FB: American Southwest Conference

[Toby Taff]

An HSU lurker friend of mine calls me forward to the early 16th century for a more serious consideration of Anabaptists.   As for Apolsotolic Succession, he declares that that's a Roman Catholic thing!  ...

Ralph,

Baptists practice succession, its just not called that, they call it ordination. 

[Kelly Boggs]

mhb8904,

And don't forget "The Trail of Blood" which is "proof postive" that Baptists comprise the true church, don't cha know! 

[Kelly Boggs]

I was perusing the stat pages compiled by the NCAA and discovered that the number one rushing defense in all of D3 belongs to.... drum roll please... UMHB! The Purple CRUsh is giving up just just 5.2 yards per game.

[Bill McCabe]

That is an incredible stat for any team, at any level, in any league.  There must be a lot of negative yardage plays.  Also, I believe sacks count in rushing.  Amazing!! UMHB has the best defense, period!

[LACRUFAN]

CLINTON, MS - The Mississippi College Choctaws (4-2, 2-2 ASC) travel to Abilene, TX this weekend where they will face the sixth-ranked Crusaders of Mary Hardin-Baylor (5-1, 5-0 ASC). The Crusaders were the preseason pick to win the ASC this season.

Date: October 21, 2006


Time: 1:00 p.m.


Location: Abilene, TX • Tiger Field (6,500 capacity)


The Series: Mississippi College and Mary Hardin-Baylar have met eight times since 1998 with the Crusaders holding a 7-1 record against the Choctaws. The Choctaws' only win came in 1998 by a 28-0 score. UMHB has won the last seven games and has won the last three by an average score of 57-3.


1998 W 28- 0
1999 L 27- 30
2000 L 6- 24
2001 L 7- 10
2002 L 24- 39
2003 L 7- 67
2004 L 3- 49
2005 L 0- 61


The Last Time They Met: The Crusaders jumped out to a 27-0 halftime lead over Mississippi College and cruised to a 61-0 blowout victory of the Choctaws in front of a crowd of 2,930 at Tiger Field Saturday.
     The Choctaw defense played well in the first half holding the Crusaders to just 133 yards of total offense but still trailed 27-0 thanks to two punt return touchdowns and a 48-yard fake punt.
     The Crusaders piled on the yardage in the second half racking up 433 yards when the game was well in hand.
     Mary Hardin-Baylor wide receiver P. J. Williams was the star returning seven punts for a UMHB school record 278 yards including two touchdowns. In the first half Williams had punt return touchdowns of 86 and 80 yards. He also caught three passes for 61 yards and another 22-yard touchdown.
     MC quarterback Adam Shaffer provided most of the offense in the first half managing to complete 9-20 passes for 111 yards despite several drops. He would leave the game in the first half with an injury.

What to Watch for: Mary Hardin-Baylor, along with Hardin-Simmons, has dominated the ASC since 2000 with the rest of the league battling for third place. A win over the Crusaders would establish the Choctaws as a serious challenger for an ASC championship.
     One key to the game will be how well the Choctaws are able to run the ball. The Crusaders lead the country in rushing defense allowing an amazing 5.2 yards rushing per game. The Choctaws are ranked 2nd in the ASC averaging 175.5 yards per game. The Choctaws ranked 5th nationally averaging more than 453 yards per game but they are facing a defense ranked 16th allowing just 211 yards.
     The Choctaws will have an opportunity to do damage through the air if the offensive line can slow down a dominating defensive front. The Crusader defense has not had the same success against the pass allowing teams to pass for more than 200 yards per game and eight touchdown passes.

[baddog]

LACRUFAN -- Wow, now that is a scoop!
I was thinking about getting off work and go to Brownwood to see HSU play HPU.
But, heck, I think I'll just stay in town and watch MC play UMHB.
The only problem is that I have no idea where Tiger Field (6,500 capacity) is located.
Thanks for the heads up. But can you give me directions to Tiger Field?
Thank God for Clinton, MS. Were it not for that bastion of information - who can forget WorldCom -- how would we ever survive!!!???

[golden_dome]

Thanks for the heads up on the error. Corrected on our site now.

[golden_dome]

Full game notes for MC and UMHB can be found at www.gochoctaws.com

[Ralph Turner]

Full game notes for MC and UMHB can be found at www.gochoctaws.com

+1 karma, thanks for the link!

That certainly makes it faster.  I definitely appreciate anytime an SID posts a link to the game day notes on the conference message board!

[golden_dome]

I appreciate that. I have enjoyed reading your posts for about the last seven years, quite informative to say the least.  I wish we had more DIII fans like yourself. I do this for a living but being in the league for so long has really just made me a big fan of DIII and the ASC in particular. It's definitely been fun watching the conference just keep getting better. Thanks for all you do.

[Kelly Boggs]

Ditto MC-SID... I agree.

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe UMHB has yet to yield a rushing touchdown. If so, that makes their rushing stats that much more impressive.

The info on MC is quite interesting. The CRU needs to continue to play their "A" game. No let downs. One win at a time to another ASC title and a good seeding for the playoffs.

Go Purple CRUsh!

[Ralph Turner]

Chris Allman, Of all of the ATR columns that you have written, I like this week's best.

Thanks!

[dsc]

Go Cowboys!!!



Beat the Yellow Jackets..........

[cheddar8314]

Anyone making the trip to Alpine to watch the game?

[SRDAD]

I agree Dr. Turner and thanks for drawing our attention to ATR this week. The mood at Sully is just fun right now, no thoughts of anything else right now. I'll keep yall posted Saturday.