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UAB Football Postgame Notes
UAB 16, East Carolina 13
Oct. 28, 2000
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Box Score
The win over East Carolina improved UAB's record to 6-2
overall, 2-2
in Conference USA...the Blazers have won six games for the first time
as an
NCAA Division I-A team, and for the first time since the 1994 season,
when
the I-AA Independent Blazers finished 7-4 overall.
UAB won the opening coin toss for the first time during the 2000
season....the previous seven opponents won the toss and all deferred
the
option...UAB opened a game with a kickoff for the first time in the ECU
game.
Rhett Gallego's miss of a 45-yard field goal attempt in the
first quarter
was his second straight (he missed his only attempt in the Middle
Tennessee
game)...prior to that, he made his first 11 in a row to start the 2000
season....Gallego came back with makes from 39 and 31 yards to give the
Blazers a 6-3 halftime lead.
Gallego's 44-yard field goal with 2:24 to play was the second
time this
season a field goal by him proved to be the difference...the other
game-winning kick came on the road as well, as he booted a game-winning
32-yard FG as time expired against LSU.
Gallego hit three of four field goals on the day and now has
converted 14
of 16 on the season...he is one field goal shy of tying the
single-season
UAB mark by Kevin Thompson (1993).
The Blazers' third-quarter scoring drought was snapped vs. The
Pirates....UAB entered the ECU game having been outscored 34-7 by
opponents
in the third quarter this season (the Blazers' only points in the
third
quarter this season prior to the ECU came on a Percy Coleman touchdown
run at
Kansas on Sep. 16)....East Carolina scored 10 points to open the third
quarter and led 13-6 in the final munute of the quarter, but Jeff Aaron
hit
flanker T.J. Simmons with a 28-yard scoring pass to tie the
game...opponents
have outscored the Blazers 44-14 in the third quarter this season.
Jeff Aaron's 28-yard touchdown pass to T.J. Simmons at the end
of the
third quarter was the longest of Aaron's career (it was his third TD
pass as
a Blazer)....it was also Simmons' first touchdown as a Blazer.
Aaron's 192 yards passing was also a career high....he has
surpassed his
career high in each of his three starts for UAB...he is now 3-0 as a
starter
(vs. Memphis, Middle Tennessee, East Carolina).
The Blazers are now 5-1 in games decided by five or less points
this
season and 3-1 in road games this season.
UAB goes back out on the road again next week (Nov. 4), taking on
Cincinnati in a key Conference USA matchup at Nippert Stadium (Noon
CST).
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