SAINT PAUL, Minn. — Hamline (1-8, 0-8) lost to St. Olaf (4-5, 4-4) 43-26 on Saturday at Klas Field. The Pipers finished with 371 yards of offense, including 200 passing and 171 rushing, and scored three passing touchdowns and one rushing touchdown.
Hamline's opening drive stalled at its 16, and St. Olaf used the short field to convert a fourth-and-7 pass before Bryon Sauvy scored on a 15-yard run at 11:35 for a 7-0 lead. The Pipers' next series was kept alive by a St. Olaf pass-interference penalty and included a 10-yard
Daylen Cummings run for a first down, but the drive ended with a punt. St. Olaf then went 75 yards, with Luke Crosby hitting Jackson Kauck for 32 yards before Sauvy added a 17-yard touchdown run at 6:14 to make it 14-0. After forcing a St. Olaf punt late in the quarter, the Pipers began a drive from their own 10 and picked up a first down on Cummings' 10-yard pass to
Jah Simmons-Dabney before St. Olaf led 14-0 after the first quarter.
Cummings moved Hamline into St. Olaf territory with completions to
Aiden Herz and
Tristan Falkowski before scoring on a 30-yard run at 11:46, and
Kieran Barrientos' extra point made it 14-7. St. Olaf answered from the Hamline 37 after Alec Mahoney's 53-yard kickoff return, with Luke Crosby finding William Rizzuto for a 32-yard touchdown and Patty Gardner adding the kick for a 21-7 lead. After a Hamline punt, St. Olaf drove again from its own 36, using a 24-yard run by Bryon Sauvy and two Crosby completions to Jackson Kauck before Landon Dillon scored from eight yards out at 4:17; the missed extra point left the score 27-7. The Pipers crossed midfield late behind Cummings' completions to Herz and
Ty Burgoon, but Logan Butts intercepted a pass and returned it 30 yards, and the second quarter ended with St. Olaf ahead 27-7.
Allen Walker forced a Luke Crosby fumble on St. Olaf's opening drive, and
Elijah Gingras recovered at the St. Olaf 44 and returned it 31 yards to set up Hamline at the 13. Two plays later, Cummings found Burgoon for a 12-yard touchdown at 13:32, with the missed kick leaving the score 27-13. St. Olaf later answered after taking over at the Hamline 45, as Landon Dillon converted fourth-and-1 with a 36-yard touchdown run at 8:45 and the extra point made it 34-13. The Pipers put together a 14-play, 66-yard drive that included two first-down runs by Cummings and a fourth-down conversion at the St. Olaf 20, but the possession ended on an incomplete pass at the 9 before St. Olaf closed the third quarter with the 34-13 lead.
Hamline's defense kept St. Olaf off the board on the first two possessions of the fourth quarter, forcing punts after the visitors were backed up by holding penalties and
Eric Denhardt made a tackle for loss on the second series. The Pipers turned their next drive into points, as Simmons-Dabney ran for gains of eight, 12 and 14 yards before Cummings hit Herz for 29 yards to the St. Olaf 5, and Burgoon found Cummings for a 2-yard touchdown at 5:00 to make it 34-19. St. Olaf immediately added two points when Ciaran Lee blocked the extra point and Alec Mahoney returned it 94 yards, then later stretched the score to 43-19 on Magnus Hansen's 49-yard touchdown pass to Jackson Kauck and Patty Gardner's kick. Hamline answered with a late 75-yard drive that included a 29-yard Cummings completion to Herz 13-yard Simmons-Dabney run and
Joseph McCarthy's 2-yard touchdown pass to Simmons-Dabney with 43 seconds left, with
Kieran Barrientos' extra point closing the final score at 43-26.
Cummings completed 19 of 34 passes for 196 yards and a touchdown, rushed 14 times for 106 yards and a touchdown, and added a 2-yard touchdown reception. Herz caught nine passes for 124 yards and added a 9-yard punt return. Burgoon caught five passes for 25 yards and a touchdown and completed his only pass for a 2-yard touchdown. Gingras recorded six tackles and recovered a fumble, returning it 31 yards.
Hamline is 1-8 overall and 0-8 in conference play. St. Olaf is 4-5 overall and 4-4 in conference play.
Up next, the Pipers host Augsburg on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, at 12 p.m. at Klas Field in St. Paul, Minn.
