NCAAF teams
GAST

35

2-5
Final
ARST

51

4-3
RecapBox Score
1 2 3 4 T
GAST 7 0 14 14 35
ARST 20 14 7 10 51
Centennial Bank Stadium, Jonesboro
Associated Press 5y

Hansen has 5 TDs, Arkansas State beats Georgia State 51-35

College Football, Arkansas State Red Wolves, Georgia State Panthers

JONESBORO, Ark. -- Justice Hansen threw three touchdown passes and ran for two scores, helping Arkansas State beat Georgia State 51-35 on Thursday night.

Hansen had four touchdowns in the first half -- three passing, one rushing -- to help Arkansas State build a 34-7 lead. He finished 17-of-28 passing for 257 yards and carried it 11 times for 76 yards.

Hansen set a school record on the first drive of the game with his 68th career touchdown pass, moving past Ryan Aplin?(2009-12). Warren Wand's 91-yard kickoff return set up Hansen's 8-yard sneak for a 13-7 lead. Hansen followed a 33-yard sneak with a 35-yard touchdown pass to Jonathan Adams Jr. to make it 20-7 at the end of the first quarter.

Marcel Murray added 115 rushing yards and a touchdown for Arkansas State (4-3, 1-2 Sun Belt).

Dan Ellington had 250 yards passing and three touchdowns for Georgia State (2-5, 1-2).

Tamir Jones' first catch of the season went for a 36-yard touchdown to tie it at 7. Ellington threw for his second touchdown, a 37-yarder to Cornelius McCoy, in the third quarter to pull to 34-14.

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