Standings


Hardin-Simmons and Sul Ross State did something in a college football game that had not been done in NCAA history during Week 9 of ASC football on Saturday (Oct. 27). HSU prevailed 86-42 – which set a conference record for points by one team in a single game – but the two squads’ 1,714 combined offensive yards set an all-time NCAA record, eclipsing 1,640 yards that San Jose State and Nevada racked up back in 2001. Meanwhile, No. 2-ranked Mary Hardin-Baylor, Louisiana College and East Texas Baptist all collected wins. UMHB stayed unbeaten and on top of the ASC standings.
 
(Game recaps courtesy of sports information departments)
 
 
Hardin-Simmons 86, Sul Ross State 42
 
Box Score
 
ABILENE, Texas – Hardin-Simmons and Sul Ross State both showed off their high powered offenses and set a NCAA record for most yards between two teams in a collegiate football game with 1,714 yards as HSU won 86-42 on Saturday afternoon at Shelton Stadium.
 
The 1,714 yards is the most yards in a game breaking the old record of 1,640 yards by San Jose State and Nevada in 2001.
 
"I have never seen anything like it, it was like a video game," said Burleson. "We executed our game plan to perfection and our guys went out and performed. Other than that third quarter I thought our defense played well. There is a reason they are No. 1 in the country in offense. They have some talented weapons.  I am proud of our guys coming out and playing hard for our seniors as they played their last game of the year."
 
The Cowboys rolled up a NCAA Division III record 914 yards, including 685 through the air. Sul Ross State had 800 yards of offense and that was without the nation's leader in all-purpose yardage Dominique Carson (290 YPG), who missed the game with injury.
 
The old record for yards by a team was by McMurry with 848 against Texas Lutheran.
Hardin-Simmons senior quarterback Logan Turner set the school and conference records with 685 yards passing and eight touchdowns, on a 24-of-40 day throwing the ball. He broke the previous ASC record of Jake Mullin who had 614 yards against Texas Lutheran last season.
 
Senior running back Devin Carver had the second-best all-purpose day in HSU history with 290 all-purpose yards. He ran 20 times for 192 yards and had three catches for 98 yards. He scored four touchdowns in the game.
 
HSU averaged a school and conference record 12 yards per play in the game.
The Cowboys scored on its first three possessions of the game on an 11-yard run by Carver, a 2-yard run by Bryce Johnson and a 68-yard pass from Logan Turner to Jessie Ramos and the Cowboy defense limited the Lobos to 15 yards on the first three drives.
HSU pushed the lead to 49-7 by halftime on a 5-yard TD pass to Trei Lewis and 46 and six yard touchdown passes to Ramos. Alex Lovan had a 1-yard TD run for Sul Ross State.
 
The Lobos came out in the second half and scored 35 points and HSU had 27. Sul Ross had 359 yards in the quarter and the Cowboys had 269.   
 
Turner hit scoring passes to Jimmie Simpson for 44 yards, Devin Carver for 74 yards and Johnson for 57 yards in the quarter and Carver had a 22-yard TD run. SRSU quarterback A.J. Springer ran for a pair of scores in the quarter and threw a pair of touchdown passes. Lovan had a TD run as well.
 
HSU added 10 points in the fourth quarter on a Scott Newberry 20-yard field goal and a 6-yard run by Carver. Newberry set the school record for career PATs (156) in the game and also tied the record for PATs made (11) and attempted (12) in a game and points scored by a kicker in a game with 14.
 
Johnson had 213 yards receiving and Ramos had five catches for 133 yards and three touchdowns. James Place led the Cowboys with 14 tackles.
 
Springer completed 32-of-55 passes for 444 yards and ran for 125 yards and two more TDs for SRSU. Lovan ran for 149 yards for the Lobos and Lee Carothers had 12 catches for 241 yards. Zack Roberson had eight tackles for SRSU.
 
The Cowboys are now 5-3 overall and 4-1 in ASC action. Sul Ross State fell to 3-5 overall and to 2-3 in league play. HSU plays at Texas Lutheran next Saturday at 1 p.m.
A complete list of the records broken in the game is listed below.
 
