MARSHALL, Texas – Brett Peddicord's 20-yard field goal with 15 seconds left gave East Texas Baptist a 23-21 victory over McMurry at Ornelas Stadium Saturday night. The Tigers held the No. 1 passing offense in the nation to 276 and limited McMurry on 4 of 18 third-down conversions to help aide in the victory.

A week after putting up more than 500 yards of offense against the No. 5-ranked Mary Hardin-Baylor Crusaders, the McMurry offense had just 256 yards of total offense. McMurry tallied negative 20 rushing yards and quarterback Jake Mullin completed 20 of 45 passes for 276 yards.

McMurry trailed the entire game until 5:35 remaining when Mullin hit Simeon Neal in the back of the endzone on fourth-down and one from 14 yards out for a touchdown. Jesse Garcia's extra point gave McMurry its first lead of the game at 21-20.

The Tigers were forced to punt on the ensuing possession, however McMurry's offense went three-and-out and punted back to the Tigers. John Kowalski's punt was downed at the ETBU 44-yard line. Seth Hubbard led the Tigers down the field and a key pass to Raefe Jenkins that went to the McMurry 4-yard line setting up Peddicord's heroics.

Peddicord nailed three field goals on the night from 29, 38 and 20 yards to lead the Tigers to victory. Jacob Stone scored on an 18-yard pass from Hubbard in the first quarter and Sed Harris score ETBU's only other touchdown with a 5-yard score in the second quarter.

McMurry trailed 17-7 before a fake field goal play for a touchdown on a 15-yard pass from holder and backup quarterback Stephen Warren landed in the arms of Antwaun Harris for a touchdown as time expired to cut the lead to three at intermission.

However, the Tigers held McMurry to just one touchdown in the second half and 21 points total, which was 24 points lower than McMurry's season average in the previous three games.

Mullin finished with 261 passing yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions, however he finished under a 50-percent completion percentage for the first time since last season. The Tiger defense sacked Mullin nine times and never let the junior quarterback feel comfortable. R.J. Long caught seven passes for 134 yards and a touchdown extending his streak to all four games with a touchdown reception in 2010.

ETBU'sSolahudeen Muhammed led the Tigers with eight tackles, two pass breakups, 1.5 tackles for a loss and a sack. Even Beaton had three sacks and seven tackles.

Hubbard finished with 119 passing yards of 17 of 28 passing with one touchdown pass and one interception. Jair Stover carried the ball 26 times for 88 yards and the Tigers' leading receiver was also Stover with 25 yards on five receptions.

Defensively, McMurry held ETBU to just 232 yards of total offense. The defensive unit has allowed just six touchdowns in four games this season. Kyle Kelley, Will Morris and Austin Cleere all had 10 tackles while Josh McKinnis had nine tackles and 3.5 tackles for a loss.

McMurry fell to 2-2 on the season and remains winless in American Southwest Conference play at 0-2. ETBU improved to 2-2 overall and 1-1 in league play.