Oct. 16, 2004
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -
The Bowling Green State University football Falcons pleased the Homecoming crowd at Doyt Perry Stadium Saturday afternoon (Oct. 16), rolling to a 35-3 halftime lead en route to a 51-13 win. Some notes from the Falcons' victory...
BGSU now leads the series, 18-8-1, and the Falcons have won the last four meetings.
With 35 points in the first half, BGSU scored 30 points or more in a half for the second time in three weeks ... BGSU scored 42 points in the first half against Temple.
The Falcons scored 50 points or more for the second time this season ... it marked the sixth time since the 2001 season that BGSU has scored 50 or more at home.
Sophomore Omar Jacobs had his fourth four-touchdown passing game of the season, and his third consecutive effort of 4 TDs through the air ... he finished with 19 completions in 25 attempts for 279 yards ... Jacobs now has 18 TD passes and just two interceptions this season ... he also had a two-yard TD run to open the scoring, his third rushing TD of the season and fifth of his career.
Junior Steve Sanders had a career-long 42-yard reception on the game's first series ... he had an 18-yard TD reception in the third quarter for the fifth TD score of the season and seventh of his career.
The Falcons established a season-high in sacks with eight ... BGSU had entered the game with a total of five sacks in the season's first five games ... sophomore Devon Parks had two of the team's eight sacks vs. BSU, and now has a team-leading four this season ... Parks has nine career sacks ... junior Mike Thaler had his first two sacks of the season and now has four in his career ... junior Terrill Mayberry had the first sack of his career, while junior Jelani Jordan also had his first sack this season and second of his career ... junior Monty Cooley had his first sack of the season and now has 2.5 as a Falcon ... junior Matt Leininger had his first of the season and second of his career.
Senior Cornelius McGrady had five tackles on special teams in the first half, forcing a BSU fumble on one of those tackles ... he also caught a 20-yard pass from Jacobs in the win.
Junior P.J. Pope hauled in a 29-yard pass from Jacobs for a TD ... it was Pope's second receiving catch of the season and the third of his career ... he also added a one-yard run in the second quarter, his fifth rushing TD of the season and 19th of his career.
Senior Keon Newson had the third blocked kick of his career when he blocked a punt in the first quarter.
Senior Cole Magner caught a four-yard TD pass from Jacobs, his second TD catch of the season and the 14th of his career.
Junior Charles Sharon scored on an 11-yard pass from Jacobs ... it was his team-high fifth TD catch this season, and the 18th of his career, tying him for fourth place on the BGSU all-time list.
The Falcons had their second safety of the season when the Cardinals snapped the ball out of the end zone on a punt attempt.
Junior Nate Fry had three punts downed inside the 20-yard line.
Junior B.J. Lane had a 93-yard TD return in the fourth quarter ... it was the Falcons' first TD return since September 22, 2001 (Janssen Patton, 42 yards vs. Temple) ... it also ties for the second-longest kickoff return for a TD in school history (Leon Weathersby, 94 vs. Western Michigan in 1997; Roger Reynolds, 93 vs. Kent State, 1961).
Sophomore Jason Washington completed his first career pass, a 23-yarder to Brandon Jones in the fourth quarter.
