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Appalachian State’s players pose for a victory shot following their 31-29 win over Ohio in the 2015 Camellia Bowl.

BOWLING in DECEMBER App State’s infantry offense vs. Toledo’s air force Steve Behr Sports Editor

BOONE — So, let me offer my congratulations to Appalachian State and Toledo for reaching the 2016 Raycom Camellia Bowl.

Years of hard work for the players, coaches and yes, administrators have paid off. The hours away the coaches spend recruiting to the hours the players spend lifting weights, conditioning and not eating junk food (maybe a few of them do), and the sacrifice they’ve made this season have paid off with a bowl bid.

One word to the Mountaineers and the Rockets: You’ve got a tough act to follow.

Appalachian State’s 31-29 win over Ohio in the 2015 Camellia Bowl was as good a football game that you could hope for in a mid-major bowl game.

Let’s get one thing out of the way. This is not the national title game. It’s not the Rose Bowl, a New Year’s Day Bowl or anything like that. My guess is that 99 percent of the country won’t care who wins this one.

Zach Matics sure cared

who won the 2015 game.

He’s the App State kicker whose 23-yard field goal gave the Mountaineers their first bowl game victory in the modern era.

After Matics knew the kick was good, he tore down the Cramton Bowl field as if he were being chased by angry bees.

Right color scheme, wrong animal. Chasing Matics were a bunch of Mountaineers celebrating like they had won the national championship.

Some may not care.

Count on the fact that the players care. The disappointed looks on the faces of the Ohio players in the post game were evident of that.

Even mid-major bowl games matter.

When the front pages of the Watauga Democrat were passed out to people after the game, the players snapped them up like we were handing out free pizza. They made sure the front pages they had were in the photos of them that were being taken not to make me happy, but out of pride of winning a bowl game.

The Mountaineers would like nothing else to make it two in a row. It’s kind of ironic that they are facing another Ohio team.

App State warmed up for the Sun Belt Conference

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Zach Matics, App State’s kicker whose 23-yard field goal gave the Mountaineers their first bowl game victory over Ohio, tears down the field followed by his teammate Bentlee Critcher. season with a 45-38 win over a pesky Akron team, which was played in Ohio, earlier this season.

Toledo crushed Akron 55-17 later in the season.

Oh yeah, this team is good.

Toledo averages 38.8 points per game using a spread offense led by a quarterback named Logan

Woodside, who threw for 43 touchdowns this season. Woodside threw for 3,882 yards per game — an average of 323.5 yards per game — and

completed 69.1 percent of his passes.

And yet, the focus of the Dec. 17 game will likely be on running back Kareem Hunt, who needs just 140 yards to reach the 5,000yard plateau. Hunt gained 1,355 yards and has scored eight touchdowns this season for the Rockets, who average 529.8 yards per game.

Appalachian State has its own milestone to reach offensively as Marcus Cox needs just 40 yards to reach 5,000. Cox could get that on his first run from scrimmage, just ask Miami, who breathed a big sigh or relief when the Mountaineers were called for a penalty on Cox’ 77yard touchdown run on App State’s second drive of the game.

Toledo holds the edge in passing. App State holds the edge in running, despite the presence of Toledo’s Hunt, with Jalin Moore gaining 1,3567 yards and scoring 10 touchdowns. Both Cox and Moore averaged more than 100 yards per game this season.

It’s Toledo’s air force against App State’s infantry offense. It’s a contrast of how to get to the end zone and both have worked for each team.

The Mountaineers are going bowling again.

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BY STEVE BEHR sports@wataugademocrat.com BOONE — The announcement came through that Appalachian State was going to the Raycom Camellia Bowl when athletic director Doug Gillin was taking the first steps of making sure the Mountaineers’ trip to Montgomery, Ala., will be a smooth one.

Gillin has one advantage of making the trip a success that he would not have if the Mountaineers were sent to bowl games in New Orleans, Mobile, Ala., or Orlando, Fla. He knows the territory.

Gillin was the team’s athletic director last season when the Mountaineers reached the Camellia Bowl the first time. It’s up to him to make sure that big things, such as transporting the team, the band, all of the support personnel and anybody else who may be making the trip on the Mountaineers’ dime have a place to stay and food to eat.

Two App State administrators, Josh Thompson from football operations and Jonathan Reeder from the athletic office, have already visited Montgomery to get some early information about the logistics of getting everything ready for Dec. 17, the date of the game.

“The good news is that we’ve been there before,” Gillin said. “The other good news is that we’ve been bowl eligible for a while now, so we’ve been planning all along. We know who we’re taking, when we’re going and all that. That’s why, from my experience and not just Appalachian, we sent a team down and scout all of the restaurants and all the hotels and they’ll come back and meet in the chancellor’s office to make sure who is going from the university’s standpoint.

“There are a ton of logistics, don’t get me wrong about that. We’ve got a little experience now and with Montgomery, we know where we are going. You’re moving a lot of

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Former drill sergeant Grady Morris meets with members of Appalachian State’s football team, including coach Scott Satterfield (back left) during the Mountaineers’ visit to the Central Alabama Veterans Hospital last year. people, but we kind of know how to do it.”

Gillin said the Mountaineers have known they were bowl eligible since winning their sixth game of the season, b i Georgia i which was Oct. 27 after beating Southern 34-10. It allowed the athletic department to get a jump on planning for the trip, no matter where it is.

