Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Southeaste­rn Louisiana at Central Arkansas

- — Pete Perkins

WHEN 7:15 p.m. WHERE Estes Stadium, Conway RECORDS UCA 1-1; Southeaste­rn Louisiana 1-0 COACHES Steve Campbell (24-14 in fourth season at UCA, 51-22 in sixth season overall); Ron Roberts (36-26 in sixth season at Southeaste­rn Louisiana, 83-43 in his 11th season overall) SERIES UCA leads 7-3

LAST MEETING UCA won 45-10 last season.

RADIO KUCA-FM, 91.3, in Conway; KKPT-FM, 94.1, in Little Rock

TELEVISION Eleven Sports Network INTERNET ucasports.com/KUCA

WHEN UCA HAS THE BALL UCA typically attempts to establish its running game first and has rushed for 423 yards through two games. Sophomore running back Carlos Blackman has led the way with 166 yards and 2 touchdowns on 40 attempts. Freshman Kierre Crossley is next with 57 yards on 18 attempts. Senior quarterbac­k Hayden Hildebrand directs the offense and has passed for 484 yards and 4 touchdowns. He has

completed 76.7 percent of his attempts to 15 different receivers, led by junior Lester Wells with 8 receptions for 55 yards. Freshman Brandon Myers has 6 for 28 and 1 touchdown. Senior Brandon Cox has caught five passes for 120 yards. WHEN SOUTHEASTE­RN LOUISIANA HAS

THE BALL Southeaste­rn Louisiana turns first to running back Eugene Bethea. Through two games, he has carried 39 times for 255 yards and 3 touchdowns with an average of 6.5 yards an attempt. Julius Maracalin has rushed 13 times for 98 yards, or an average of 7.5 yards. As a team, Southeaste­rn Louisiana has 541 rushing yards. Donovan Isom started at quarterbac­k in Southeaste­rn Louisiana’s last game, a 28-23 loss to Bethune-Cookman, and completed 11 of 23 passes for 93 yards. He threw three intercepti­ons.

WHAT’S AT STAKE UCA has won 17 consecutiv­e home openers. Its last loss in an Estes Stadium opener was 24-17 to North Alabama in 1999

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