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Bryan Ponder passing
59
Winner Texas Wesleyan TEXAS WE 4-1 , 3
16
Wayland Baptist WAYLAND 2-3 , 2
Winner
Texas Wesleyan TEXAS WE
4-1 , 3
59
Final
16
Wayland Baptist WAYLAND
2-3 , 2
Score By Quarters
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
TEXAS WE Texas Wesleyan 24 7 7 21 59
WAYLAND Wayland Baptist 0 0 9 7 16

Game Recap: Football |

Fast start propels Rams past Pioneers

Gallery: (10-4-2022) Football vs Texas Wesleyan
It was a good day for college football teams from Fort Worth.

About the same time Saturday the Texas Christian Horned Frogs were walloping the Oklahoma Sooners, the Texas Wesleyan Rams were doing the same to the Wayland Baptist Pioneers, winning 59-16 at Greg Sherwood Memorial Bulldog Stadium.

The Rams (4-1, 3-1 Sooner Athletic Conference), ranked the equivalent of 26th in the NAIA, scored 24 points in the game's first eight minutes to all but put it away against the shell-shocked Pioneers (2-3, 2-2). Texas Wesleyan scored on a pair lf long pass plays and a 41-yard blocked punt return during its fast start.

The Pioneers trailed 31-0 at halftime.

Wayland got on the board midway through the third quarter when Brayden Welch kicked a 19-yard field goal. The Rams answered with the longest play of the day, a 65-yard TD pass, before WBU got its first TD on a 12-yard pass from Bryan Ponder to Skyler Whitten, making it 38-9.

With many substitutes on the field, TXWES scored three fourth-quarter TDs, including a 28-yard interception return from Vondrice LaFran.

The game's final points, with 1:41 to play, came on a Welch PAT following a tough 14-yard touchdown run by Willie Phillips, who broke several tackles on his way to the end zone. That was set up by a 47-yard pass from Davian Guajardo to Isaiah Baker.

After Wayland logged 10 sacks in beating Texas College a week earlier, the Pioneers gave up eight sacks against the Rams' defense, leading to Wayland's negative-20 yards rushing. Ponder did throw for 239 yards, completing 18-of-37. Whitten pulled down eight catches for 128 yards and the TD.

Kevin White paced the WBU defense with seven tackles. Casey Buck added six stops with a sack and forced fumble, which was recovered by Andrew Villa, who also had an interception.

The game was the fourth at home over the first five weeks for the Pioneers, who now go on the road to face Oklahoma-Panhandle State (3-3, 3-2) and Louisiana Christian (1-4, 1-3). OPSU defeated LC on Saturday in Goodwell, Okla., 28-16.
 
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