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| HEAD COACH BRIAN JENKINS ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY HORNETS |
"Our guys came out and played, they played physical and we executed early," Head Coach Brian Jenkins said. "I'll tell you what Mississippi Valley is headed in the right direction. They were a tough, physical football team and we had to earn everything we got tonight."
"My hat goes off to them they gave us a hard game tonight. The scoreboard may not have shown it, but they made us fight every step of the way."
ASU's redshirt freshman quarterback Ellis Richardson had a coming out party tonight. He had a hand in five touchdowns, rushing for three and throwing for two. He had a game and career-high 98 yards rushing, with one of his scores coming on a 41 yard touchdown burst. The others came on a three-yarder in the first quarter and a four-yard run to end the Hornets scoring.
He also completed 11 of his 18 passes for another game-high 127 yards and the two scores. Of the Hornets 444 total yards, he was a part of 225 of them.
His first touchdown pass was a nine yard fade route to Josh Davis early in the game and he threw a strike to tight end Wyndell Archie from 28 yards out in the third.
"We settled him (Richardson) down and put him in situations he could be successful in and we finally out graded our offense," Jenkins said. "Finally our guys understood doing their job. We challenged each guy to just do his job and they did that tonight and we were able to execute our offense."
The Hornets rushed for a season-high 317 yards on 45 carries averaging seven yards per carry.
The Hornets defense had their most complete game of the year allowing 281 total yards, with half of those coming in the fourth quarter with the outcome already decided.
The Delta Devils only managed 97 yards rushing on 24 carries, and had a tough night throwing the ball as well. MVSU played three quarterbacks and between them completed 22 of their 43 attempts for 184 yards.
Once again, Kourtney Berry led the way with a game-high 13 tackles and Dominique Jacksonchipped in with 10. ASU had nine tackles in the backfield and also had a fumble recovery and an interception.
The Hornets kicking game continues to be a strength as Trevor Vincent averaged 40 yards per punt and also pulled down a fake punt in the opening half and ran for 12 yards and a first down to keep a scoring drive going.
Freshman David Albert continues to be solid on all field goals and extra points, knocking down a 21 yard field goal and connecting on his six extra point attempts.
Tonight's game was the first of four games in 20 days for the Hornets. The first of two short weeks begins next as ASU will travel to Houston to face Texas Southern Thursday, Oct. 1 in an ESPNU telecast game set for 6:30 p.m.
A reminder for the media as the Hornets enters the short week. Jenkins weekly press conference will be moved from Wednesday to Tuesday at 1 p.m. and his radio show which usually runs on Thursday night will also move to Tuesday. It will still be held at Wow Wings in Eastdale Mall and will begin at 6 p.m.
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