Bison Finally Return Home to Take on ECU

Quarterback Preston Haire set new career milestones in the win over Southeastern Oklahoma State, becoming the first quarterback in school history to throw for over 6,000 yards to go with his 50 touchdowns. Haire has been one of the top quarterbacks in the conference as well as the nation.
 

Currently, Haire is second in the country in completions per game with 27.67 while sitting 11th in the nation in points responsible for with 56. He is 12th in the nation with eight passing touchdowns and 17th in the country in passing yards with 794. He has had multi touchdown pass games in every contest in 2019 and has now thrown at least two touchdown passes in seven straight contests.

A season ago, the OBU defense only had four interceptions total in 2018. Though three games already, the OBU defense has three interceptions and has forced five turnovers in three contests, a big improvement from a season ago. OBU came away with three turnovers last Saturday including interceptions from Felipe Alvear and Lane Martin. Rueben Thompson also forced and recovered a fumble on the opening kickoff of the game.
 

Along with only one turnover from the offense thus far this season, OBU shows a positive turnover margin of +4, good for 22nd in the country thus far.

Hayden Ashley has been excellent so far in his punting duties, averaging 41.28 yards per punt on 18 punts including 10 inside the 20 yards line and three 50+ yard punts

But Ashley has made his impact in two straight games with his legs, finding openings in back-to-back games to pick up first downs for OBU in punting situations.

Ashley has two rushes on the season for 25 yards including a long of 16 yards from Saturday's game. He is averaging 12.5 yards per game.

For the second straight week, the Oklahoma Baptist football team put together a huge fourth quarter comeback in the final five minutes on Saturday evening.

This time, they finished it off.

Preston Haire connected with Shae Garner for a 27-yard score with 50 seconds to play and the OBU defense forced a turnover on downs to give the Bison a thrilling 34-31 win over Southeastern Oklahoma State at Paul Laird Field.


Oklahoma Baptist fell behind 14-0 after a tough first quarter, but got back into it thanks in part to a Felipe Alvear interception as they made it a 14-14 contest in the second, eventually trailing 17-14 going into half. After OBU opened the half with a touchdown to take their first lead of the game at 20-17, Southeastern scored the next 14 points to lead 31-20 going into the fourth. It was another terrific come-from-behind finish as OBU scored 14 points in the final five minutes to secure the win.
 

The Bison and Savage Storm were nearly even in yards with OBU finishing with 414 total yards including 247 through the air. Southeastern had 419 total yards including 348 through the air. The Bison defense came away with three turnovers on the night.

It is the seventh consecutive win for Oklahoma Baptist over a GAC in-state team dating back to 2017.