Oberlin, Ohio – The Wabash College Little Giants scored early and often en route to earning a 66-20 win over the Oberlin College Yeomen on Saturday afternoon at Austin E. Knowlton Athletics Complex.
 
Wabash scored a touchdown on each of its first six possessions on its way to finishing the game with 667 yards of offense.
 
Freshman wide out Ben Ephraim was a bright spot for the Yeomen, posting a career-high six catches for a career-best 108 yards and his first-career touchdown. Running back Greg Lane had just three carries but registered 64 yards and a touchdown to pace the ground attack.
 
Chris Allen Jr. was 10-of-17 passing for 136 yards to go along with two TD tosses and an interception. The senior from Atco, New Jersey, added 43 yards on the ground.
 
It was 21-0 Little Giants after the first quarter but the Yeomen would get on the board early in the second as Allen Jr. found freshman Connor Steele streaking along the back of the end zone to cap a 9-play, 75-yard drive with a 5-yard TD pass.
 
Unfortunately, Wabash responded with a two-play scoring drive as Liam Thompson connected with Derek Allen Jr. for 57 yards and then Donovan Snyder would run it in from 9-yards out to push the lead right back to 21 points.
 
Oberlin would cut the deficit in half on its ensuing possession, diving into its bag of tricks on 4^th-and-17 as a perfectly executed hook-and-ladder play resulted in Ephraim running up the far sideline to paydirt after getting a pitch from Ty Weatherspoon at the 21-yardline.
 
However, the Yeomen defense had no answers for Wabash the offense as the Little Giants ultimately carried a 45-14 lead into the half.
 
After Wabash scored on its opening possession of the third, the Yeomen would find the end zone for the final time as Lane went right up the middle for 58-yard TD run to mark the longest scamper of his career.
 
The Little Giants would tack on two more third-quarter touchdowns on runs by Conner Grimes to leave to no doubt in the eventual outcome.
 
Thompson, who came into the game as the country's second-best passer in terms of yards, finished 24-of-26 for 367 yards and two TDs before being removed after the team's first possession of the third quarter.
 
Elliott Meyer and Treyce Wood led the Yeomen defense with 10 tackles apiece in the loss.
 
Oberlin is back in action next Saturday night at 7 p.m. on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University.