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Saturday, November 19
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DUKES ROLL TO 55-14 FOOTBALL WIN OVER TOWSON
11/19/2005 12:00:00 AM | Football
HARRISONBURG, Va. (11/19/05) – Senior cornerback Clint Kent (Macon, Ga./Westside) and sophomore free safety Tony LeZotte (Augusta, Ga./Westside) put their names in the interceptions portion of the James Madison record book as the Dukes closed the regular season Saturday with a 55-14 Atlantic 10 Football Conference victory over Towson.
Both returned their interceptions for touchdowns – the first time in team history the Dukes have had two interception returns for scores in a game – and their efforts allowed JMU to break the game open midway through the first half.
The victory was JMU's third straight and raised the Dukes' overall record to 7-4 and their Atlantic 10 mark to 5-3. Â Towson finished 6-5 overall and 3-5 in the Atlantic 10.
The Dukes led 14-0 on touchdown run of three and 45 yards by junior tailback Maurice Fenner (Virginia Beach, Va./Bayside) when Kent and LeZotte scored on interception returns on consecutive Towson series to give JMU a 28-0 advantage 11:40 before halftime.
Kent intercepted Towson red-shirt freshman quarterback Sean Schaefer and scored from 34 yards with 2:31 left in the opening quarter for a 21-0 Dukes lead. Â The visiting Tigers then drove 72 yards in 13 plays to the JMU 10 before LeZotte's interception and 100-yard return raised the JMU margin to 28-0.
Kent's interception was the 13th of his career and moved him into a tie for first on JMU's all-time interceptions list with Bob Logan (1975-78). Â Kent holds the team's Division I record for interceptions.
LeZotte's return was the longest for a touchdown in JMU's 34-year football history. Â Mike Masella (1995-98) had a 100-yard interception return for a defensive two-point conversion for the Dukes in 1998 against Villanova.
JMU hadn't had two defensive touchdowns in a game since scoring on interception and fumble returns in a 39-7 home win over Virginia Military in 1986.
JMU went on to lead 45-7 at halftime and 52-14 after three periods. Â The Dukes scored touchdowns the first six times they had the ball (including the two interception returns), and they punted only once. Â JMU finished with 390 yards of total offense (294 rushing, 96 passing) and Towson with 265 yards (89 rushing, 176 passing). Â The Tigers entered the game averaging 420 yards per game.
The Dukes scored on drives of 59 and 62 yards on their first two possessions and after the interception returns for touchdowns got a five-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Justin Rascati (Gainesville, Fla./Buchholz) to senior tight end Casime Harris (Wilmington, Del./McKean), a 13-yard touchdown run from senior tailback Raymond Hines (Hyattsville, Md./High Point) and a 21-yard field goal by senior Paul Wantuck (Manassas, Va./Osbourn Park) during the second quarter.
The Dukes went 80 yards in 11 plays for Harris' touchdown, moved 38 yards in four plays for Hines' score after LeZotte returned a punt 38 yards, and got Wantuck's field goal after Towson fumbled the next kickoff.
Hines had a one-yard scoring run with 10:38 left in the third quarter after junior linebacker Akeem Jordan (Harrisonburg, Va./Harrisonburg) intercepted a deflected Towson pass and returned it three yards to the Tiger seven, and Wantuck kicked a 31-yard, fourth-quarter field goal.
Fenner ran 16 times for 95 yards and two scores, Hines 14 times for 67 yards and two touchdowns, Rascati eight times for 65 yards, and junior tailback Alvin Banks (Hampton, Va./Hampton) six times for 54 yards. Â Banks played only during the first quarter because of an injury, and he raised his season rushing yards total to 940.
Rascati hit on 11 of 15 passes for 91 yards and a touchdown and wasn't intercepted. Â He improved his season passing percentage mark to 69.6 percent and his passing efficiency rating to 162.69. Â The percentage betters his team-season record of 65.4 percent of last season. Â The efficiency mark is just off Eriq Williams' (1989-92) 1991 team-season record of 164.8.
Sophomore linebacker Justin Barnes (Columbia, Md./Oakland Mills) was JMU's top tackler with 12.
Schaeffer threw touchdown passes of 19 yards to Marcus Lee during the second quarter and one yard to Andrae Brown during the third quarter. Â The scoring drives covered 53 and 63 yards, respectively.
Team Stats
TOWSON
JMU
Total Yards
265
390
Pass Yards
176
96
Rushing Yards
89
294
Penalty Yards
55
26
1st Downs
13
23
3rd Downs
7
6
4th Downs
4
2
TOP
28:47
31:13
1st Quarter
TOWSON 0, JMU 7
JMU - Fenner,M. 3 yd run (Wantuck,P. kick), 12 plays, 59 yards, TOP 5:46
TOWSON 0, JMU 14
JMU - Fenner,M. 45 yd run (Wantuck,P. kick), 2 plays, 62 yards, TOP 0:16
TOWSON 0, JMU 21
JMU - Kent,C. 34 yd interception (Wantuck,P. kick)
2nd Quarter
TOWSON 0, JMU 28
JMU - LeZotte,T. 100 yd interception (Wantuck,P. kick)
TOWSON 7, JMU 28
TOWSON - Marcus Lee 19 yd pass from Sean Schaefer (Ron Halbruner kick) 9 plays, 53 yards, TOP 2:44
TOWSON 7, JMU 35
JMU - Harris,C. 5 yd pass from Rascati,J. (Wantuck,P. kick) 11 plays, 80 yards, TOP 5:02
TOWSON 7, JMU 42
JMU - Hines,R. 13 yd run (Wantuck,P. kick), 4 plays, 38 yards, TOP 1:23
TOWSON 7, JMU 45
JMU - Wantuck,P. 21 yd field goal 7 plays, 34 yards, TOP 1:02
3rd Quarter
TOWSON 7, JMU 52
JMU - Hines,R. 1 yd run (Wantuck,P. kick), 3 plays, 7 yards, TOP 1:32
TOWSON 14, JMU 52
TOWSON - Andrae Brown 1 yd pass from Sean Schaefer (Ron Halbruner kick) 13 plays, 63 yards, TOP 7:11
4th Quarter
TOWSON 14, JMU 55
JMU - Wantuck,P. 31 yd field goal 14 plays, 62 yards, TOP 7:22
Game Leaders
CMP
11
TD
1
YDS
91
INT
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CMP
1
TD
0
YDS
5
INT
0
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