ALAMOSA, Colo. – Black Hills State football took down Adams State, 38-7 on Saturday afternoon in the team's final road game of the year.

The Yellow Jackets (7-3, 5-3 RMAC) totaled four interceptions in the contest, including two by Zechariah Rodriguez-Brown, and pick-sixes from Lovenski Simon and Nicc Quinones.

Doodles Quinones added a pair of breakups, while Deunte Moody, Bailey Rosenstrauch and Aaron Thiele also contributed one each.

Rosenstrauch led the team with six tackles, while Moody and Doodles Quinones each made five.

On the line, the defense totaled four sacks, including solos from Morgan Tigner, Nikolas Arnold and Aric Eades.

Offensively, Nolan Susel totaled 130 yards on the ground, and scored his 12th and 13th rushing touchdowns of the season.

Cameron Goods ran 10 times for a total of 49 yards and Isaiah Pressley totaled 35 yards and a touchdown on four carries.

Hasaan Williams led the receivers with three catches for 14 yards, while TJ Chukwurah hauled in one catch for 40 yards.

Kicker Coleman Chapman was a perfect 5-of-5 on point-after tries, and booted a 51-yard field goal.

After forcing a turnover on downs, the BHSU offense used a 20-yard Susel rush to get into ASU territory before he finished the drive with a 2-yard touchdown run, giving BHSU a 7-0 lead with 4:31 left in the first.

The defense stepped up again on the Grizzlies' next drive, this time with a pick-six from Simon who intercepted a lobbed pass at the BHSU 35-yard line and took it back 65 yards for the touchdown, pushing the Yellow Jacket lead to 14-0 just ahead of the second quarter.

ASU continued to stall against the BHSU defense, who would force a 3-and-out to give the offense the ball at the ASU 35-yard line with an opportunity to add onto the lead.

Goods rattled off a 14-yard gain to open the drive before Pressley punched it in three plays later for the 12-yard score, extending the lead to 21-0. The Grizzlies followed, though, with a scoring drive of their own to get on the board and make it 21-7.

On the final play of the first half, Nicc Quinones grabbed the team's second pick-six of the game, this time for 76 yards on the return, which gave BHSU a 28-7 lead at the break.

Out of the locker room, the defense stayed hot as Rodriguez-Brown hauled in his second interception of the game to stall yet another ASU drive.

Midway through the third quarter, Susel scored his second touchdown of the game with a seven-yard rush as the offense continued to add on, making it a 35-7 game.

Then early in the fourth quarter, the Yellow Jacket defense forced another stop with ASU throwing an incomplete pass on 4th-and-7, making them 0-for-4 on fourth down conversion attempts.

BHSU would add on once more with a 51-yard field goal from Chapman in the end of the fourth quarter to bring, what would ultimately be the final score, to 38-7.

Notes

• The Yellow Jackets have outscored their opponents 110-7 over their last 8 quarters of play.
• Susel's 130 rushing yards was a career-high surpassing his previous best of 125 yards against Fort Lewis on Sept. 28, 2019.
• Susel also recorded his fourth career 100+ yard game.
• BHSU football reached the 7-win mark for the 10th time in its history, and the second time since entering DII.

Up Next
The Yellow Jackets will conclude the 2022 regular season next week, returning home to Lyle Hare Stadium where they will face CSU Pueblo on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 12 p.m.