The Orediggers of Colorado School of Mines (CSM) had their way on Saturday in the most dominant way possible. An offensive onslaught by Colorado Mines left the Colorado Mesa University with their second loss of the season after the 72-31 route.
Not a sight the Mavericks are used to seeing as the Orediggers put up 72 points along with 797 yards of total offense. It wasn’t the prettiest game from start to end.
In the first half alone, the Orediggers put up 441 yards of total offense to accumulate for their 49 points. The Mavericks couldn’t get going on offense much at all until Mines was ahead 14-0. The lone touchdown for CMU came via a 69-yard Peter Anderson touchdown reception from Eystin Salum with 6:42 left in the first quarter.
Anderson, who had 266 yards receiving and two touchdowns last week against Chadron State, caught three passes for 116 yards and the one touchdown.
However, after the touchdown, the Orediggers would go on to score five more touchdowns to go into halftime with the 49-10 lead.
Colorado Mines quarterback, Isaac Hurker, threw four touchdown passes in the first half and ended the day throwing five total along with the 377 yards off of 22 completions.
Hurker has 18 touchdowns on the year which leads the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC).
In the second half, the story was much of the same. CMU came out and allowed CSM to increase their lead to 58-10 before scoring any more points.
Redshirt Freshman Aaron Howard came into the game as quarterback and got his first reps of the season under center. Howard would find Corbin Covey with a four-yard touchdown pass to cap a 73-yard drive.
Howard would later find fellow freshman KJ Sapp in the end zone in the fourth with a 19-yard touchdown pass. The Chandler, AZ native finished the day throwing 9-11 for 147 yards and two touchdowns.
Rope Ruel also saw some snaps in the game as the backup quarterback completed a 43-yard strike to Bradley Toussaint to give the Mavericks give the Mavericks their last points of the game.
CSM would go on to score 72 points which is the second most points allowed in school history for CMU.
The defensive line for the Orediggers would sack the Maverick quarterbacks four times and the defense, as a whole, allowed the Mavericks to complete only three third-down conversions out of 15 attempts.
CMU will have to stay on the road as they travel to Durango, Colo next week to take on the Fort Lewis Skyhawks who dropped to 1-3 on Saturday after a loss to Adams State.
