Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Victorious After Three-Game Drought
December 20, 1999 | Football
Nov. 1, 1999
Bowling Green will now be idle until they return to action in the home finale on Nov. 13 hosting Ball State in a 1 p.m. contest. BG concludes the 1999 season with a road game at Central Florida on Nov. 20.
The Falcons, who improved to 3-6 overall and 2-5 in the Mid-American Conference with the win over Central Michigan, rode a stingy defense and the running of red-shirt freshman Joe Alls to the victory.
The Falcon defense went into the contest ranked 10th in the MAC yielding almost 188 yards rushing per game, but limited the Chippewas to the second lowest total of the season (43 yards). The defense held Tennessee Tech to just 37 yards on the ground in their Sept. 11 game earlier this year.
In fact, CMU did not get into the positive column in rushing yards for the game until there was less than five minutes left in the first half.
The defense limited CMU to just 126 yards total offense in the first half while stopping the Chippewas on all four of their possessions in the first 30 minutes which started in Falcon territory.
While the defense was putting together one of its best efforts of the season, the Falcon offense used touchdown drives to start the game and the second half, sandwiched between a second quarter touchdown, to build a 21-0 lead. After CMU put its only points on the board at the 9:10 mark of the third quarter, and it looked like they might get back in the contest, BG responded with 10 points in a 2:27 span early in the fourth quarter to put the game away.
BG rushed for a season-best 223 yards as Alls accounted for 134 of those on 29 carries, both career highs. Alls' rushing total was also his first time he went over the century mark.
FALCON FAST FACTS: Alls has put together back-to-back strong games having rushed for 97 yards on 11 carries the previous week against Ohio to lead the team...he is now second on the squad with 356 yards for the season while leading the team averaging 5.2 yards per carry...the seven points the Falcons yielded was the fewest since they defeated Ohio in early October last season by a 35-7 score, a span of 15 games...BG came into the game allowing an average of 32.6 points per game...senior place-kicker Jason Strasser was successful on all four of his PAT attempts and added one field goal, a 26-yarder early in the fourth quarter which made the score 24-7, to push his career point total to 204...he is now tied with Bernard White (1984-85) for the #4 spot on the BG career list...he ranks behind only Brian Leaver (1991-94, 247 points) and Gehad Youssef (1981-84, 231 points) among place-kickers in school history...sophomore receiver Aaron Alexander continues to give the Falcons one of the top receiving combos in the region along with Kurt Gerling and Robert Redd...Alexander led the team with six receptions for 93 yards in the win over Central Michigan and he got the Falcons on their way to the win catching a 31-yard pass from freshman quarterback Andy Sahm which capped the opening possession of the game, a 10-play, 80-yard masterpiece which included five runs and five passes...Alexander has 26 receptions in the last four BGSU games...Sahm completed nine-of-19 tosses for 116 yards and a pair of scores in the game...he missed one series late in the first half after injuring his ankle, but was able to return in the second half and play...junior quarterback Ricky Schneider came in to direct BG's final drive of the first half and completed five-of-six passes for 65 yards before fumbling on a blind-side sack by CMU at the Central six-yard line with just 32 seconds left in the first half...earlier in the drive, Schneider had suffered a concussion and did not return in the second half after being taken to the hospital to be checked at halftime...senior fullback Brent Martin collected a pass from Sahm and completed a nine-yard scoring play for the Falcons other touchdown via the pass in the Central Michigan game...sophomore Godfrey Lewis had a 26-yard scamper with just under 11 minutes left in the game to complete Bowling Green's scoring...BG had a 34:27 to 25:33 edge in time of possession in the win over CMU.
