Tuesday's MAC Football Results
Ohio 24, Miami 20
Akron 44, UMass 10
Stories courtesy of the Associated Press
Ohio 24, Miami 20
Boxscore
ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — Parker Navarro threw for 201 yards and a touchdown and Sieh Bangura ran for 102 yards and a touchdown and Ohio beat Miami (Ohio) 24-20 on Tuesday night.
The Bobcats’ (6-3, 4-1 Mid-American Conference) win created a four-way tie atop the conference with the Red Hawks, Buffalo and Western Michigan, who are each 5-4 overall and 4-1 in the league.
Navarro threw a 49-yard touchdown to Rodney Harris II with 2:15 left to play to provide the game-winning score. On Miami’s second play of its final drive, Jalen Thomeson intercepted Dequan Finn to seal the win. Ohio ran five plays, gained 11 yards and killed the clock.
Finn threw a 27-yard touchdown to Kam Perry with 9:29 left to give Miami its final lead of the night. Early in the fourth, Finn threw a 4-yard touchdown to Braylon Isom for a 13-10 RedHawks lead. On the ensuing kickoff, however, Bangura ran it back 97 yards for a 17-13 Ohio advantage.
Finn threw for 194, two touchdowns and an interception.
Akron 44, UMass 10
Boxscore
Akron, Ohio (AP) -- Ben Finley threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score, Jordan Gant added 153 yards rushing and two touchdowns, and Akron beat winless Massachusetts Minutemen 44-10 on Tuesday night.
Finley threw both touchdown passes in the first quarter as Akron jumped out to a 14-0 lead. UMass scored all 10 of its points inside the last six minutes of the opening quarter. Finley and Gant each had a short-yardage TD run in the second and the Zips led 27-10 at halftime.
Gage Summers scored on a 25-yard fumble return in the third quarter for Arkon. (4-6, 3-3 Mid-American Conference). Gant added a 9-yard touchdown run early in the fourth.
AJ Hairston tossed a 1-yard touchdown pass to Magnus Von Saldern and Derek Morris kicked a 55-yard field goal for the Minutemen (0-9, 0-5).
Akron, which has won two straight, finished with 467 yards of offense and held UMass to just 169.
