Small Colleges | Central crushes Humboldt State

ELLENSBURG — Central Washington scored 31 second-half points to turn a close game into a 48-10 rout of Humboldt State in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference football game Saturday at Tomlinson Stadium.

The win improved the eighth-ranked Wildcats' overall record to 4-0 and their conference mark to 3-0. Humboldt State fell to 1-3 on the year including 0-2 in GNAC action.

Mike Reilly's 24-yard completion to sophomore Tamarria Landers of Decatur enabled him to break the 10,000-yard passing plateau for his career, joining Jon Kitna as the only Wildcats in school history to accomplish that feat. Reilly threw for 311 yards on 23-of-40 passing.

Johnny Spevak had nine catches for 134 yards and two touchdowns.

Other games

At Puget Sound 34,

Claremont-M-S 28 (3 OT)

Casey Larson of Coupeville scored on a 4-yard run in the third overtime and the Loggers' defense then stopped Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on fourth-and-six.

Kevin Williams threw for 294 yards and three touchdowns for the Loggers (2-0). Darrell Stewart had a career day, finishing with seven catches for 185 yards.

Cal Lutheran 16,

at Pacific Lutheran 7

The Kingsmen (1-1) broke a 7-7 halftime deadlock with three third-quarter field goals from Jackson Damron for the margin of victory.

Pacific Lutheran (0-2), which had won eight of the previous 13 games between the two schools in an intermittent series dating to 1967, scored in the first period on a 16-yard pass from senior quarterback Michael Byrne to sophomore wide receiver Greg Ford. Byrne left the game in the second quarter after aggravating a shoulder injury.

At Redlands 38, Whitworth 7

The Pirates (1-1) were held to 130 total yards and minus-4 yards rushing, and starting quarterback Kory Kemp went out with an ankle injury in the second quarter.