 

Team Records
All Levels
Most Yards Gained By Both Teams	1714
NCAA Division III Records
Most Yards Gained By Both Teams	1714
Most yards gained	914
School Records Broken or Tied
*Most Yards Gained By Both Teams	1714
*Most Yards Gained	914
*Passing Yards	685
*Points Scored	86
*Points Scored both teams	128
*Kicking Points Scored	14
*Touchdowns Scored, tied	12
*Touchdown Passes	8
*Yards Per Play	12
*All-Purpose Yards Gained	1070
*Most PATs attempted, tied	12
*Most PATs made, tied	11
Yards Allowed	800
Individual School Records
Logan Turner
*Passing Yards	685
*Total Offense	685
*Passing Touchdowns	8
*Yards per play	17.6
Scott Newberry
*PAT Attempted	12
*PAT made	11

 
 
No. 2/2 Mary Hardin-Baylor 68, Howard Payne 6
 
Box Score
 
BROWNWOOD, Texas – The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor football team basically put the game away in the first quarter and the 2nd-ranked Cru rolled to a 68-6 victory over Howard Payne University Saturday afternoon at Gordon Wood Stadium.
 
UMHB improves to 8-0 overall and 5-0 in American Southwest Conference play with the victory. The Cru has also now won 32 consecutive regular season games and 24 straight ASC contests with the win. The loss drops the Yellow Jackets to 1-7 overall and 1-4 in the ASC on the year.

UMHB scored on its first possession as LiDarral Bailey capped a 46-yard drive with a six-yard TD run. The Cru added a safety when Javicz Jones blocked an HPU punt out of the end zone on the next possession. After the free kick, UMHB marched 50 yards and Bailey hit Tyler Coker with a 21-yard scoring strike to push the lead to 16-0. Bailey added a 29-yard TD toss to Caleb Moore on the next possession to give the Cru a 23-0 lead at the end of the first quarter. Stephen Salinas scored on a three-yard run 1:30 into the second quarter to stretch it to 30-0 and Chad Peevey hit a 21-yard field goal to make it 33-0 with just 34 seconds left in the half. HPU would drive to within field goal range, but the Cru blocked the try and Jordan Mullinnix scooped up the loose ball and returned it 40 yards for a touchdown on the final play of the first half to give UMHB a 40-0 lead at the break.

Bailey hit Moore with a 21-yard touchdown pass on the opening drive of the second half, Darius Wilson scored on a 13-yard run and Jake Sims hit Jon Ross with a 37-yard touchdown pass to make it 61-0 Cru at the end of the third quarter. Howard Payne's Joseph Bell spoiled UMHB's shutout bid with a one-yard scoring plunge with 4:42 remaining, but the Cru would block the extra point. Bradlee Waddell then closed out the scoring with a two-yard TD run with 1:18 to go for UMHB.

The Cru rolled up 550 yards of total offense with 350 of those coming on the ground. The UMHB defense held the Yellow Jackets to just 38 rushing yards and 117 yards of total offense. Both teams turned the ball over twice.
Bailey finished 5-6 passing for 80 yards and three touchdowns and added 65 yards and another TD on the ground. Sims was 6-11 through the air for 118 yards and a TD. Moore caught three passes for 52 yards and two touchdowns. UMHB used 10 different ball carriers, three quarterbacks played and eight different receivers caught passes. Jarred Favorite, Deshon Kinsey and Marcus Gayden led the Cru with eight tackles apiece.

Senior linebacker Javicz Jones finished with four tackles for UMHB and tied the American Southwest Conference career record with 403 total tackles. He shares the record with former Hardin-Simmons linebacker Jared Sanderson and will hold that record with his next tackle. Jones is the first player in UMHB history to go over 400 career tackles.

Adrian Lighteard ran for 100 yards on 12 carries for HPU, but the Yellow Jackets gave up four sacks and the rest of the team combined for -62 rushing yards. Victor Gonzales had 13 tackles to lead the Howard Payne defense.  

The Cru will return to action with a 1:00 PM kickoff at East Texas Baptist University next Saturday in Marshall. UMHB can clinch at least a share of the ASC title and claim the league's automatic berth in the NCAA Division III National Championships with a win over the Tigers. 
 
Louisiana College 44, Texas Lutheran 37 (OT)
 
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SEGUIN, Texas – Where do you start? How do you tell a story that had so many twists and turns, and in the end, a most improbable outcome? 

When the Louisiana College Wildcats walked off the field with a 44-37 overtime win over Texas Lutheran Saturday night in Homecoming at Wildcat Stadium, they had experienced just about every emotion a team can for 60-plus minutes.

"Happy, excited, blessed," was how senior quarterback Jamie Bunting described it.  

"Adrenaline rush, man," said senior wide receiver Cortland Bell. 

It was Bunting's touchdown pass to Bell as time expired in regulation that capped LC's improbable 75-yard drive over the final 41 seconds of the game. It was a drive made possible when Texas Lutheran's strong-armed kicker, Allen Cain, missed a 49-yard field after having made a 55-yard kick earlier in the game. 

