BROOKINGS, S.D. - South Dakota State set single-game school records for yards rushing and total offense as the Jacks defeated Missouri-Rolla 64-28, also setting a record for the most points scored in a Hobo Day game Saturday at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium.
The Jacks had three backs rush for over 100 yards and gained 567 yards rushing enroute to 689 yards total offense. That breaks the SDSU single game record of 532 yards rushing against Augustana in 1952 and 682 yards total offense set against Wayne State in 1999.
SDSU improved to 4-3 on the season and will host nationally ranked Georgia Southern in a 1 p.m. game next Saturday. Missouri-Rolla is now 5-3 and will play another 1AA opponent, Austin Peay, next week.
SDSU's trio of Cory Koenig,Trevor Hohn and Anthony Watson accounted for 462 yards and five touchdowns for the Jacks, who topped the previous Hobo Day record of 61 in a shutout victory over USD in 1963.
Koenig, sophomore from Underwood, IA, rushed 15 times for 184 yards including touchdowns of runs of 14 and 15 yards. Hohn, sophomore from Mitchell, gained 161 yards on just six carries (26.8 ypc) with one touchdown, a 64-yard run in the fourth quarter. And Anthony Watson, junior from Worthington, MN, picked up 117 yards on 11 carries including touchdowns of 5 and 3 yards.
Three other players added touchdowns while Parker Douglass kicked field goals of 29, 27 and 27 yards. Sophomore quarterback Reed Burckhardt added an 8-yard TD run in the fourth quarter, Chris Molitor scored on a 6-yard pass from Ryan Berry in the second quarter, and Chris Wagner scored on a 10-yard pass from Burckhardt in the third period
Douglass, the sophomore from Columbus, NE, had his string of consecutive extra points end at 52. He suffered the first missed PAT of his career in the fourth quarter, ending a string of 23 in a row this season to go with his 29-for-29 performance as a freshman.
Jackrabbit starting quarterback Andy Kardoes, who has been nursing an ankle injury most of the season, played just one series before going to the sideline. Berry, redshirt freshman from Watertown, came in and was 8-for-14 passing for 77 yards while rushing 7 times for 44 yards, and Burckhardt, the sophomore from Russell, MN, finished 4-for-8 passing for 45 yards and had one rush for 8 yards.
UMR quarterback Evan Gray tied the Miners' single-game record by passing for four touchdowns as he finished 27-of-46 for 335 yards. That boosted his season total to 21 TDs, a UMR record. His touchdowns covered 51 and 23 yards to Brandon Landry and 14 and 77 yards to Ashton Gronewald. UMR, a Division II independent, finished with 353 yards passing and 388 yards total offense.
Cornerback Jeff Hegge, like Berry a former Watertown Arrow, led the Jacks with nine tackles, including four solos. Linebacker Billy Ray Kirch had eight stops and two passes broken up. Twenty-three players had tackles for the Jacks, who had sacks by Gabe Koenigsfeld and Hank Goff.
Defensively for UMR, linebacker Mario Gant had 13 tackles and safety Nathan Williams had ten.
The 92nd Hobo Day game drew 14,503 fans despite 45 degree temperatures with a morning snow which blanketed the field in white.
