Sunday, September 29, 2013

Tuskegee pulls away from Lane

JACKSON, Tennessee  -- Through three-plus years of football with head coach Derrick Burroughs, Lane football has progressed from a league doormat to a competitive team.

Thirty minutes of football Saturday afternoon at Lane Field showed how far the Dragons have to go.
Tuskegee, the defending SIAC champion, outscored Lane 27-0 in the second half for a 42-14 road win in Jackson.

Lane is now 2-2 overall, 0-1 in SIAC play and clearly not yet playing to the standard of a league title contender as was hoped in August.

“Very discouraging day,” Lane coach Derrick Burroughs said. “We couldn’t score, we couldn’t stop them from scoring. We couldn’t do anything offensively. We couldn’t do anything defensively.

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