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HBU Huskies (4-6, 3-4 SLC) at Incarnate Word Cardinals (2-8, 2-6 SLC)
Thursday, Nov. 17 – 7 p.m.
Benson Stadium – San Antonio, Texas
 
Audio (Lonnie King)
TV: FOX College Sports
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Game Notes
 
SAN ANTONIO - HBU looks to post a .500 league record when it travels to face Incarnate Word in the Southland Conference regular-season finale Thursday at 7 p.m. at Benson Stadium. The game will be shown live on FOX College Sports and the Legacy Sports Network audio broadcast with Lonnie King and Jonathan Fleming will be available on HBUHuskies.com.

Senior quarterback Tony Dawson leads the HBU (4-6, 3-4 SLC) offense, completing 119-of-253 passes for 1,484 yards, seven touchdowns and three interceptions, while rushing for 731 yards and four touchdowns. In the Huskies' 31-24 victory over Stephen F. Austin last week, Dawson rushed for a school-record 218 yards and two touchdowns, while passing for 139 yards and a pair of scores to earn SLC Offensive Player of the Week honors. Junior running back Terrance Peters has rushed for 562 yards and four touchdowns, while making 15 receptions for 212 yards and a pair of touchdowns, and junior running back B.J. Kelly has rushed for 362 yards and two scores to bring his HBU career-leading total to 10. Junior wide receiver Isaiah Hall leads HBU with 28 catches for 265 yards and a touchdown, while junior wide receiver Wesley Lewis has 22 catches for 325 yards and a touchdown.

Junior linebacker Garrett Dolan leads the conference and ranks second nationally with 12.0 tackles per game, 120 total, and has added two sacks, two fumbles forced and two fumble recoveries. Senior linebacker Dorrin Turner has made 64 tackles and interception, while junior linebacker Cody Moncure has added 62 stops and 2.5 sacks. Freshman safety Nicholas Smith has the Huskies' other interception, junior cornerback Derek Broussard leads the team with nine pass breakups and junior defensive end Taaron Timmons leads with 3.5 sacks.
     Junior punter Christian Guzman ranks second in the league and 27th nationally with a 41.5-yard average, including nine punts of 50-plus yards and 20 punts inside the 20. Sophomore kicker Alec Chadwick has set HBU single-season and career records by connecting on 14-of-22 field goals, including a record-long of 52 yards.
     UIW (2-8, 2-6) snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 35-28 victory over Lamar last week. The Cardinals are led by quarterback Trent Brittain, who has completed 155-of-318 passes for 2,040 yards, 15 touchdowns and five interceptions. Broderick Reeves is the team's leading rusher with 414 yards on 112 carries and five touchdowns. Kody Edwards has made 39 catches for 712 yards and eight touchdowns, while Jordan Hicks has 33 receptions for 479 yards and four touchdowns and Jamari Gilvert has 18 catches for 272 yards and four touchdowns.
     Josh Zellars leads the Cardinals with 78 tackles, while Jamarkese Williams has made 70 and forced two fumbles. Alex Jenkins leads UIW with 3.5 sacks and Robert Hayes has the team's lone interception. Oscar Draguicevich has punted 69 times for a 41.9-yard average and Cody Siedel is 4-of-8 on field goal attempts.
     The Cardinals have won the previous two meetings against the Huskies, including last season's finale by a 30-3 score on Nov. 17 in Houston.
 
HBU Head Coach Vic Shealy Quotes
On Stephen F. Austin: "We wished we could've played out the last six minutes of the game much more clean, but that is part of the growing and maturation of your program. It was the first time we had been in that situation with the onside kicks, but you learn and we've got good coaches and players who want to better themselves and I'm confident we'll learn and grow. I'm even more excited, as a football program, we can create memories with that 17-point fourth quarter lead. The turnover we created led to a score and that was a pretty clutch field goal, it wound up making a difference in the game, and that was a mark of the maturity in our program. This is a really significant moment in our program."
 
On Tony Dawson: "I think everyone has been surprised all year long, but yet his tape doesn't lie and so if they were (surprised), he's done it all year long. It's hard to gauge the speed of the game on tape and it's fair. He's such an athletic guy, and speed is one thing, but just sheer athletic ability is raw and shows up on this field time and time again. We're grateful we're enjoying this moment with him as a senior quarterback in our program, and we all as coaches wish we could change his name and Social Security number to get a few more years out of him."
 
On Taaron Timmons: "With Taaron, we knew there would be a point in time where all of sudden we would be, 'OK, that's where the switch flipped'. Some of his football IQ, understanding the game, thinking less and reacting faster. Usually when defensive players think, they play slow, and when they react, they play fast. For him, it's just getting to a point where he can just go and he's just a beautiful athlete, who cares about this team. He's a model kid in our program and I'm just happy he had the success against SFA that he did, because we have felt for a long time in our program, we would see something like this."
 
On UIW: "This is a very, very tough league, and just like SFA found out and we found out at Southeastern Louisiana, every week they put zeros up on that scoreboard and in the Southland you are going to have a dogfight to see who is going to come out on top. Sam and Central Arkansas have kind of got everybody covered, but other than that, on any given day anything can happen and we've been fortunate to be successful. I'm sure we'll go back at the end of the year and that double overtime loss to Nicholls will haunt us. This next game is really important for us to finish off with a great, clean, well-executed ball game. This will test some things in our program with the short time to prepare. We got kind of beat up, but injuries always heal quicker when you win, so I'm confident our guys will show up Thursday night ready to play."