Gents Fall On Road To ETBU, 47-8

Marshall, Texas - The Centenary football team fell 47-8 to the East Texas Baptist University Tigers on Saturday night in a non-conference game at Ornelas Stadium.

The Gents (1-3) won the coin toss and elected to receive the opening kickoff. Centenary then fumbled on its first offensive play and ETBU recovered, leading to a Paul Woodard 4-yard touchdown rush just three players later as the Tigers took a 7-0 lead with 13:54 remaining in the first quarter.

Centenary forced an ETBU punt with 9:38 left in the first and the snap was bad, forcing the Tigers' punter to run out of the back of the end zone for a Gents' safety to make it 7-2. Woodard scored on a 19-yard TD run to make it 14-2 with 3:29 left in the period.

ETBU quarterback Kaden Brown's 25-yard TD pass to wide receiver Trayjen Llanas-Wilcox extended the Tigers' lead to 21-2 with 9:38 remaining in the second quarter and the lead swelled to 28-2 following a Hymond Drinkard 2-yard TD run.

The Gents finally found the end zone at the 3:25 mark of the second quarter as junior QB Zin'Tavious Smith (Coushatta, La.) found junior WR Kobe Chambers (Greenwood, Miss.) for a 61-yard TD pass to make it 28-8 but the two-point conversion run failed. The Tigers took that 20-point lead into the halftime locker room.

The Tigers returned the second half kickoff 95 yards and cashed in immediately on the next play as Woodard scored from two yards out to make it 34-8 with 14:40 left in the third quarter. Brown connected with Llanas-Wilcox for an 8-yard TD pass at the 13:40 mark of the fourth quarter as the Tigers made it a 41-8 game. Brown tossed another TD pass to WR Elias Dejean for 10 yards with 8:31 left in the game to make it 47-8 and the two-point attempt failed.

By the Numbers:

FIRST DOWNS:

CENTENARY – 11

ETBU– 25

RUSHING YARDS:

CENTENARY – 33 ATTEMPTS FOR 112 YARDS

ETBU – 40 ATTEMPTS FOR 252 YARDS

PASSING YARDS:

CENTENARY - 97 YARDS

ETBU- 241 YARDS

TOTAL OFFENSE:

CENTENARY – 55 PLAYS FOR 209 YARDS

ETBU – 65 PLAYS FOR 493 YARDS

TIME OF POSSESSION:

CENTENARY – 27:45

ETBU – 32:15

Gents' Individual Statistical Leaders

PASSING: Junior QB Zin'Tavious Smith (Coushatta, La.) – 10 attempts for 97 yards and 1 TD

RECEIVING: Chambers – 5 catches for 74 yards and one TD

RUSHING: Junior RB Bobby Shanklin Jr. (Macon, Miss.) – 8 carries for 51 yards

TACKLES: Freshman DB Delarrious Marshall (Shreveport, La.) and freshman DB Jacob Wilson (Shreveport, La.) – 9 tackles each

The Gents will play three of their next four games at home beginning with a conference contest against Lyon College (1-3) on Saturday evening with kickoff set for 6 p.m. at Atkins Field.

See the complete Gents' season schedule here: 

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