Football team ends season with 35-7 loss to Albion

OLIVET, Mich. – The Olivet College football team closed out 2020-21 season with a 35-7 setback to Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) rival Albion College this afternoon at the Cutler Athletic Complex.

Final Score: Albion 35, Olivet 7
Location: Cutler Athletic Complex; Olivet, Michigan
Records: Olivet 1-3 overall, 1-3 MIAA; Albion 3-0 overall, 3-0 MIAA

• The Britons led 28-0 at halftime behind a 20-yard touchdown run by Philip Jones-Price, three-yard touchdown run by Ryan Roberts, and two- and three-yard touchdown receptions by Justin Thomas from Jack Bush.
• Albion stretched its lead to 35-0 on its first drive of the second half when Jones-Price scampered 18 yards into the end zone.
• The Comets dented the scoreboard for the only time late in the fourth quarter on a one-yard touchdown run by senior quarterback Kaleb Jarrett.

• Olivet totaled 333 yards of offense – 78 through the air and 255 on the ground.
• Freshman Jeremiah Sterling had 30 carries for 240 yards, the sixth-most yards in a single-game in school history.
• Jarrett completed 6-of-16 passes for 78 yards.
• Freshman SirQuarius Ball hauled in two passes for 35 yards.
• Defensively, freshman Spencer Tyler finished with a team-best six tackles.
• Senior Ta'Mar Heart-Wilkins had two tackles for loss, including a quarterback sack for minus seven yards.

• The Britons recorded 412 total yards of offense.
• Bush threw for 349 yards on 29-of-40 passing.
• Andrew Durand caught 11 passes for 174 yards, including a 56-yard catch.
• Thomas had eight receptions for 65 yards.
• Jones-Price led the ground game with 10 rushes for 57 yards.
• Jeremiah Major and Donovan Slates each tallied seven tackles.