The Sul Ross State football program wrapped up its first season at the Division II level.
On Saturday afternoon, the Lobos suffered a 75-7 loss to the UT Permian Basin Falcons at Jackson Field.
Just before the start of the contest, seniors
Maximiliano Alvarado,
Mark Benard,
Quincy Blair,
Tucker Bridwell,
Dayln Dunbar,
Alec Garcia,
Xavier Garcia,
Elijah Gomez,
Andrew Henderson,
Alex Holguin,
Vicente Luevano,
Jacob Morales,
Humberto Moreno,
Austin Ogunmakin and
C.J. Parks were all recognized.
>> HOW IT HAPPENED:
On the first play of UT Permian Basin's opening drive, the offense did not waste any time as it scored on a 77-yard touchdown pass from Isaac Mooring to Deon Cook.
After the successful two-point conversion by Gunnar Abseck, the Falcons were on top 8-0.
Using an eight-play drive after the Lobos punted away, the Falcons extended their lead to 14-0 as Kory Harris scored on a one-yard run with 10:11 on the clock.
Mooring threw two touchdown passes on the next two drives as he connected with Jeremiah Cooley for a four- and 11-yard pass to make the score 28-0 with 39 seconds to go in the opening quarter.
Early in the second quarter, Mooring found Cook for a nine-yard touchdown and then on the next drive Harris found the end zone on an 11-yard run to extend the lead to 48-0 at halftime.
UT Permian Basin scored twice in the third quarter on a 28-yard run by Harris and a 25-yard fumble recovery by Ashton Hamby.
The Lobos ended the shutout with 4:02 in the third quarter as
Gunner Hammond scored on a four-yard run as he stretched out over the endzone to cap off an 11-play drive.
UT Permian Basin found the end zone twice more in the fourth quarter on a 53-yard run by Harris and a seven-yard run by Christian Kaopua.
>> RECORDS: UT Permian Basin (7-4, 6-3); Sul Ross State (3-8, 2-7)
>> GAME NOTES:
- The Falcons had 711 total yards of offense (393 passing, 318 rushing).
- Mooring tossed five touchdowns as he finished 26 for 28 with 353 yards passing.
- Harris rushed for 201 yards on 26 carries with four touchdowns.
- Cook had six receptions for 148 yards and two touchdowns.
- Bridwell completed 8 of 21 passes for 123 yards.
- Hammond finished 6 for 8 with 38 yards passing to go along with five carries for 25 yards.
- Kye Callicoatte led the ground game with nine carries for 27 yards.
- Blair led the defense with 16 total tackles, 12 solo tackles and one tackle for loss.
- Tamirr Bullock had 11 total tackles.
- Evian Thompson finished with 10 total tackles and one pass breakup.
- The 75 points scored were the most by any Lone Star Conference team this season in a single game.
