University of Hawai'i at Manoa Athletics

Post-Game Notes
Hawai‘i at Army 
Sept. 15, 2018
Michie Stadium – West Point, N.Y.
 
Attendance: 31,133
Coin Toss: Amry won and deferred.  Hawai‘i received.   
 
SERIES INFORMATION

• Hawai‘i fell to Army for the first time in four all-time meetings. UH leads the series 3-1, and are now 1-1 in West Point.
• UH is 13-15 all-time against the academies (7-13 vs. Air Force, 3-1 vs. Army, 3-1 vs. Navy), including 1-1 this year. The Warriors defeated Navy, 59-41, earlier this season.
• UH and Army will meet three more times in the next six years (2019 in Honolulu; 2022 in West Point; 2024 in Honolulu).

STREAKS/TRENDS

• UH has dropped 15 of its last 16 non-conference road games dating back to 2010.
• UH has scored a touchdown on its opening drive in each of its first four games. 
• UH failed to score in the red zone for the first time this year when Cole McDonald’s attempt on 4^th-and-8 on UH’s final possession fell incomplete. The Warriors went 2-of-3 on the day and are 17-of-18 in the red zone this year.
• UH entered the game 5-of-5 on fourth down conversions but failed on two attempts against Army, including the final possession of the game on a 4^th-and-8 from the Black Knight’s 11-yard line.
• Cole McDonald has not thrown an interception in 152 career attempts and 143 attempts this season.

          
TEAM NOTES

• UH’s 21 points and 362 yards of offense were both season low. The Warriors entered the game averaging 48.3 points per game and 540.0 yards per game.
• UH trailed for the first time this season when Army took a 14-7 lead at the 12:47 mark of the second quarter.
• UH blocked its first kick of the season and its first since its road game at Nevada last season when Jahlani Tavai stuffed Landon Salyers 27-yard attempt late in the first half.
• Cole McDonalds’s 80-yard touchdown connection to John Ursua was UH’s longest play from scrimmage this season.
• UH has scored in 12 of 14 quarters this season.
• UH went its second straight game without committing a turnover.

INDIVIDUAL NOTES

• Cole McDonald has eclipsed 300 passing yards in each of the first four games this season after finishing 20-of-32 for 321 yards and two touchdowns.
• McDonald joins Timmy Chang (2004) as the only UH quarterback to start the season with four straight 300-yard passing games.
• McDonald’s 1,486 passing yards and 15 touchdown passes are the most by an UH quarterback through the first four games of the season.
• John Ursua posted his ninth career 100-yard game after he finished with six catches for 123 yards and two receiving touchdown.
• Ursua has topped 100 yards in each of the first four games of the season.
• The junior receiver has scored at least one touchdown in nine of his last 10 games played.
• Ursua, who also scored on a 1-yard run for his second career rushing touchdown, leads the team with eight touchdowns this year (7 receiving, 1 rushing).
• Senior linebacker Jahlani Tavai set a new career-high with 15 tackles, eclipsing his previous high of 14 tackles, which he achieved on three different occassion.
• Tavai now has 344 tackles and needs just four tackles to pass David Dworsky (348) for third all-time at UH.
• Tavai blocked his first career kick when he stuffed Landon Salyers 27-yd attempt late in the first half.
• Junior safety Ikem Okeke tallied a career-high 13 tackles.
• Wide receiver Devan Stubblefield started his ninth career game and for the first time since he started eight times during his redshirt freshman season in 2015. The senior made a 35-yard catch in his first target during the opening quarter.