(Note: This story has been updated after a stats correction from Carroll College showed that Ryan Arntson rushed for 267 yards, not the 286 yards that the stats had previously shown. Arntson’s 267 yards are the second-best single-game effort in program history.)
HELENA — Ryan Arntson ran for 267 yards, the second-best single-game effort in program history, to lead the Saints to a 56-7 victory over visiting Montana State-Northern on Saturday afternoon in a Frontier Conference football clash.
Arntson got the scoring started when he took Carroll’s first play from scrimmage 92 yards for a touchdown. And the rout was on.
Carroll scored on its next possession when Hunter Bledsoe found Ryan’s brother Troy for a 24-yard touchdown pass, putting the Saints up 14-0. That lead grew to 21-0 when Bledsoe found Eric Dawson from 21 yards out, and Dawson’s 4-yard rushing touchdown with 5:20 to go in the second quarter ballooned the Carroll advantage to 28-0.
Northern got on the board in the final minute of the first half on a Tommy Wilson 1-yard touchdown run, but that’s all the offense the Lights could generate.
Arntson picked up his second rushing touchdown of the game in the fourth quarter, a 68-yard run to pay dirt, making the lead 49-7.
With the win, Carroll improves to 4-5 (3-5 Frontier Conference), while Northern falls to 1-8 (0-8).
