SALISBURY, North Carolina - Livingstone's drive for a Southern Division championship hit a minor speed-bump Saturday afternoon.With a chance to reinforce their newborn identity and win a third straight CIAA game, the Blue Bears fell to the occasion and suffered a 32-27 homecoming day loss to St. Augustine's.
"I've got a bad taste in my mouth," senior receiver Anthony Holland said at lively Alumni Stadium, where LC fell 32-27. "As a team we didn't execute like we should have in the first half. We dug ourselves a hole and never got out of it."
The loss dropped Livingstone (2-4, 2-1) out of a tie for first place in the division standings and may have set off some alarms. The Blue Bears surrendered 495 total yards, had no sustainable running game (35 yards) and even misfired on a couple of extra-point attempts.
"It would have been a nice one to win," said LC coach Elvin James. "But we were always fighting to catch up. If we had only played the whole game the way we played the second half, we might have come out on top."
Livingstone's first half was a 30-car pile-up. St. Aug's (4-2, 2-1) jumped to ...
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