GVSU Football Gamenotes vs. Lake Erie


#3 Grand Valley State will host Lake Erie in a "Black Out" game. Fans are encouraged to wear black for the game. 

The Game: #3 Grand Valley State (1-0, 1-0 GLIAC) vs Lake Erie (0-1, 0-1 GLIAC)
Date: Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016
Time: 7:00 p.m. (ET)
Site: Lubbers Stadium (10,444)
TV: Xfinity 900/GVSN Youtube - Tom Cleary (play-by-play) and Bob Mitchell (color)
Radio: ESPN 96.1 - Steve Lloyd-Jones (play-by-play) and Greg Johnson (color)

RADIO AFFILIATES
ESPN-FM 96.1 Grand Rapids **
WMUS-FM 107.9 Muskegon
WDFN-AM 1130 Detroit
WKMI-AM 1360 Kalamazoo
WIMS-AM 1420 Michigan City, IN
WBRN-AM 1460 Big Rapids
WBRN-FM 107.7 Big Rapids
WHFB-AM 1060 Benton Harbor
WBRN-FM 95.1 Reed City
WHTC-AM 1450 Holland
WFNT-AM 1470 Flint
WTVB-AM 1590 Coldwater
WTVB-FM 95.5 Coldwater
WLBY-AM 1290 Ann Arbor
WCAR-AM 1090 Detroit/Livonia
WKAD-FM 93.7 Cadillac
** - Flagship station in BOLD


The Coaches
Grand Valley State • Matt Mitchell (Cornell College, 1997) • 58-19/.750 (7th) 
Lake Erie • Mark McNellie (Baldwin-Wallace) • 31-58 (9th)

Series
• The Series
Grand Valley State leads the all-time series with Lake Erie College by a 4-0 margin. GVSU has scored 249 points in the four meetings (62.2 ppg), while LEC is averaging 26.0 points in the four meetings. The Lakers claimed a 65-23 victory over Lake Erie a year ago. 

#3 Grand Valley State will continue a three-game homestand to open the 2016 season with a league tilt versus Lake Erie College. GVSU is coming off a 45-7 season-opening win over Tiffin, while the Storm dropped a 38-35 decision at home to Northern Michigan  in overtime. 

• Grand Valley State is in its 46th season of football and sport a 372-137-3 all-time record. GVSU's .729 winning percentage tops all Division II schools and is third all-time in all divisions behind Notre Dame (.733) and Michigan (.732).

• Grand Valley State has been ranked in the top three of the AFCA preseason Coaches' Poll 11 times since 2002 and the top 10 13 times since 2002. 
  
• The Lakers finished fourth in the final 2015 American Football Coaches Association poll (AFCA) and have now finished a season ranked among the AFCA top 10 12 times since 2001, including 11 seasons ranked among the top four in the final AFCA poll.

• Last Week
Grand Valley State used a balanced offense (277 rushing/233 passing) and an opportunistic defense en route to a 45-7 win. The starting Laker defense held Tiffin to 167 yards and no points through three quarters. Senior RB Terrell Dorsey rushed for 100 yards on 15 carries, while junior QB Ollie Ajami added 82 yards and two TDs on six carries. Sophomore QB Bart Williams was 15-for-25 for 233 yards and two TDs. Junior WR Brandon Bean hauled in six catches for 112. Senior LB David Talley returned an interception 20 yards for a TD and sophomore DE Dylan Carroll tallied 2.0 TFL and 1.5 QB sacks. 
     Lake Erie jumped out to a 29-7 lead on Northern Michigan, but a kickoff return for a TD with five seconds left in the first half and 11 points in the final 3:05 of the fourth quarter for the Wildcats sent the game into overtime. Tiffin kicked a 31 yard field goal to take a 35-32 lead, but Northern Michigan scored on a 6-yard TD run for the win. Desmon Turner led LE with 114 yards and two TDs on 22 carries, while QB John Banyasz passed for 147 yards and ran for 108 yards and two TDs. Turner added three catches for 55 yards. PK Austin Baker was 3-for-3 in field goals. 

• Grand Valley State is in its 46th season of football and sport a 372-137-3 all-time record. GVSU's .729 winning percentage tops all Division II schools and is third all-time in all divisions behind Notre Dame (.733) and Michigan (.732).

• Grand Valley State has been ranked in the top five of 145 AFCA Division II Coaches' polls since 2001, including 97 weeks as the number one team in the country.

• Grand Valley State has been ranked in the top three of the AFCA preseason Coaches' Poll 11 times since 2002 and the top 10 13 times since 2002. 
  
• The Lakers finished fourth in the final 2015 American Football Coaches Association poll (AFCA) and have now finished a season ranked among the AFCA top 10 12 times since 2001, including 11 seasons ranked among the top four in the final AFCA poll.

• QB Bart Williams is 10th in career passing yards at GVSU with 4,448. He needs eight yards to pass David Quinley (4,455) and 107 to pass Jim Lynch (4,554)...Williams completed 15-of-25 passes for 233 yards and two TDs in the opener vs. Tiffin. 

• Senior RB Terrell Dorsey rushed 15 times for 100 yards vs. Tiffin, marking the second and only time in his career that Dorsey reached the 100-yard mark. The other was in 2014 when Dorsey rushed for 115 yards versus the Tiffin Dragons. 

• Junior QB Ollie Ajami rushed for 82 yards and two TDs on six carries vs. Tiffin.

• Sophomore RB Marty Carter rushed nine times for 57 yards in the first half vs. Tiffin...Carter has 946 career rushing yards heading into the Lake Erie game and needs just 54 yards to become the 35th player in Laker football history to reach the 1,000-yard mark. 
 
• Senior WR Matt Williams hauled in two passes for 30  yards vs. Tiffin...Williams has 86 catches for 1,568 receiving yards.

• In the 2016 opener versus Tiffin junior WR Brandon Bean caught six passes for 112 yards...Bean broke the 100-yard receiving mark three times in the first six games a year ago before being injured...Brandon has 829 career receiving yards.

• Sophomore WR Nick Dodson caught five passes for 43 yards and a TD in the opener vs. Tiffin. 
• Junior LB Collin Schlosser tallied six tackles in the opener vs. Tiffin.

• Junior FS Garrett Pougnet recorded four tackles and a TFL (-1) vs. Tiffin.

• RS Freshman Kalen Dunham notched four tackles and a TFL in his first collegiate game vs. Tiffin. 

• Senior DE Sydney Omameh recorded three tackles a QB sack (-2) and a TFL (-2) in his first game with the Lakers vs. Tiffin.

• Senior LB David Talley recorded two tackles and returned an interception 20 yards for a TD vs. Tiffin.

• Sophomore DE Dylan Carroll tallied three tackles, 2.0 TFL (-15) and 1.5 QB sacks (-14) in the season opener vs. Tiffin. 

• Senior PK Joel Schipper moved into third in  career scoring with 296 points. Schipper moved past Reggie Spearmon (288) with nine points vs. Tiffin...Schipper also recorded three touchbacks.

• How key was the Lakers' kickoff team vs. Tiffin. GVSU recorded four touchbacks and on the four non touchbacks the average starting yard line for the Dragons was the 15 yard line. 

• Tiffin QB Antonio Pipkin was the 2015 GLIAC Offensive Player of the Year in 2015 and averaged 310.8 yards of total offense per game. Last Thursday vs. GVSU Pipkin was held to 170 yards of total offense. 

• The Grand Valley State defense held Tiffin to 1-for-10 on third down conversions...On the flip side GVSU was 7-for-13.

• Grand Valley State was 4-for-4 on red zone scores and touchdowns.

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