Bunting then led the Cats one their most important drive of the season - connecting on key passes to Kyle Galyon and D'Mario Parker that put LC at the Texas Lutheran 6-yard line with just under 10 seconds to play. 

Following an incompletion into the end zone, LC had one final play to run. Snapping the ball with 3.6 seconds left, Bunting drifted to his right and directed a pass to Bell that knifed between two defenders.  Bell fell to the field with the game-tying touchdown as the sidelines exploded and several players, coaches and even fans rushed the field. 

"The place went crazy," Bell said. "Everything was shaking, I busted my shin up. Coach (Brian) Wallace head-butted me.  I had my helmet on, too.  He has a knot on his head. Just from celebrating." 

The only problem - the game was not over pending the extra point, and the outpouring of people onto the field resulted in an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on LC.  After being pushed back 15 yards, the Cats failed to win the game when Adan Olivares' extra point kicked was blocked, and the game headed to overtime. 

"I think that was our fifth overtime game as a senior class," left guard Darin Moore said. "We've been there before. We told everyone, 'we're going to win this football game, we're going to the playoffs no matter what.'"

The Wildcats would lose the overtime coin toss and had to start first on offense. Freshman running back Josh James, who along with junior Reggie Sims had to carry the running game with leading rusher Ryan Montague out with a collar bone injury, gave the Cats an immediate lift - busting through an inside trap and picking up 14 yards to give LC a first and goal inside the Bulldogs 10-yard line. 

Then, on third down from the 8, Bunting went back to pass, tucked the ball as though he were expecting to be sacked, but when no hit came, took off and ran eight yards before brushing the ball over the left corner pylon with a touchdown to put the Cats up for good. 

"That was my first rushing touchdown," Bunting said. I've been wanting one and to get one in a game like this, that was awesome."

"It couldn't happen to a better guy," LC coach Dennis Dunn said. "Jamie's been maligned for a couple of years. He was tremendous tonight."

With LC leading 44-37, Texas Lutheran's offense took the field for its attempt to tie the contest.  On first down, quarterback Brent Peavy, who picked apart the LC defense for 372 yards and three touchdowns in regulation, was sacked by sophomore Preston Thibeaux putting the Bulldogs in an immediate hole. Following an incompletion on second down, Peavy would be sacked again - this time with senior Grant Medine also forcing a fumble that was fallen on by sophomore Landon Henry, the man who was called on to replace the injured Phil Ford for the Wildcats, and LC had escaped, survived and began to celebrate its most dramatic win of 2012. 

"That was just four quarters of fight," Dunn said. "We knew they were a good team, and those guys have played well in games this year. They played their guts out and probably deserved to win, but we're not going to give it to them."

Though it looked as though the Cats might in the first half. 

Spurred by a pair of LC fumbles, Texas Lutheran would build a 24-7 lead with 7:29 left in the first half when Peavy scored on a quarterback keeper from five yards out. 

The Wildcats got back some of the momentum, however, when on the next kickoff, sophomore Ira Jewitt cut his way through for a 100-yard kickoff return to bring the Cats back with 10 points at 24-14. 

"Befroe the kickoff return, I was just mad because we were losing," Jewitt said. "I died around the 50-yard line, but I was able to break free and when I broke that last tackle, I knew I was gone."

Later in the second quarter, Bunting found Bell for the second of their three touchdown connections on the night. That strike from 13 yards out cut Texas Lutheran's lead to 24-21. But, the Bulldogs gained a little more space when Cain hit a 55-yard field goal with 3:01 left in the first half, and that remained the score heading into the third quarter. 

The Wildcats would get their first lead of the night early in that third quarter when Bunting, who finished 27-of-43 for 356 yards and four touchdowns, found Galyon for a 23-yard touchdown to make the score 28-27, LC. 

The Bulldogs held LC scoreless the rest of the quarter, however, and added a Peavy to Collin Bode 29-yard touchdown pass and Cain 27-yard field goal to take a 37-28 lead into the fourth quarter. 

The Cats cut that lead to single digits when Olivares hit a 29-yard field goal with 13:10 left to play making the score 37-31, TLU. 

LC looked as though it might take the lead midway through the fourth quarter, but a promising drive ended at the Texas Lutheran six-yard line when Reggie Sims fumbled. 

The Bulldogs would then nearly run out the clock - their drive that started with 7:05 to play in the game ended with the missed field goal by Cain. That last 41 seconds were maybe the only time the Bulldogs defense was on its heels. 

