College Football Saturday:
–#7-ranked Slippery Rock defeated Lock Haven 66-7 during their Homecoming game. The victory clinched the PSAC-West title. Running back Jay Jay Jordan ran two punts back for touchdowns during the game. Quarterback Da’One Owens ran for two scores and threw for two as The Rock improved to 8-0. Slippery Rock will host the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship game November 14th. This Saturday, The Rock will travel to Clarion for a noon kick-off. They also remained ranked first in the nation in the latest NCAA points index released last night.
According to SRU Director of Athletic Communications Jon Holts: Jay Jay Jordan broke the SRU single-season records for total touchdowns (23) and total points (138), breaking the former records of 21 touchdowns (LaMonte Coleman in 1994 and Henry Litwin in 2019) and 128 points (Litwin in 2019) … Jordan also became the first SRU player to return two punts for a TD in the same game … His 69 rushing yards also put him over 1,000 rushing yards on the year (1,042 in 8 games) for his second straight 1,000+ yard season.
Quarterback Owens moved up to No. 9 in career TD passes at SRU (33) and Jordan moved up to No. 6 in career touchdowns at SRU (38).