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The Pirates, who'd gone 4-1 since shaking up their coaching staff after an 0-5 start, managed just 216 yards of total offense while giving up 557 yards — 475 of them on the ground — to the Wildcats.
"We couldn't get it going," HU coach Donovan Rose said. "That was just a good old-fashioned butt-whipping. We've got to take it and learn from it."
The loss kept the Wildcats (9-2, 6-1 MEAC) on track for a conference crown with a win next week while dropping the Pirates (4-7, 4-3) back into the middle of the pack.
"We're a good football team," said Wildcats coach Brian Jenkins, whose team was coming off a 27-24 loss to Norfolk State. "There was a lot of people that doubted us after last week, (but) we had a talk as a team, and we knew what we needed to do."
Bethune's single-game rushing total is the third-best in FCS play this season. The Wildcats' single-game rushing record is 561 yards, set in 1973.
HU true freshman quarterback Bryan Bailey, given the keys to a new-look spread system after special teams coordinator Michael Villagrana took over as the Pirates' play-caller, went 8 of 20 for 55 yards and two interceptions a week after throwing for 226 yards in HU's 29-21 win against N.C. Central.
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