Incarnate Word Cardinals (5-5, 4-4 SLC) at HBU Huskies (2-8, 0-7 SLC)
Saturday, Nov. 21 – 2 p.m.
Husky Stadium – Houston
All-Time Series: UIW leads, 1-0
Audio / Video (Lonnie King/Alonzo Williams)
TV: Root Sports (Delay)
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"Battle Blue" - All fans are encouraged to wear blue to the game.
Canned Food Drive presented by Whataburger - Bring a canned food item and receive a free Whataburger coupon, plus an entry into a raffle to win free Whataburger for a year.
Star Wars Movie Ticket Raffle - Four sets of two Star Wars movie tickets will be raffled off during the game. Promotion is open to HBU students only, must be present to win.
HOUSTON - HBU hosts Incarnate Word in the Southland Conference football season finale Saturday at 2 p.m. at Husky Stadium. HBU will honor its seven seniors in a pregame ceremony. The Legacy Sports Network audio broadcast will be available on HBUHuskies.com and the delayed television broadcast will be shown on Root Sports.
The Huskies (2-8, 0-7 SLC) are led by sophomore running back
Terrance Peters, who has rushed for 576 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Sophomore quarterback
Max Staver has completed 75-of-168 passes for 988 yards and five touchdowns. Sophomore
D'Angelo Wallace leads HBU with 23 catches for 299 yards, while
Wesley Lewis,
Ethan Fry and
Ricardo Barnett each have more than 200 yards receiving, with Barnett adding a pair of touchdowns.
HBU's defense is anchored by sophomore linebackers
Garrett Dolan and
Cody Moncure, who rank third and sixth, respectively, in the Southland. Dolan has a team-leading 92 tackles and ranks 24th in the nation with 10.2 tackles per game and forced a pair of fumbles, while Moncure has racked up 77 tackles. Sophomore safety
La'Travien Gee has made 62 stops, intercepted a pair of passes to go along with four pass breakups, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery.
UIW (5-5, 4-4) is led by Trent Brittain, who has completed 170-of-332 passes for 2,174 yards and eight touchdowns, while rushing for 363 yards and six scores. Junior Sessions has rushed for 399 yards with three touchdowns, while Kody Edwards has made 34 catches for 545 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Jordan Hicks, Clint Killough and tight end Cole Wick each have more than 300 yards.
Myke Tavarres ranks second in the conference with 106 tackles to go along with 7.5 sacks, five pass breakups and two forced fumbles. Josh Zellars has added 80 tackles and a pair of forced fumbles. Troy Lara leads the Cardinals with four interceptions and Robert Johnson has made three.
The game will be the final appearance for quarterback
Jonathan Fleming, defensive end
Josh Jones, tight end
Maxwell Brown, offensive lineman
Greg Hadley, defensive back
Mike Cole, kicker
Travis Shinn and fullback Jonathan McGugin.
Saturday's game is "Battle Blue", so fans are encouraged to wear blue. There will also raffles for four sets of Star Wars movie tickets exclusively open to HBU students.
HEAD COACH VIC SHEALY QUOTES
On Stephen F Austin: "Coming off the open date, I thought we got some kids back more healthy and I thought there were some things we came out in the first half and did well and going in 20-10, obviously being 10 points down is not what you choose to do, but there were some good things that occured, then in the second half we just didn't play really well. SFA is very talented and Coach Conque does a great job, but you've got to get better in order to line up and have a chance to win and we didn't come out and do those things, so the game got away quickly. We just need to come back and work hard to finish well this week."
On Incarnate Word: "This is our third year playing (UIW), we played them in 2013 to just kind of understand who people were. You can see the job that was done with the level of coaching, how hard kids played and one of our early takeaways was just how physically tough they played. Last year you saw the normal progression and growth in that program and this year continuing to see that growth. There are a lot of things to be impressed with, the level of play of their quarterback, the quality of their interior lines on both sides of the ball. There's a tremendous amount of respect as they're trying to grow their program, and they've had some tremendous wins this season."
On finishing strong: "It's no question a win would have a huge impact to carry into the offseason and recruiting. I think there's areas on tape, where certain kids and certain areas of our program where more weeks than not we continue to march forward, make some improvements, show some abilities that give us promise for the future. I think to win your last ballgame, particularly against a team that is playing well and capable of beating anybody in our league almost, would be a tremendous shot of confidence. It is just a great opportunity to advance our program forward."
