Darian Mensah passed for 265 yards and two touchdowns and Duke scored the game’s final 38 points to post a 45-21 victory over Cal on Saturday night in Atlantic Coast Conference play at Berkeley, Calif.Nate Sheppard rushed for 91 yards and two scores and Anderson Castle also rushed for two touchdowns for the Blue Devils (4-2, 3-0 ACC), who registered their third consecutive victory.Que’Sean Brown caught six passes for 104 yards and one touchdown, Cooper Barkate had a scoring catch and Duke racked up four interceptions and six sacks. The Blue Devils and Virginia are the lone ACC squads with 3-0 league records.Mensah completed 22 of 30 passes and raised his season passing touchdowns count to 15. He has thrown multiple scoring passes in all six games.Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele was 20-of-31 passing for 245 yards and one touchdown but also threw three interceptions. Kendrick Raphael rushed for two scores and Jordan King had a touchdown catch for the Golden Bears (4-2, 1-1).Elliott Schaper had 12 tackles and an interception for Duke. Moussa Kane, Andrew Pellicciotta and Chandler Rivers also had picks for the Blue Devils.The teams combined for 52 first-half points — 31 by Duke — during their first meeting since 1963.Neither squad scored during the first 21-plus minutes of the second half until Duke broke the drought on Mensah’s 10-yard touchdown pass to Barkate to make it 38-21 with 8:22 remaining in the game.
