Hunter Patterson Ran for 267 Yards and Five Touchdowns, and West Liberty Has Its First Mountain East Football Title: Hilltoppers 56, Wheeling 21

Hunter Patterson Ran for 267 Yards and Five Touchdowns, and West Liberty Has Its First Mountain East Football Title: Hilltoppers 56, Wheeling 21

The Division II Hilltoppers outgained rival Wheeling 586 to 223, went 7 for 7 in the red zone and shared the MEC title. Patterson passed 2,000 rushing yards for the season.

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Hunter Patterson carried the ball 33 times on Saturday. Five of those carries ended in the end zone, and when the last one did, West Liberty University had something its football program had never won: a Mountain East Conference championship.

The Division II Hilltoppers beat rival Wheeling 56-21 at Bishop Schmitt Field in Wheeling, West Virginia, to finish 8-3 overall and 6-2 in the league. That earned a share of the MEC title with Charleston. It is the program's first MEC football crown and 16th conference title overall, according to West Liberty's game recap, and it came under a first-year head coach, Chad Salisbury.

Hunter Patterson: 267 Yards, Five Touchdowns, 2,068 for the Season

Patterson, a senior running back, finished with 267 yards. His touchdown runs covered 8, 12, 16, 15 and 1 yards, and the five scores tied the school's single-game record. West Liberty says the day pushed him to 2,068 rushing yards and 25 rushing touchdowns this season, making him the first 2,000-yard rusher in school history.

He had help. Quarterback Kohl Meisman completed 14 of 16 passes for 217 yards and a touchdown, and ran for another score.

West Liberty Outgained Wheeling 586 to 223

Both schools' box scores tell the same story. West Liberty ran for 367 yards to Wheeling's 96, piled up 30 first downs to 16 and held the ball for 38:49. The Hilltoppers scored on all seven trips inside the red zone and led 35-14 at halftime. Wheeling finished 5-6.

"I think I hired the right staff," Salisbury said in the school's recap.

Charleston Holds the Tiebreaker, So West Liberty Waits on an At-Large Bid

The shared title does not come with a guaranteed playoff spot. Charleston beat West Liberty 41-35 in double overtime on Nov. 7 and takes the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Division II playoffs, WCHS reported. The Hilltoppers need an at-large selection when the Division II bracket is announced Sunday evening.

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