The ASU Mountaineers thoroughly dominated the Eagles at the Rock on Black Saturday, out gaining the Eagles 712 yards to 171 yards and winning by a score of 52-16, the most points given up by Georgia Southern to a D1 FCS opponent in a regular season game. The Mountaineers put together a complete, 4 quarter ball game, starting out with the defensive performance that everyone's been looking for all season. ASU dominated from the beginning, scoring on four of its first five possessions and racking up 411 yards of offense in the first half, and the defense holding GSU to minus-three yards on the ground and forced two turnovers and three three-and-outs in the first half. After the first Eagles three and out, the Mountaineers struck quickly, with Armanti Edwards hitting Matt Cline for the first score of the day. The Apps foreced another three and out and had the ball again, driving down the field when the only real mistake of the game took place. Edwards hit Brad Hardee on a pass to the right side, the ball popped out and the Eagles recovered and took it in for a touchdown that tied the game at 7 all. But other than that it was pretty much all ASU. Armanti Edwards, who crosssed the 4000 career rushing yards mark, then found CoCo Hillary on a 53 yard touchdown pass, the first of two on the day for CoCo. The Mountaineer defense just smothered the Eagles throughout the first half, and Mark Legree snagged his third interception of the season. It wasn't long after that before Devon Moore got the first of three rushing touchdowns in the game. That was followed by another big play by the Mountaineer defense when the Apps forced and recovered a fumble that resulted a few plays later in Devon Moore's second tochdown run. The Eagles did manage a field goal late in the second quarter, but the Mountaineers responded immediately with Armanti Edwards finding CoCo Hillary for his second touchdown pass and the Mountaineers took a commanding 35-10 lead into halftime. ASU did not let up the pressure on either side of the ball in the second half, as Rod Chisolm got a big run in the early minutes of the third quarter that set up Devon Moore's third touchdown of the afternoon. The Mountaineer defense continued to dominate but a couple of penalties gave the Eagles some help and they did score a touchdown with five minutes to go in the third, but failed on a two-point conversion attempt. That would be all the Eagles would do the rest of the way. Armanti Edwards only played two second half series, and Travaris Cadet came on and led two scoring drives. With two mintues left in the third, Jason Vitaris hit a 43 yard field goal to extend the Apps lead. The other Cadet drive featured a long pass play to DeAndre Pressley - quarterback to quarterback. Travaris Cadet then scored a touchdown on a run from 15 yards out to put a cap on big game for the Mountaineers, putting them at 4-0 in the conference for the third time in the past four years, and more importantly, a complete game from start to finish on both sides of the ball. The Mountaineers head to Greenville this Saturday to take on the Furman Paladins.
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