Box Score GAMBIER, Ohio – A late goal-line stand and a whole lot of running from Brandon January powered the Kenyon College Lords football team to a 20-16 win over the visiting Hiram College Terriers on Saturday at McBride Field.

January, a junior running back, carried the ball 28 times and broke loose for a career-best 181 yards and a touchdown. He averaged 6.5 yards per carry and had four runs of ten yards or more, including a 47-yard scamper in the fourth quarter.

Hiram (2-4, 1-4 NCAC) showed early on that it could run, too. In fact, the Terriers' first possession of the game ended on a 76-yard touchdown run from David Perkins. While that run did give the Terriers a 7-0 lead, it also woke up the Kenyon defense, which allowed just 28 more rushing yards for the remainder of the game.

Kenyon (4-2, 4-1 NCAC) used its second drive of the game to tie things up. The drive covered six plays and 58 yards and ended with a 13-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Jake Bates to fullback Blake Calcei. The score was Calcei's team-leading sixth of the season and it was set up by the Lords' previous offensive play, which was a 32-yard pass from Bates to Brian Hunca.

For the most part, Kenyon kept the ball on the Terriers' side of the field, but failed to convert a fourth-down play on three consecutive drives. Before the half could expire, Hiram put one more score on the board. The Terriers used a 50-yard pass from George Blake to Richard Simpson to move the ball down to the Lords' 35-yard line. Five plays later, Perkins found the end zone from ten yards away. Hiram missed the extra-point attempt and held a 13-7 lead at the break.

The Lords wasted little time in knotting things back up. At the 11:36 mark of the third quarter, January crossed the goal line on a three-yard run. A bad snap eliminated any chance at the extra point and the game stayed deadlocked at 13-13.

Later in the third, a poor Hiram punt allowed the Lords to set up camp at the Terriers' 34-yard line. A heavy dose of January moved the Kenyon men down to the eight-yard line, where Bates connected with Hunca for what would be the game-winning touchdown.

Bates finished the game 14-of-22 with 146 yards, two touchdowns, and two interceptions. Hunca hauled in five of those passes for 63 yards. On the ground, Casey Beaudouin added 42 yards for the Lords, who finished the contest with a total of 264 rushing yards on 62 carries.

Hiram converted a 32-yard field goal in the fourth quarter and made the game a little more interesting when it later drove down to the Lords' six-yard line with a little more than two minutes to go in the game. Senior defensive lineman Ryan Rosen, who had an interception earlier in the game, started the Lords' last stand by tackling Perkins for a loss of two. Three incomplete passes followed and the Lords got the ball back to burn off the final 1:52 for the win.