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Incarnate Word Football News Shane Meling, Sports Information Director (210) 805-3071 - office (903) 399-0455 - cell (210) 829-3574 - fax [email protected] 2014 Schedule Incarnate Word (0-2) at 8.30 Sacramento State L, 49-13 #1 North Dakota State (2-0) 9.6 Stephen F. Austin L, 38-3 Fargo, ND 9.13 North Dakota State 2:30 Saturday 2:30 p.m. - Live on KONO 860 AM, ESPN3 9.20 Abilene Christian* 3:05 Larry Kennan Radio Show - Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. 9.27 Southeastern Louisiana* 6:00 at The Barn Door Restaurant 10.4 Houston Baptist* 6:00 10.11 Northwestern State* 6:00 This Week’s Game 10.25 McNeese State* 6:00 The Cardinals are on the road for a second straight week. This time they head 11.1 Nicholls* 6:00 to three-time defending national FCS champion and current No. 1 ranked team in 11.8 Sam Houston State* 6:00 11.15 Lamar* 1:00 the nation, North Dakota State on Saturday. The game will be played at Gate City * indicates Southland Conference game Bank Field. The Bison have won their last 26 consecutive games. Bold indicates home game Cardinals Part of College GameDay Head Coach Larry Kennan ESPN’s College GameDay Built By The Home Depot will return to downtown Larry Kennan enters his third year Fargo for Week 3 and the home opener of three-time NCAA national champion as the head coach of the Cardinals. A North Dakota State when they play UIW, the network announced Saturday. long-time NFL coach and Executive The show airs live on ESPN from 8 to 11 a.m. CT each Saturday during the Director of the NFL Coaches college football season starring Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Association, he had had great success Howard, David Pollack and Samantha Ponder. NDSU attracted College GameDay at a number of different levels. He was the quarterback coach for the Super for the Week 4 home game with Delaware State in 2013 after beating defending Bowl XVIII winning Los Angeles Raiders. Big 12 champion Kansas State 24-21 in the season opener. ESPN’s set was Kennan led the Cardinals to their first downtown at the corner of Broadway and Third Avenue North in front of the ever winning season in 2013. The team Fargo Theatre marquee. went 6-5 in their first year as a member of FCS. He has been crucial to the team Casey Makes the Catches transitioning from a member of NCAA Senior wide receiver Casey Jennings had a big game for the Cardinals at Division II to FCS. The 2013 Cardinals Stephen F. Austin. He led the team with five catches for 122 yards including a pair posted the first two shutouts in school of highlight reel plays. In the first quarter, he ran under a high floating pass and history and accumulated more school made a sliding catch for a gain of 34 yards. In the third quarter, Jennings made a records along the way than can be reasonably written down. spectacular catch by tipping a long pass to himself and then hauling it in with two Kennan is 8-16 at UIW and 32-34-3 defenders draped all over him for a career long 52 yard pickup. all-time in six seasons as a head coach. The 122 yards were a career high for Jennings and gives him three games of over 100 yards receiving in his career. It tied the school record for most career Series Check 100-yard receiving games with Jacob Love. Jennings now has 63 receptions for The Cardinals and Bison are meeting for 905 yards in his career and should become the third player in school history with the first time. This is also the first time at least 1,000 yards receiving very soon. the Cardinals have traveled to North Dakota. The Bison are a familiar foe The Return Game to Southland Conference fans. They Red-shirt freshman Jamari Gilbert had a near record-setting performance on defeated Sam Houston State in back-to- back national championship games in Saturday in the kick return game. He had four kick returns for 122 yards against the 2011 and 2012 seasons. Stephen F. Austin. On his first return of the game, he only went 19 yards, but he followed that up with a 60-yard return that nearly went for a touchdown in the third quarter. In addition, fellow freshman Kody Edwards added a 29-yard kick return for the Cardinals. Another Booming Kick Freshman place kicker Ramon Coto, Jr. continued to show off his strong leg for the Cardinals this week. He booted a 47-yard field goal in the game for the team’s only points. That gives him a total of Cardinal Football Audio and Video three field goals of 47 yards or