Saturday, September 22, 2007

Southern U. 41, Tennessee St. 34

BATON ROUGE, La.-- Bryant Lee passed for 305 yards and four touchdowns -- one for 48 yards -- as Southern overcame a 27-6 deficit to beat Tennessee State 41-34 Saturday night and remain undefeated.

Antonio Heffner, who finished with 316 yards passing and four touchdowns, got Tennessee State (2-2) off to a fast start with a 1-yard run for the game's first touchdown and a 61-yard pass to Brandon Belvin for the second with 9:13 left in the first quarter.

Bryant, who was 23-of-33 for Southern (4-0), hit RoShon Jacobs with a 13-yard scoring pass to make the score 13-6.

Tennessee State got the next two touchdowns, on a 49-yard run by Javarr Williams (14-107) and a 4-yard pass from Heffner, who was 13-of-26 with two interceptions, to Chris Johnson. Eric Benson made both kicks, for a 27-6 lead.

Then Darren Coates, who also had 115 yards and two touchdowns rushing, caught a 31-yard pass for his first score of the night. The first of his two 1-yard touchdowns made the halftime score 27-19.

Bryant hit Gerard Landry with a 6-yard pass and Coates got his third TD to put the Jaguars ahead 32-27 with 2:41 left in the third quarter. Heffner hit Ronald Evans with a 38-yard pass to put Tennessee State ahead again, 34-32 with 1:48 left.

Bryant hit Del Roberts with the 48-yard scoring pass to go ahead again, and Josh Duran had a 31-yard field goal to end the scoring.

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