What a Halloween treat for the Falcons - upsetting previously unbeaten Marshall!
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"> 1 2 3 4 F
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Marshall 0 7 0 6 13
Bowling Green 7 3 14 10 34 </pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">BG - Niemet 9 run (Strasser kick), BG 7-0
MU - Long 10 pass from Pennington (Malashevich kick), 7-7
BG - FG Strasser 22, BG 10-7
BG - Gerling 16 pass from Niemet (Strasser kick), BG 17-7
BG - Gerling 4 pass from Niemet (Strasser kick), BG 24-7
BG - Lige 1 run (Strasser kick), BG 31-7
MU - Pennington 1 run (two-point conversion failed), BG 31-13
BG - FG Strasser 39, BG 34-13
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"> Marshall Bowling Green
First downs 14 26
Rushed-yards 22-89 56-181
Passing yards 248 233
Sacked-yards lost 2-10 1-8
Return yards 1 3
Passes 24-31-1 18-27-0
Punts 3-41.0 2-46.5
Fumbles-lost 2-1 2-1
Penalties-yards 6-46 3-25
Time of possession 21:37 38:23 </pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Individual Statistics
RUSHING: Marshall-Chapman 13-116, Turner 3-minus 1, Pennington
4-minus 3, Poole 1-minus 4, Leftwich 1-minus 19. Bowling
Green-Gibson 14-59, Martin 8-38, Lige 9-34, Lewis 7-23, Niemet
9-14, Holmes 9-13.
PASSING: Marshall-Pennington 19-26-1-175, Leftwich 5-5-0-73.
Bowling Green-Niemet 18-27-0-233.
RECEIVING: Marshall-Colclough 6-56, Long 5-60, Cooper 4-57, J
Williams 3-16, Poole 2-21, Chapman 2-7, Foye 1-22, L Washington
1-9. Bowling Green-Lige 5-35, Gerling 4-75, Redd 4-71, Steinke
1-18, Martin 1-15, Sullivan 1-11, Holmes 1-7, Lewis 1-1.
RECAP.....
Bob Niemet threw for 233 yards
and two touchdowns as Bowling Green shocked previously unbeaten
Marshall, 34-13, in the Mid-American Conference.
Marshall was the only undefeated, unranked team. The Thundering
Herd, who won the 1997 Mid-American Conference championship in
its first year at the Division I-A level, had a 10-game league
winning streak snapped. Over the last two seasons, Marshall is
19-4 overall and 13-2 in the conference.
Niemet ran for a touchdown as he combined with five running backs
to form a balanced attack for the Falcons (3-5, 3-2 MAC East),
who had 414 total yards. Kurt Gerling had four receptions for
75 yards and caught both of Niemet's touchdown passes.
Niemet scrambled nine yards for a touchdown on the final play of
the first quarter, but Marshall (8-1, 6-1 East) countered with
an eight-play, 84-yard drive, tying it when Chad Pennington and
Jerrald Long hooked up on a 10-yard TD pass with 8:47 left.
A 22-yard field goal by Jason Strasser gave Bowling Green the
lead for good at 10-7 with 2:50 remaining in the second quarter.
Niemet and Gerling combined for scoring plays of 16 and four
yards, respectively, in a 7:38 span of the third period to give
the Falcons a 24-7 bulge.
Adam Lige pushed the advantage to 31-7 on a one-yard plunge with
12:19 to go. Pennington scored from one yard out and Strasser
completed the scoring with a 39-yard field goal with 2:28 to
play.
Niemet completed 18-of-27 passes without an interception. John
Gibson had 59 yards on 14 carries for the Falcons, who amassed
181 rushing yards on 56 attempts.
Pennington was 19-of-26 for 175 yards, a TD and an interception
for the Thundering Herd, who held the ball for just over 21
minutes. Doug Chapman added 116 yards on 13 carries.
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BGSU-34, Marsh.-13 (10/31/98)
