The Muhlenberg football team improved to 3-0 with a 38-10 win at TCNJ in its first road game of the season.

The 25th-ranked Mules rolled up 542 yards of total offense, including 376 through the air, while holding the Lions (1-1) to 220. The defense held the TCNJ quarterback, who set a program record with 405 passing yards in the opening game of the season, to 13-of-31 passing and picked him off three times.

Senior Ethan Brader and sophomore Marcus McClaine each recorded his first career interception, while senior Alex Jr. Batista notched his first of the year, the third of his career. Senior John Lohrer broke up a pair of passes.

Junior Joe Repetti registered his second career 300-yard game, completing 26 of 35 passes for 336 yards, two short of his career high, and three touchdowns.

For the second time in three weeks, all of Repetti's scoring strikes went to tight ends. Seven plays after Brader's interception of a deep pass at the Muhlenberg 40, Repetti hit senior Matt McKenna in the end zone from 20 yards out to put the first points on the board.

The defense opened the second quarter with a fourth-down stop near midfield, and 13 plays later Repetti hit McKenna for another touchdown, this time from 3 yards out on fourth down. The long drive featured two fourth-down conversions and a third-and-8 conversion on a 9-yard connection between Repetti and sophomore John Sauchelli.

Batista ended the next Lions possession with an interception at the 14, and the Mules drove 86 yards to extend their lead to 21-0. The big play of the drive was a 39-yard completion from Repetti to senior Pelton Esannason Jr. (pictured above) on third-and-6. Senior James Nye finished off the drive with a 12-yard touchdown catch in the final 30 seconds of the first half.

Muhlenberg extended its lead in the second half on touchdown runs by senior Ian Csicsek and sophomore Bryson Perryman. The 9-yard scoring run by Perryman gave him his first career touchdown and gave the Mules a 38-3 advantage. 

TCNJ responded with its lone touchdown drive of the game, but McClaine's interception ended the Lions' next drive, and the Mules ran out the final 4:50 of the game.

Csicsek finished with a game-high 66 rushing yards and became the first Muhlenberg player with a 30-yard rush and a 30-yard reception in the same game since 2017.

Graduate student Dominick Visintin led a balanced defense with 6 tackles, while fellow grad student Tim Higgins recorded his first career sack for an 11-yard loss. Another graduate student, Alex Garrido, was 4-for-4 on extra points and booted his first field goal of the season.