Texas Lutheran racked up 372 yards on and LC defense that had essentially shut down Sul Ross State the week before. Peavy's 29-of-47 for 327 yards and three touchdowns performance was as good as LC has faced all year. 

In leading LC's offense to 356 yards overall, Bunting spread his passes primarily among four receivers. Parker finished the game with 10 catches for 106 yards, Bryan "Skinny" Sampson had six catches for 95, Bell had five catches for 88 yards and three touchdowns, and Galyon, despite playing with an injured ankle, finished with four grabs for 64 yards and a score. 

"Jamie led us like a championship quarterback," said Bell.  "That was just amazing. I wish I had words to explain it, but I don't. It all just happened. Something very special is going through this football program." 

With Montague on the sideline, LC's rushing game was led by James who finished with 53 yards on 12 carries. Sims had 14 carries for 42 yards. 

Playing without Ford for a second straight game, the LC defense was led by senior Nate Janzen's 8.5 tackles, Henry and senior Dominic Graham with 7.5 each, and Thibeaux's 7 tackles. The Cats would finish with four sacks, two by Thibeaux, 12 tackles for loss including four by Thibeaux, three fumble recoveries and an interception. 

With the win, the Cats improve to 6-2 overall, 4-1 in the American Southwest Conference and keep their hopes for an NCAA Div. III playoff berth alive. Texas Lutheran dropped to 3-5, 1-4 in the ASC. 

LC has just two games left in 2012 beginning next Saturday, Nov. 3 when the Cats travel to Clinton, MS to face the Mississippi College.  The Choctaws have struggled this season with a 2-6 overall record, 1-4 in the ASC following their loss to ETBU Saturday, 34-24. 

"These kids have heart," Dunn said of his team. "They don't quit, they're not going to quit. This (win) gets them closer to their goal."
 
 
East Texas Baptist 34, Mississippi College 24
 
Box Score
 
CLINTON, Miss. – A grind it out offensive philosophy led by Khadafi Davis’ 105 yards rushing and John Gable’s 97 yards led East Texas Baptist University to a 34-24 come-from-behind win on the road over Mississippi College as they won their second game in a row moving to 3-5 overall.  ETBU finished the game rushing for 314 yards and two rushing touchdowns from Gable. 
 
A sluggish start in the first quarter with nobody scoring, Mississippi College took a 3-0 lead just two minutes in two the second quarter. As momentum was swinging in favor of the Choctaws, Alex Cloudy changed the pace of the game.  Mississippi College drove down to the Tiger’s 35-yard line with the 3-0 lead looking to score again when Stacy Dillard’s pass fell into the hands of Cloudy for his first ‘pick 6’ of the year dashing for 69-yards down the Mississippi College sideline giving ETBU the lead, 7-3. 
 
Four minutes later, Alfonso Buford was on the receiving end of a 28-yard pass from Seth Hubbard as the Tigers went up 14-3.  With eight-seconds left in the half, Mississippi College hit a 32-yard field to pull within eight, 14-6, but that is as close as they would come the rest of the game.
 
Three touchdowns came in the second half, two by the legs of Gable, as East Texas Baptist took control of the game.  Not even 40 seconds into the second half, Hubbard zipped a pass to Roy Butler across the middle as he ran ended up in the end zone 94-yards later for a 21-6 lead.  Mississippi College responded with their third field goal of the game coming within 12, 21-9. 
 
With 4:58 left, Gable picked up his first of two touchdowns as he rambled in from eight-yards out putting ETBU with a comfortable lead, 27-6.  Mississippi College did not back down as they earned their first touchdown of the game from Otis Smith from one-yard out with 29 seconds left in the third.  After both teams exchanged the ball, ETBU went on an 80-yard drive that was 10-plays moving the score to 34-17.  Gable landed his second touchdown from 17-yards out with 5:52 remaining.  Mississippi College pulled with 10, 34-24, with 3:16 left but their on-side kick failed when Dominque Bailey, who picked off his fifth pass of the year in the first quarter, recovered the ball. 
 
Roy Butler had another career day a catching four passes for 112 yards just a week after he tied the single game record of three touchdowns received.  Hubbard went 9-of-18 for 153 yards and two touchdown passes as ETBU finished with 467 yards of total offense.
ETBU’s defense, which is one of the top 10 teams in NCAA Division III in takeaways, finished with two interceptions and one fumble recovery.  Both Collin Bieschke and Dylan Bethea led the team with 10 tackles.
 
The biggest challenge of the year comes next Saturday as ETBU hosts #2 Mary Hardin-Baylor at 1:00 p.m. at Ornelas Stadium. 
 
 
 
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