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OHIO 14, KENT STATE 10 | DIX STADIUM | OCT. 22, 2016 | DIX STADIUM (KENT, OHIO)

CAPTAINS: Quentin Poling, Casey Sayles, Jordan Reid, A.J. Ouellette
ATTENDANCE: 8,429
WEATHER: Overcast, 44-degrees, wind-N 14 MPH

• Ohio is now 42-25-2 all-time against Kent State.
• Ohio has won the last three games in the series, which is the longest streak for Ohio since its run of five straight from 1996-00.
• Frank Solich is now 143-83 overall and 85-64 at Ohio.

OFFENSE
• Dorian Brown had a career-long rush to score Ohio’s first touchdown, 49-yards.
• Maleek Irons had a career-long rush of 60-yards.
• Quinton Maxwell made his first start at quarterback for Ohio throwing for 127 yards, including a career-long 27 yards while completing 11-19 passes.
• Brown led Ohio with 110 rushing yards, which was the second time he has surpassed 100-yards rushing. It marked the third time this season, Ohio has had a 100-plus yard rusher.
• Sebastian Smith led Ohio’s receivers with 58 yards on four catches, including a long of 34.
• Smith is now tied for fourth in career receptions at Ohio with 144.

DEFENSE
• Tarell Basham moved into fifth on the single-season sack leaderboard with 7.5 on the season.
• Basham finished the game with a sack, two tackles for loss and a career-high nine tackles.
• Grant Cunningham picked up his first career forced fumble. Kevin Robbins also had a forced fumble.
• Blair Brown and Toran Davis also had nine tackles to lead Ohio.
• Ohio finished the game with eight tackles for loss, Robbins and Basham had two each.
• Ohio’s defense held Kent State to 6 of 19 on third down conversions and 1 of 3 on fourth.

SPECIAL TEAMS
• Michael Farkas had seven punts for 303 yards averaging 43.3 per punt with a long of 51 and pinned Kent State inside the 20, twice.