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University of Central Arkansas Arkansas State University BEARS RED WOLVES (1-2, 0-1) (1-2, 0-0) GAME 4 Saturday, Sept. 24 • ASU Stadium • Jonesboro, AR • 7:00 p.m. COACHES: CLINT CONQUE is in his 12th season at the helm of the UCA football 2011 program. He has an 81-49-0 overall record. Conque, who came to UCA from the Standings offensive coordinator position at Louisiana Tech in 2000, is now the winningest coach in UCA football history. He passed UCA Sports Hall of Famer Harold Horton with the win over Eastern Illinois last season. SCHOOL SLC % ALL % STR Conque and Horton are the only two Sam Houston State 2-0 1.000 2-0 1.000 W-2 coaches in school history to reach the Lamar 0-0 .000 2-1 .667 W-1 70-win mark. McNeese State 0-0 .000 1-1 .667 W-1 Conque led the Bears to their first- UCA 0-1 .000 1-2 .333 L-2 ever NCAA Playoff appearance in 2001. UCA finished 9-3 that season, the most wins in a year since the 1992 Stephen F. Austin 0-0 .000 1-2 .333 L-2 season. He took them back to the playoffs in 2005, winning two straight SE Louisiana 0-0 .000 1-2 .333 L-1 road games and advancing to the national quarterfinals. Nicholls 0-0 .000 1-2 .333 L-2 His Bears finished the 2008 season with the best record in the Northwestern State 0-0 .000 1-2 .500 L-1 Southland Conference at 6-1 but were ineligible for the league title due to their transition. Conque was named the SLC Coach of the Year that season. LAST SATURDAY Conque, 50, is a Louisiana native who played collegiately at Nicholls Sam Houston State 31, UCA 10 State after graduating from Catholic High School in Baton Rouge and Louisiana-Lafayette 38, Nicholls 21 playing two years at Southwest Mississippi Junior College. Southern Miss 52, SE Louisiana 6 Conque was a first-team AP All-American as a outside linebacker at Baylor 48, Stephen F. Austin 0 Nicholls State. He was inducted into the Nicholls State Athletic Hall of Fame Lamar 45, Incarnate Word 35 in 2006. His previous coaching stops were at Louisiana Tech, Samford McNeese State 31, Sioux Falls 17 University and McNeese State. SMU 40, Northwestern State 7 HUGH FREEZE is in his first season as the head coach of the Red THIS SATURDAY Wolves after assuming the role on Dec. 2, 2010. His record at ASU is 1-2, UCA @ Arkansas State............................................................................... 7:00 while his overall head coaching record is 21-7 in two-plus seasons. He coached previously at Lambuth University, an NAIA school in Jackson, Northwestern State @ Nicholls* (SLC TV) ................................................... 3:00 Tenn. Sam Houston State @ New Mexico ............................................................. 5:00 Prior to his stint at Lambuth, Freeze was an assistant coach and interim Texas State @ Stephen F. Austin ................................................................. 6:00 head coach at Ole Miss. Before going to Ole Miss, he served 13 years at SE Louisiana @ McNeese State* ................................................................. 7:00 Briarcrest High School in Memphis as a teacher, coach and administrator. He compiled a 99-23 record at Briarcrest. NEXT SATURDAY He graduated from Senatobia (Miss.) High School (1988) and Stephen F. Austin @ UCA* (Hall of Fame Weekend) ............................... 6:00 Southern Mississippi (1992) with a degree in mathematics.. Lamar @ SE Louisiana* (SLC TV) ............................................................... 3:00 McNeese State @ Northwestern State* ....................................................... 6:00 THE SERIES: Nicholls State @ Texas State ....................................................................... 6:00 UCA leads the overall series 12-9-2, dating back to 1916. UCA UTSA @ Sam Houston State ....................................................................... 6:00 won the first game 19-0 in 1916, but ASU rebounded with a 101-0 win the next year. That margin of victory was ASU’s largest in the series. UCA’s biggest win was 95-0 in 1937. their first year in the league when they did not play a full league schedule. The teams played semi-regularly until 1947, when they tied The Red Wolves, former members of the Southland Conference, 0-0. The next meeting was not until 1996, which ASU won 17-7 in have been in the Sun Belt since 2001. Jonesboro. The then-Indians pulled out a 36-35 win in 1997, also in Jonesboro, and the teams have not played since. TV GAME: ASU leads the series 6-5-1 in games played in Jonesboro; The UCA-ASU game will be carried live statewide