“For me, I worked though the conference administrator to make sure I’m getting information from him and there’s a lot of other entities involved, including the bowl executives and ESPN,” Gillin said. “ESPN has a say in a lot of what happens in bowl season. As it unfolded, we finished a week early, which was a thing that seemed to be one of those things that depending on where we would go was a lot of what happened with Lafayette.”

UL Lafayette became bowl eligible in a dramatic way by beating Arkansas State 24-19 on the final weekend of the season.

The Ragin Cajuns finished with a 6-6 d and d was invited i i d to play in the New record Orleans Bowl, a place they’ve played, and drawn well, in the past.

Gillin said that the idea that the league champion automatically goes to the New Orleans bowl is not necessarily true, and that much of determining which team goes to which bowl depends on potential ticket sales, or potential match-ups that are appealing to a television audience.

“We’re learning,” Gillin said. “It’s our second year with bowl eligibility here at Appalachian.”

“There is a misconception that the New

Orleans will take the champion or Mobile is always going to take the second place team or the Camellia is going to take the third place or Orlando is going to take the fourth place team. What it is, is that they have picks in that order,” Gillin said.

Gillin feels that Appalachian State would likely draw a better crowd in Montgomery instead of New Orleans because of the two towns’ distance from Boone. Montgomery is about seven hours from Boone, while New Orleans would likely require a flight to get there.

Gillin also doesn’t think that a return trip to Montgomery will hurt attendance or ticket sales from App State fans.

“I think our fan base is excited about anywhere and I think our people will travel as well,” Gillin said. “A lot of folks who I’ve talked to have said we’re still going.”

Gillin said it was important for the players to experience more about Montgomery than just the bowl game itself. Last year, both Ohio and Appalachian State visited the Rosa Parks Museum and the Central Alabama Veterans Hospital located in town.

This year, after the teams arrive to Montgomery on Dec. 13, the preliminary plan is to visit the Hyundai Plant on Dec. 14 and then practice at Alabama State. There was no plan released by the bowl for Dec. 15.

Gillin said he asked Camellia Bowl executive director Johnny Williams to try and find different experiences for the players to have.

“I asked him to continue to look to us to be able to show our student-athletes a different experience, even though we’re going to the same city, are there different things we can do. For me, two of the big things is how do we reward our student-athletes for getting us there and our fans as well and how do we show them a different experience. We don’t want to just go there and do the same things we did last year. We’d like to switch that part of it up and make it a little more unique.”

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The Mountaineers started the season with an overtime loss to Tennessee. Eric Boggs (45) led the charge and disrupted the Vols offense.

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The Mountaineers offensive player of the year, Jalin Moore, ran for 1,367 yards this season and kept the Appalachian offense on track for a championship ďŹ nish.

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Pierre Banks, center, listens to teammate Coco Hillary during the national championship game in 2007.

Pierre Banks

Mountaineer champion to Mountaineer broadcaster

BY STEVE BEHR sports@wataugademocrat.com BOONE — There are two everlasting images of Pierre Banks in the memory banks of Appalachian Nation.

The first is when Banks got a free shot at Michigan quarterback Chad Henne during the Mountaineers’ 34-32 victory over the Wolverines. Banks came off the edge unblocked on a blitz and leveled the

Michigan quarterback, who did not see him coming.

Banks also made the fumble recovery heard around the mountain when he came up with James Madison’s Jonathan Sullivan fumble that stopped a potential game-winning drive in the first round of the 2007 FCS playoffs.

App State went on to beat James Madison 28-27 and eventually beat Delaware 49-19 in the national championship game.

Those plays were made nine years ago.

In 2016, Banks stays close to the App State football team in a couple of ways.

The first is his position in the athletic department with student development.

The second is his position as color commentator for the football games.

Banks, a broadcast major in college, is working his way up the ladder to what he would like to be a national gig.

“My dream was always to work along side Verne Lundquist in the SEC,” Banks

said. “But with Verne retiring, there goes that dream, but a position opened up at Appalachian State and I thought I’d be pretty good at the job and it was my profession, so I went ahead and went for it.”

Appalachian State’s broadcasting team was shaken up when Adam Witten was brought in to replace David Jackson, who is now in charge of the Boone Chamber of Commerce.

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GAME at a GLANCE APPALACHIAN STATE 9-3 (7-1 Sun Belt)

TOLEDO 9-3 (6-2 Mid-American Conference)

Boone, N.C. ......................................................................................................................................Location ......................................................................................................................................Toledo, Ohio 1899 ................................................................................................................................................Founded ................................................................................................................................................1872 17,023 ...........................................................................................................................................Enrollment ...........................................................................................................................................23,064 Mountaineers.....................................................................................................................................Mascot ..............................................................................................................................................Rockets Black and gold ....................................................................................................................................Colors ..................................................................................................................................... Blue and Gold Sun Belt......................................................................................................................................... Conference................................................................................................................Mid-American Conference Kidd Brewer (26,000) .......................................................................................................................Stadium ..........................................................................................................................Glass Bowl (26,248) Scott Satterfield ............................................................................................................................. Head coach ..................................................................................................................................Jason Candle 29-18............................................................................................................................ Head coach’s record at school...............................................................................................................................10-3 Same...............................................................................................................................Head coach’s overall record ...............................................................................................................................Same None ........................................................................................................................................ National ranking......................................................................................................................................... None Multiple spread ................................................................................................................................. Offense ..............................................................................................................................................Spread 29.1 ..........................................................................................................................................Points per game ..........................................................................................................................................38.8 247.1 ................................................................................................................................Rushing yards per game .................................................................................................................................200.7 184.0 ..................................................................................................................................Passing yards per game .................................................................................................................................329.1 431.1 ...................................................................................................................................Total yards per game ....................................................................................................................................529.8 3-4 ............................................................................................................................................. Basic defense ...................................................................................................................................................

