Youngstown State #4 seed in 1-AA playoffs

[HineyBuck]

Good game Penguins. Just got home from the game. Met some good Penguin and Buckeye fans there.

I told y'all App State was playing like a team on a mission, but I never thought we'd blow you out like that.

Go App State!! Go for two!!

 

[CleveBucks]

That ASU QB is a stud... true freshman going for 2k and 1k and didn't even play until the 3rd game. He's going to set some records.

 

[TresselOwnsCarr]

wow, YSU didn't even belong on the same field as that team. They're really something.

Good luck to ASU next week, not that they'll need it. Congrats.

I was hoping I'd get a chance to make a road trip to Tennessee next weekend, but I guess my team let me down. Troy's heisman and the cavs winning by 30 helped with the disappointment tonight though :!

 

[PrincetonBuckeye]

Nothing to hang their heads at...They had a great year!! It would have nice to see another NC go back to Youngstown, but maybe next year....Coach Hancock has them on the right track!!!:)

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

APPALACHIAN STATE 49 YOUNGSTOWN STATE 24
Penguins unable to match top-ranked Mountaineers

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Mike Cranston
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Youngstown State quarterback Tom Zetts loses the football as he is hit by Marques Murrell, left, and Daniel Orlebar.

Marcus Mason fights his way through Appalachian State defenders to score a touchdown for YSU.


BOONE, N.C. ? Appalachian State coach Jerry Moore wants his program to reach the level of Youngstown State?s dominant teams of the 1990s.
He?s nearly halfway there.
Armanti Edwards ran for 110 yards and three touchdowns and threw for another score and defending national champion Appalachian State beat Youngstown State 49-24 yesterday to reach the Division I-AA championship game.
Kevin Richardson rushed for 145 yards and two touchdowns before leaving in the third quarter because of a shoulder injury as the topranked Mountaineers won their 13 th straight game and advanced to face Massachusetts on Friday night.
Youngstown State was the power of I-AA in the 1990s, winning four national championships under now-Ohio State coach Jim Tressel. But the Penguins hadn?t won a playoff game since 1999 before their run to the semifinals, where they were overmatched against what has become I-AA?s current dominant team.
Edwards, a freshman, became only the fifth player in Division I to throw for 2,000 yards and rush for 1,000 in a season. Edwards reached the milestone with 6-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter that made it 14-0.
Richardson had touchdown runs of 1 and 18 yards in the second to help the Mountaineers (13-1) build a 28-7 lead.
"They?re a heck of a football team, and we knew what we were getting into," Penguins coach Jon Heacock said. "We couldn?t slow them down. We just couldn?t do it."
Richardson, who has a teamrecord 26 touchdowns, was injured while being tackled early in the third quarter. But by then the Mountaineers led 35-14 and were well on their way to their 21 st straight win against I-AA teams and their 27 th consecutive home victory.
"I had this injury before," Richardson said. "I?ll be good to go next week."
Marcus Mason rushed for 121 yards and a touchdown for the Penguins (11-3), who had been 6-0 in semifinal games.
Shortly after Edwards? 8-yard touchdown run with 8:57 left made it 49-17, hundreds of fans began to line up outside the stadium to purchase tickets for the championship game.
The Mountaineers, who rushed for 353 yards, also were dominant on defense. Youngstown State?s Tom Zetts was just 13 of 27 passing for 150 yards with one touchdown and one interception.
The Penguins, who didn?t pick up a first down until early in the second quarter, got to 28-14 at halftime on Zetts? 16-yard TD pass to Monquantae Gibson.
But Appalachian State put it away early in the third quarter. Marques Murrell?s second sack pinned the Penguins near their own goal line. Thanks to a bad snap, Joe Bishop managed an 8-yard punt that rolled out of bounds at the 10. On the next play, the speedy Edwards eluded tacklers along the left sideline for a touchdown to make it 35-14. "It was a critical point," Heacock said. "When you get into that situation and give them the ball there, you?re in trouble."

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Canton

Youngstown State Coach Jon Heacock reacts after a turnover in the third quarter of his team?s 49-24 loss to Appalacian State in the Division I-AA semifinals in Boone, N.C., on Saturday.​

Youngstown State bounced in I-AA semi
Sunday, December 10, 2006



Armanti Edwards ran for 110 yards and three touchdowns and threw for another score as defending national champion Appalachian State beat Youngstown State 49-24 on Saturday at Boone, N.C., to reach the NCAA Division I-AA title game.
Kevin Richardson rushed for 145 yards and two touchdowns before leaving in the third quarter with a shoulder injury as the Mountaineers won their 13th straight game and advanced to face Massachusetts on Friday night in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Edwards, a freshman, became only the fifth player in Division I and the first since Vince Young of Texas last year to throw for 2,000 yards and rush for 1,000 in a season. Edwards reached the milestone with his 6-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter that made it 14-0.
Richardson had touchdown runs of 1 and 18 yards in the second to help the Mountaineers (13-1) build a 28-7 lead.
Richardson, who has a team-record 26 touchdowns, was injured while being tackled early in the third quarter. But by then the Mountaineers led 35-14. Marcus Mason rushed for 121 yards and a touchdown for the Penguins (11-3), who had been 6-0 in semifinal games.