GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Both teams scored in the final minute, but it was #11 Colorado Mesa that came away victorious as Ryan Sheehan's 33-yard field goal as time expired gave them a 38-36 win over Colorado School of Mines.

Brody Oliver had caught a go-ahead touchdown with 23 seconds left as Mines (1-2, 1-2 RMAC) overcame a 35-24 fourth-quarter deficit by scoring twice in the final six minutes.

Oliver caught three touchdowns for 135 yards, and Riley Hoff caught one on 146 yards as Ben Bottlinger threw for a career-high 370 yards and four touchdowns. Cameron Mayberry rushed for 151 yards on a program-record 39 carries. David Tann led CMU (3-0, 3-0 RMAC) with 197 rushing yards and four touchdowns, while Eystin Salum threw for 286 yards, including a 68-yard pass to Peter Anderson to set up the game-winning field goal.

It was a wild back-and-forth game that saw both teams hold the lead for stretches. Grayson Harris' 44-yard field goal got Mines on the board first before Salum ran it in from nine yards, but Hoff opened the second quarter with a 35-yard touchdown catch to give Mines a 10-7 lead. The Mavericks scored twice unanswered before the half, however, as Tann took it in from 14 and one yards to put them up 21-10.

Mines chipped away at the lead in the third with Mayberry scoring from a yard out to make it 21-17 Mavericks, and that set up a crazy fourth quarter that saw both teams score three times. Oliver got it started with a seven-yard catch from Bottlinger to retake the lead, 24-21, but two long rushing touchdowns by Tann - from 69 and 62 yards - stunned the Orediggers and put CMU up 35-24 midway through the quarter.

Mines responded by going 75 yards and scoring on Oliver's 31-yard catch with 5:35 left, bringing it to 35-30 after a failed two-point conversion. A defensive stop gave Mines life, and they proceeded to drive 91 yards to retake the lead in dramatic fashion. The Orediggers twice faced fourth and long, converting 4th-and-17 on Hoff's 27-yard catch to midfield and 4th-and-10 on Sean O'Dell's 45-yard strike into the Mesa red zone, and they finally went ahead on Oliver's four-yard catch to the left pylon with 23 ticks remaining.

CMU's quick-strike capability showed itself again as Salum found Anderson over the middle for a 68-yard gain to the Mines 14, and that set up Sheehan for a chip-shot field goal to win it at the buzzer.

James Kohlschmidt and Averie Mansfield led the Mines defense with nine tackles each. RJ Phillips, Logan Braden, and Logan Bock got in on sacks. Blake Nelson had 12 tackles with 2.5 for a loss and a sack for CMU.

Mayberry's 39 carries snapped a school record that had stood since 1975, when Mitch Chambers rushed 35 times against Nebraska Wesleyan. Mayberry, the RMAC's leading rusher heading into the weekend, has had back-to-back 150+ yard games and now has 410 yards and four touchdowns in three games.

Mines returns home next Saturday to host Western State at noon.