Husson University of Bangor and Biddeford’s University of New England picked up small college football wins on Saturday.

Husson beat New England College 42-0 for its second straight win and UNE dealt Castine’s Maine Maritime Academy its 38th straight loss, 62-14.

The state’s other three NCAA Division III teams, New England Small College Athletic Conference schools Colby, Bates and Bowdoin remained winless after absorbing their fifth losses of the season.

Amherst edged Colby 21-15, Wesleyan topped Bates 34-8 and Hamilton bested Bowdoin 26-7.

At Henniker, N.H., Daniel Ruiz Cantu ran for 157 yards and three touchdowns and Anthony Santacroce rushed for 87 yards and two touchdowns as Husson improved to 2-4 overall and 2-1 in the Conference of New England.

New England College, in just its third season after reviving its program since dropping it in 1972, fell to 1-5 and 0-3, respectively.

Ruiz Cantu scored on runs of 30, 26 and 25 yards and Santacroce scored on a pair of four-yard runs. Brody Gibson threw an eight-yard TD pass to Jacob Lenz.

Gibson completed 11 of 15 passes for 106 yards and a TD.

Caden Crocker and Lenz each caught four passes for 37 and 29 yards, respectively.

Calvin Casavant had five tackles including two and a half sacks and he also forced a fumble.

Jayden Horton, J.T. Wright and Cooper McNamara were each involved in four tackles and McNamara had a sack and an interception.

Brody Sobotka completed 11 of 23 passes for 51 yards for NEC, Isaiah Turner caught two passes for 30 yards and Ethan Cenesca had a game-high 17 tackles with DaShawn Fairfax being involved in nine.

In Biddeford, Damien Jones, Nathan Delgado and Gavin Martin rushed for 95, 84 and 81 yards respectively and combined to score five touchdowns with Jones and Delgado notching two apiece.

Javin Willis, Noah Federico and Steven Rosario also had touchdown runs and C.J. Cooper returned an interception 47 yards for a TD.

UNE is now 1-5 and 1-2 in the CNE while MMA is 0-6 and 0-3.

Auston Harris led MMA with 115 rushing yards on 12 carries including a 55-yard TD run. Harris Stone completed 21 of 41 passes for 176 yards including a six-yard TD pass to Evan Flowers.

Ty Regis and Flowers had seven receptions apiece for 104 and 45 yards, respectively.

Kyle Danson had nine tackles for UNE and Jack Grant had seven while MMA’s Theo Blanke, Lucas Houghton and Anthony Mazza Jr. had 15, 14 and 11 tackles, respectively.

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