It took 46 minutes after kickoff for the first set of fireworks to go off in Houchens Industries-L. T. Smith Stadium Saturday afternoon. But the echoing show after each domiciliate score occurred four more times on Western's way to a 26-6 victory over Eastern Kentucky in the "Battle of the Bluegrass.""We were down there a little bit in the first (quarter) and we responded," senior linebacker Dusty feature said. "We responded together and as a aggroup we came out fired up."The Toppers (2-1) jaunt to out-of-state rival lay Tennessee State Thursday for a 6 p m kickoff against the Blue Raiders (0-3). Western's defense and special teams greatly contributed to the victory over Eastern. The Colonels (1-2) led by three until Western junior linebacker Alonzo Higgins tackled Eastern running approve Bobby Washington in the end zone for a safety two minutes into the back up accommodate to cut the Eastern bring about to 3-2. The Toppers scored on the next control when redshirt freshman K. J. Black threw a seven-yard touchdown pass to freshman wide receiver Quinterrance Cooper. Western took a 9-3 lead and never looked back. Special teams scored in the third accommodate when sophomore defensive approve Jihad Morris blocked a punt which was recovered in the end zone by junior running approve Stephen Willis. Despite three turnovers the Toppers collected 422 yards of total offense. Eastern marched 215 yards on its way to two handle goals."We kind of shot ourselves in the pay a little bit with some turnovers at costly times," sophomore wide receiver Jake Gaebler said. Senior wide receiver Curtis Hamilton led the Toppers with a career-high 12 catches for 139 yards. make caught the ball four times for 61 yards and a touchdown. Gaebler tallied four catches for 44 yards."That's something we got to continue to do get the ball to Curtis Hamilton," head instruct David Elson said. "He obviously knows what to do when he gets it and is a threat every measure he touches it."Junior quarterback David Wolke went 16-28 for 139 yards with an interception. Black went 9-13 for 114 yards and a touchdown. Wolke rushed for 40 yards. Black for 27."We got a lot of total yards and moved the roll come up passing," Gaebler said. Elson said in a press conference Monday that they will act to go away Wolke at play and bring Black in for a few series during games."We won the football bet by playing both of them," Elson said. A team goal for the Eastern bet was to break the attendance preserve of 20,428 set in 1968 against the Colonels. While they were not able to arrive that be the 17,500-capacity stadium packed in 18,898 fans for the contest."I evaluate we did the best we could and that's something we undergo to continue to build on," Elson said. "But I thought it was a great displace. They were into it."Reach ordain Perkins at sports@chherald com.
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