17.0 ................................................................................................................................. Points allowed per game ..................................................................................................................................25.5 125.8 ......................................................................................................................... Rushing yards allowed per game..........................................................................................................................165.7 200.2 ..........................................................................................................................Passing yards allowed per game ..........................................................................................................................229.2 326.0 ............................................................................................................................Total yards allowed per game ............................................................................................................................394.9 D. New Mexico State 37-7 ...............................................................................................................Last game ..............................................................................................................L. Western Michigan 35-55

Passing leaders APPALACHIAN STATE PLAYER Comp-Att-Int Taylor Lamb 183-293-8 J.P. Caruso 6-6-0 Team totals 189-301-8 Opp. totals 237-418-20 TOLEDO PLAYER Comp-Att-Int Logan Woodside 271-392-9 Michael Julian 2-5-0 Team totals 273-397-9 Opp. totals 213-381-6

Pct. 62.5 100.0 62.8 56.7

Yards 2,162 46 2,208 2,174

TDs 14 1 15 10

Avg game 180.2 5.1 184.0 200.2

Pct. 69.1 40.0 68.8 55.9

Yards 3,882 67 3,949 2,751

TDs 43 1 44 23

Avg game 323.5 16.8 329.1 229.2

Receiving leaders APPALACHIAN STATE Player Rec. Yards Shaedon Meadors 43 698 Jaquil Capel 24 281 Deltron Hopkins 21 132 Team totals 189 2,208 Opp. totals 237 2,402 TOLEDO Corey Jones 60 745 Cody Thompson 59 1,170 Michael Roberts 43 514 Team totals 273 3,949 Opp. totals 213 2,751

Sun Belt Conference standings Appalachian State Arkansas State Troy Idaho UL Lafayette Georgia Southern UL Monroe South Alabama Georgia State New Mexico State Texas State Dec. 3 games

Conf 7-1 7-1 6-2 6-2 5-3 4-4 3-5 2-6 2-6 2-6 0-8

Overall 9-3 7-5 9-3 8-4 6-6 5-7 4-8 6-6 3-9 3-9 2-10

UL Lafayette 30, UL Monroe 3 South Alabama 35, New Mexico State 28 Idaho 37, Georgia State 12 Georgia Southern 28, Troy 24

Arkansas State 36, Texas State 14

Dec. 17 games:

Raycom Camellia Bowl: Appalachian State vs. Toledo, 5:30 p.m., ESPN AutoNation Cure Bowl: UCF vs. Arkansas State, 5:30 p.m., CBSSN R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl: Southern Miss vs. UL Lafayette, 9 p.m., ESPN

Dec. 22 game

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Idaho vs. Colorado State, 7 p.m., ESPN

Dec. 23 game:

Dollar General Bowl: Ohio vs. Troy, 8 p.m., ESPN

Dec. 30 game:

NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl: South Alabama vs. Air Force, 5:30 p.m., ASN/CI

Avg. 16.2 11.7 6.3 11.7 10.1

TDs 2 1 1 15 10

Avg. game 58.2 25.5 14.7 184.0 200.2

12.4 19.8 12.0 14.5 11.9

5 10 15 44 23

62.1 97.5 42.8 329.1 229.2

Rushing leaders APPALACHIAN STATE Player Rec. Yards Jalin Moore 221 1,367 Marcus Cox 136 872 Taylor Lamb 80 379 Team totals 529 2,965 Opp. totals 387 1,510 TOLEDO Kareem Hunt 240 1,355 Terry Swanson 116 583 Damion Jones-Moore 47 271 Team totals 484 2,587 Opp. totals 425 2,262

Avg. 6.2 6.4 34.7 5.6 3.9

TDs 10 8 8 27 13

Avg. game 113.9 109.0 31.6 247.1 125.8

5.6 5.0 5.8 5.0 4.7

8 4 0 15 13

112.9 48.6 24.6 200.7 165.7

Mid-American Conference standings EAST Ohio Miami, Ohio Bowling Green Kent State Buffalo

Conf 6-2 6-2 3-5 2-6 1-7

Overall 8-5 6-6 4-8 3-9 2-10

Dec. 17 game:

Raycom Camellia Bowl: Appalachian State vs. Toledo, 5:30 p.m., ESPN

Dec. 19 game:

Miami Beach Bowl: Central Michigan vs. Tulsa, 2:30 p.m., ESPN

Dec. 23 games: WEST Western Michigan Toledo Northern Illinois Eastern Michigan Central Michigan Ball State Dec. 2 game:

Conf 8-0 6-2 5-3 4-4 3-5 1-7

Overall 13-0 9-3 5-7 7-5 6-6 4-8

Popeyes Bahamas Bowl: Eastern Michigan vs. Old Dominion, 1 p.m., ESPN Dollar General Bowl: Ohio vs. Troy, 8 p.m., ESPN

Dec. 26 games:

St. Petersburg Bowl: Miami, Ohio vs. Mississippi State, 11 a.m., ESPN

Jan. 2 game:

Goodyear Cotton Bowl: (15) Western Michigan vs. (8) Wisconsin, 1 p.m., ESPN

MAC Championship game: Western Michigan 29, Arkansas State 23

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Appalachian State’s crowd reacts to the Mountaineer band during the pep rally at the 2015 Camellia Bowl.

