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Sul Ross (2-3, 0-1 ASC) and Louisiana College (3-2, 1-1 ASC) will square off this Saturday in a 2:00 p.m. conference contest at Jackson Field as the Lobos close out the second of a two game home stand.

The game will mark the first home day game at Jackson Field in 2016.

MEDIA INFORMATION
 

• Saturday's game can be heard live on KVLF AM 1240 with internet audio provided at www.bigbendradio.com.
• Live video streaming and live stats can be found at http://livestream.com/srsumedia/events/4322363 and  http://www.sidearmstats.com/sulross/football/. 

QUICK HITS AND RECAP
 

• James Davis (Houston/South) threw for a season best 321 yards and two touchdowns as the Sul Ross Lobos rolled by Belhaven, 52-36 Saturday in a cool, cloudy homecoming extravaganza at Jackson Field.
• Both teams combined for 1,151 yards of total offense.
• Adrion Smith (Houston/Clear Springs) led the ground assault netting 90 yards off of 12 carries.
• Byron Jones (League City/Clear Springs) recorded five receptions for 149 yards and one touchdown.
• Freshman kicker Adam Cruz was perfect on extra point kicks at seven for seven.
• Mike Quinonez (El Paso/El Dorado) led the defense with 10 tackles while Job Mason (Thorndale/THS) and Jermaine Stevens (Houston/South) posted four and three breakups respectively.
• Stevens also grabbed and interception while Jacob Castaneda (El Paso/Franklin) shouldered a pick for a 46-yard return. 

SCOUTING THE WILDCATS (from LC sports info)
 

• Louisiana College had the opportunity to turn heads across the nation with #12 ranked Hardin-Simmons in town on Saturday night. In a game where both teams were so evenly matched offensively and defensively, it was special teams that proved to be the Achilles heel for the Wildcats this time. The Cowboys were able to score touchdowns on a high snap on an LC punt that was recovered in the end zone and an 89-yard kickoff return in their 42-21 victory.
• Easton Melancon finished with his third 350 plus yard passing effort of the season and the ninth of his career, completing 33 passes on 63 attempts for 377 yards and two touchdowns.
• Cooksey fell 18 yards short of reaching 100 yards for a third straight game, finishing with 82 tough yards on 24 carries.
• Both Shedrick Davis and Lamar Carroway had over 100 yards receiving in the game, Davis with 145 and a touchdown and Carroway with 114 and a touchdown. 
• After missing last week's game Orel Ledet Jr led the Wildcat defense with 11 tackles including 2.0 tackles for loss.
• Cooksey leads the ground attack with a conference best 100 carries for 610 yards and six touchdowns in five games.
• To date Melancon has completed a second league high 108 of 192 passes for 1588 yards and 15 touchdowns.
• Davis is the third leading receiver in the conference with 38 catches for 584 yards and six touchdowns.
• Ryan DeMattie lead Louisiana College's defense with 31 tackles with 22 solos.
• The Wildcats rank third in the ASC in total defense holding opposing offenses to 1981 yards.
• Louisiana College sports the second most interception in the league with 11 picks just three picks shy of conference leader Mary Hardin-Baylor.
• The Wildcats are third in the ASC in first downs with 125.
• LC ranks third in third down conversions at 33 of 76.
• The Wildcats are the third least penalized team being flagged 35 times for 350 yards. 

SERIES HISTORY
 

• Sul Ross and Louisiana College will face each other for the 17^th time on the football field Saturday. The Wildcats lead the all time series 14-2.
• The Lobos defeated LC in their very first meeting in 2000 by a score of 42-11.
• The only other Sul Ross victory over the Wildcats came in 2004's 48-41 win.

 

LAST MEETING (Oct. 15, 2015)
 

• Louisiana College built a 17-7 first quarter lead and maintained the margin to post a 38-28 American Southwest Conference win over visiting Sul Ross last season in Pineville, La.
• Paul Rodriguez (Weslaco/WHS), filling in for an injured Davis, finished with 16 completions in 27 attempts for 269 yards, two scores and two interceptions.
• Sul Ross was limited to 68 net yards rushing.
• Defensively, Damien Espinoza (Katy/Pope John XXIII) led the way with eight tackles and Alonte Thomas (Cameron/Yoe) had seven stops. Former Lobos Jay Brooks (Saginaw, MI/J.W. North), Casey Sonier (Houston/C.E. King) and Fernie Gonzalez (El Paso/Canutillo) made six tackles apiece. Brooks had two sacks, while Zack Roberson (Houston/Cy Ridge) and Fentrese Milligan (Elgin/Elgin) had one each. 

