Cowboys Cruise By East Texas Baptist For Homecoming Win
By: Hardin-Simmons Athletics
Updated: October 14, 2012
ABILENE, Texas -- Hardin-Simmons' football team won its fourth straight game with
a 42-22 homecoming win over East Texas Baptist on Saturday afternoon at Shelton Stadium.
The
Cowboys set the tone with a big first quarter and never looked back en
route to improving to 4-2 overall and 3-0 in ASC play.
HSU will play Mary Hardin-Baylor next Saturday at 1 p.m. with outright
possession of the American Southwest Conference lead on the line.
HSU forced a quick three-and-out on the first possession of the game and then took the ball after a short pint into the wind and
went 43 yards in six plays. Logan Turner capped the drive with a 14-yard touchdown pass to Corey Jones.
On
the ensuing possession, Jonathan Petty ripped the ball out of John
Gables hands and returned it 59 yards for a touchdown to make
it 14-0 with 8:17 to play in the first quarter. HSU then forced another
three-and-out and went 43 yards again, this time in four plays. Tevin
Mitchell capped the drive with a 10-yard touchdown run.
ETBU
scored on the first play of the next drive when Kwame' Spikes slipped
through a couple of tackles and raced 55 yards for a touchdown
on a pass from Seth Hubbard. The snap was bad on the PAT and it failed
to make it 21-6.
HSU
then went 66 yards in nine plays as Turner found Mitchell on a 22-yard
screen pass for a touchdown to make it 28-6 with 1:07
to play in the first quarter. Cory McNeil kicked a 30-yard field goal
for ETBU for the only point of the second quarter and HSU led 28-9 at
halftime.
The
Cowboys took the opening kickoff of the second half and drove 64 yards
in 11 plays. Devin Carver did the honors from one yard
out and HSU led 35-9. It stayed that way until the first play of the
fourth quarter when Turner hit Colton Brewer on a 25-yard touchdown pass
to make it 42-9.
ETBU
added two late touchdowns on a 2-yard Khadafi Davis run and a 13-yard
TD pass from Hubbard to Tyler Bates to set up the final
score.
Turner
completed 26-of-41 passes for HSU for 303 yards and three touchdowns.
He now has 18 touchdown passes and just one interception
in the last five games for the Cowboys. Corey Jones had 10 catches for
92 yards and Devin Carver had 18 carries for 101 yards.
James Place had eight tackles and two pass break ups and Jonathan Wilder had eight tackles for the Cowboy defense.
Hubbard
completed 17-of-35 passes for 249 yards and two touchdowns for ETBU and
Spikes had seven catches for 122 yards. ETBU fell
to 1-5 overall and 0-3 in ASC action with the loss.
