Oct. 15, 2005
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AMHERST, N.Y. -
The Bowling Green State University football team remained unbeaten in Mid-American Conference play with Saturday's (Oct. 15) 27-7 win at the University at Buffalo. BGSU is now 4-2 overall and 3-0 in MAC action. Some notes and numbers from the game ...
Senior B.J. Lane set several career highs on the afternoon ... Lane rushed for 141 yards, the highest total of his career, on 25 carries (also a career best) ... Lane's previous best was a 123-yard rushing game vs. Western Michigan last season ... he had rushed the ball 23 times on two previous occasions, including that WMU game ... Lane also had 23 carries in last month's win at Ball State.
Lane had three touchdowns on the ground in the win, setting a new career best ... that broke the record he set just last weekend, in the home win over Ohio ... Lane now has six rushing TDs over the last three games and seven on the season.
Lane's first touchdown of the day was a 32-yard carry, the longest scoring run of his career ... Lane's overall career-long run was a 78-yard non-scoring rush in the 2003 win at BSU ... Lane also scored on fourth-quarter carries of 20 and two yards in the win over UB.
Sophomore defensive back Loren Hargrove made his first playing
appearance of the season ... Hargrove broke up a pass in the fourth quarter, and had a sack several plays later.
Senior defensive back Terrill Mayberry forced all three UB turnovers on the afternoon ... Mayberry forced his first career fumble, with classmate Jelani Jordan making the recovery ... Mayberry also had a pair of interceptions, one coming in the third quarter and one in the fourth ... he now has three picks this season and four in his career.
Redshirt freshman Diyral Briggs had the first sack of his career in the opening quarter ... Briggs teamed up with Brad Williams for another sack in the fourth quarter.
Senior Mike Thaler had his second sack of the season.
The Falcons had a big defensive stand on the opening drive of the second half ... on a fourth-and-1 play, senior Jamien Johnson and freshman Antonio Smith stopped the Bulls inside the BG five-yard line, enabling the Brown and Orange to take over on downs.
Junior quarterback Omar Jacobs was 18-of-34 for 187 yards and a touchdown on the day ... Jacobs had the first two-interception game of his career ... he now has career totals of 65 TD passes and just nine interceptions.
The BGSU defense, for the third consecutive week, allowed only one touchdown (one of Ohio's two scores last week came on a blocked punt return) ... in those three games -- wins over Temple, OU and UB -- the Falcons have allowed an average of 237.7 yards per game.
Offensively, the Brown and Orange had a season-high 200 yards rushing, with Lane leading the way ... BG had 192 in last Saturday's win over Ohio.
The Falcons had a season-high four sacks.
