NORTHFIELD, Minn. – Visiting Augsburg University scored touchdowns on eight of its nine possessions to claim a 56-36 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) victory over the St. Olaf College football team on Saturday afternoon at Klein Field at Manitou.

Augsburg (5-2, 3-2 MIAC) got into the end zone on its first seven offensive possessions and ran a kickoff back for a touchdown on its way to defeating St. Olaf (4-3, 3-2 MIAC). The lone time the Auggies had the ball and did not score was a four-plus-minute drive to eat the final 4:06 off the clock.

Junior Theo Doran was 28-for-41 for 330 yards with three touchdowns and one interception for the Oles, with the 330-yard effort marking the second-highest single-game total of his career. Doran has thrown for over 300 yards in each of the last three games and has accounted for 975 yards through the air over that stretch.

Fifth-year senior Payton Schott was Doran's favorite target, hauling in a career-high-tying nine receptions for 93 yards and a touchdown, while senior Derek Hansen caught seven passes for 82 yards for the Oles. Junior Evan Hammonds added six catches for 75 yards, while sophomore Will Skemp recorded the first touchdown catch of his collegiate career.

Fifth-year senior Jordan Embry moved up to No. 2 on St. Olaf's all-time rushing list with his sixth-straight 100-yard effort this season to bring his career rushing total to 3,344 yards. Embry carried the ball 20 times for 116 yards while also catching four passes for 56 yards and a touchdown. First year Ralph Naimah added a pair of two-yard touchdown runs in the loss.

Cade Sheehan led Augsburg to the win by accounting for seven of the Auggies' touchdowns on the afternoon. Sheehan was 20-for-24 for 218 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions through the air while also rushing 17 times for 77 yards and three scores. Dominic Smith had eight receptions for 101 yards and caught three of Sheehan's four touchdown passes.

After Augsburg got one-yard touchdown runs from Sheehan on its first two possessions, St. Olaf got on the board on the first of Naimah's two short touchdown runs to cap an 11-play, 81-yard drive with 1:05 to go in the opening quarter. The Auggies answered with a 14-play, 84-yard drive that culminated in a 13-yard pass from Sheehan to Smith before stretching their lead to 28-7 on another one-yard run by Sheehan with 1:29 left in the opening half.

The Oles made it a one-score game going into the half by covering 83 yards in 10 plays following Sheehan's third touchdown run of the first half. Doran converted a fourth-and-one at the Augsburg 37-yard line to keep the drive alive before connecting with Schott for a 17-yard touchdown in the final second of the half.

St. Olaf scored on its first three possessions of the second half but was unable to get any closer than 11 points as Augsburg answered each score with one of its own. Senior Collin Swan kicked a 23-yard field goal on the Oles' opening possession of the half, but Isaiah Thompson ran the ensuing kickoff back 88 yards for a touchdown to push the Auggies' lead to 35-17.

Doran found Embry for an 18-yard touchdown with 5:51 left in the third quarter and Skemp for an 11-yard score with 13:44 to go in the fourth before Naimah closed out the scoring with a two-yard run with 4:06 left in the game. Senior Ben Hestorff led the St. Olaf defense with 10 tackles (eight solo) in the game.

The Oles host Gustavus Adolphus College, which is coming off a 38-35 win over seventh-ranked Saint John's University, on Saturday, Oct. 28 at 1 p.m. at Klein Field Manitou.