Bowling Green State University Athletics
Orange Defeats White in BGSU Spring Game, 17-13
April 10, 2004 | Football
April 10, 2004
Bowling Green, Ohio - Bowling Green State University held its Spring Football Game on Saturday afternoon with Team Orange defeating Team White, 17-13, thanks to a 73-yard touchdown run by sophomore Dan Macon in the fourth quarter.
Macon took the pitch, swept right, followed a block by receiver James Hawkins, and sprinted down the right sideline en route to a 73-yard TD run. Macon finished with 102 yards rushing on nine carries while playing for both the Orange and White squads.
Raishaun Stover put the Orange team on the board first with a 3-yard carry in the first quarter. Shaun Suisham connected on the extra point. Junior P.J. Pope got involved on Team White's first drive of the game, carrying the ball eight times and finishing the drive from 1-yard out with a touchdown run. Suisham drilled the point after to tie the game, 7-7.
Suisham made his first of three field goals late in the first quarter from 29 yards out for a 10-7 Orange lead. Team White came right back and drove to the 13-yard yardline before Suisham nailed a 30-yard field goal to tie the score, 10-10, heading into halftime.
Suisham added his third field goal of the game from 23 yards out in the third quarter for a 13-10 White lead.
Jacobs finished 19-for-36 for 236 yards with two interceptions. Nick Thurman was 3-for-7 for 60 yards with one interception, and Van Johnson was 3-for-6 for 29 yards.
Charles Sharon led all receivers with six receptions for 104 yards, while Cole Magner had five grabs for 65 yards and Cornelius McGrady had three catches for 36 yards. The longest reception of the day came from Steve Sanders with a 41-yard catch via Thurman for Team Orange.
Defensively the Falcons were led by defensive back T.J. Carswell with nine tackles, while Keon Newson, Brian Gardner, Loren Hargrove and Robert Browning all had six tackles. Terrill Mayberry, Patrick Curran and Ryan Newble each had an interception.
Postgame Quotes
On his winning TD
"The play had been working all day and the blockers did a great job once I got into the open field. I have to credit James Hawkins for that great job on the corner knocking him down. That's what happens when everybody does their job."
On the running backs
"There is a lot of competition but we are one big group."
"My goal was to just come out and produce. It's good experience to come out and practice the fundamentals and focus."
"Our offensive line did a great job protecting me."
"It's nice to have all your receivers back because they have been through the wars and big games that I haven't been in yet. "
On comparisons to Josh Harris
"Josh came in as more of runner earlier in his career, where I am more of a pocket guy.
On his interception at the end of the game
"Coach Brandon sort of called me out as they were driving and it was like 'its your time go make a play,' that's what he wanted to see. (Brad) Williams tipped the ball and I got it. I'm just trying to step up."
"I thought our guys played full speed on both sides of the ball. I liked our work in the kicking game, Suisham was perfect. To scrimmage that kicking game live was good for us. That is a tough thing to do."
"Omar did some nice things and Van Johnson really showed up. I was really impressed with Van today as well as Nick Thurman who did some good things as well. Omar has got to be better for us to win championships and he will be. He has 29 practices and three preseason games and he is going to be in the fire early."
"Our backs ran really hard today."
"On defense we missed some tackles, but boy when we did get around the ball we were hitting. T.J. Carswell just jumped out at me. We made some plays, made a couple of interceptions and our I thought our defensive line was very impressive."
"We got out of it what we wanted. Nobody got hurt."
"We just wanted to get guys to play football and to see how they were going to react to live situations."
Spring Game Box ScoreSCORING 3-yd TD run by Stover (Suisham kick) - 1st qtr. Orange 7-0 1-yd TD run by Pope (Suisham kick) - 2nd qtr. 7-7 Suisham 29 yd FG - 2nd qtr. Orange 10-7 Suisham 30 yd FG - 2nd qtr. 10-10 at the half Suisham 23 yd FG - 4th qtr. White 13-10 Macon 73 yd TD run (Suisham kick) - 4th qtr Orange 17-13
PASSING C-Att-Yds Jacobs 19-36-236 Thurman 3-7-60 Johnson 3-6-29
RUSHING Att.-Yds-Tds Macon 9-102 1 TD Stover 10-75 1TD Pope 9-43 1 TD Cole 4-32 Jacobs 5-26 Thurman 3-17 Jones 1-8 Magner 1-7
RECEIVING Rec-Yds Sharon 6-104 Magner 5-65 McGrady 3-36 Sanders 2-51 Pope 2-20 Carson 2-17 Martin 1-13 Hawkins 1-10 Stover 1-9 Dibacco 1-8 Cole 1-7
TACKLES Carswell 9 Newson 6 Hargrove 6 Gardner 6 Browning 6 Piepkow 6 Myles 5 Jakubowski 5 Jordan 5 Bannister 4 White 4 Reese 4 Sharper 4 Burkes 4 Perry 3 Nicholson 3 Burkart 3 Thaler 3 Cooley 3 Curran 2 J. Johnson 2 B. Williams 2 Newble 2 Parks 2 Walston 2 Mayberry 2 T. Smith 1 Durham 1 Sayles 1 Cole 1 Dyer 1 Magner 1 Jacobs 1
SACKS Cooley 1 Browning 1 Parks 1 Piepkow 1
INTERCEPTIONS Mayberry 1 Curran 1 Newble 1
