Post Game Notes
Hawai‘i at Louisiana Tech
Oct. 1, 2011
· UH has won 11 of its last 12 WAC games dating back to 2009 (only loss at Boise State in 2010).
· UH improved to 13-20 all-time in WAC openers
· UH improved to 8-2 all-time versus La Tech, including 3-2 in Ruston.
· Bryant Moniz finished 34-of-55 for 410 yards and four touchdowns. It was the second straight game that Moniz threw for more than 400 yards and the fifth time in his career he has surpassed the 400-yard mark.
· Moniz has thrown for 942 yards and eight touchdowns in his last two starts against Louisiana Tech. In UH's win over LTU last season, he was 42-of-58 for 532 yards and threw four TDs.
· Royce Pollard recorded a career-high 216 receiving yards, becoming just the 11
th Warrior to eclipse the 200-yard barrier. He also set a new career high with 10 catches while tying his career best with three touchdowns, a mark he set last week vs. UC Davis.
· After failing to find the endzone in the first three games of the season, Pollard has now scored six times in the last two games, with all of those touchdowns coming in the first half.
· Richard Torres posted his second touchdown this year with his 49-yard return of a Nick Isham pass in the third quarter. Torres tied a school record with a 99-yard interception return at Washington on Sept. 10.
· The UH defense posted foure sacks, its second most this season. Freshman linebacker Art Laurel recorded two of those and has a team-high four sacks on the year, while junior linebacker Darryl McBride got his first career sack in the second quarter.
· Freshman running back Joey Iosefa ran for a career high 99 yards on 16 carries while also adding 28 yards on two catches.
· Billy Ray Stutzmann scored for the second straight game with a 6-yard catch from Bryant Moniz in the third quarter.
· Making their firsts career starts for UH were freshman running back John Lister and freshman defensive back Mike Sellers. Lister finished with five yards rushing on three carries, while Sellers recorded five tackles, including his second sack of the year in the third quarter.
· Under head coach Greg McMackin, UH is now 9-5 during the month of October, including six straight October wins, dating back to last season.
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