TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Indiana State football welcomes Youngstown State to Terre Haute Saturday (Nov. 4) for a Missouri Valley Football Conference matchup. Kickoff with the Penguins is slated for 1 p.m. ET from Memorial Stadium.
Saturday's game will be broadcast live on The Valley On ESPN3. Corey Clark will handle the play-by-play duties. Sycamore fans can also listen live on the radio on WIBQ 97.9 FM (1230 AM) or online at GoSycamores.com/Watch with
Luke Martin (play-by-play) and
Brian Fritz (color).
SERIES HISTORY
Youngstown State leads the all-time series with the Sycamores, 21-5. Indiana State has won two of the last three meetings, but the contests have been decided by a total of nine points. ISU won the 2014 matchup in Youngstown, 27-24 in overtime as well as the 2015 meeting at Memorial Stadium, 27-4. The Penguins took last season's meeting by a score of 13-10.
OFFENSIVE NOTES
•
LeMonte Booker moved to ninth in school history in career rushing with 1,603 total yards. He sits just 395 yards from eighth place.
• Booker now sits at seventh on the Sycamores all-time all-purpose list now with 3,020 yards.
• Redshirt senior WR
Bob Pugh has 1,014 all-purpose yards this year: 43 rushing yards including 24 at Tennessee. Pugh caught two passes against Eastern Illinois for 47 yards before exploding for 260 yards on eight receptions and two touchdowns at Liberty.
• Pugh ranks 18th nationally and second in the MVFC with 126.76 all-purpose yards per game.
• Senior TE
Jacquet McClendon leads ISU and ranks fifth in the Valley with 43 receptions for 459 yards and three touchdowns. McClendon was the second-best returning receiver for the Sycamores from 2016, when he recorded 157 yards on 14 receptions. McClendon is 37th nationally with 5.4 receptions per game.
• Redshirt sophomore C
Wyatt Wozniak has been the steady hand on the Sycamore offensive line this season. The Cypress, Texas native has started every game at the center position. Wozniak is one of the most experience interior lineman on the roster after seeing game action in five contests in 2016 including three starts.
• True freshman RB
Titus McCoy had an extremely lucrative career at Center Grove High School, which he led to the state finals twice and a state title in 2015. There, McCoy recorded an incredible 3,828 career rushing yards, 645 career receiving yards and 54 total TD.
DEFENSIVE NOTES
• ISU forced four turnovers against Southern Illinois (3 INT, 1 FR). Indiana State now has six picks in seven games after forcing just five interceptions total in 2016.
• Indiana State held Eastern Illinois to just 278 yards of total offense, the fewest allowed by a Sycamore defense since yielding 226 to Youngstown State on Nov. 21, 2015.
• Indiana State had just one game in 2016 where the defense allowed fewer than 300 yards of total offense (291, at Youngstown State).
• Redshirt sophomore LB
Jonas Griffith has leads the Sycamores in tackles with 74 -- recording a career high 15 vs. SIU, 13 vs. EIU, 10 at Missouri State and nine at Tennessee. Griffith ranks fourth in the Valley in total tackles. Griffith had three tackles for loss against Illinois State for 18 yards.
• Griffith has recorded six or more tackles each game this season for the Trees and ranks 37th nationally in tackles.
• LB
Katrell Moss owns 5.5 TFL on the season, including 2.5 sacks (21 yards). Moss is second on the team and fifth in the MVFC with 72 tackles including 28 solo tackles. He recorded a career high 20 tackles against SIU (10/21).
• Sycamore cornerback
Anthony Tucker came away with his first two career interceptions against the Salukis (Oct. 21). Tucker became the first Sycamore with two picks in a single game since 2015 when
Jameer Thurman did so against Butler.
SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES
• Sophomore kicker
Jerry Nunez went 1-for-1 in field goals against Southern Illinois for his 22nd career field goal. Nunez has eight career multi-FG games. Nunez has 10 career field goals from 40 yards or longer after going 7-of-8 from there and a perfect 4-for-4 from 30-39 as a freshman.
• Nunez led the MVFC and ranked ninth nationally in 2016 with a 15-of-18 mark in field goals last season. For his efforts, Nunez earned Second-Team All-MVFC and MVFC All-Newcomer honors in 2016, and this fall was just honored as the Preseason All-MVFC selection for kicker. In 2016, Nunez was one of nine kickers in the nation to start the season 7-for-7 in field goals. His 83.3 percentage in field goals in 2016 tied a school record set by Tanner Fritschle in 2012, who also hit 15 field goals on 18 attempts.
Senior punter
Thomas Bouldin etched his name into the Indiana State and Missouri Valley Conference record book against Southern Illinois (10/21). Bouldin uncorked a 90-yard punt late in the first half to break the previous school record of 80-yards set by Jim Shaughnessy in 1969. The punt also topped an 89-yard punt by Mike Scifres of Western Illinois in a game against Missouri State back in 2000 for the new Valley Football standard. His punt fell just three yards short of the NCAA record and is the longest punt in all of college football this season. The punt was also the fifth longest in FCS history. Bouldin finished the game with eight punts for an average of 50.5 yards, including four of over 50 yards. Bouldin recorded the longest punt in the Valley in 2016, registering at 70 yards at SIU.
• Senior kickoff specialist
Andrew Lunsford has recorded 48 total touchbacks as a Sycamore and has a career kickoff average of 60.2 yards.
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