by KATV UCA leads 7-3-1 in Conway games. Channel 7 in Little Rock. It will be the first time a UCA football game has been carried statewide by a local TV affiliate. THE CONFERENCES: Matt Stolz will handle play-by-play duties, with Sean Tuohy The Bears have been members of the Southland Conference since doing color commentary and Doug Doggett handling sideline in- they moved to FCS in 2006. UCA’s record in SLC games is officially 17-12. terviews. The Bears also beat two SLC teams (Sam Houston & Stephen F. Austin) in The game will also be on ESPN3 on the internet. LAST MEETING: Isaiah Jackson, before leaving. ASU 36, UCA 35 Backup Wynrick Smothers was 7 of 17 for 99 yards and one inter- ception. UCA rushed for only 47 net yards. The Bearkats had 316 yards Sept. 13, 1997 - Indian Stadium on the ground and another 99 through the air. The Red Wolves (then Indians) scored the game-winning touchdown UCA junior linebacker Seth Allison led the defense with 16 tackles, with just 29 seconds left in the game on an 11-yard pass from Jeremie including 3.5 for loss. Watkins to a diving Lennie Johnson in the left corner of the end zone to erase a 35-30 deficit. UCA blocked the two-point conversion pass but could not advance past midfield in the final seconds as time expired. DICK SIDELINED: UCA was even at 21-21 at halftime on the strength of two touchdown The Bears will be playing this weekend without senior starting passes from Chris Freeman to Enrico Grayer (11 and 18 yards) and a quarterback Nathan Dick, who suffered a concussion on a late hit personal 1-yard keeper by Freeman. foul last Saturday at Sam Houston State. The Bears fell behind 30-21 before rallying with another 11-yard pass Dick had a mild concussion the week leading up to the SHSU game from Freeman to Grayer and a 46-yard touchdown run by tailback Eugene and did not practice until mid-week. He will not dress out against ASU, Meabon with 4:30 remaining. and the remainder of the season is up in the air. Grayer finished with 5 catches for 118 yards and 3 TDs, while Free- Dick was named the national Offensive Player of the Week by The man was 20 of 32 for 203 yards and Andre King rushed 12 times for 110 Sports Network/Fathead.com and was also named a College Sporting yards. News All-Star for the week after the Tech game. Linebacker Darrell Bryant had a game-high 12 tackles for UCA, while Dick, a 6-foot-4, 222-pound junior from Allen, Texas, completed 29 of safety Damian Land and linebacker Tavares Wynn added 11 each. ASU 52 passes for a career-high 372 yards and a career-high four touchdowns finished with 469 yards of total offense, compared to 388 for UCA. The against the Bulldogs. It was the 10th best passing yardage total in school Indians had 13 penalties for 126 yards. history and Dick’s third 300-yard passing game of his UCA career. The game drew a then-stadium record crowd of 29,465. The previous Dick completed touchdown passes of 17 and 56 yards to junior Jesse record was set the year before (25,112). Grandy and 3 and 43 yards to junior Dominique Croom. For the season, Dick has completed 66 of 105 passes for 777 yards and 7 touchdowns, a completion rate of 62.9 percent. Despite playing less NEXT-TO-LAST MEETING: than a half against Sam Houston, Dick still leads the Southland Conference ASU 17, UCA 7 in passing. Oct. 5, 1996 - Indian Stadium Redshirt sophomore Wynrick Smothers, who replaced Dick last The Bears played without its top two running backs and ASU prevailed Saturday against SHSU, will draw his first career start. He played in seven 17-7 before a stadium-record crowd of 25,112. games last year before a knee injury ended his season. He completed 17 UCA, missing Andre King (Brinkley) and Raphael “Rocket” McCuien of 33 passes for 184 yards and 2 TDs last year. Smothers also rushed for (Mayflower), still managed 295 yards of offense, with third-team tailback 176 yards on 34 carries (5.2 per rush) and scored 3 TDs. and backup quarterback Henderson Smith (Barton) rushing for 77 yards This season, Smothers has completed 11 of 21 passes for 140 yards on 16 carries. with no touchdowns and 1 interception in two games. He did not play The score was 0-0 at halftime, but the Indians got a 22-yard field goal against Louisiana Tech. from Jeff Caldwell and a 40-yard TD run from Lamont Zachery in the third His career bests are 100 yards passing against Tulsa (7 for 18, 1 quarter, then added a 1-yard run by Corey Walker. UCA’s lone touchdown TD, 1 INT) last season. He also went 7 for 7 for 46 yards against Eastern came on a 1-yard run by Chad Moran with 5:38 to play.