Southern rallies over Alabama State

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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Austin Howard passed for two touchdowns and ran for one as Southern defeated Alabama State 28-21 on Saturday night in A.W. Mumford Stadium.

The Jaguars overcame one of their sloppiest offensive performances of the season to extend their winning streak to four games. Southern, 6-3 and 5-1 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, hosts Texas Southern next Saturday. The Hornets lost their fourth straight to drop to 4-5 and 3-4.

Howard threw touchdown passes of 18 yards to Willie Quinn and 23 yards to Reggie Travis before running 9 yards for a tiebreaking score with 9:20 left in the game.

Southern trailed 14-12 at halftime but created a scoring opportunity on the second-half kickoff when Gideon Woodson-Levey recovered Jahaad Coleman’s fumble at the ASU 30.

The Jaguars essentially turned the ball back, though, when they lost three yards in three plays and Paul Randle Soden’s punt went for a touchback.


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