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ATHENS, W.Va. - For the second time this season, the Concord University football team takes to the road when it travels to UVa.-Wise to face the Cavaliers 1:00 p.m. Saturday at Carl Smith Stadium.
LIVE COVERAGE
Stats: The UVa.-Wise Sports Information Department will provide live in-game statistics for Saturday's contest.
Video: Live streaming video will also be available for the game at UVa.-Wise.
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RECORDS
The Mountain Lions are 1-1 after a 42-21 setback against Charleston in its only scheduled Thursday night game of the season last week.
Meanwhile, UVa.-Wise is seeking its first win of the 2018 campaign after a losses to Glenville State and West Virginia State to open the season.
FREE ADMISSION
The UVa.-Wise Athletic Department will be offering free admission due to potential inclement weather for the area.
TACKLING MACHINES
In the defeat against Charleston, junior defensive back
Ke'Shawn Hall and senior linebacker
Zach Malone were standouts on the defensive side.
Hall recorded a career-best 12 tackles while also setting a personal high in tackles for loss with two.
Hall joins senior linebacker
Andrew Jakubowsky, Malone and senior defensive lineman
Justin Noble as the only active Mountain Lions with double-digit tackles in a game.
Meanwhile, Malone surpassed 250 tackles in his career with 10 stops versus Charleston.
The middle linebacker for CU became the ninth player in program history to tally 250 tackles.
Additionally, the Charleston, West Virginia native ranks eighth among active Division II players in career tackles with 251 and is the top active tackler in the region, just ahead of Kutztown's Tajier Jefferson who has 246 tackles.
1-2 PUNCH
Sophomore wide receiver
Tywan Pearce and junior wide receiver
Brandon Plyler each had seven receptions versus Charleston as both set single-game career highs in the statistical category.
Pearce also set a personal-best with 69 yards.
As for Plyler, he recorded his third career multi-touchdown game as he found the end zone on scoring receptions of 15 yards and four yards.
It was the first two-score game for Plyler since last season against Glenville State and it was his first multi-touchdown game at home in his career.
Plyler ranks in a tie for second in the MEC in receptions this season with 13.
THREE'S COMPANY
Junior quarterback
Kyle Akin threw three touchdown passes versus Charleston with the other scoring toss going to Pearce which got Concord on the scoreboard in the second quarter.
It had been 14 games since a CU signal caller threw three touchdowns in a game when
Brian Novak had five touchdowns at West Virginia State during the 2016 season.
Additionally, Akin was 22-for-35 in the contest against UC.
It had also been 14 games since a Mountain Lion quarterback had more than 20 completed passes in a game.
Akin matched Novak's 22 completions at West Virginia State two seasons ago.
PITCHING A SHUTOUT
Last season, the Mountain Lions picked up a 7-0 home win over UVa.-Wise as the game's only touchdown was scored by All-American and former Concord standout
Jeremiah Johnson on an interception in the fourth quarter.
It represented the first time Concord had shut out an opponent since the 2007 season when it accomplished the feat against UNC-Pembroke in a 10-0 win.
Against UVa.-Wise, the Mountain Lions racked 10 sacks which was the second-most in a single game last season across all of Division II and the most in MEC history.
Noble accounted for three of the sacks.
Two seasons ago, Noble registered a career-best 10 tackles at UVa.-Wise in a 30-19 loss for CU.Â
This season, Concord has just one sack which came from sophomore defensive back
Jonathan Roebuck on a safety blitz in week one at West Virginia Wesleyan.
SAVING HIS BEST FOR WISE
Senior defensive back Chaudlier Shepeherd (a graduate of Dr. Henry Wise High School in Maryland) has played some of his best games against UVa.-Wise.
Shepherd will make his fifth start versus the Cavaliers on Saturday--he played two games last season, one versus UVa.-Wise, before getting injured. In his previous four contests against the Cavaliers, the Upper Marlboro, Maryland native has 11 tackles--including a career-high eight last season.
Shepherd has also recorded two interceptions, including returning one for a touchdown in 2015.
Additionally, Shepherd returned a punt 83 yards for a touchdown two seasons ago at Carl Smith Stadium which is the last punt return score the Mountain Lions had.
BOOSTER
Speaking of the return game, Pearce made his presence felt versus Charleston other than his receiving work.
The North Kissimmee, Florida native ripped off a 57-yard kickoff return against UC, giving him five career returns of at least 50 yards.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
5- Akin threw the fifth touchdown pass of the season for CU in the second game of the season. Last season, CU didn't reach five touchdown passes until the sixth game,
10- Saturday will be the 10th meeting between Concord and UVa.-Wise with CU owning a 6-3 margin.
79- Concord shut out UVa.-Wise last season despite the Cavaliers running 79 offensive plays.
UVA.-WISE AT GLANCE
Bluefield, Virginia native Jamorya Cousin is the top rusher for the Cavaliers--averaging 93.5 yards per game.
The average slots Cousin seventh in the MEC.
The Cavaliers have three quarterbacks that have seen playing time early in the season in Brycen Lee, Jarome Johnson and former CU quarterback Garrett Cropp.
Defensively, Marcus Tarrer is tied for the conference lead in tackels, amassing 30 through two games.
Meanwhile, Tavian Brown and Donovan Montague are two of four players in the MEC with at least two sacks this season.
