2012 GAME SUMMARIES
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2013 Georgia State Football
SEASON REV I EW
any further. The 19-play drive was stymied when
Soza was tackled for a loss on fourth-and-goal. On
UTSA’s next drive, CheRod Simpson was stopped
on a fourth down run from the 8-yard line.
“Both (the offense and defense) fought hard
the whole game,”Curry said.“As I’ve said repeatedly,
we have a gutty bunch, but we’re not doing what
we have to do. We fight, scratch, bite and it’s not
enough. But we will continue. The players are
responding, the players are giving effort.”
UTSA looked poised to put the ball in the end
zone on the game’s opening possession. Aided by a
47-yard run by David Glasco II in which the tailback
broke an initial tackle, the Roadrunners got to the
State 5-yard line. But linebacker Jarrell Robinson
made a great tackle in the backfield on third-
and-two and UTSA settled for Sean Ianno’s 26-yard
field goal.
UTSA ...........................
GEORGIA STATE...........
SCORING SUMMARY
UTSA–Ianno 26 FG, 10:22-1st (11-79, 4:38)
UTSA 3-0
10:22-1st, (13-78, 4:14)
GSU–Wilson 84 Pass from McLane (Benvenuto Kick),
GSU 7-3
9:51-1st (3-79, 0:25)
UTSA–Okotcha 5 Run (Ianno Kick),
UTSA 10-7
8:01-1st (4-16, 1:38)
UTSA–Grubb 5 Pass from Soza (Ianno Kick),
UTSA 17-7
1:49-1st (9-51, 4:39)
UTSA–Okotcha 1 Run (Ianno Kick),
UTSA 24-7
5:31-2nd (10-74, 5:11)
UTSA–Mack 20 Pass from Soza (Ianno Kick),
UTSA 31-7
10:14-3rd (7-69, 3:38)
UTSA–Okotcha 1 Run (Ianno Kick),
UTSA 38-7
6:33-3rd (5-11, 2:44)
GSU–Wilson 25 Pass from Bell (Benvenuto Kick),
UTSA 38-14
2:44-3rd (10-65, 3:49)
Attendance–11,496
TEAM STATISTICS ...................................UTSA
GSU
First Downs (R-P-Pen)....................... 26 (13-13-0)
13 (4-9-0)
Rushing (Att-Yards-TD)........................... 54-225-3
23-86-0
Passing Yards........................................................217
221
Passes (Cmp-Att-Int)..................................18-25-0
11-25-3
TOTAL OFFENSE (Plays-Yds)...................... 79-442
48-307
Punts (No.-Avg-Net)............................1-19.0-19.0
2-45.0-45.0
Fumbles-Lost ........................................................1-0
3-1
Penalties..............................................................3-25
5-27
Sacks By..................................................................1-9
0-0
3rd Down Conversions ...................................7-12
5-10
4th Down Conversions ......................................1-3
1-1
Time of Possession.........................................41:29
18:31
RUSHING LEADERS
UTSA–Glasco 4-55; Soza 9-51; Okotcha 20-49-3; Simpson
10-35
GSU–Russell 10-76; Bell 3-22; Evans 5-22; Lee 2-2; McLane
3-(-36)
PASSING LEADERS
UTSA–Soza 17-24-0, 206, 2 TD; Simmons 1-1-0, 11
GSU–McLane 6-14-1, 126, 1 TD; Bell 5-11-2, 95, 1 TD
RECEIVING LEADERS
UTSA–Mack 4-52, 1 TD; Okotchka 2-39; Hicks 2-24; Grubb
2-16, 1 TD; Bias 2-12
GSU–Wilson 6-150, 2 TD; Minor 2-12; Blair 1-41; Ogbuehi 1-13;
Russell 1-5
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Georgia State fell to Colonial Athletic
Association foe Richmond 35-14 at the Georgia
Dome. Donald Russell rushed for 119 yards for the
Panthers.
The Panthers fell to 0-4 overall playing in their
first and last Colonial Athletic Association opener
(the program moves to the Sun Belt Conference in
2013). Richmond improved to 3-1, 1-0 CAA.
“This process is very frustrating because we do
so many things to hurt ourselves,” GSU coach Bill
Curry said. “If we simply play our very best all the
time we should be a really good football team.”
Russell, a senior, went over the 100-yard mark
for the second time this season and fourth time
in his GSU career. He added five receptions for 51
yards for a total of 170 all-purpose yards on 29
touches.
Russell matched his longest run at GSU with
a 52-yard scamper late in the second quarter. That
got the Panthers to the Richmond 28 and set up
Georgia State’s lone score. Russell later caught
a 14-yard pass from Ben McLane and followed
that with a 5-yard run on third-and-3. After an
incompletion, McLane connected with Albert
Wilson, who broke through one tackle and found
the end zone to make it a 21-7 game.
The GSU defense forced a punt to give the
Panthers the ball with 40 seconds left in the half.
But McLane was intercepted by Cooper Taylor on a
tipped ball, and that allowed the Spiders to once
again make it a three-touchdown game. John
Laub found Stephen Barnette for a 32-yard hook
up to the GSU 8-yard line. Georgia State appeared
to have prevented a touchdown with three
consecutive goal-line stops, but after the stop on
fourth-and-goal was erased on a defensive offsides
penalty, Laub pounded his way into the end zone
for a 1-yard score on an untimed down to put the
Spiders up 28-7.
“We had some work excellent goal line work
but hurt ourselves again so there was all of that,”
Curry said. “We fought the daylights out of them...
but after a valiant goal-line stand we gave them
five downs.”
Wilson, who entered the contest leading the
CAA with 158.7 all-purpose yards per game, didn’t
get to add to that total in the first quarter. The
junior suffered an apparent hip bruise but returned
for Georgia State’s first promising drive of the half,
catching a 13-yard pass on the opening play from
scrimmage. The Panthers got to the Richmond
13-yard line, but four straight incompletions,
including one intended for Wilson and tipped out
of the back of the end zone on fourth-and-10,
turned the ball over on downs.
Richmond jumped on top with a pair of long
drives in the opening half.
The Spiders picked up the game’s first points,
capping a 13-play, 83-yard drive with a touchdown
midway through the opening quarter. Junior wide
out Ben Edwards, who came into the day second
in the CAA averaging 116.3 all-purpose yards per
game, caught three passes for 26 yards, while
Kendall Gaskins had three carries for 19 yards,
including a 1-yard score that made it 7-0.
After a Georgia State punt, the visitors
marched 71 yards in 14 plays, getting quarterback
John Laub’s 1-yard touchdown sneak to go up 14-0
with 13:35 left in the half.
Laub made it 21-0 when he found Stephen
Barnette for a completion across the middle, and
Barnette out-ran safety Demazio Skelton for a
49-yard touchdown.
Richmond grabbed a 35-7 cushion midway
through the third when Laub capped an eight-play
drive with a tumbling, 6-yard touchdown run.
Georgia State had a chance to cut into the lead
late in the third, but Matt Ehasz was wide left on
a 38-yard field goal attempt. The Panthers finally
scored again with under a minute to play. Led by
backup quarterback Ronnie Bell (91 passing yards,
31 rushing yards on the day), the Panthers drove 70
yards on eight plays, and Russell capped his big day
DONALD RUSSELL
was the Panthers’ leading rusher with 747 yards, including 100-yard efforts
against South Carolina State, Richmond, William & Mary and Rhode Island.
