TYLER, Texas – The Louisiana Christian University football program found the end zone early and often while nearly posting a goose egg on defense for the second straight ballgame, ruining the Texas College Homecoming with a 52-7 blowout Saturday afternoon.
 
While it wasn't nearly as dominant overall as last week's blanking of North American, the defense was just as smothering, ceding just 190 total yards and holding the opposition to negative rushing yards once again at -49.
 
The Stallions and Steers have now combined to go 75 yards backwards on rushing attempts in the past two contests.
 
On top of the yardage, Defensive Coordinator Tyson Andrus' men put together a season-high ten sacks and a dozen QB hurries plus an additional 14 tackles for loss, to give them 34 TFLs on top of 19 quarterback takedowns in a span of eight quarters.

The Basics:
 

• Score
  • #25 Louisiana Christian – 52
  • Texas College – 7

 

• Records
  • #25 Louisiana Christian (7-0, 6-0 Sooner)
  • Texas College (0-6, 0-4 Sooner)

 

• Location
  • Tyler, Texas – Mewbourne Field

 

• Series History
  • Louisiana Christian Leads 4-0 (100%)

 

• Winning Streak
  • Louisiana Christian (W4) | Texas College's Last Win: N/A

 
Wildcats Top Performers:
 

• Sammy Feaster only had one carry, but it was a tone-setter, taking an end around 86 yards to the house for the longest play of the season to date and the contest's first score, ultimately making him the matchup's leading rusher. He also hauled in a catch for 15 yards to put him over the century mark for the day.

 

• On the other side of the ball, it was the reigning SAC Defensive Player of the Week who stole the show as Detavius Eldridge logged a pair of sacks and three tackles for loss, both team-highs, on top of two quarterback hurries, a pass breakup and six tackles (two solo).

 

• Jahiem Mitchell gave his teammate a run for his money for the title of game MVP, leading the Cats in tackles (7, 4 solo) and TFLs (3), forcing a fumble (rolled out of bounds) and dropped the signal-caller for a seven-yard sack.

 

• Ernest Simon harassed the Steers' passers all day, forcing three hurries, knocking down a pass, and registering a half-sack.

 

• The sack list was a long one that was made up of Eldridge, Mitchell, Simon, Logan Brimmer (2), Jayden Davis (1.5), Andre Reed (1), Tyren Young (1), Tyrese Ellis (0.5), and Kelan Bougere (0.5) with Kavin Touriac pitching in half-a-TFL.

 

• A stacked secondary held down a pass-heavy attack as Nate Sullivan snagged his second interception of the season, Pop McGhee broke up two would-be receptions, and Young poked one away as did Kiaron Rudd.

 

• The running back room was extremely crowded but nonetheless effective with 11 different ball carriers toting the rock 49 times for 305 yards for a 6.2 average.

 

• Daylon Charles found paydirt twice on six carries for 46 yards (7.7 ypc), Devin Briscoe got the most touches with nine for 60 yards (6.7 ypc) and a score, and Glenn White punched it in once.

 

• Sal Palermo III completed 13 passes for a pair of scores and 135 yards, with his primary targets being Ethan Christman (3 catches, 50 yards) and Jacob Ganote (4 catches, 44 yards).

 

• The two touchdowns found the waiting arms of Ganote and Taevion Cunningham.

 

• Jacob Weaver had a career day on special teams, booting his first career field goal attempt through the uprights from 25 yards out, blasting a punt 62 yards down to the Texas College one-yard line for a new career-long, both of his punts pinned the Steers inside their own 14, and he went 3-for-3 on PAT tries.

 

• Mason Ingram shared duties with Weaver most of the afternoon, also coffin-cornering a punt, going a perfect 4-of-4 during extra point attempts, and handling all of the kickoff duties to the tune of 453 yards plus a touchback.

 
Next:
 

• An unenviable task is next for the road warriors of LCU as they now must travel 20 hours and nearly 1,400 miles across Texas and New Mexico to reach Surprise, Arizona for a date with the 24th-ranked Ottawa (Arizona) Spirit at 6 p.m. central time on Saturday.

 

• The two teams were picked to finish second and third in the conference behind #17 Texas Wesleyan with OUAZ already falling to the Rams earlier in the year so the Wildcats could all but eliminate the Spirit from SAC contention with a dub.

 
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