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By Savannah Young, ISU Sports Information
POCATELLO, Idaho – The Idaho State football team beat Simon Fraser 66-14 on Saturday at Holt Arena. Idaho State is 3-3 for the second straight season while Simon Fraser is 1-5. The 66 points is the most ISU has scored in a game since beating Colorado College 77-8 in 1960.
Idaho State had a school-record 770 total yards on offense while Simon Fraser had 335.
Hagen Graves and
Xavier Finney each scored two touchdowns. Graves caught five passes for 92 yards and his brother, Tyler, caught seven balls for 86 yards.
KW Williams caught eight passes for 129 yards and one touchdown.
Justin Arias passed for 404 yards and tied a Holt Arena record with five touchdown passes.
Kamino Ward and
Vai Peko had interceptions while
Mario Jenkins and
Sage Warner recovered fumbles. The Bengal defense held Simon Fraser to 13 yards rushing on 26 carries.
The Bengals jumped out to a 21-0 lead in the first quarter.
ISU led 42-0 at halftime and 52-0 after a
Zak Johnson 43-yard field goal with 1:27 left in the third quarter before Simon Fraser scored the first of its two touchdowns in the final period.
Jakori Ford scored two fourth quarter touchdowns with 72 and 69 yard runs.
Idaho State returns to Big Sky Conference play next week when it hosts Southern Utah on October 18. Kickoff is at 2:35 p.m.
Notes- The 66 points scored is the most by an ISU team since beating Colorado College 77-8 in 1960.
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Mike Kramer has 86 career wins, moving him into sole possession of third place in the Big Sky Conference for career victories.
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Justin Arias has thrown for over 300 yards in 12 games in his career.
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Xavier Finney has seven 100-yard rushing games in his career.
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Xavier Finney's two rushing touchdowns moved into a tie for 8th place in the career record book with 16 rushing touchdowns.
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Justin Arias' 30 completions gives him 445 for his career, ranking him 7th. His 404 passing yards gives him 5,916 for his career. That mark ranks fourth in the career record books and Kevin Yost ranks third with 6,663 yards.
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Justin Arias' five touchdown passes gives him 47 for his career, ranking him second behind Jason Whitmer's 55. His five touchdowns also tied a Holt Arena Record with six other quarterbacks. It was last done by Kevin Yost vs. UC Davis in 2012.
- Game captains were
Justin Arias,
Michael Berger,
Mitch Beckstead and
Aaron Prier.
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KW Williams 72-yard touchdown reception was the fourth longest offensive play in the
Mike Kramer era.
Jakori Ford's 72-yard run tied Williams for the fourth longest play and his 69-yard touchdown run tied for the sixth longest play in the Kramer era.
- The Bengals rushed for 315 yards, the most since at least 2001. The Holt Arena record for rushing yards in a game is 393 vs. Portland State in 1974 and the school record is 448 vs. Western State in 1950 and 1953.
- The 770 yards of total offense is a new school record.
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Justin Arias' 404 passing yards, ties for the 18th best passing performance in program history. He has thrown for over 400 yards six times in his career.
- The brother combination of Hagan and
Tyler Graves combined to catch 12 passes for 178 yards. Hagan's two touchdowns were the first of his career.
Mike Kramer Post Game Quotes"It was an outstanding effort by us on offense and defense. We played pretty faultless. There were not a lot of penalties. We played on task. We did that whole day. We have witnessed a lot of these from the other side, playing at Nebraska, Washington and Washington State. We knew how as a coaching how we needed to handle this. The one thing we wanted to do was prepare and respect our opponent. I could tell today in pregame that we were going to be pretty decent. It just played out after that."
"A lot of kids that haven't had an opportunity to play in this program got an opportunity to play and they found out how far away they are from being an every down player. It was an outstanding effort by everybody involved in our program."
"We were respectful of the game today with our mental focus and energy and I credit a very good coaching staff for finding a way to put this thing in grove."
"I feel like we tackled quite a bit better today. For the bulk of the game I thought we mastered them. Without Broc and Madison today I thought we showed we are good team and a great program with quality depth."
"Hagan had a nice day and his brother had a pretty sweet day so nice job by the family today."
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