CARBONDALE, Ill. – Nick Osho broke loose for the first 200-yard rushing game of his collegiate career highlighting a 322-yard rushing attack for the Indiana State offense in the Sycamores' 55-27 Missouri Valley Football loss to No. 10/11 Southern Illinois on Saturday night in Saluki Stadium.
 
Osho, who scored on 39-yard and 66-yard rushing touchdowns on the evening, totaled new career-highs in carries (28) and rushing yards (211), while adding his second consecutive multi-touchdown rushing effort to lead the Indiana State (2-3, 0-1 MVFC) offense. Keegan Patterson and Brock Riddle both added quarterback keeper touchdown runs on the game as all four Indiana State scores came on the ground.
 
Southern Illinois (4-1, 1-0 MVFC) jumped ahead 21-0 in the first quarter as DJ Williams targeted Jay Jones for a 20-yard touchdown pass, while Chandler Chapman added a 39-yard score on the first two SIU possessions. Williams took it himself on a one-yard touchdown plunge to give SIU the three-touchdown lead eight minutes into the game.
 
The Sycamores fought back on Patterson's nine-yard rushing touchdown on an 11-play, 75-yard drive highlighted by a 20-yard Osho carry, while Patterson found Bryan Domino for an 18-yard reception near midfield. Osho added his first touchdown run late midway through the second quarter on a 39-yard run answering an 83-yard touchdown pass from SIU's Williams to Vinson Davis III.
 
Southern Illinois went up 38-14 just before the halftime break on Williams' second rushing touchdown of the game. Osho and Riddle added touchdowns for the Sycamores in the second half, but Indiana State was unable to mount a comeback in the Missouri Valley Football opener loss.
 
Angelo St. Louis added a career-high 10 carries for 54 yards, while Patterson finished with four carries for 27 yard and a score. Riddle added six carries for 21 yards and his first collegiate rushing touchdown for the offense. Zack Drawdy Jr. (four catches, 58 yards) and Domino (four catches, 34 yards) both posted new career-highs on the evening.
 
Nic Yatsko recorded the first double-digit tackling effort of his collegiate career with a team-high 10 stops, including 1.0 tackles-for-loss on the day. Kimal Clark added nine tackles, a forced fumble, and fumble recovery, while Alex Rose had eight tackles on the day. Kaden Gajewski added his first forced fumble of the season, while Shane Bennett added a fumble recovery defensively.
 
DJ Williams directed the SIU offense to 656 total offensive yards as the quarterback finished 19-of-31 for 226 yards and two touchdowns through the air, while adding five carries for 70 yards and a pair of scores on the ground.
 
Eddie Robinson led SIU's rushing efforts with nine carries for 124 yards and a rushing touchdown, while Chapman finished with eight carries for 93 yards and two scores. Davis III was the receiving leader with seven catches for 140 yards and a touchdown.
 
Ben Fiegel and Shug Walker both finished with a game-high 12 tackles.
 
News & Notes

• The Sycamores recorded a season-high 322 rushing yards, marking the most by the Indiana State offense since 2019 when the Sycamores recorded 325 rushing yards back on November 23, 2019, at Missouri State.
• Osho's 211 rushing yards marked a new career-high for the Sycamore running back and the first 200-yard rushing game most by an Indiana State player since Plez Lawrence rushed for 203 yards on September 30, 2023, at Murray State.
• Osho's back-to-back 100-yard rushing games after following up a 134-yard effort at Montana (Sept. 20) with his 211 yards on Saturday at SIU, marked the first Indiana State running back to post back-to-back 100-yard games since Justin Dinka finished with 156 against North Dakota State and 159 at Youngstown State in back-to-back games over October 8-15, 2022.
• Osho's back-to-back multi-touchdown rushing games marked the first by an Indiana State running back since Ja'Quan Keys recorded at least two rushing touchdowns in three consecutive games in 2018 coming against South Dakota State, Missouri State, and Southern Illinois over October 6-20, 2018. 

Up Next
Indiana State returns home for their 2025 Homecoming Game on Saturday, October 11, as the Sycamores welcome South Dakota to Memorial Stadium. Kickoff between the Sycamores and the Coyotes is set for 1 p.m. ET and will be carried live on ESPN+ and 105.5 The Legend.
 
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