Aggie Football Moves to 2-1 with 48-10 Win Over ULM

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Kellen Mond ran for two touchdowns and threw for a third to give Texas A&M a 48-10 win over Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday night.

Mond had a 7-yard scoring run in the second quarter and the Aggies returned a blocked field-goal attempt for a touchdown to build a 24-10 halftime lead.

Mond scrambled nine yards and hopped into the end zone untouched for his second score midway through the third quarter to extend the lead to 21 points. He connected with Jace Sternberger on a 20-yard touchdown pass that made it 41-10 with about eight minutes left.

Trayveon Williams had 128 yards rushing and Texas A&M (2-1) bounced back after losing to No. 2 Clemson 28-26 last week.

Mond, who threw for a career-high 430 yards last week, finished with 210 yards passing and 67 yards rushing.

Caleb Evans threw for 225 yards with a touchdown and an interception for Louisiana-Monroe (2-1).

The Aggies took a 7-0 lead on a 2-yard touchdown run by Williams on their first possession. He had five carries for 49 yards to power the drive.

Louisiana-Monroe added a field goal before Mond’s first touchdown, where he pulled two defenders with him into the end zone, pushed the lead to 14-3 early in the second quarter.

ULM used a 44-yard reception by Marcus Green to move deep into Texas A&M territory but the Warhawks came away empty-handed when Daylon Mack blocked a field-goal attempt and Tyrel Dodson returned it 78 yards for a touchdown which pushed the lead to 24-3. Mack’s block sent it right into Dodson’s hands and he was able to dash down the field untouched.

Evans then orchestrated another long drive for Louisiana-Monroe which featured a 34-yard completion. The Warhawks got within 24-10 at halftime when he capped that drive with a 2-yard TD pass to R.J. Turner with four seconds left in the second quarter.

POSTGAME NOTES
ABOUT THE WIN

Texas A&M stretched its streak of scoring 14 or more points in a game to 30 consecutive contests. It marks the SEC’s longest active run.
With 530 yards of total offense, the Aggies went over the 500-yard mark for the third time in three games under Jimbo Fisher. The Aggies are one of four SEC teams to crack the half-century mark in yardage in every game this season, joined by Missouri, Mississippi State and Alabama.
Texas A&M owned an edge in total offense yardage for the third time in three games under Jimbo Fisher.
The Aggies improved to 4-0 all-time against the Warhawks, outscoring ULM 154-57.

HUNDRED BY HALFTIME

Junior RB Trayveon Williams had 103 rushing yards on 16 carries by halftime and ended the game with 128 yards on 22 totes.
Williams’ 2-yard TD run in the first quarter was the 20^th of his career.
The 100-yard rushing game was the second of the year by Williams and the seventh of his career.
Williams increased his career rushing yardage to 2,254, passing Aggie legends Johnny Manziel (2,169) and Jovorskie Lane (2,193) on the all-time rushing list. He now ranks 15^th on Texas A&M’s career rushing chart.

SCOOP AND SCORE

Junior LB Tyrel Dodson turned in the Aggies’ longest scoring play of the season with a 78-yard TD return of blocked field goal by senior DT Daylon Mack.
It was the longest scoring play by an Aggie since Christian Kirk’s 100-yard TD kickoff return vs. Arkansas in 2017.
It was the first FG block by an Aggie since Jayden Peevy vs. Wake Forest in the 2017 Belk Bowl and the first FG block returned for a touchdown since the 2014 Auburn game when Myles Garrett blocked a FG attempt and DeShazor Everett scooped and scored with a 65-yard return.

NOTABLES

True freshman PK Seth Small took over the placekicking duties for the injured Daniel LaCamera and connected on a pair of field goals of 36 and 40 yards, which were the first of his career. He was perfect on six extra point attempts.

Sophomore QB Kellen Mond was efficient through the air with 210 yards and a touchdown on 16-of-24 pass attempts, and he also chipped in 67 rushing yards on nine carries with a pair of scores. It was the first time he’s rushed for two touchdowns in a game.
Mond reached the 2,000 yard mark in passing yardage, ending the game with 2,199. He also went over 2,500 yards in total offense, ending the game with 2,642.
Freshman RB Jashaun Corbin logged his first career TD rush late in the fourth quarter on a 2-yard run. Corbin finished with career-highs in carries (10) and rushing yards (64).
Junior DB Larry Pryor hauled in his second career INT midway through the fourth quarter. It marked the Aggies’ first takeaway of the 2018 season.
The Aggies racked up a season-high four sacks, including one apiece by Landis Durham, Kingsley Keke, T.D. Moton and Donovan Wilson. Moton’s was the first of his career.

GAME CAPTAINS, 12thMAN

Texas A&M’s game captains for the ULM game were senior LB Otaro Alaka, senior SAF Donovan Wilson, junior RB Trayveon Williams and junior C Erik McCoy.
Senior RB Cullen Gillaspia was the Aggies’ 12th Man for the 29th straight game.