Bowling Green State University Athletics
Football Falcons Win at FIU, 33-28
September 16, 2006 | Football
Sept. 16, 2006
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MIAMI, Fla. - The Bowling Green State University football team picked up a road win Saturday (Sept. 16), with a 33-28 triumph over Florida International University. BGSU will host Kent State next Saturday, September 23 at 1 p.m. for Family Weekend. A few notes from the game ...
* FIU recognized Betty Perry prior to kickoff. Mrs. Perry is the wife of former BGSU football and baseball player Chuck Perry who served as the first president of FIU.
* Chuck Perry also hired Doyt Perry as the first FIU AD, Dick Young as the baseball coach and later athletic director and former BGSU President Bill Jerome as Provost.
* Former head coach Gary Blackney was part of the pre game tailgating crowd. Blackney is enjoying his first year of retirement after serving as the defensive coordinator at Maryland from 2001-2005.
* Former Falcon football player Jim Perry (1965-67). and his wife Mary Ann hosted a reception on Friday for new A.D. Greg Christopher. Former running back Vic DeOrio (1955-57) was among those attending the event.
* BGSU has now won four straight road games dating back to last year (Buffalo, Kent State, Miami and Florida International.
* BGSU is 40-1 when leading after three quarters since the 2001 season.
* While gaining its first ever win over a Sun Belt Conference school, BGSU improved to a MAC-best 13-6 against Division IA non-conference foes since 2001.
* Sophomore Corey Partridge made his first start of the season. Partridge missed the Wisconsin and Buffalo games due to injury. He caught a team-high five passes for 79 yards in his return and returned two punts for 20 yards.
* Senior Brandon Jones had a career-long 37-yard kickoff return to start the game.
* The Falcons scored on their first possession for the third straight game. Sophomore Anthony Turner hit freshman Freddie Barnes for a two-yard score. It was Barnes' first career TD reception and Turner's fourth TD toss of the season.
* Barnes, who scored a rushing touchdown later in the contest, now has scored two TDs in each of his three career games to date. He also became the first Falcon since Josh Harris to throw for a TD and rush for a score and catch a pass for a score in a single game. Harris did the same against Northwestern in 2001. Barnes completed six of 12 passes for 57 yards and rushed for 70 yards on 16 carries. He is averaging 109 yards per game on the ground this season.
* Turner completed 12 of 22 passes for 185 yards and rushed for 59 yards. He has completed 62.2 percent of his passes this season.
* Senior Devon Parks had his 15th career sack in the first quarter. * Sophomore Antonio Smith had his first sack of the season late in the second quarter and sophomore Diyral Briggs would add his second sack of the year in the second half.
* Following a Turner interception, sophomore Kenny Lewis had his second interception of the season in the end zone. He led the Falcons with seven tackles.
* Junior Dan Macon had a career-long 30-yard reception and also had a 25-yard reception later in the game. His 55 yards receiving in a game is a career-best.
* Barnes later threw his first career TD pass to junior Sean O'Drobinak in the second quarter. It was O'Drobinak's fifth career TD reception. O'Drobinak finished with two catches for 32 yards.
* The Falcons scored a touchdown on the ensuing kickoff as junior Loren Hargrove forced a fumble and freshman Jerett Sanderson scooped the fumble and raced nine-yards for the TD. It is the first fumble return for a score for BGSU since Mitchell Crossley went 30 yards for a TD in 2004 against Eastern Michigan. Hargrove also was invloved in a special teams fumble which led to a score against Toledo in 2004.
* Sanderson had a monster game as, in addition to his TD, he had the first two interceptions of his brief BGSU career. The second of those two picks came in the end zone on the final play of the game.
* Freshman Sean Ellis made his first career field goal, a 38-yarder to end the first half and would add a 25-yard effort to seal the game in the final three minutes.
* Senior Kenneth Brantley caught two third down passes for 35 yards. Senior Ruben Ruiz also caught a pass for 25 yards.
* Freshman Calvin Wiley had a career-high four tackles. Seventeen different defenders had stops for BGSU.
* Freshman Chris Bullock had 18 yards on four carries, both career-highs.
