PC-Fayetteville State Box Score
CLINTON, S.C. ? Presbyterian College set a new Bailey Memorial Stadium record with its sixth consecutive home victory by defeating Fayetteville State 38-28 on Saturday afternoon.
PC's six-game home winning streak bests the previous record set by the 2005 South Atlantic Conference championship team that won five straight home contests.
PC has not yet dropped a game at home under Bobby Bentley, who is 4-0 at Bailey Memorial Stadium since taking over the reins at his alma mater.
Tim Webb (Lugoff, S.C./Lugoff-Elgin) led the Blue Hose offense in the game, passing for 280 yards and two touchdowns. Webb was 19-for-35 overall in the Blue Hose victory over the Broncos. Webb also acquired one rushing touchdown in the game.
Webb's prime target in the contest was Terrance Butler (Myrtle Beach, S.C./Socastee), who finished the game with six catches and 90 yards. Butler had one touchdown reception. He had 127 all-purpose yards, which included 20 punt return yards.
Chetyuane Reeder (Clinton, S.C./Clinton) had two total touchdowns in the game, catching one and running for another. Reeder finished with 92 all-purpose yards, which included 12 yards rushing and 80 yards receiving. Reeder had three total catches.
George Mathis (Aiken, S.C/Aiken) led the Blue Hose rushing attack in the win, rushing for 60 yards. The 60 yards accumulated by Mathis in the game are the most by the senior since he rushed for 64 in the Blue Hose victory over VMI on Oct. 13, 2007.
Sophomore running back Travis Caldwell (Boiling Springs, S.C./Boiling Springs) tallied his best game in a Blue Hose uniform in the Fayetteville game, obtaining the first rushing touchdown of his career in the fourth quarter.
PC had four players finish with eight tackles. Senior middle linebacker Antwan Thomas (Hawkinsville, Ga./Hawkinsville) finished the game with four solo tackles and four assists. He had a half a sack and one-half of a tackle-for-loss.
Fellow linebacker Chris Bowman (Conway, S.C./Conway) concluded the game with four solo stops and four assists, but Bowman had a game-high two sacks for 12 yards.
Defensive rover Kyle Harris (Royston, Ga./Franklin County) tabulated a career-best eight tackles in the contest, tying Thomas and Bowman for team-high honors in solo stops with four. Brian Leonardi (Aiken, S.C./Aiken) also had eight tackles in the game, but the sophomore weakside linebacker ended the game with a team-best five assists.
Senior right defensive end Adam McKinney (Augusta, Ga./Augusta Christian) finished Saturday's victory over the Broncos with a team-best 2.5 tackles-for-loss. McKinney had 1.5 sacks in the game.
Fayetteville State was led in the loss by quarterback Ben Williams, who threw for 226 yards. Pittman had 17 completions and was 17-for-31 with two interceptions and one touchdown pass. Williams was sacked by the Blue Hose four times.
Broncos' running back Richard Medlin had three rushing touchdowns in the game, concluding the loss to PC with 79 total yards on the ground. His longest rush of the contest was 21 yards.
Fayetteville State's Marcos Esquivel led all defensive players in the game with 12 total tackles, which included a game-high eight solo stops. Esquivel had 1.5 tackles-for-loss.
The Blue Hose had a total of 411 yards of offense in the game, while Fayetteville State had 376.
PC scored the first points of the game with 13:42 left in the first quarter on a 39-yard pass from Webb to Reeder.
PC would go ahead by as many as 10 in the first half, but Fayetteville State went ahead for the first time in the second quarter when Medlin rushed in from five yards out to give FSU a 21-17 lead.
Webb found Butler for a 23-yard touchdown with only 2:10 left in the first half to put PC ahead 24-21 going into the locker room.
Fayetteville State went on top 28-24 in the third quarter, but PC scored the final 14 points in the game to earn the 38-28 victory.
PC and Fayetteville State are both now 1-1 in their 2008 campaigns. The Blue Hose next take to the road again to square off against the second of their four SoCon opponents in 2008 with a game against Elon at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13 at Rhodes Stadium in Elon, N.C.
