First home game of the season brings Lane Dragons to Tucker Stadium
Tennessee Tech or Lane College. One of these teams will walk out of Tucker Stadium Thursday night with their first notch in the win column for 2010. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.
Click here to read weekly Golden Eagle game notes
(PDF)
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- One of these teams will walk out of Tucker
Stadium thursday night with their first notch in the win column for
2010.
Tennessee Tech hosts Lane College for the first meeting between
the two schools, and both squads are searching for their initial
win of the year. The Golden Eagles are 0-2 following losses at No.
17 Arkansas and No. 4 Texas Christian University.
Lane College, meanwhile, has gone 0-3 in the first three weeks of
the season under first-year coach Derrick Burroughs. The Dragons
dropped a home game to Clark Atlanta, followed by road losses at
Kentucky State and Morehead.
While the contest marks the third consecutive road tilt for Lane,
it’s the first home game of the year in Tucker Stadium for
the Golden Eagles. Tech went 5-0 at home last year and brings that
five-game home winning streak into the Thursday night contest.
Tech has not lost a home opener in three seasons under coach
Watson Brown, posting wins over Cumberland, Gardner-Webb and
Pikeville. In fact, the Golden Eagles have won 11 of their last 12
home openers, falling only to Chattanooga in 2006 during that
span.
Tech is looking for consistency in two key areas -- turnovers and
penalties.
After playing the entire Arkansas game without a turnover, the
Golden Eagles lost the ball five times at TCU.
Conversely, after being flagged for 11 penalties at Arkansas, the
Golden Eagles were called for just four penalties at TCU.
The game is Tech’s final non-conference outing of the year
before charging into Ohio Valley Conference play next week at
Southeast Missouri, the first of eight consecutive OVC encounters.
Special Events: First Tennessee Poster Night;
Communiversity Night
Records in 2010:
Tennessee Tech is 0-2 overall / 0-0 Ohio
Valley Conference
Lane is 0-3 overall / 0-0 Southern
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Series Record: This game will be the first
meeting between the two teams
Tech Radio:
Golden Eagle Sports Network (Roger Ealey,
Buddy Pearson, Brandon Goodwin)
also Free Teamline (Call 1-800-846-4675 -
team code 0654)
Television: WCTE TV (Live); Tim Scruggs calls the
action
Live Stats: www.TTUsports.com
Last Game: Tech lost at No. 4 TCU, 62-7; Lane
lost to Morehouse College, 49-6
Web Stream: Live on OVCsports.TV
Web sites:
Tennessee Tech - www.TTUsports.com
Lane College - www.lanecollege.edu
Tickets: Call (931) 372-3940 or click here to order online
/Edwards_CFPA_515.jpg?max_width=767)
/5_5_FOOTBALL_commendations.jpg?max_width=767)
