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Mike Maloney – shown in a preseason practice – threw five touchdown passes in his first-ever start for Mount Union Sept. 6 in a 37-29 win over Wheaton. (Alex DeVito – Mount Union Athletics)<\/p>\nWeek 2 of the Division III college football season will provide interesting tests for John Carroll and Mount Union quarterback Mikey Maloney.<\/p>\n
First, the Blue Streaks head east to Baltimore to face No. 3-ranked Johns Hopkins for what\u2019s shaping up as one of the nation\u2019s top D-III matchups of the day.<\/p>\n
JCU started its season with a dominant 48-14 win over host Waynesburg for the program\u2019s first win in Week 1 since 2019.<\/p>\n
Coach Jeff Behrman\u2019s team rose five spots this week in the D3football.com Top 25 \u2014 from No. 25 to 20. With a win against Johns Hopkins, the Blue Streaks would certainly shoot up the poll, and possibly into the Top 10.<\/p>\n
First things first. JCU must keep mistakes to a minimum on the road in what is the first-ever meeting between the programs.<\/p>\n
At Mount Union, Riverside grad and two-time Fisher Award winner Maloney was outstanding in his first start at QB for the No. 2-ranked Purple Raiders.<\/p>\n
Mike Maloney – shown in a preseason practice – threw five touchdown passes in his first-ever start for Mount Union Sept. 6 in a 37-29 win over Wheaton. (Alex DeVito – Mount Union Athletics)<\/p>\n
Maloney threw for more than 300 yards and five touchdown passes in a 37-29 win over visiting Wheaton.<\/p>\n
Like JCU, Mount takes to the road to play against a ranked opponent in No. 15 Grove City, which opened its season with an impressive win at Cortland, 31-14. Cortland was 25-2 the last two seasons, and won the D-III national championship in 2023.<\/p>\n
Maloney will need to be careful with the football as the Grove City secondary gave Cortland fits all day with six interceptions, including a pick-6.<\/p>\n
Maloney and Mount will surely head to Pennsylvania a confident group, especially after the win over Wheaton.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was fun,\u201d said Maloney on Mount\u2019s social media account. \u201cSurrounded by great guys, great coaching staff. It made my job easy. I just had to go out there and get them the ball. I think (the Wheaton win) sets our expectations for ourselves and our program.\u201d<\/p>\n
There is no doubt Maloney is off to a fast start but don\u2019t forget about the QBs set to face off in Baltimore.<\/p>\n
JHU\u2019s Bay Harvey and JCU\u2019s Nick Semptimphelter combined to go 41 of 44 passing in their respective wins. Semptimphelter\u2019s 25 of 26 game set a NCAA Division III single-game percentage mark of 96.2.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m much more comfortable having that year under my belt,\u201d said Semptimphelter, now in Year 2 as JCU\u2019s starter.<\/p>\n
Similar to the Blue Streaks, JHU was also on the road in Week 1 and easily defeated Ithaca, 42-14.<\/p>\n
Harvey hails from Lenk, Switzerland, but has ties to Northeast Ohio as he was a member of the Cleveland Heights\u2019 football team in high school. Last week against Ithaca, he was 16 of 18 for 161 yards and a TD pass in his return from missing most of last season with an injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s tremendous,\u201d said Behrman about Harvey. \u201cHe\u2019s a field general. He can run it, he can throw it. He\u2019s got a really quick release. He makes the right decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
For JCU, a win at Johns Hopkins won\u2019t be easy. Dating to 2010, the Blue Jays are 52-5 in September and 23-2 at home.<\/p>\n
Behrman hopes a bolstered preseason helps ready his Blue Streaks for the test in Baltimore. JCU added a second scrimmage\/practice opponent by traveling to Westminster (Pa.). A year ago, the Blue Streaks struggled in a 34-7 in their season opener at Wisconsin-Whitewater. Also, having a game in the books can only help JCU\u2019s hopes going for a big out-of-conference victory.<\/p>\n
With JHU ranked one spot below Mount Union in this week\u2019s D3football.com Top 25 poll, Behrman said the programs are comparable.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve have a solid program for a very long time,\u201d said Behrman about Hopkins. \u201c\u2026 You always knew of Johns Hopkins and what (the late and former coach) Jim Margraff was creating. A lot of respect for he did and what the program continues to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sept. 13 schedule<\/p>\n
\u2022 JCU at Johns Hopkins, noon<\/p>\n
\u2022 Mount Union at Grove City, 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Case Western Reserve at Wabash, 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Wheeling at Lake Erie, 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Week 2 of the Division III college football season will provide interesting tests for John Carroll and Mount…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1369,1318,119615,1370,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-219392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-john-carroll-university","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115188267061304594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}