BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- On the day that Southern officially became incapable of winning its third consecutive Southwestern Athletic Conference West Division championship, the Jaguars still had plenty to celebrate.They clinched their third consecutive winning season Saturday by blasting Alabama A&M 46-7 in A.W. Mumford Stadium, giving 23 seniors a victory in their final home game. They avoided a losing season at home by evening their record at Mumford at 2-2.
Southern is 6-4 overall and 6-2 in SWAC play heading into an open date before it faces Grambling in its season finale Nov. 28 in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
Along the way, Lenard Tillery became the school’s all-time leading rusher as the Jaguars dropped the Bulldogs to 2-7 and 2-5.
“To finish with a win at A.W. Mumford is big for us,” Tillery said. “The fact that it happened on senior night is like something out of a storybook.”
Tillery’s night was one for the record books. He rushed for 127 yards, and his career total of 3,050 surpasses the 3,015 that Steve Wofford gained from 1996-98. He broke Wofford’s record on a 39-yard touchdown run in the second quarter.
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