ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — Kurtis Rourke passed for three touchdowns and ran for another to lead Ohio to a 42-17 win over Kent State on Saturday.

Rourke was 20-of-32 passing for 300 yards, throwing scoring passes of 25 and 22 yards to Miles Cross and a 30-yarder to Sam Wiglusz. Cross’ 22-yard score came after Cross streaked down the right sideline before tipping the ball to himself in the end zone.

Rourke’s 4-yard rushing TD in the final minute of the first half made it 21-7 and the Bobcats (5-1, 2-0 Mid-American Conference) added 14 points in the third to lead 35-10 heading into the fourth quarter.

Cross finished with 125 yards on seven catches. Sieh Bangura added two 3-yard rushing touchdowns for the Bobcats.

For the Golden Flashes (1-5, 0-2), Chrishon McCray had 93 yards receiving with a pair of touchdowns, one each from Michael Alaimo and Tommy Ulatowski.

Ohio outgained Kent State 466-228 and turned in six sacks on defense, two by Bradley Weaver. The Bobcats scored touchdowns on five consecutive possessions over the second and third quarters.

Kent St.	0	7	3	7	—	17
Ohio	0	21	14	7	—	42

Second Quarter

OHIO–Cross 25 pass from Rourke (Spetic kick), 13:35.

KENT–McCray 42 pass from Alaimo (Glass kick), 11:20.

OHIO–Wiglusz 30 pass from Rourke (Spetic kick), 4:05.

OHIO–Rourke 4 run (Spetic kick), :37.

Third Quarter

KENT–FG Glass 37, 12:18.

OHIO–Cross 22 pass from Rourke (Spetic kick), 9:13.

OHIO–Bangura 3 run (Spetic kick), 5:39.

Fourth Quarter

OHIO–Bangura 3 run (Spetic kick), 13:26.

KENT–McCray 10 pass from Ulatowski (Glass kick), 9:57.

A–22,945.

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	KENT	OHIO
First downs	16	24
Total Net Yards	228	466
Rushes-yards	36-109	35-166
Passing	119	300
Punt Returns	1-4	1-3
Kickoff Returns	6-133	1-16
Interceptions Ret.	0-0	1-0
Comp-Att-Int	11-20-1	20-32-0
Sacked-Yards Lost	6-27	0-0
Punts	6-36.167	4-35.25
Fumbles-Lost	0-0	0-0
Penalties-Yards	5-46	7-70
Time of Possession	27:04	32:56

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INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING–Kent St., J.Thomas 24-67, Ulatowski 4-60, Garcia 1-0, Alaimo 7-(minus 18). Ohio, Navarro 3-65, Bangura 9-41, Allison 11-27, Rourke 9-26, Quinn 3-7.

PASSING–Kent St., Alaimo 9-13-1-107, Ulatowski 2-7-0-12. Ohio, Rourke 20-32-0-300.

RECEIVING–Kent St., McCray 6-93, Holmes 2-17, Floriea 1-5, Jame.Gardner 1-2, J.Thomas 1-2. Ohio, Cross 7-125, Wiglusz 4-44, Foster 2-59, Kacmarek 2-22, Hendricks 2-14, Bangura 1-19, Walton 1-13, Butler 1-4.

MISSED FIELD GOALS–None.