SUL ROSS TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL NOTES
 

• The Lobos rank third in the ASC in rushing offense with 190 carries for 895 yards and 12 touchdowns.
• Sully is second in the conference in rushing defense holding opposing offenses to 697 yards on the ground.
• Sul Ross is third in the league in converted PAT's at 17 of 18.
• The Lobos lead the ASC in time of possession at 186:05.
• Cruz is 3-5, good for third place in the ASC, in converted field goals.
• Roberson leads the conference in sacks with four after five games.
• Roberson ranks 10^th out of the top 50 in the ASC in tackles with 36.
• Roberson leads the conference in tackles for loss with 11 at -49.
• Mason leads the ASC in breakups with 10, one slot ahead of teammate Stevens who sports six.
• Mason has forced two fumbles which is good for a second league high.
• Thomas continues to lead the conference with two fumble recoveries.

ASC RECAP (Week 6)

No. 9 / 12 Hardin-Simmons 42, Louisiana College 21

PINEVILLE, La. - Hardin-Simmons improved to 5-0 with a 42-21 win over Louisiana College in American Southwest Conference action at Wildcat Stadium in Pineville, La., Saturday night. The win was the first for the Cowboys in Pineville since 2008, snapping a four-game losing streak.

No. 3 / 3 Mary Hardin-Baylor 59, Howard Payne 10

BROWNWOOD, Texas – Mary Hardin-Baylor dominated the first half as the Cru rolled to a 59-10 victory over Howard Payne Saturday afternoon in Brownwood. UMHB improves to 5-0 overall and 2-0 in American Southwest Conference play with the win.

No. 17 / 17 East Texas Baptist 67, McMurry 31

ABILENE, Texas – A slow start for East Texas Baptist turned into a come-from-behind victory in their first American Southwest Conference game of the year against McMurry. ETBU trailed 7-6 after the first quarter but added 20 points in the second quarter to take the lead en route to over 700 yards of total offense on the day. ETBU moves to 5-0 which continues to be the program's best start in team history.

QUOTES FROM COACH JOHN PEARCE

On Saturday's win: It was great for our program. The atmosphere was really electric for our players and fans. We needed that win after coming up short three previous times. We knew Hal Mumme was going to throw the ball a lot. That's their mojo. They had a lot of dropped passes which helped us but we had some dropped passes that would have led to interceptions so that kind of evened things out.

On younger players getting experience: We played a lot of football players Saturday especially on the defensive side because we knew what we were going to face. So we moved Britton (Wagner) to the front and Esteban Vigil to the nose guard position. We were just rotating a lot of guys out there.

Thoughts on tackle technique: We did a lot better with our tackling in terms of wrapping up and finishing up plays. Like I said last week, that was something that has really crippled us for most of the season. Our foot work looked much better.

On the quarterback rotation: There were some issues with cramping throughout the game. James went out in the fourth quarter with some cramp issues but he worked through it. He's tough and his athleticism has really contributed a lot to our running game. Jeremy really stepped up for us. We like to use him like Tim Tebow at Florida. He's a running quarterback who utilizes his legs and hits the holes hard and was able to come up with three scores for us. Paul (Rodriguez) was injured coming into camp but was able to take some snaps for us. He's still a little behind just learning the system so he's in catch up mode right now.  

On James Davis and his season best passing performance: James is getting more comfortable each week. He has some really good receivers to work with and those guys really did a better job Saturday of running their routes and giving him some open looks. But he also has an offensive line that's getting better and better every week. So things just meshed really well last Saturday for our offense in terms of protection up front, receivers running good routes and James hitting his targets.

Thoughts on Adrion Smith: He was working through training camp and just moving up the depth chart. We had him splitting time between the first and second groups. He suffered a shoulder injury before the U.T.P.B. game so he had to sit out about three or four weeks so we had to go with Andre (Wilson) who had a phenomenal game for us at Wayland. But he gets hurt and is having to miss a couple of weeks so it's just good to have multiple backs in that position.

Thoughts and keys to Louisiana College: We're breaking up their film from their game against Hardin-Simmons who they played very tough. They had some issues with their special teams that worked against them. Hardin-Simmons was able to run back a kick return against them and then they had a bad snap over the punter. So if you take those factors out it might have been a different ball game. They run multiple sets and will try to run the ball. They have a really good 1-2 punch between their quarterback and running back. Melancon is a smart quarterback and knows how to spread the offense out. It will be very similar to Hardin-Simmons.