ORANGEBURG, South Carolina -- South Carolina State head coach Buddy Pough believed his team showed vast improvement in effort and overall play when compared to last season in Saturday’s season opener at Oliver C. Dawson Stadium.
To his disappointment, it was still not enough to defeat a nationally ranked opponent. In stunning fashion, the Bulldogs went from being poised to take a double-digit lead against the #21/25 Chanticleers to falling short 27-20 before 10,048 fans at Oliver C. Dawson Stadium.
“I can honestly say that we gave this football game away tonight,” a disappointed Pough said. “We didn’t execute at the times we needed to execute. We didn’t do a good job and that’s on me. We didn’t do a good job of putting us in the right places to be able to accomplish what we needed to accomplish to win the football game.”
Trailing 20-12 with seven minutes left in the third quarter, Coastal Carolina scored 15 unanswered points. It started when LaDarius Hawthorne blocked Nick Belcher’s field goal attempt and Big South Defensive Player of the Year Quinn Backus returned it 56 yards for a touchdown.
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