Live Video | Live Audio | Live Stats
DURANT, Okla. - Southeastern will welcome No. 16 Harding to Paul Laird Field at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3 for the final home game of the season which will serve as Senior Day for the Savage Storm graduating seniors.
Southeastern vs. Harding Game Notes
Against the Bisons… Saturday marks 25th meeting all-time between Southeastern and Harding. The series with HU is unique in that since its beginning in 1978, it met 22-straight times up until 1999 when the Bisons departed the Lone Star Conference. The series was then on hiatus for 12 years before being renewed in 2011 when HU beat SE 16-9 as the rivalry renewed uned the GAC banner. SE won the first meeting 30-8 in 1979, but HU followed with seven-straight wins which is the most consectuvie wins int he series. SE did win the last of the 22-consecutive meetings, taking a 41-27 decision in 1999.
Southeastern celebrates 100th season of football… The 2012 season will mark the 100th season of competition for SE football which fielded its first team in 1909. Southeastern has fielded a team every year since then except for the span between 1943 and 1945 during World War II. SE has played 946 games over that span, posting a 452-450-44 record.
Notes from last time out… SE stretched its winning streak to three games, posting its first three-game winning streak since beating Northwestern Oklahoma State, Southwestern Oklahoma State and Central Oklahoma in consecutive weeks in 2009... The win was SE's first int he abbreviated series versus UAM... SE was outrushed for the first time in three games, but outpassed its opponent for the first time since the third game of the season... SE still held the advantage in total offense 482-to-448 and has outgained its foes in seven of eight games... Nick Sioson got his first start at QB and went 14-for-17 for 249 yards and two touchdowns... his 89 yard pass to Keelen Green matches GAC record for longest pass... SE had a 100-yard rusher (Ladarius Abrams with 107) and a 100-yard receiver (Keelen Green with 111) for the first time in a game this season.
About the Coaches… Ray Richards (Northern Michigan, 1981) took over the reins for the Southeastern Oklahoma State football program prior to the 2005 season and quickly built on to SE's successful history. Richards has compiled a 36-37 record at SE and an overall career record of 50-67, with head coaching stints at Southeastern and Southwest Baptist University. The 2011 squad opened the year with back-to-back wins before going to a 2-8 season and a ninth place finish in the first season of Great American Conference play. SE had three all conference award winners, highlighted by first team selection Ryan Shelley who turned in the league's best single-game receiving mark with 225 yards against East Central. In seven seasons at SE, Richards' teams have produced 25 first team all-conference honors as well as 37 all-conference second team honors. His teams also won eight specialty awards in the LSC, including his own Coach of the Year nod following the 2005 season.
Ronnie Huckeba is in his six season as head coach of the Harding Bison football team in 2012 and has a career record of 22-29. He was named Harding's fifth head football coach in the modern era in October of 2007 after serving 21 seasons as a Harding assistant coach. Huckeba began his Harding career in 1986 as the secondary coach, a position he continued through 1987. In 1988, he became the front-seven coach and served in that role through 1993. Prior to coming to Harding, Huckeba spent five seasons as the head coach at Ouachita Christian where he was named the Louisiana Class A Coach of the Year in 1985 after leading OCS to a 15-0 record and state championship. In 1979, Huckeba began his coaching career as an assistant at Carlisle High School in Carlisle, Ark. The next year he moved on to Fort Worth Christian School in Fort Worth, Texas where he served as an assistant under Randy Tribble, winning the TAPPS state championship. Huckeba was a standout Bison offensive lineman for Harding from 1973-76. He started at guard on the Bisons' 1976 Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference co-championship squad.