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Coach Satterfield motivates the Mountaineer fans before he take his team on the field against Ohio University.

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These two Appalachian State football fans got their Christmas wish of an Appalachian State win over Ohio in the Camellia Bowl.

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Appalachian State mascot Yosef tries to get the Mountaineers’ fans excited during the pep rally before the Camellia Bowl last year.

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Appalachian State’s cheerleaders lead the team on to the Cramton Bowl field in the 2015 Camellia Bowl.

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Fans gather at the Union Station Train Shed for the team pep rallies in downtown Montgomery, AL.

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Last year’s color commentator, former App State receiver Daniel Wilcox, also did not return, leaving the position open for Banks to take.

Banks heard the position was open and approached former associate athletic director and sports information director Mike Flynn about the job. Flynn pointed Banks in the right direction, and the former linebacker was hired.

“I called Mike Flynn and he said, ‘You must have had me on your mind because I was just about to call you.’”

Banks said. “I talked to him about it and we made it happen.”

Banks said figuring out how a play develops is the easy part of color commentary. He has watched enough film over the course of a four-year college career — he still holds the record for playing in 62 games over the course of that career — to know why a play works and when it doesn’t.

But Banks did not realize that the preparation for a game could be a chore. Simple things such as getting to know players’ names, especially from opposing teams, are not so easy.

“To me, the thing that gives me the most trouble is remembering everybody’s names and how to pronounce names and things like that,” Banks said. “If you know the game, you know the game. You can breakdown plays relatively easy. I’ve been playing the game from when I was nine until I was 23, so I know football. I work a regular job and I work from about seven in the morning until seven at night. When I get home doing my research, I’ve got to work real hard at making sure I can remember names.”

Banks has grown up with having to memorize names.

He is one of 17 children in his family and all of his brothers and sisters have either graduated from college or entered the military.

He said his parents were very strict when it came to education. Both had to give up their pursuit of an full education since they had to enter the workforce to provide for the family, but they made sure that the kids they were raising were going to be educated.

“If you didn’t go to college, you went to the military,” Banks said. “You went either or. Our parents took pride in education and when I got home from school, I couldn’t leave the kitchen table — I couldn’t even get a drink of water — until I finished my homework. Our

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Pierre Banks celebrates after collecting a turnover against James Madison. parents understood the value of an education because they knew how hard they had it coming up.”

Football got Banks a college education and he had a standout career with the Mountaineers. He was a starting linebacker for three national championship teams, which were experiences he would not trade for anything.

“When I played, we were playing for all of the marbles, for the crown or the title of being the best football team in our division,” Banks said. “These guys, being in the Sun Belt Conference, never had that opportunity to say they are the best team in their respective division.

It’s a bit different from that aspect, but being in a bowl game and the experience they’ve had back-to-back and going to a bowl game and winning a bowl game last year and the Sun Belt Conference this year at the FBS level there can only be one FBS (championship) team.”

Banks’ senior season was special because of the Mountaineers’ win over Michigan and their third FCS national championship. His biggest disappointment was a season earlier when App State lost 23-10 at N.C. State in the season opener.

The Mountaineers went on to run the table the rest of the season and finished with a 14-1 record and a 28-17 national title victory over Massachusetts.

“I grew up a huge N.C. State fan and I felt like we had a shot to win that game,” Banks said. “It wasn’t our day.

“We played well in that game and we were a defensive team. I felt like we had a chance to win and that would have been big for us to beat an FBS team but also for our pride to beat a team in our state.”

He also remembers “everything” about the Michigan game.

“I remember everything that was said, I remember every thought process on my reads and it’s like I’m there every day of my life,” Banks said.

That includes his sack on Henne. He said former defensive coordinator John Wiley designed the blitz for when Michigan did not use a tight end and went to a one-back set.

“It was a ‘bam’ call where our middle ‘backer is supposed to show on a blitz and I was supposed to show from the outside,” Banks said. “With their protection, they didn’t have a tight end in the game, just the five lineman. The middle backer showed up in the ‘A’ gape so naturally, the tailback moved up to take him, which is the immediate threat. If I can disguise my blitz just long enough, then I would come free every time and that’s what happened on that play.

“I couldn’t get back that fast today if I was on a scooter.”

He doesn’t have to. He just has to watch, and then describe, others getting to the quarterback instead.

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Coach Satterfield will meet Jason Candle, coach of Toledo, once again as their paths cross in the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl.

Crossing of paths Satterfield friends with Toledo coach

BY STEVE BEHR sports@wataugademocrat.com BOONE — There was a time when Appalachian State head coach Scott Satterfield was not in charge of the App State program. There was a time when he wasn’t even with the App State program.

Satterfield spent three seasons away from Boone coaching in other parts of the country. One of those places was a season, 2009 to be exact, as the passing offensive coordinator at Toledo.

Six years later, Appalachian State plays Toledo in the Raycom Camellia Bowl on Dec. 17 in Montgomery, Ala. Kickoff is at 5 p.m.

