly kicked a 22-yard field goal as time expired to set off a celebration on the sidelines.
The Lewis & Clark defense allowed three points or fewer for the first time in 15 years and totaled eight sacks and nine tackles for loss, to defeat the defending SCIAC champ Pomona-Pitzer 21-3. The Pioneers are 3-0 for the first time since 2011. Dashiell Weaver posted two touchdown passes and ran for another. With the win, the Pioneers close out non-conference play with a perfect 3-0 record, although L&C played two conference opponents in non-conference games.
St. Olaf took back the Troll trophy from Concordia-Moorhead as the Oles held off the Cobbers 17-16. The teams had not met since 2019 because of the unbalanced MIAC schedule, and it had been 14 years since St. Olaf had taken the Troll. On a defensive day on both sides, St. Olaf got the final stop as Alec Mahoney intercepted a pass near midfield and sat down with 55 seconds left, allowing his teammates to run out the clock on the one-point win. Concordia-Moorhead had scored on a Griffin Babolian touchdown run with 3:52 remaining in the game to cut the lead to one, and the two-point conversion pass failed, leaving the Cobbers chasing the final point.
Garrett Gurney threw for 559 yards, a Muskingum program record, as the Muskies defeated Wilmington 56-49 in a lightning-delayed, overtime game. The Muskies closed the day with 671 yards of total offense, finishing just shy of the school record of 693 yards set in 1957. Cade Searls finished with six catches for 201 yards and four touchdowns.
WPI built a 12-point halftime lead and then a clutch Nathan Napier kick and a Colin Chandonnet interception in the final minute sealed it as the Engineers edged Husson, 15-13 in Bangor, Maine. Three field goals from Napier and a first-half strike from Jack Schuck to Josh Castro provided all the offense WPI needed. Defensively, WPI (1-2) came up with three interceptions to halt Husson drives. Patrick Andrews grabbed one late in the third quarter, Ryan Hannigan added another early in the fourth, and Chandonnet's ended the game in favor of the Crimson and Gray. Husson fell to 1-2.