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Chippewas Fall To Boise State 47-10
9/23/2000 12:00:00 AM | Football
Sept. 23, 2000
MOUNT PLEASANT--It was the Boise State University offensive highlight show on Saturday afternoon at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
The Broncos racked up 515 yards of total offense in a 47-10 victory over Central Michigan University. The Boise State defense held the Chippewas to 268 yards of offense.
The loss drops to CMU to 1-3 on the year while Boise State improves to 1-3.
Boise State scored a pair of touchdowns in the opening quarter to jump to a quick 13-0 lead. Brian O'Neal caught a 17-yard pass from Bart Hendricks with 3:44 left then David Mikell scored on a 20-yard run with 2:02 to play.
The Chippewas got on the board with a 35-yard field goal by Paul Savich with 7:25 left in the second quarter to close the gap to 13-3 but Boise then scored 21 unanswered points to take a 34-3 halftime advantage.
Brock Forsey had a pair of touchdowns for the Broncos while Davy Malaythong caught a 56-yard pass from Hendricks for the other score.
BSU scored the only points of the third quarter, a 13-yard touchdown run by David Mikell to increase the lead to 41-3.
Central got its first touchdown of the day midway through the fourth quarter when Eric Salani caught a 31-yard pass from Derrick Vickers to make it 41-10.
Boise rounded out the scoring with a four-yard score by Aristotle Thompson with just 53 seconds left.
Boise State's quarterback Bart Hendricks threw three touchdowns and completed 13-of-21 passes for 195 yards to lead the Bronco offensive attack.
CMU started quarterback Pete Shepherd who completed 15-of-22 for 137 yards.
Tailback Vince Webber had 36 yards on 14 carries while wide receiver David Hannah led the squad with six catched for 60 yards.
The Chippewas travel next Saturday to the University of Toledo.
NOTES AND QUOTES
* Boise State improves to 3-1 overall (0-0 Big West). Central Michigan falls to 1-3, 1-0 in MAC play. Boise State travels to Washington State next on Oct. 7. The Chippewas return to MAC action at Toledo on Sept. 30. CMU is now 1-1 in home games in the Mike DeBord era.
* CMU's 37-point loss was the worst in Kelly/Shorts Stadium history. The previous mark was 27 points in a 30-3 loss to Youngstown State in 1989.
* A total of 19 different players caught passes in the game. Boise State had 11 different players snag a catch and eight different Chippewas hauled in a pass. Boise State gained 245 yards through the air compared to CMU's 188. CMU's David Hannah caught a game-high six passes for 60 yards.
* CMU backup QB Derrick Vickers hooked up with TE Eric Salani on a 31-yard TD pass. It was the first career TD for each player.
* Boise State QB Bart Hendricks completed 13-of-21 pass attempts for 195 yards and three TDs. He also rushed for 62 yards on six carries.
* BSU tailback David Mikell carried nine times for 57 yards and two touchdowns. Each of his first two carries resulted in TDs. The first was a 20-yarder on a double-reverse and the second was a 13 yard plunge.
CMU head coach Mike DeBord
"I said going into this game that Boise State would be the best team, top to bottom, that we'd face this year. It's a great program and it deserves all the credit."
"I don't put days, months or years on our progress. It's a daily job to get to a winning level. Are we as bad as we appeared today? No. The kids came out and played a better second half and that really impressed me. If we keep working hard like that the winning will come."
(on the starting QBs) "Pete Shepherd was the starter this game but I'm not sold on naming one starter. Attitude and how they practice will dictate if they start the next week. You have to have a positive attitude and a hard work ethic if you want to start the next game, I don't care who you are."
"Good teams put bad games behind them, just like Boise State did with the Arkansas loss last week. We have the same situation. We have to put this loss behind us and move on. That's football. We can't hang our heads. We are going to fight through this."
BSU coach Dirk Koetter
"I'm ecstatic over a 47-10 win but when we watch the tape I'm sure we'll find things to improve on."
(on slow start) "We are a slow starting team. When you don't have a lot of film on a team it takes a couple of series to get adjusted."
"The key play that turned the game around was when Zach Weber stripped the ball on the third series and we recovered."
"CMU reminds me of where we were a few years ago. It is doing things with a new staff like we did. It's not easy to build a program but it is doing good things."
