Box Score STEPHENVILLE – Tarleton racked up a season-high 580 yards of total offense on the way to a 54-37 victory over Angelo State Saturday evening at Tarleton Memorial Stadium.
 
The Texans (6-4, 5-3 LSC) won for the 11^th-straight time over the Rams and regained the all-time series lead for the first time since 1968. Tarleton now leads the all-time series 15-14 following the 17-point win.
 
Jake Fenske (QB, Sr, Round Rock) completed 23 of 39 passes for a career-high 434 yards and three touchdowns, which included a 53-yard strike to Jeken Frye (WR, Jr, El Paso) and a 66-yard bomb to Clifton Rhodes III (WR, So, Fort Worth). Frye's touchdown gave Tarleton a 10-3 lead with 3:16 left in the first quarter, while Rhodes found pay-dirt with 13:42 left to play in the third quarter.
 
Fenske's 434 single-game passing yards are the third-most in school history, just a yard shy of Kevin Vickers' 435 yards (Sept. 24, 1994) and 14 yards off Cliff Watkins' school record of 438 yards (Oct. 25, 2003).
 
Frye tallied 180 yards receiving on seven catches for eighth-most yards in a single-game.
 
Overall, both teams combined for 964 yards of total offense as ASU (5-6, 4-4 LSC) tallied 384 yards on the night.
 
Tarleton's 56 points are a season-high and it marks the most points scored in a game since the Texans scored 66 points against Southwestern Oklahoma back on Sept. 26, 2009 (66-3).
 
The Texans scored the game's first points with a 24-yard field goal from Blake Barnes (K, Fr, Stephenville) with 11:20 left to play in the first quarter. The Rams tied the game 3-3 on Jarred Martin's 25-yard field goal, but Tarleton countered with Rhodes' 66-yard touchdown and a one-yard run from Zach Henshaw (RB, Fr, Fischer).
 
The Rams made it a 17-9 game with an eight-yard touchdown pass from Kyle Washington to Excelle Osborne with 9:11 left to play in the first half, but Tarleton closed out the second quarter with another field goal from Barnes (40 yards) with 21 seconds remaining on the clock.
 
Fenske found Frye from 53-yards out on Tarleton's first possession of the second half to extend the Texan lead to 27-9, but ASU came right back with a 41-yard touchdown run from Donavan Roberts at the 11:52 mark in the third quarter.
 
Barnes tallied his third field goal of the game with a 41-yard kick at the 7:36 mark and ASU answered with a two-yard run from Washington with 3:18 left in the third quarter to make it a 30-23 game still in favor of the Texans.
 
Barnes then tied the school's single-season mark with his 18^th field goal of the 2012 campaign, connecting on a career-high 47-yard field goal with 1:03 left to play in the third quarter to put the Texans up by 10 points, 33-23.
 
Vaughn Smith (RB, Jr, Menlo Park, Calif.) scored from 16 yards out with 13:49 left in the game and Aaron Doyle (QB, Jr, Evant) capped off a 17-0 run with a three-yard run to extend Tarleton's lead to 47-23 with 9:39 left in the contest.
 
ASU posted a pair of touchdown passes at the 7:22 and 3:17 marks between Arthur Buckingham's (WR, Sr, Pilot Point) 35-yard touchdown pass from Fenske with 6:40 left on the clock. ASU's final touchdown would be the game's last score in a game that ended 54-37 in favor of the Texans.
 
Tarleton had three defenders (Charles Moore, Devin Figures, Marc Martinez) finish the game with a team-high seven tackles each on the night. Moore (DB, Jr, Carrollton) and Rufus Johnson (DE, Sr, Dallas) both recorded sacks in the game. Johnson finishes the season with 10 sacks for a total loss of 48 yards. The Dallas native had at least one-half sack in seven of the nine games he played in for the Texans this season and finishes his career at Tarleton with 15.5 sacks.
 
In three starts and playing in five games for the Texans this season, Fenske finished the year with 1,259 yards passing and a team-high 11 touchdowns. Doyle led the team with 1,579 passing yards and 10 touchdowns in eight games. Both quarterbacks combined to throw for 2,838 yards on the season – seventh-most in a single-season.
 
Smith rushed for a team-high 816 yards with five touchdowns, while Henshaw rushed for 608 yards and a team-high seven rushing touchdowns. The Texans rushed for a combined 1,787 yards in 2012.
 
Rhodes led the Texans in receiving as he collected 56 passes for 694 yards, which ranks eighth-most in a single season. Frye had 46 receptions for 674 yards. Buckingham led the squad with seven receiving touchdowns on the season.
 
Offensively, the Texans finish the regular-season with 4,625 yards (2,838 pass, 1,787 rush) of total offense, which ranks fifth-most all-time in school history. Tarleton tallied 800 offensive plays on the season – sixth-most in school history.
 
Barnes finishes the regular-season with 92 points on the season, going 18-for-20 in field goal attempts and 38-for-38 in extra-point tries. His 92 total points are third-most in school history behind J.W. Boren (2^nd, 94 points; 2001) and Derrick Ross (1^st, 134 points; 2004).
 
Isaac Arellano (P, So, Euless) tallied 1,587 yards on 38 punts this season, averaging 41.8 yards per punt. He came just .2 yards shy of the all-time school record of 42.0 yards per game (Todd Sells, 1998).
 
Marquis Wadley (LB, Jr, Dallas) led the defense with 83 total tackles on the season, while Figures (DB, Jr, Jefferson) led the squad with two interceptions.
 
Tarleton finished with an overall record above .500 for a second-consecutive season and 12 out of the last 13 years.