SHERMAN, Texas — Texas Lutheran dismantled Austin College 55-17 on Saturday at Jerry Apple Stadium as quarterback Caden Bosanko (San Antonio/East Central) finished with 291 total yards and six touchdowns with four coming on the ground.
As a team, the Bulldogs (5-1, 4-1 SCAC) combined to run for a season-high 341 yards and six touchdowns on the ground in the victory. The 341-yard rushing output is the most under Neal LaHue and the most since the Bulldogs rushed for 389 against McMurry in the spring 2021 season. Bosanko finished the game with a career-high 137 rushing yards with his four rushing touchdowns tying Kyle Grona (ETBU, 2017) for the most-ever by a TLU signal-caller and his 24 points accounted for ties for second most in a single-game in program history. Jackson Bennett (Rockwall/Rockwall) (3-15) and Landon Gill (San Antonio/Madison) (1-13) also found paydirt for the Bulldogs, which closed the day with an average of 8.1 yards per tote (42 carries).
In addition to the ground attack, Bosanko accounted for 154 yards and two touchdowns through the air on 9-of-16 passing, with Caleb Camarillo (San Antonio/Southside) leading the wide receivers with four catches for 88 yards and two touchdowns. Defensively, Tyler Ward (Woodway/Bishop Louis Reicher) had a game-high 10 tackles including five solo stops and a sack.
The 55-point scoring output is the highest point tally of the Neal LaHue era and most in a single game since a 57-point outburst against McMurry in 2019.
TLU got on the board early with the first of Bosanko’s four rushing scores in the first before the ‘Roos would respond with a field goal. It would take just one play the following drive as Bosanko found Caleb Camarillo on a slant that would go 65 yards for a touchdown.
TLU would find the end zone three times on the ground in the second quarter with Bosanko scoring twice and Jackson Bennett adding another as the Bulldogs began to pull away with a 34-10 halftime lead.
Bosanko would score one more time on the ground in the third for the Bulldogs only score in the period before finding Camarillo for their second scoring connection of the day in the fourth. Quarterback Landon Gill would score the final touchdown for the Bulldogs with a 13-yard run with 3:30 remaining in the game.
Texas Lutheran returns to Seguin for a homecoming showdown with McMurry at Bulldog Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 16. Kickoff is set for 4 PM and will be broadcast on TLU’s YouTube Channel, TLU+, along with KWED 1580 AM. Saturday Texas Lutheran Athletics will also induct four former student-athletes: former TLU sprinter Monique Anderson ’14, former TLU women’s golfer Angela Aufderhaar (Hisey) ’10, former TLU quarterback Sean Salinas ’08, and former TLU volleyball player and sprinter Vanecia Spencer ’14 into the TLU Athletics Hall of Fame in a halftime ceremony. Prior to Saturday’s game, Texas Lutheran will recognize the 1974 NAIA National Championship team for its 50th anniversary as well as Athletics Wall of Honor recipients Tim Clark and Tom Sedlacek. All streaming and stats links can be found on tlubulldogs.com.
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