CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Eastern Kentucky University’s football team will play its first official Ohio Valley Conference road game of the season when the Colonels face Southeast Missouri on Saturday.
Wheels up. Cape Girardeau bound! #AMatterOfPride pic.twitter.com/WR1ukyIgbM
— EKU Football (@EKUFootball) October 16, 2015
The game at Houck Stadium in Cape Girardeau is scheduled to kick off at 2 p.m. ET. The live radio broadcast of the game is available in the Richmond area on WCYO 100.7 FM, and can be heard worldwide on EKUSports.com. A live free video broadcast is available on OVCDigitalNetwork.com.
No. 14 ranked Eastern Kentucky (3-2, 2-0 OVC) is coming off a 48-17 victory over Tennessee Tech. The game was moved to Georgetown College after the EKU campus was closed due to a safety threat. The Colonels rolled up 489 yards of offense on its way to taking a 41-10 lead at halftime. Eastern Kentucky totaled 382 passing yards, the highest single game total since 2005.
Individually, Bennie Coney tied the school record with five touchdown passes. His 351 yards passing were the most by a Colonel quarterback since 2007. Freshman Arien Beasley caught four passes for 136 yards, including a 70-yard touchdown catch. Dy’Shawn Mobley ran for 115 yards, his first 100-yard game of the season. Noah Spence had six tackles and a sack. Derrell Young finished with two sacks.
In its three victories this season, EKU has out-scored its opponents by a combined score of 151-40, an average of 50-13 per game.
Southeast Missouri is 2-4 overall and 1-1 in league games. Three of the Redhawks’ losses have been by five points or less. SEMO beat Southern Illinois, 27-24, but lost to NCAA Division II Shorter University, 26-21. In conference games, Southeast beat Murray State 27-10 and lost at Eastern Illinois, 33-28, last weekend.
SEMO is second in the OVC in rushing, totaling 214 yards per game on the ground. The Redhawks are fourth in the conference in scoring defense (26 ppg) and fourth in rushing defense (176.3 ypg).
Eastern Kentucky ranks second in the OVC in scoring offense (35.6 ppg) and second with an average of 301.6 yards allowed per game. Southeast is giving up 446.2 yards per contest.
Tremane McCullough, a 5-foot-10 junior, leads Southeast Missouri and is second in the conference with 92 yards rushing per game. Paul McRoberts, a 6-foot-3 senior, is averaging 84 receiving yards per game and is tied for fourth in the OVC with five touchdowns. Outside linebacker Chad Meredith is second, only to EKU’s Noah Spence, in the OVC with 7.5 tackles for a loss this season.
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