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Abilene Christian Wildcats (0-2, 0-0 SLC) at HBU Huskies (1-1, 0-1 SLC)
Saturday, Sept. 17 – 7 p.m.
Husky Stadium – Houston

TV: FOX College Sports (Tom Franklin/John Harris/Jeff Power)
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HOUSTON - HBU returns to Southland Conference play, hosting Abilene Christian at 7 p.m. at Husky Stadium Saturday. The game will be televised on FOX College Sports and the Legacy Sports Network audio broadcast will be available on HBUHuskies.com.

HBU (1-1) is coming off a 24-20 victory over crosstown rival Texas Southern at home last Saturday. Junior running back Terrance Peters rushed for a school-record 155 yards on 14 carries with a pair of touchdowns. On the game's opening drive, he went sideline-to-sideline for a 34-yard touchdown, then scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 51-yard rumble with 4:08 left. Peters ranks third in the SLC with 110.0 rushing yads per game. Senior quarterback Tony Dawson completed 19-of-27 passes for 150 yards, while also adding 49 yards rushing on six carries. Junior receiver Isaiah Hall had seven receptions Saturday and now leads the Huskies with 15 for the season. Junior receiver Wesley Lewis caught six passes for 81 yards against the Tigers.

Junior linebacker Garrett Dolan is tied for third nationally and leads the SLC with 12.5 tackles per game and had seven stops and a sack, which forced a fumble and was returned for a touchdown. Senior linebacker Dorrin Turner is second on the team with 18 tackles and also has a sack. The defense has yet to record an interception, but has four sacks and has forced three fumbles.

Junior punter Christian Guzman is averaging 38.5 yards per kick, and sophomore kicker Alec Chadwick is 3-for-6 on field goal attempts and 4-for-4 on extra points to tie for fourth in the league in scoring with 6.5 points per game.

ACU (0-2) lost its opener to FBS foe Air Force, 37-21, then fell to Northern Colorado in a shootout last week, 55-52. Quarterback Dallas Sealey has completed 41-of-71 passes for 572 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions, while adding 91 yards and four touchdowns on the ground. Saturday against the Bears, he was 25-for-38 with 313 passing yards with a touchdown and rushed for 97 yards and four touchdowns. Adrian Duncan rushed for 101 yards against UNC and is the Wildcats' leading rusher for the season with 125 yards. D.J. Fuller is ACU's leading receiver with 11 receptions for 191 yards, and Justin Miller has made eight catches for 103 yards.

On defense, Sam Denmark has made 22 tackles and has made the Wildcats' lone interception for the year. Byron Gates and Gavin Burford each have 18 tackles, with Burford recording one of the team's two sacks. ACU has forced four fumbles through two games, recovering three of them.

Punter Austin Kilcullen has 12 attempts for 42.9 yards with a long of 65 yards, three of 50-plus yards, and four inside the 20. Nik Grau is 1-for-1 on field goal attempts, while Brendan Conn is 0-for-1, but is 10-for-10 on extra points.

The Huskies will play their third-straight home game next week when they face No. 3 Sam Houston State in SLC action Saturday on Family Weekend at Husky Stadium at 7 p.m. The game will also be televised on FOX College Sports.
 
HBU Head Coach Vic Shealy quotes:
On Texas Southern: "We're excited we found a way to win. I don't think there's a coach, no matter whether you've had great success or are struggling to find it, in the locker room after the game with those kids are good moments. I think we all savor those moments and it's just great to see our kids handle some adversity in the game and come from behind there in the fourth quarter and find a way to win, and I think that's building confidence as we grow our program."
 
On Abilene Christian: "Ken (Collums) does such a phenomenal job there, and they've played two really good football teams, and I know just in my time as a long-time assistant at Air Force, it's a tough place to play in The (Colorado) Springs, particularly on opening weekend. (ACU) played well defensively, and their toughness, and some of the things that really didn't get decided until late in the second half of that game, in terms of who was going to win that game is a credit to what they did there. Last week, I think they kind of ran into one of those anomalies, where you had a quarterback who had beyond a career-type of day, and I don't know how many opportunities someone has to re-create that. It's obviously a lot of points scored there and I think we all know (ACU) did a great job is very talented and this is an important game going back into conference play after losing, in a big way, to Central Arkansas. It's going to show (UCA) is a really fine team and I think we were all flabbergasted trying to make sense of it, I'm sure Coach (Steve) Campbell has a lot to do with some of the lop-sidedness of that game, but we have to come back and play much better this week."
 
On areas of improvement: "We got in the low red (zone) several times and didn't -- offensively -- finish drives off against TSU, and you do those things early, then we had a punt return there that, as a coach, is probably one of the most difficult plays to see how it happen for a touchdown to let Texas Southern take the lead. There's some areas there in the red zone we have to improve and just consistency defensively. We gave up a deep ball, then had a couple of penalties that aided on that particular scoring drive, so I think it's just a matter of playing cleaner. We're all trying to build those consistencies and predictability, so it's just the normal grind to improve each week."