Satterfield was part of a complete changing of the coaching staff at Toledo.

He was brought in by head coach Tim Beckman, and was one of 10 coaches who were in their first year with the Rockets.

Another coach on that staff was slot receivers and tight ends coach Jason Candle. When Satterfield looks across the Cramton Bowl turf on Dec. 17, he’ll see Candle, the current head coach of Toledo, on the other side.

“I’m pretty good buddies with him,” Satterfield said. “He played at Mount Union and so did Matt Campbell, who I have a direct relationship with too. We’re all very similar kind of guys, offensive minded kind of guys, very competitive. We’ve all been a part of winning programs. When they were at Mount Union, they won a bunch of (Division III) national championships and of course we did too at App (Division I-AA/FCS).”

Satterfield said the two coaches have retained a friendship from those days, saying he talks with Candle about once per month. Satterfield said Candle, when he got the Toledo head coaching job or the final game of the 2015 season, would often

ask for coaching advice from Satterfield.

“If you play another opponent, he is probably the closest coach I’ve ever been around or who I have played against,” Satterfield said. “You don’t really like that. You like to hate your opponent, but I like him. He’s a good guy, but it’s all about getting ready for our game and it’s all about us preparing our kids to go out and play the best game and going out and winning the game.”

He said the two often call each other, and call other coaches such as former Toledo run-game coordinator Campbell, who is now the head coach at Iowa State.

Satterfield coached one season at Toledo before he went to Florida International for two seasons. He returned to App State to be the offensive coordinator under Jerry Moore in 2012 and then took over the program in 2013.

While at Toledo, Satterfield was part of a coaching staff that surprised visiting Colorado with a 54-38 win and averaged 29.6 points per game. The Rockets scored at least 37 points in four of their five wins and was shut out just once, which was by then No. 11 Ohio State.

“We all worked well together in that room,” Satterfield recalled. “It was a good program. We finished 5-7 that year, but they had come off a losing season the year prior to that. The following three years they went to a bowl game.”

Satterfield compared the Toledo program to App State by calling both a “blue collar” program.

“They have a lot of pride and they play hard,” Satterfield said. “They are wellcoached and some of the things I learned when I was there was that. They are in the state of Ohio and the state of Ohio has really good high school football. They’re tough-minded kids and they come down south and recruit some skill kids.”

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NAME DAMION JONES-MOORE JORDAN MARTIN TERRY SWANSON KAREEM HUNT CONNERY SWIFT COREY JONES MICHAEL JULIAN MARC REMY MITCHELL GUADAGNI TREVON MATHIS DELANDO JOHNSON JON’VEA JOHNSON ANDREW DAVIS JOSH TEACHEY OLASUNKANMI ADENIYI QUENTIN GIBSON DESMOND PHILLIPS JOHN STEPEC MARCUS WHITFIELD LOGAN WOODSIDE ELI PETERS JACQUEZ WILLIAMS KA’DAR HOLLMAN JALEN REESE MATT WINZELER ANTHONY DAVIS JAKE FLORIEA NERU N’SHAKA TYLER TAAFE DIONTAE JOHNSON JEREMI POWELL D’ONDRE ROBINSON BRAD SMITH DEDARALLO BLUE SHAKIF SEYMOUR DANZEL MCKINLEY-LEWIS DEJUAN ROGERS JUSTIN CLARK CALVIN BRANSFORD CODY THOMPSON KENNEDY FRAZIER KHALIL ROBINSON AARON COVINGTON REGGIE GILLIAM JACK LINCH DERICH WEILAND JA’WUAN WOODLEY ZACH QUINN RHETT BLACKMON KEELEN ROBERTS ART THOMPKINS NEVONE MCCRIMMON JORDAN WILLIAMS RONNIE JONES MICHAEL BLAZEVICH JAMESON VEST

POS RB DB RB RB DB WR QB/P DB QB CB DB WR WR CB DE QB WR DE CB QB QB WR DB QB QB LB QB WR LB WR LB CB RB S/LB RB WR DB CB S WR DB DB CB RB LB WR LB DE WR CB RB RB S RB DB K

HT. 5-7 6-3 5-10 6-0 5-11 5-9 6-5 5-11 6-2 6-0 6-1 6-0 6-4 5-11 6-2 6-3 5-10 6-3 6-0 6-2 6-2 6-1 6-0 6-3 6-3 5-11 5-11 5-11 6-1 5-11 6-2 5-9 5-8 6-0 5-11 5-10 6-0 5-11 6-1 6-2 6-0 6-0 5-9 6-0 6-0 5-10 5-11 6-3 5-9 5-11 5-8 5-11 5-10 6-1 6-0 5-10

WT. 178 206 200 225 198 165 232 190 199 174 205 185 192 185 252 200 170 256 178 201 200 187 190 206 190 205 200 180 220 172 210 180 195 195 215 180 190 165 210 200 190 175 176 245 226 182 233 225 183 170 178 235 180 185 203 196

YR. SR. JR. JR. SR. SR. SR. JR. SR. R-FR. JR. SR. SO. SO. SO. SO. SO. FR. SR. SO. JR. FR. FR. SO. SO. FR. SO. FR. FR. SO. SO. SR. FR. JR. FR. FR. R-FR. SR. FR. R-FR. JR. JR. R-FR. R-FR. FR. JR. JR. JR. JR. R-FR. FR. R-FR. FR. FR. FR. SR. SO.

