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Mississippi football roundup: Delta State survives scare from MC; JSU rolls on ‘GameDay’; Alcorn drops third in a row – The Vicksburg Post
Mississippi soccer roundup: Delta State survives scare from MC; JSU rolls on ‘GameDay’; Alcorn drops third in a row
Revealed 10:52 pm Saturday, October 29, 2022
- Jackson State quarterback Shedeur Sanders seems for an open receiver throughout Saturday’s recreation towards Southern College. Sanders accounted for 3 touchdowns as JSU beat Southern 35-0. (AP Photograph/Rogelio V. Solis)
Delta State stored its good season alive Saturday night time, but it surely wasn’t straightforward.
Patrick Shegog threw a landing go and ran for one more rating within the final 16 minutes of the sport as Delta State used a late surge to beat Mississippi School 52-38.
Delta State (9-0, 6-0 Gulf South Convention) scored 21 unanswered factors to complete the sport after Mississippi School (4-5, 3-3) scored twice late within the third quarter to take a 38-31 lead.
After Fagan Cole’s 51-yard TD run put Mississippi School forward with 2:16 to go within the third, the Statesmen responded instantly. Shegog’s 27-yard landing go to Jaylen Inexperienced with 31 seconds left capped a fast five-play scoring drive and tied it at 38.
Delta State then dominated the fourth quarter. Kelvin Smith scored on a 5-yard run with 11:02 left to place the Statesmen forward for good, and Shegog’s 37-yard TD run with 2:02 remaining iced it.
Shegog was simply 11-of-21 passing for 122 yards, however ran for 127 yards and two touchdowns. Kory Gainwell added 107 yards and two TDs on the bottom and Smith had 85 yards and two TDs. As a crew, Delta State ran for 433 yards.
Mississippi School had 329 speeding yards of its personal. John Henry White completed with 113 and a landing on 26 carries, Marcus Williams had 94 yards and one TD, and Fagan had 93 yards and two TDs.
Grambling 35, Alcorn State 6
Maurice Washington led a committee of operating backs with 69 yards and a landing as Grambling beat Alcorn State.
Washington, Floyd Chalk IV and Probability Williams had been a part of a floor assault during which every reached the tip zone. Quarterback Julian Calvez additionally ran one in, however the Tigers solely had 114 speeding yards as a crew.
Defensively, Myron Stewart’s 68-yard, pick-six of Aaron Allen gave the Tigers a 21-0 lead en path to a 28-point halftime benefit.
Stewart, a former Port Gibson Excessive College standout, had 5 tackles alongside together with his interception.
Tre Lawrence threw a 4-yard rating to Tavarious Griffin with 19 seconds left within the third quarter for Alcorn State’s lone rating.
The win ended a five-game dropping streak for Grambling (2-6, 1-4 Southwestern Athletic Convention). The skid was the Tigers’ longest since dropping eight straight of their 1-11 marketing campaign in 2013.
Alcorn State (3-5, 2-3) has dropped three consecutive following a three-game win streak. It’s the primary time Alcorn has misplaced three in a row since ending the 2017 season with back-to-back losses after which dropping the 2018 season opener.
Jackson State 35, Southern U. 0
Shedeur Sanders dealt with prime time simply wonderful, main Jackson State to a straightforward victory over Southern College on Saturday for its greatest begin in additional than 40 years.
The son of “Prime Time” Deion Sanders, now often known as Coach Prime of Jackson State and the explanation ESPN’s “School GameDay” present was on the town, Shedeur Sanders ran for 2 scores and threw for one more to guide the Tigers to a weather-delayed win.
After a scoreless first quarter, Shedeur Sanders took management within the second quarter with three scores for the Tigers (8-0, 5-0 SWAC).
He related with Sy’veon Wilkerson for a 3-yard landing to cap an 18-play, 80-yard drive. Then Sanders ran the ultimate 42 yards of a fast three-play, 71-yard drive, and three seconds earlier than halftime he scored on a 12-yard burst and added a two-point conversion go.
Wilkerson scored on a 26-yard run for the one rating within the third quarter. The sport was delayed by greater than an hour due to climate.
Southern (5-3, 3-2) was held to 221 whole yards with two turnovers.
It’s solely the fourth time since 2005 that “School GameDay” featured an HBCU matchup.
Berry School 56, Millsaps 0
Blake Hembree accomplished 22 of 30 passes for 248 yards and 4 touchdowns, and Brandon Cade ran for 132 yards and two TDs as Berry School (5-3, 3-2 Southern Athletic Affiliation) blasted Millsaps School (2-5, 1-3).
Berry ran for 366 yards as a crew, whereas holding Millsaps to 152 yards of whole offense.
Millsaps misplaced its third recreation in a row, and has been outscored 115-7 in the course of the dropping streak.
Belhaven 70, LaGrange 16
Tim Johnson threw three landing passes, and ran for 82 yards and one other TD as Belhaven tied a single-game faculty report for factors in its rout of LaGrange School on Friday.
Kolbe Blunt ran for 138 yards and two touchdowns, and Devin Daniels had 108 yards and two TDs for the Blazers (7-1, 5-1 USA South). Daniels additionally caught a 29-yard landing go within the second quarter, when the Blazers scored 35 factors to a take a 49-3 lead into halftime.
Belhaven amassed 449 speeding yards and averaged 9.2 yards per carry whereas successful its fifth recreation in a row.