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FOOTBALL
Utah State star players to test Texas State abilities
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Texas State football will travel to Logan, Utah to take on Utah State University. The Aggies have a record of 7-2. By Jordan Brewer Sports Reporter The Bobcat football team will try to put their most recent loss to San Jose State University behind them as they travel to battle Utah State University. “We played a good first half, played hard,” said Coach Dennis Franchione about last weekend’s game against San Jose State. “De-
fensively, we couldn’t get enough stops. Offensively, we could not reestablish field position and make enough happen.” The Aggies (7-2, 3-0) are currently on a three-game winning streak and have won five of their last six with a lone loss coming to rival Brigham Young University. BYU defeated the Aggies 6-3 in front of a national television audience. Sophomore quarterback Chuckie Keeton
leads Utah State’s offense. He was just named WAC Offensive Player of the Week for the third time this season. Keeton is already 10th on the school’s all-time list in total offense with 4,206 yards through two years of play. Keeton has passed for 2,355 yards with a 67.5 completion percent. He has tossed 19 touchdowns with five interceptions. He has rushed for 358 yards with a 4.2 per carry average, while adding three touchdowns on the ground. His best game of the season came against the University of Nevada-Las Vegas when he passed for 404 yards with four touchdowns. The Bobcats will face another running back near the top nationally in rushing. Kerwynn Williams leads the Aggies in rushing with 885 yards, carrying a 6.1 average. He ranks 23rd in rushing yards in the nation. He has contributed nine touchdowns on the season and averaged roughly 100 yards per contest. He is the team’s leading receiver with 493 yards on 33 receptions and has found the end zone three times. Senior Matt Austin is the next man up at receiver totaling 425 yards on 31 catches. The wide receiver has four touchdowns to his credit. Tight end Kellen Bartlett has added 31 catches, and wide out Chuck Jacobs has 376 receiving yards and five touchdowns. The Aggies do most of their damage early, outscoring its opponents 89-6 in the first quarter of games this season. Junior wide receiver Andy Erickson would like to see the team’s first-half offense continue into the second.
“It helps us as players to know that we can move the ball,” said Andy Erickson about the first-half offensive successes. “I don’t know what happens in the second half. In my opinion we have a great short passing game. I think we have completed a lot of them, and we are good at running the ball sometimes.” The Aggies have not allowed more than 27 points per game all season, which came in their victory against San Jose State. Its defense ranks among the nation’s top 20 in four categories: sacks per game (3.56), scoring (14.2), rushing (96.0), and total (319.4). Utah State runs a 3-4 defense with its linebackers primarily making the plays. Inside linebacker Zach Vigil is among the team leaders in three categories: tackles with 71, 8.5 for a loss and has five sacks. Jake Doughty teams with him in the middle and has 65 tackles. Kyler Fackrell flanks them on one side and has 62 tackles. The Aggies will need to slow down senior quarterback Shaun Rutherford and the Bobcat pistol offense, one of the ways the Spartans were able to come away with a victory against Texas State last Saturday. “We had to slow (the speed option) down,” said San Jose State’s linebacker Keith Smith regarding Rutherford’s ability to run. “We knew they were a good team, and we had to stop their speed option. Instead, we ended up over-pursuing it, and once we stopped doing that, it worked out well for us.” Kickoff at Romney Stadium is at 2 p.m. Twitter: @jbrewer32
VOLLEYBALL
Bobcats clinch tournament spot, continue looking for more wins By Jordan Cole Sports Reporter The Texas State volleyball team will hit the road for a two game trip versus Louisiana Tech University and the University of Texas-Arlington this weekend. The Bobcats, who have already clinched a spot in the WAC conference tournament, beat both teams earlier this season and are looking to improve their seeding. “I think (it is most important) to build some momentum going into the conference tournament,” said Coach Karen Chisum. “I think it’s real important to get both of these wins on the road. It’d be nice to finish up as the fourth or fifth seed and not the seventh or eighth. We’ve got a lot of pride and our goal is to win each of the last five matches we play.” First the team will travel to play the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters at Thomas Assembly Center. The Bobcats currently lead the all-time series between the two teams 5-2 and swept Louisiana Tech 3-0 in their first meeting of the season. When the two teams met earlier this season, the Bobcats hit .294 as a unit. Junior outside hitter Amari Deardorff led the way with her 16-kill, .455 hitting percentage performance. Senior setter Caleigh McCorquodale said despite the Lady Techsters’ low ranking in the WAC, she and her teammates will have to give it all they have to get the win. “We have played really good games this season, and we have played really not very good games this season,
and so we come in approaching every game one at a time every week,” McCorquodale said. “LA Tech has been struggling a little bit in the WAC, but they have definitely taken some teams to five and played really well and even against us they played really well.” Last week the Bobcats started off the weekend with their most efficient game of the season versus Seattle University, which translated to a four set victory. Without that efficiency, they were unable to score a victory in Saturday’s game versus the University of Idaho, hitting .088 for the match. That loss stopped their fourgame winning streak. The last time the Bobcats battled UTA, Chisum said the team played one of its best sets of the seasons. McCorquodale earned a double-double with a team-high 25 assists to go along with 12 digs versus UTA. “UTA is always a good team for us to play because they were in the Southland too. That competitiveness between us will never go away no matter what conference we’re in because we played them for so many years,” McCorquodale said. “This will be the first time playing them in their new gym and they beat New Mexico in four. We’re just trying to come in and play (our) best.” As McCorquodale and the team finish out the season, she and the other seniors are looking to lead the Bobcats to a strong finish. “With there only being five games left, me, Danielle (Sanchou) and Patti (Bradshaw) are trying to really lead this team and have them play, if not for them-
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Texas State volleyball will take on Louisiana Tech Nov. 1 and University of Texas - Arlington Nov. 3 on the road. The Bobcats have a 4-6 away record. selves, then for each other and end this season well,” McCorquodale said. The first of the team’s last five regular season games will take place 7 p.m. on Thursday against LA Tech. Texas State will arrive at the College Park Center for a 2 p.m. start time Saturday in Arlington. Twitter: @TXStatesman
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