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NAME QUINCY IVERSON SAMUEL VUCELICH TRE’SHUN WILSON NATE SWART RICHARD OLEKANMA ERIK DAVIS JAYLEN COLEMAN ADAM KULON JORDAN FISHER BRAD SPELMAN NICK ELLIS DAVID HOWEY ANDREW SCHAFER CONNOR LANCIA CHRIS NORWOOD MARQUISE MOORE BILL WEBER ANDREW BOCZAR LUCAS MAYNARD CHANDLER COTTERMAN BRANDON HEIDECKER CAMERON BELL NATE JEPPESEN CARTER PADDY JORDAN FAIR MIKE EBERT LUKE DOERGER SAMI KASSEM PAUL PERSCHON BRANT WEISS BRYCE HARRIS ALEX PFEIFFER STORM NORTON ELIJAH NKANSAH YAZEED ATARIWA ZACH LOZAR MICHAEL ROBERTS RAYSHAWN WATKINS ZACH YOUSEY DARRYL RICHARDS ADRIAN ADAMS JOSH RODE LIAM ALLEN ELIJAH MORANT D’VARIO MONTGOMERY MICHAEL DAVIS LAMARR DAVIS TREYVON HESTER DANIEL DAVIS NATE CHILDRESS EDRICK MATHEWS WILLIE ROSS JR. DAVID HOOD EARL MOORE CHAD COELING TUZAR SKIPPER

POS DB PK LB TE LB DB/LB LB TE/FB TE LS P DB DB LB LB DT OL DE DE OL OL OL OL DE OL OL OL OL OL OL OL OL OL OL OL LS TE WR WR WR WR PK WR WR WR WR DL DT DE DL DT DT DT DT DL DL

HT. 5-9 5-11 6-0 6-5 6-2 6-2 6-0 6-4 6-3 6-1 5-10 5-11 5-11 6-0 6-1 6-0 6-5 6-4 6-3 6-3 6-6 6-8 6-3 6-2 6-4 6-6 6-3 6-4 6-6 6-6 6-3 6-5 6-8 6-6 6-4 6-0 6-5 6-3 6-1 6-3 5-11 6-0 6-0 6-0 6-6 6-1 6-1 6-3 6-3 6-3 6-3 6-1 6-1 6-1 6-2 6-3

WT. 182 182 205 225 245 190 235 258 232 215 175 185 186 205 235 300 322 236 238 302 315 340 265 285 292 300 300 335 312 285 295 300 306 315 312 210 270 190 196 185 170 185 180 192 213 185 305 300 265 292 276 260 273 300 265 245

YR. SO. JR. FR. FR. SO. FR. SR. JR. R-FR. JR. SR. R-FR. R-FR. R-FR. R-FR. JR. SO. R-FR. R-FR. R-FR. R-FR. R-FR. JR. R-FR. R-FR. SR. FR. JR. SR. JR. R-FR. SO. SR. JR. SO. SR. SR. SO. SR. JR. FR. SR. JR. JR. SR. FR. R-FR. SR. JR. R-FR. FR. FR. FR. SR. R-FR. JR.

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APPALACHIAN STATE 2016 ROSTER NO. 2 LEWIS, IKE 2 SPEIR, ZEB 3 GRAY, ALEX 3 HOPKINS, DELTRON 4 BARBOUR, JAYLAN 4 WILLIAMS, MONDO 6 GILCHRIST, KENNAN 6 MEADORS, SHAEDON 7 HUESMAN, JACOB 7 THOMAS, JOSH 8 BOYD, JOSH 9 EXFORD, AUSTIN 10 CARUSO, J.P. 10 HOWARD, A.J. 11 LAMB, TAYLOR 11 LEVEL, JEREMY 12 PINCKNEY, BRANDON 12 THOMAS, ZAC 13 JONES, DANTE 14 COX, MARCUS 15 ADAMS, MOCK 16 CAPEL, JAQUIL 16 EASTER, JAKE 17 FITCH, CURTIS 17 HAYES, TAE 18 ABSHER, BRAD 18 JEAN-CHARLES, SHEMAR 19 EVANS, DARRYNTON 20 PACK, CAMERON 20 PURIFOY, A’DARIUS 21 DUFFEY, ARIS 21 UPSHAW, TERRENCE 22 DUCK, CLIFTON 24 DAVIS, AKEEM 25 MOORE, JALIN 26 CHAMBERLAIN, K.J. 27 WILLIAMS, JR., MARCUS 28 STRINGER, DEVAN 29 HARRISON, DEVONTE 30 VINSON, GEORGE 31 TOWNES, RASHAAD 33 DAVIS, EDWARD 34 FRANKLIN, DESMOND 35 THOMAS, TORONTO 36 SMITH, KAIDEN 37 FULLER, TEH’RON 39 GOODE, DILLON 39 KIRKPATRICK, MILLER 40 NORWOOD, NATE 41 RUBINO, MICHAEL 42 SIMS, ANTONIOUS 43 MILLER, RYAN 44 FLORY, ANTHONY 45 BOGGS, ERIC

NAME WR QB DB WR WR DB OLB WR QB DB RB DB QB DB QB DB DB QB WR RB WR WR QB QB DB WR DB ATH OLB DB DB RB DB OLB RB DB RB OLB DB TE OLB/ILB ILB DB ILB DB ILB WR LB DL PK DL ILB ILB ILB

