The Liberty Flames made a statement last Saturday night as they jumped out to a 24-0 lead on the way to a 38-21 win over the #25 Bryant Bulldogs, their first win over a ranked non-conference opponent at home since 2008 when the Flames defeated Elon (ranked #14/12 at the time) in the season finale.
Josh Woodrum had his second straight 300+ yard passing game, and even had a pair of touchdown runs, including a career long 30 yard run in the second half.
Darrin "Petey" Peterson finished with 100+ yards for the second straight game (110 to be precise) but finished without a TD catch for the third time this season.
DJ Abnar and Todd Macon had a solid game, while Abnar missed out on another 100 yard game courtesy of a long run being negated by a penalty.
The story of the game though was the issues with the special teams. Jon Lunsford, making his second attempt of the season, barely knocked in a school record 57 yard field goal, banking it in off the left upright, but then missing a more routine kick from 35 yards out. Trey Turner mishandled a snap giving Bryant a short field for one TD, and Zac Parker, who had an electrifying touchdown against Brevard on a jet sweep, fumbled a punt out of bounds and misplayed a kickoff, which led to Alpha Jalloh fielding the opening kick of the second half.
Inside the Numbers
Here are a few numbers coming out of the game last week:
18:12- Coming into the game, Bryant had allowed an average of 10.7 points per game. It took Liberty 18 minutes and 12 seconds of game time to pass that average on a 3 yard DJ Abnar TD run
9- Liberty finished the game with 9 penalties for 79 yards. Coming into the game, Liberty averaged just over 4 penalties.
5- Josh Woodrum has 5 career rushing TDs after scoring twice on option looks.He finished with 21 TDs on the ground at Cave Spring High School
106- The 106 yards by Dalton Easton was more than the Flames had allowed through the air in the previous two games...combined.
Next up for the Flames is a key test against Indiana State of the Missouri Valley on Saturday at 3 PM.
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