Bowling Green State University
4-5 , 2-3
Kent State
2-6 , 1-3
Falcons Fall To Flashes, 27-15
October 29, 2011 | Football
Dave Clawson audio
Dwayne Woods audio
Kamar Jorden audio
The Bowling Green State University football team dropped a 27-15 decision Saturday afternoon to the Kent State Golden Flashes. The Mid-American Conference contest was held inside Dix Stadium in Kent, Ohio.
The Falcons (4-5, 2-3 MAC) totaled 445 yards of total offense, including 400 passing, but had four turnovers and made numerous mistakes on special teams in the conference loss.
In all, the Orange and Brown threw two interceptions, had two fumbles, two kickoffs landed out of bounds and missed a pair of field goals in the game that came down to the final drive. The Falcons also came away with just six points on four redzone opportunities.
BGSU trailed 10-6 late in the third quarter, but muffed a punt that gave the Golden Flashes the ball at the BGSU-15 yardline. Kent State scored two plays later to take a 17-6.
The Falcons answered back with an 80-yard touchdown drive, but failed to convert the two-point conversion with 12:32 remaining in the game.
After a Kent State 21-yard field goal with 8:17 left in the fourth the Falcons' Steve Stein drilled a 25-yard kick to get BGSU to within 20-15 with 5:01 left in the final quarter.
The Falcon defense forced a punt five plays later and gave BGSU the ball at its' own 18 with 1:51 remaining, but could not put together a game-winning drive.
Matt Schilz was 29-of-49 passing for 400 yards and one touchdown. Over half of his yards went to Kamar Jorden, who finished the contest with 12 catches for 203 yards.
Notes
*Steve Stein drilled a career-long 39 yard field goal in the first quarter. He also converted from 23 and 25 yards for his first career three field goal game.
* Kamar Jorden now has 155 catches in his career, 10th most in school history.
* Jorden finished the game with 12 catches for 203 yards. Both were season-bests. His 203 receiving yards are the fourth-most yards in school history behind only Freddie Barnes (278 yards vs. KSU in 2009), Barnes (219 yards versus Idaho in 2009) and Robert Redd (215 vs. Marshall in 2001).
* Charlie Walker had a career-high six tackles and recovered his first career fumble.
* Brian Schmiedebusch had just one punt (49 yards). Kent State's Matt Rinehart had seven punts.
Team Stats
BGSU 0, KENT 3
KENT - CORTEZ, Freddy 44 yd field goal 7 plays, 58 yards, TOP 2:27
BGSU 3, KENT 3
BGSU - STEIN, Stephen 39 yd field goal 4 plays, -4 yards, TOP 1:26
BGSU 3, KENT 10
KENT - DURHAM, Trayion 5 yd run (CORTEZ, Freddy kick), 11 plays, 60 yards, TOP 5:36
BGSU 6, KENT 10
BGSU - STEIN, Stephen 23 yd field goal 4 plays, 15 yards, TOP 1:39
BGSU 6, KENT 17
KENT - THOMPSON, J. 14 yd pass from KEITH, Spencer (CORTEZ, Freddy kick) 2 plays, 15 yards, TOP 0:46
BGSU 12, KENT 17
BGSU - JORDEN, Kamar 52 yd pass from SCHILZ, Matt (SCHILZ, Matt passfailed) 5 plays, 80 yards, TOP 1:31
BGSU 12, KENT 20
KENT - CORTEZ, Freddy 21 yd field goal 9 plays, 61 yards, TOP 4:06
BGSU 15, KENT 20
BGSU - STEIN, Stephen 25 yd field goal 12 plays, 60 yards, TOP 3:09
BGSU 15, KENT 27
KENT - NIX, Roosevelt 9 yd fumble recovery (CORTEZ, Freddy kick)
