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Barrolle, Sims, host of Bulldogs come up big as TLU crushes Howard Payne 54-27

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The Bulldogs head into TLU Homecoming week with a 5-0 overall record, matching the record through five games of the 2013 squad.
 
Howard Payne, out of the American Southwest Conference, fell to a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference squad for a second straight week. The Yellow Jackets are 3-2.
 
TLU, ranked 20th in the latest AFCA Division III poll, won for the 14th time in 15 games.
 
Barrolle entered the game as the No. 3 leading rushing in all of NCAA Division III. He made a solid bid Saturday to move up the national rushing list. The 5-4, 150-pound sophomore from Ingleside (Ingleside) eclipsed the school record for single-game rushing yards with 288 yards on 23 carries and two scores.
 
The 288 yards by Barrolle broke the 1985 single-game rushing record of TLU Hall of Famer Richard Miller, who rushed for 276 yards in a 34-3 win over Nuevo Leon (Mexico).
 
Barrolle scored on runs of 58 and 90 yards. The 90-yarder is the second-longest run in school history – second only toDominique Hardaway's 91-yarder last season against Howard Payne. The three longest runs in school history – 91, 90 and 88 by Shane Summers in 1987 – have all come against Howard Payne.
 
Through five games in 2014, Barrolle has rushed 136 times for 905 yards and 10 touchdowns. He has caught 21 passes for 190 yards and a score.
 
Jordan Sims (San Antonio/Somerset) also put himself in the TLU record book Saturday. His 95-yard interception return for a touchdown – that featured Sims going from the HPU sideline to the TLU sideline and back to the HPU sideline before falling into the endzone – tied the longest interception return in school history.
 
Sims, a senior cornerback, now shares the mark with TLU Hall of Famer Carl Schoessow, who had a 95-yarder against Trinity in 1969.
 
Sims' play gave TLU a 54-20 lead with 13:28 remaining in the game.
 
Sims scored on an interception return for a second consecutive week. He had a 25-yarder INT return for a touchdown in the Sept. 27 road win over Southwestern Assemblies of God.
 
The Bulldogs took control of the game from the opening kick. TLU took that first kickoff and marked 60 yards in eight plays, in 1:37, for a quick score. A.J. Saucedo capped the drive with a 1-yard run.
 
Barrolle's 58-yard TD scamper pushed TLU to a 13-0 lead at the 7:25 mark of the 1st quarter. The lead hit 20-0 on another Saucedo scoring run – this time from three yards.
 
Reigning SCAC Player-of-the-Week Trenton White threw TD passes to Lewis Williams II (17 yards) and to Caleb Oliver(24 yards). White (Sachs/Sachse) completed 24 of 36 passes for 260 yards and two touchdowns.
 
Oliver (Pearland/Lutheran South) caught six passes for 72 yards, and Williams added three catches for 30 yards. Williams' first catch of the day gave him the TLU DIII-era record for most catches in a career, 152. (The all-time TLU record for career catches is 202, held by the late Roy Maas, another TLU Hall of Famer.)
 
The Bulldogs rushed for 373 yards and passed for 291, for a total offense mark of 664. TLU did not commit a turnover.
 
TLU intercepted HPU quarterback Richard Young three times. In addition to Sims, Adam McGuire (Houston/Cypress Falls) and Drake Dowling (Katy/Katy) each picked off passes.
 
Weak safety Michael Wall (El Campo/El Campo) led TLU in total tackles, with 13. Wall had five solos and eight assists. He also had 1.5 tackles for loss.
 
Defensive tackle Daniel Brinson (Deweyville/Deweyville) registered a sack (for two yards), six total tackles, and 1.5 tackles for loss.
 
Tyler Brandenburg (Spring/Concordia Lutheran) connected on field goals of 35 and 42 yards.
 
The win Saturday at Brownwood's Gordon Wood Stadium was TLU's fourth straight road win of 2014. The Bulldogs now return to Bulldog Stadium to play the second game ever at the new on-campus facility.
 
TLU hosts East Texas Baptist at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11 in the TLU Homecoming game of 2014. The Bulldogs will honor three individual former student-athletes and the entire 1974 NAIA-II National Championship squad during festivities next weekend.
 
This season is the 40th anniversary of the undefeated 1974 national championship season with Head Coach Jim Wacker.

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