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Falcons Fall To Rockets
November 30, 2002 | Football
Nov. 30, 2002
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Brian Jones threw for three touchdowns and Trinity Dawson ran for three more as Toledo beat Bowling Green 42-24 on Saturday night to win the Mid-American Conference's West Division title.
Toledo (9-3, 7-1 MAC) will face Marshall (9-2, 7-1) next Saturday on the road in the conference title game.
Jones went 17-for-24 for 233 yards.
After Jones' 20-yard scoring pass to Carl Ford in the first quarter, Bowling Green (9-3, 6-2) answered with 17 straight points. Josh Harris had touchdown runs of 3 and 18 yards, and Shaun Suisham hit a field goal.
Jones hit Andrew Clarke with a 20-yard TD pass, but after B.J. Lane blocked a Toledo punt, Harris scored another touchdown for the Falcons with 20 seconds left in the half to make it 24-14.
Jones connected with Clarke on a 4-yard TD strike in the second half, and Dawson scored on runs of 4, 20 and 1 yard.
Toledo outrushed the Falcons 269-77.
Bowling Green's Harris completed 15 of 30 passes for 165 yards and was intercepted twice.
The Falcons, after going 2-9 in 2000, have a record of 17-6 over the past two seasons.
