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ACU rams Angelo, could be next No. 1
Abilene Christian running back Daryl Richardson didn’t want to take all the credit for his four-touchdown performance Saturday night at San Angelo Stadium.
In fact, he gave much of the credit to the offensive line. It’s pretty easy when the line’s blowing open gaping holes.
“Thanks to the offensive line, man,” said Richardson, the younger brother of former ACU running back Bernard Scott. “The offensive coordinator, Coach (Ken) Collums, called good plays, and the offensive line opened up big holes. I just ran through them.”
Wildcats rock Rams
ACU hands ASU its first LSC defeat of the season
The second-ranked Abilene Christian University football team looked very much like the soon-to-be No. 1 team in the country Saturday at San Angelo Stadium. For the fourth straight season, the Wildcats got the best of Angelo State, defeating No. 23 ASU 38-14 in a battle of Lone Star Conference unbeatens.
ASU fell to 5-2 overall, 4-1 in the LSC and 2-1 in the LSC South. ACU improved to 7-0, 5-0 and 2-0. It was the first time the teams faced each other when they were both ranked since 1997. But the Wildcats lived up to their ranking more than the Rams did, holding ASU to 299 yards — much of which came in the Rams’ final two drives of the game — while amassing 376 of their own.
“The season is not lost yet,” ASU head coach Dale Carr said. “A lot of teams can still make the playoffs. We can too but we have to play better than we did tonight.”
Javelinas avoid upset against Lions
The Texas A&M-Commerce football team gave No. 9 Texas A&M-Kingsville all it could handle and then some, but the Javelinas emerged with a 35-34 victory thanks to a few late turnovers at Memorial Stadium.
It appeared the Lions (2-5, 2-4) were going to win thanks to a number of big plays. They scored on an 82-yard blocked field goal return by Shea Rodriguez, a 69-yard pass from Adam Farkes to Blake Patton and had two other scores set up by a Farkes 41-yard run and a 64-yard kickoff return by Mikell Mair.
The Lions led 27-14 heading into the third quarter and held a 34-21 lead with 9:05 remaining in the game with possession of the ball. Javelinas defensive tackle Dondi Cooks forced fumbles on the next two Lions possessions and the Javelinas (7-0, 5-0) converted both into touchdowns. The winning play was Billy Garza’s 26-yard pass to Damian Couthren with 2:45 remaining.
Mustangs fumble away the game
The 18th-ranked Midwestern State Mustangs led for most of Saturday night’s Lone Star Conference showdown with No. 15 Tarleton State. But the first of two fourth-quarter turnovers helped the Texans tie the game with just 12 seconds left.
With overtime on the horizon, however, the second turnover a fumble with seven seconds left cost the Mustangs the game. Garrett Lindholm booted a TSU-school record 55-yard field goal as time expired to give the Texans an improbable 31-28 win in front of 4,682 fans at Tarleton Memorial Stadium.
The Mustangs, ninth in the region, drop their second game of the season to fall to 5-2 for the year and 1-2 in the LSC South. The Texans, who weren’t in last week’s Super Region Four rankings, improve to 6-1 and 1-1.
“It’s a tough loss. A very tough loss,” said MSU head coach Bill Maskill, who lost to the Texans for the sixth straight time. “I told them tough times don’t last, but tough people do. The strength of this team is the team. It’s going to hurt because this is a game we should have won. We’ve got to have guys now who step up and get us back ready to play.”
Buffs shut down ENMU, keep Wagon Wheel
For the record, West Texas A&M wide receiver Josephius Martin was the first Buff to get up the south hill Saturday night and get his hands on the cherished Wagon Wheel - the trophy that goes to the victor of the WT-Eastern New Mexico University rivalry. However, it was only a matter of seconds before the wheel had plenty of company, surrounded by celebrating Buffs.
The Greyhounds can sympathize with the wheel.
The Buffs swarmed the same way on the field behind a defense that held the top offense in Division II to 235.5 yards below its average and an offense that picked the perfect times to go deep, knocking off ENMU, 34-24, in front of 4,621 chilly fans at Kimbrough Memorial Stadium.
"It is always good to beat Eastern New Mexico," said WT head coach Don Carthel, who is 5-0 against his alma mater. "It is a huge rivalry. Everybody wants to win. It is a lot of fun to run up that hill and get the Wagon Wheel."
Savage Storm sticks it to Central
The Southeastern Savage Storm used a dominating first half to jump out to a three-touchdown lead, and held on the rest of the way to beat the Central Oklahoma Bronchos, 41-24, Saturday afternoon at Paul Laird Field.
After Southeastern had jumped out to a big half-time advantage of 24-3, the Bronchos closed to within 10 at 27-17 and had forced the Storm into a punting situation out of their own end zone, when Central committed perhaps the biggest penalty of the game.
Will White’s punt was almost blocked, but the Broncho defender just missed, then ran into White, was called for a personal foul and Southeastern got a new set of downs on the penalty.
Football Plays NSU Tough
Southwestern Oklahoma State University's push for its first football victory came up just short as Northeastern State University escaped with a 13-6 win Saturday in Tahlequah.
SWOSU had the ball in the closing seconds with an opportunity to tie the game but quarterback Steve Day's deep pass was intercepted at the NSU 42-yard line. The Riverhawks ran one final play as the clock expired.
The loss ended what had been a three-year win streak in the series for SWOSU and dropped the Bulldogs to 0-7 on the year and 0-2 in the Lone Star Conference North Division. NSU improved to 2-5 and 2-1 in division play.
UIW climbs back to .500 with first win streak
Incarnate Word's Dominic Hamilton oozed grizzled-senior savvy while answering reporters' questions from inside the Cardinals' weight room Saturday.
Speaking of the importance of his role in keeping new quarterback Eric Massoni from getting frazzled in his first start, the wideout said, “If I was going to be in his situation, I'd be a little nervous.”
This coming from a redshirt freshman, who, because of recent injuries to the team's top two receivers, came into Saturday's 38-20 victory over East Central of Oklahoma thrust into an unfamiliar go-to-guy role.
But Hamilton, a Smithson Valley product, embraced the task, hauling in seven catches for 188 yards and two touchdowns at Benson Stadium to help the startup Cardinals (3-3) establish their first winning streak.
“Quarterback is different from receiver,” said Hamilton, downplaying the pressure he faced. “There's a lot less stuff going on in my mind every play than there is (when) being the head of the offense.”
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