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10-18-25 FB win at ODU rotator
31
Winner Ashland ASH 6-1 , 5-0
14
Ohio Dominican ODU 3-3 , 2-3
Winner
Ashland ASH
6-1 , 5-0
31
Final
14
Ohio Dominican ODU
3-3 , 2-3
Score By Quarters
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
ASH Ashland 10 7 7 7 31
ODU Ohio Dominican 0 14 0 0 14

Game Recap: Football | | Dusty Sloan, Ashland University Director of Athletic Communications

No. 22 Eagle Football Runs Its Way To Win At ODU

The No. 22-ranked Ashland University football team maintained its spot tied atop the Great Midwest Athletic Conference following a run-dominated 31-14 win at Ohio Dominican on Saturday (Oct. 18) afternoon.
 
A fifth consecutive victory puts the Eagles at 6-1 overall and 5-0 in the Great Midwest, while the Panthers move to 3-3, 2-3.
 
Ashland ran for 202 yards and three touchdowns on 38 attempts on Saturday, giving it 598 yards and 11 TDs on the ground in the last three outings.
 
Redshirt freshman kicker Manaki Watanabe salvaged the opening drive of the game by hitting a career-long 50 yard field goal – two yards shy of the school record of 52 yards by Gary Kester in 1969.
 
Junior tailback Ty'aris Stevenson followed that with a 25-yard touchdown run with 4:36 to go in the opening quarter. It was Stevenson's team-best sixth rushing score of 2025, and his 17th over the last dozen games going back to the end of 2024.
 
The Panthers got on the board early in the second quarter, as quarterback Carson Parker threw a four-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jayden Cornell on fourth-and-goal to make it a 10-7 game.
 
Ashland's counter came in the form of an eight-yard scoring strike from senior quarterback Cameron Blair to freshman wide receiver D.J. Harvey, giving the Eagles a 17-7 advantage with 3:19 to go in the half.  A scoring drive which was aided by a 14-yard run by senior punter Jaden Cook on fourth down went 68 yards in 15 plays and took 8:42 off the clock – and it resulted in the 20,000th point in program history.
 
With 17 seconds to go until the break, a Parker seven-yard TD pass to running back Nathan Webster put the gap back to a field goal at 17-14.
 
Inside of the 10-minute mark of the third quarter, the Eagles started on the Ohio Dominican 36-yard line following a punt. Blair cashed in on a seven-yard scoring run, once again putting AU up by 10 points at 24-14.
 
Sophomore tailback Willtrell Hartson ran in from three yards out with 9:03 left in the game for the final margin of victory.


 
THE WIN'S TOP NUGGETS
  • Harvey grabbed seven passes for 46 yards and the score, and Blair passed for 89 yards, ran for 27, and accounted for two scores.
  • On the rushing flip side, the Eagle defense kept the Panthers to 43 yards on 24 tries (1.8-yard average).
  • In seven games this season, AU has outscored opponents 51-3 in the first quarter and 54-7 in the third quarter.
  • Ashland has a 9-5 series lead over ODU.
NEXT UP
The final regular-season conference game on Oct. 25 at 1 p.m. at Tiffin (5-2, 4-1).
 
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