Vicente Arellano recovered the muff for the Coyotes, who opened the scoring on a 34-yard hook-and-lateral trick play to Jason Dolan two plays later.
Trailing 7-0, Tabor punted from midfield on its first possession, but the Bluejay defense bounced back with another stand.
Teal Stutzman walloped Preston McCorkle to force a fumble at the Coyote 24 and Joe Wuest jumped on the loose ball for Tabor, setting up the Bluejays first score: a quarterback sneak by Amos that gained six-inches for a touchdown with 4:53 left in the first.
Tied at 7-7, the teams traded 3-and-outs, with Tabor nearly returning the special teams turnover favor when Zack Anaya belted Amado Coronado following a 44-yard punt by Kevin Carroll.
Unfortunately for the Bluejays, Coyote defensive back Ken Mitchell recovered the loose ball on one bounce and added 21 yards to Coronado’s botched return.
Kansas Wesleyan put together a 13-play, 59-yard scoring drive capped by a throw from Dallas to Eric Thrush 3:44 into the second quarter.
Trailing 14-7, Tabor had a 39-yard kickoff return by Demetrius Cox wiped off the books by the first of an unending parade of penalties?the teams were flagged a combined 23 times for 215 yards?and went 3-and-out, with Carroll punting into the wind five yards outside his own end zone.
The Coyotes took over at the Tabor 31 and scored on a 4-play series that ended in a Dallas-to-Marcus Lowe touchdown pass with 8:04 to go in the second quarter.
Tabor’s next drive began with another illegal block penalty, but ended with Derek Washington leaning into the end zone at the end of a 2-yard touchdown plunge.
Cox made two key plays on the drive: a 14-yard run on second-and-8, and a 17-yard reception on third-and-5.
Kansas Wesleyan answered with a score?a 34-yard connection from Dallas to Lowe?and forced a turnover on Tabor’s ensuing possession. Washington broke a 17-yard run, but fumbled when he was hit at the Tabor 45. Arellano recovered.
The Tabor defense rallied again, with Aaron Munsch forcing and recovering McCorkle’s second fumble of the game, but the offense was unable to capitalize. An 11-yard punt after a 3-and-out gave the Coyotes one more chance to score before halftime.
Dallas scrambled for 13 yards, and rushed his team to the line to stop the clock.
But on the final play of the half, Dallas was intercepted by Nick Brown, who deftly tracked a pass intended for Dolan that was deflected by Stutzman.
Amos took the game to halftime on a kneel down.
But it was all KW from there, as the Coyotes ran off five straight scores to turn their 28-14 halftime lead into a 56-14 rout.
Demetrius Cox scored on an 89-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter, and Amos followed up with a 14-yard touchdown pass to Adrian Clay.
Both teams scored in the final minute of the game: Wesleyan on a 22-yard toss from backup quarterback Johnny Park to Justin Sutton, and Tabor on a 10-yard option run by Amos.
Cox finished off his collegiate career with 117 rushing yards for the game, totaling 456 yards on 88 carries this season.
Stutzman, a sophomore, finished with 11 tackles in addition to the forced fumble. Stutzman finished with 108 tackles?50 more than any other Bluejay, second-most in the KCAC and the 10th-most per game nationally.
Washington, a freshman, led the team in rushing with 881 yards on 134 attempts, and 10 touchdowns.
Washington?s 6.6 yards-per-carry average was far-and-away the top mark in the conference for backs with 100-plus carries, and his 110 yards-per-game average is 10th-most nationally.
