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Kenyon College Athletics

Finn Murray
Graham Stokes
25
Kenyon KEN 3-6 , 2-5
49
Winner Wabash WAB 7-2 , 6-1
Kenyon KEN
3-6 , 2-5
25
Final
49
Wabash WAB
7-2 , 6-1
Winner
Score By Quarters
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
KEN Kenyon 0 13 0 12 25
WAB Wabash 21 21 7 0 49

Game Recap: Football |

Wabash’s air attack overshadows Owls

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. -- The Kenyon College football team's receiving corps continued to shine Saturday, but its effort alone could not counter a relentless Wabash College passing game that propelled the host Little Giants to a 49-25 conference win over the Owls.

Senior receiver Finn Murray was the focal point of Kenyon's offense. He hauled in a dozen passes and turned them into 154 yards and a touchdown. Sophomore Zachary Kim, who put up video-game numbers over the last three weeks, managed six catches for 61 yards and a touchdown.

While that tandem was clicking, the Kenyon defense couldn't come up with a solution to stop Wabash and, in particular, quarterback Liam Thompson, who steered the Little Giants to four straight scores to start the game.

In the first quarter, Thompson ran in a touchdown from four yards out. He then followed up with touchdown passes to Derek Allen Jr. (14 yards), Donovan Snyder (25 yards) and Heisman Skeens (49 yards). That flurry put the Little Giants ahead 28-0 at the 12:20 mark of the second quarter.

Three plays after that last Wabash score, Kenyon got on the board with a 72-yard strike from back-up quarterback Park Penrod to Murray, who now has 817 receiving yards and six touchdowns this season.

The teams went back-and-forth the rest of the second quarter. Wabash scored on a four-yard run from Donovan Snyder and Kenyon answered with a one-yard touchdown run from starting quarterback Ryan O'Leary. Before they could get to the break, Wabash made it 42-13 with another touchdown pass from Thompson to Gavin Patrick.

The lone score in the third quarter was a Snyder 27-yard touchdown run that gave the Little Giants a 36-point lead.

In the fourth, the Owls came back with one more one-yard touchdown run from O'Leary and then an O'Leary 15-yard touchdown pass to Kim, who now has 1,082 receiving yards and 13 touchdowns this season. Kim has scored at least one touchdown in four straight games and six out of the team's last seven games. He is one touchdown shy of tying Kenyon's single-season record.

Statistically, Kenyon was very balanced, throwing for 258 yards and running for 273. O'Leary was 22-of-45 for 186 yards in the air, while Drake Lewis led the Owls' ground game with 87 yards on 16 carries. Jordon Benjamin followed with 73 yards on 11 carries, and Kenyon, as a team, averaged 5.4 yards per carry.

Thompson, however, was the difference in this game. He wound up 30-of-34 for 450 yards. He threw four touchdown passes and also ran one in.

The loss dropped Kenyon to 3-6 overall and 2-5 in the North Coast Athletic Conference. On the other sideline, Wabash improved to 7-2 overall and 6-1 in conference contests.

Kenyon's final game of the 2022 season will be next week at Denison University. Kickoff is slated for 1 p.m.
 
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