POS 5-10 6-2 6-3 5-8 5-10 5-11 6-2 6-2 6-3 6-0 5-10 6-2 6-1 5-11 6-2 6-2 6-0 6-2 5-11 5-10 6-4 5-11 6-2 6-0 5-11 5-10 5-11 5-11 6-3 6-0 6-0 5-10 5-10 6-2 5-11 6-2 5-10 5-11 6-1 6-0 6-2 6-0 6-2 6-0 6-1 6-2 6-0 6-2 6-3 6-3 6-1 6-2 6-3

HT. 180 200 225 160 180 175 225 185 215 200 185 200 205 200 200 195 190 205 185 205 200 190 190 195 175 173 180 185 210 195 175 210 175 200 205 194 195 200 185 225 230 230 200 230 190 230 175 247 210 260 210 235 235

WT. JR. FR. SR. SO. SO. SR. SR. JR. FR. SO. SO. SO. SO. JR. JR. FR. JR. FR. JR. SR. FR. SR. FR. SO. SO. SO. FR. FR. FR. FR. FR. JR. FR. FR. SO. FR. FR. JR. FR. JR. JR. FR. FR. SR. FR. SO. FR. UNK SR. FR. SR. FR. SO. JR.

YR. HOMETOWN SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. (HILLCREST) SYLVA, N.C. (SMOKEY MOUNTAIN) SUWANEE, GA. (PEACHTREE RIDGE) MIAMI, FLA. (BOOKER T. WASHINGTON) MONROE, N.C. (MONROE) IOWA CITY, IOWA (IOWA WESTERN J.C.) ABBEVILLE, S.C. (ABBEVILLE) DUNCAN, S.C. (BYRNES) BRADENTON, FLA. (BRADEN RIVER) MONTGOMERY, ALA. (MONTGOMERY ACADEMY) NORCROSS, GA. (NORCROSS) SNELLVILLE, GA. (SHILOH) PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLA. HAMILTON, GA. (HARRIS COUNTY) CALHOUN, GA. (CALHOUN) GREENSBORO, N.C. (PAGE) SPARTANBURG, S.C. (DORMAN) TRUSSVILLE, ALA. (HEWITT-TRUSSVILLE) RALEIGH, N.C. (SOUTHEAST RALEIGH) DACULA, GA. (DACULA) GREENWOOD, S.C. (GREENWOOD) MOUNT GILEAD, N.C. (CHARLOTTE) PFAFFTOWN, N.C. (REAGAN) LUTZ, FLA. (STEINBRENNER) DECATUR, ALA. (DECATUR) TROY, N.C. (WEST MONTGOMERY) MIRAMAR, FLA. (MIRAMAR) OAK HILL, FLA. (NEW SMYRNA BEACH) MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (MOUNT AIRY) PENSACOLA, FLA. (WEST FLORIDA TECH) ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. (NEASE) DULUTH, GA. (NORTHVIEW) MATTHEWS, N.C. (BUTLER) THOMASVILLE, N.C. (THOMASVILLE) SHELBY, N.C. (CREST) GREENWOOD, S.C. (EMERALD) ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (SOUTHWEST EDGECOMBE) GAINESVILLE, GA. (GAINESVILLE) JACKSONVILLE, FLA. (SANDALWOOD) DAMASCUS, MD. (DAMASCUS) MACON, GA. (HOWARD) FARMVILLE, N.C. (FARMVILLE CENTRAL) INVERNESS, FLA. (CITRUS) ELLENWOOD, GA. (AIR FORCE PREP) LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. (MOUNTAIN VIEW) FORT MYERS, FLA. (SOUTH FORT MYERS) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ARDREY KELLY) SOUTH GRANITE (SOUTH CALDWELL) HAMPTON, GA. (LOVEJOY) APEX, N.C. (MIDDLE CREEK) COVINGTON, GA. (GEORGIA MILITARY COLLEGE) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ARMY WEST POINT) FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (AMERICAN HERITAGE) BELTON, S.C. (BELTON-HONEA PATH)

NO. 45 JOHNSON, COLT 46 CECIL, BILL 47 GODWIN, OKON 48 REED, DEZMIN 50 NUNN, BEAU 51 FULLER, CALEB 52 EDGE-CAMPBELL, TOBIAS 53 COOK, NOEL 54 SMALL, DARIAN 55 WILLIAMS, MATT 56 HASKINS, NATE 57 STATON, CHANDLER 58 NEUZIL, RYAN 59 FEHR, JORDAN 60 WRIGHT, LOGAN 61 NESVISKY, AIDAN 63 REYES, IVAN 64 APPLING, JAKE 66 COLLMAR, JAMIE 67 GILLESPIE, WESTON 68 BARRETT, BRODY 69 DAWKINS, TOMMY 70 GOSSETT, COLBY 72 FERNANDEZ, TYSON 73 GARRISON, COLE 74 JOHNSON, VICTOR 75 COLLINS, PARKER 76 MALONE, MADISON 77 TAYLOR, ALEX 78 GREER, CHANDLER 79 HARDIN, WILL 80 NUNN, HUNTER 81 VIRGIL, JALEN 82 LETMAN, ZY 83 GOLDEN, MYKEL 84 ROSCOE, CRISJOHN 85 BURNS, BARRETT 86 DUFFIELD, LEVI 87 REED, COLLIN 88 LAW, JOHN 89 MCCLURG, MITCHELL 90 WILLIS, CHRIS 91 CRITCHER, BENTLEE 91 SPURLIN, CALEB 92 STOUT, MYQUON 93 MCMURRY, ELIAS 94 CRITCHER, RYLEE 95 PAPENHEIM, DEVIN 96 DIARRASSOUBA, ELIJAH 96 EDWARDS, ISAAC 97 MCCLURG, MATTHEW 98 FILBEY, JOSH 99 HUNTER, JOHN “BAER” - - WATKINS, T.J.

