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College Football: UTC Football Rolls to 3-0 Start at UT Martin

MARTIN, Tenn.---The Chattanooga Mocs got off to a hot start then held off host UT Martin 34-24 at Graham Stadium Saturday afternoon. The Mocs used timely offense and opportunistic defense to build a lead they’d not relinquished.

Tyrell Price amassed 118 yards with two touchdowns, while Nick Tiano threw for 208 yards and two scores. Victor Ulmo accounted for the remaining six points with field goals of 31 and 25 yards.

The Mocs scored 20 unanswered to open the contest. Ulmo’s two boots rotated with two Will Young touchdown receptions. The first, from 11 yards out, came in traffic as he corralled the Tiano offering in the center of the end zone. He completed the duet of scores with a 14-yard strike late in the second quarter to build the lead to 20-0.

Both touchdown scores came off big plays by the secondary. Brandon Dowdell’s interception provided a short field at the 17. Kareem Orr throttled a Skyhawks drive deep in UTC territory with a pick at the one returning it out to the 30.

The Skyhawks found a rhythm to end the opening 30 minutes. Taking over on their own 25 with 1:42 until intermission, quarterback Dresser Winn completed passes of 20 and 18 yards to cross the 50. LaDarius Galloway added runs of six and nine yards to get to the 18. Three plays later, Winn dove into the end zone with no time left on the clock to cut it to 20-7.

The Mocs got on the board first in the second half. Tiano’s 42-yard pass to Bryce Nunnelly was originally a 43-yarder for a touchdown. Upon further review, the ball was placed at the one. Price got the first of his two scores on the ensuing play.

A Jaylon Moore four-yard pass from Winn and Ryan Courtright’s 36-yard field goal made it a 10-point contest with 9:46 to go in the game. Price would not give the Skyhawks any more life.

Tiano started the next possession with a 13-yard pass to Jordan Giberti. Price consumed clock time with five and four-yard totes before hobbling to the sideline. Alex Trotter converted the third-and-short and added 11 more yards over the next two plays for first-and-10 at the UTM 40.

Price returned. Forty yards later it was 34-17. The Skyhawks answered with another score and got the onside kick. It took just four plays to get to first-and-goal at the seven. Four plays later, the ball turned on downs back to the Mocs at the one as Galloway was stuffed short by Marshall Cooper and Hawk Schrider. (UTC Athletics)

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