Flames Weekend Wrap-Up: Ky. Wesleyan
10/3/2011 12:00:00 AM | Football
The Flames Weekend Wrap-Up returns today and looks back at Liberty's shutout victory over Kentucky Wesleyan, Saturday night, the seventh under head coach Danny Rocco.
For the fourth year in a row, Liberty will enter Big South Conference play coming off a victory, as the Flames controlled the visiting Panthers for 60 minutes en route to a 57-0 victory.
The outcome accounted for the 200th victory since the Liberty football program first took to the gridiron in 1973 and leveled the program's all-time record at 200-200-4.
The 57-point victory over the Panthers was the fourth-largest margin of victory in program history and the second-highest under Rocco. The outcome fell one point short of his 58-point victory over St. Francis (Pa.) inside Williams Stadium on Sept. 29, 2007. The 57-point outburst by the Flames marked the ninth time under head coach Danny Rocco the Flames have scored 50 or more points in a game.
The Flames finished the Kentucky Wesleyan game with a season-high 468 total offensive yards and now rank No. 30 nationally in total offense (404.60 total offensive yards per game).
On the other side of the field, Liberty posted its second-most dominating defensive performance under Rocco, limiting Kentucky Wesleyan to 76 total offensive yards. Following the game, Liberty now ranks No. 5 nationally in total defense (allowing 272.80 total offensive yards per game).
During today's Flames Weekend Wrap-Up show, FSN reporters Alan York and Nick Pierce recap Liberty's match-up with Kentucky Wesleyan and take their first look ahead at the Flames' upcoming Big South opener with Gardner-Webb on Saturday in Boiling Springs, N.C.