longer Cardinals football fans can access audio and video online. Live streaming video this year. In the program’s history, the of all home games will be available online at http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/ Cardinals have a total of five made uiw.portal#. Fans can also listen to streaming audio of every game on the 2014 field goals of 45 yards or younger and Coto owns three of them. Coto schedule by going to http://www.uiwlive.com. also booted a touchback in one of his All Cardinals football game broadcasts can be heard at CBS SportsRadio KONO two kickoffs giving him three on the 860 AM. The Larry Kennan Coaches Show is on CBS SportsRadio KONO 860 AM and season. online at http://www.uiwlive.com every Thursday at 7 p.m. live from The Barn Door Taking the Reigns Restaurant. Junior Taylor Woods has taken Twitter, Facebook and YouTube over the starting quarterback role for the Cardinals and on Saturday he Cardinal fans can follow the Cardinals on Twitter at @UIWAthletics passed for a career high 186 yards and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/UIWAthletics. in the loss to the Lumberjacks. He Get live updates on the football team and the entire athletic went 14-of-31 while completing three department. Videos are regularly posted online at www.youtube.com/ passes of at least 20 yards. He also went over 1,000 yards passing for his uiwcardinalathletics. career and now has 1,173 yards. He UIW Career Receiving Yards could become the program’s all-time Name Years Yards leading passer this year. Padyn Lynch holds the school record with 2,135 1. Dominic Hamilton 2009-12 1,627 yards passing. 2. Andrew Mocio 2009-12 1,084 3. Casey Jennings 2013-14 905 Shaking Off an Injury 4. Jacob Love 2009-11 777 Junior safety Brandon Tanksley left the game with Sacramento State 5. Trent Rios 2009-12 655 with an injury, but returned against 6. Todd Walker 2009 370 Stephen F. Austin with a strong game. 7. Clint Killough 2012-14 342 He accounted for 11 tackles and also 8. Caleb Kocian 2009-12 338 broke up a pass. It was the second most tackles he has ever made in a 9. Stan Sullivan 2010-13 320 game. He leads the team with 12 10. Colton Palmer 2009-12 280 tackles on the season and needs one more to reach 100 for his career. He 2014 Southland Conference Preseason Polls would become the second player for Coaches’ Poll SID’s Poll the Cardinals this year to reach the 1. Southeastern La. (9) 99 1. Southeastern La. (10) 100 century mark in tackles joining Nick 2. McNeese State (2) 92 2. McNeese State (1) 89 Ginn who reached the mark against Sacramento State and now has 108 3. Sam Houston State 79 3. Sam Houston State 78 stops. 4. Central Arkansas 70 4. Central Arkansas 72 5. Northwestern State 59 5. Northwestern State 61 A Disruptive Force T6. Stephen F. Austin 52 6. Stephen F. Austin 55 Sophomore Corey Lee is starting to put together a strong season as a T6. Lamar 52 7. Lamar 45 nose tackle. In the opener, he had 8. Abilene Christian 36 8. Abilene Christian 39 two sacks against Sacramento State. 9. Nicholls 35 9. Nicholls 36 On Saturday, he recorded his third 10. UIW 21 10. UIW 20 sack of the season and also made another tackle for loss. His two 11. Houston Baptist 10 11. Houston Baptist 10 tackles for loss went for 22 yards. Lee’s four tackles for loss leads the team and the 27 yards lost has him on pace to break the school record carries while Reeves had negative-4 Last Game (9-6-14) of 50 yards lost in a season by Robby yards on six carries. The team is Stephen F. Austin 38, Horton in 2011. averaging 70.0 yards per game on the Incarnate Word 3 ground and only 2.2 yards per carry. Where is the Running Game? Last year, the team set school records SAN ANTONIO - – The University of the Heading into the season, the with 182.2 yards rushing per game Incarnate Word football team traveled to Cardinals figured to have a strong and 4.5 yards per carry. Stephen F. Austin on Saturday night and running game with their top four lost 38-3 at Homer Bryce Stadium amidst runners back from 2013. Starting Making Good a number of lightning delays and rainy quarterback Trent Brittain went down Eric England, a true freshman weather. A close game turned the way of the with an injury in the opener, but on the defensive line, made his first Lumberjacks thanks to a record-setting sophomore backs Junior Sessions and career start on Saturday and handled performance by running back Gus Broderick Reeves have not started himself quite well.