NAME RB TE DL OLB OL DL OL OLB DL OL OL K OL OLB OL OL OL OL OL/DL OL DL DL OL DL OL OL OL OL OL OL OL TE WR WR WR WR TE TE TE ILB TE DL P/PK DL DL LS K DL DL LS DL OL DL WR

POS 5-8 6-0 6-2 6-2 6-4 6-0 6-2 6-0 6-2 6-6 6-5 5-11 6-3 6-2 6-4 6-4 6-1 6-3 6-2 6-3 6-3 6-1 6-6 6-2 6-4 6-5 6-3 6-5 6-9 6-5 6-2 6-3 6-2 6-3 5-11 6-2 6-4 6-2 6-3 6-0 6-3 6-2 6-1 5-10 6-1 6-1 6-0 6-6 6-1 6-5 6-1 6-3 -

HT. 200 225 250 230 300 241 295 200 315 280 270 180 280 220 315 260 290 295 300 265 305 220 315 320 280 290 295 280 305 280 280 225 210 200 180 200 250 220 240 235 226 241 200 230 275 240 195 250 240 245 275 265

WT. FR. JR. SO. SR. JR. JR. SO. FR. SR. FR. FR. FR. FR. FR. FR. FR. FR. FR. SR. FR. FR. FR. JR. SR. FR. FR. SR. SO. FR. SO. FR. JR. FR. JR. SR. FR. SR. JR. FR. SR. FR. FR. SR. FR. SO. SO. FR. FR. FR. SR. FR. FR. FR. UNK

YR. HOMETOWN GREENSBORO, N.C. (BEN L. SMITH) ASHEVILLE, N.C. (T.C. ROBERSON) COVINGTON, GA. (ALCOVY) ATLANTA, GA. (GEORGIA MILITARY COLLEGE) YORK, S.C. (YORK COMPREHENSIVE) WILMINGTON, N.C. (NEW HANOVER) RAEFORD, N.C. (HOKE COUNTY) REIDSVILLE, N.C. (REIDSVILLE) HAMPTON, GA. (DUTCHTOWN) LEHIGH ACRES, FLA. (LEHIGH) ORLANDO, FLA. (BOONE) GAINESVILLE, GA. (GAINESVILLE) BRADENTON, FLA. (BRADEN RIVER) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (PROVIDENCE) KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (EAST FORSYTH) RALEIGH, N.C. (RAVENSCROFT) HICKORY (N.C.) SHELBY, N.C. (SHELBY) GASTONIA, N.C. (FORESTVIEW) TRAVELERS REST (S.C.) SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CALIF. (JSERRA CATHOLIC) CONCORD, N.C. (COX MILL) CUMMING, GA. (NORTH FORSYTH) FUQUAY-VARINA, N.C. (FUQUAY-VARINA) PINSON, ALA. (CLAY-CHALKVILLE) NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (NORTH AUGUSTA) NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (NORTH AUGUSTA) MEMPHIS, TENN. (BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN) MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (BERKELEY SENIOR) KNOXVILLE, TENN. (BEARDEN) GREENSBORO, N.C. (PAGE) YORK, S.C. (YORK COMPREHENSIVE) LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. (MOUNTAIN VIEW) LINCOLNTON, GA. (GEORGIA MILITARY COLLEGE) CLIMAX, N.C. (GUILFORD) (PROVIDENCE GROVE) NEPTUNE BEACH, FLA. (FLETCHER) WOODSTOCK, GA. (ETOWAH) WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (TUSCOLA) BOILING SPRINGS, S.C. (BOILING SPRINGS) ATLANTA, GA. (GRADY) ALCOA, TENN. (ALCOA) SHELBY, N.C. (CREST) SOUTH DAYTONA, FLA. GALAX, VA. (GALAX) CHINA GROVE, N.C. (JESSE C. CARSON) STATESVILLE, N.C. (STATESVILLE) BOONE, N.C. (WATAUGA) BUSHNELL, FLA. (SOUTH SUMTER) GREENSBORO, N.C. (PAGE) SPRUCE PINE, N.C. (MARS HILL) (MITCHELL COUNTY) ALCOA, TENN. (ALCOA) FRANKLIN, TENN. (FRANKLIN) CLEMMONS, N.C. (WEST FORSYTH) FOREST CITY, N.C. (EAST RUTHERFORD)

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Josh Thomas (7) and Kennan Gilchrist (6) double up on Old Dominion’s Ray Lawry (33). The Montgomery, Ala., native, Thomas, returns home with Appalachian State to face Toledo in the Camellia Bowl.

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PHOTO BY ROB MOORE

The Appalachian cheer team gets the crowd rolling as the Mountaineers surged to a 31-29 victory over Ohio during the 2015 Raycom Camellia Bowl. The faithful for the Mountaineers will decend upon Montgomery, Ala. once again Dec. 17, 2016 against another Ohio team from the University of Toledo.

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