Postseason hope is slim, but Southern Jaguars vow to keep fighting, starting Saturday at Arkansas-Pine Bluff

PINE BLUFF, Arkansas -- Southern has had a single-minded focus since it lost in the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship game 11 months ago.

The Jaguars have been thinking and talking about — and, most importantly, preparing and striving — to get back to the title game and win it for the second time in three years.

But when Southern faces Arkansas-Pine Bluff at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Golden Lion Stadium, for the first time in 11 months, that goal seems virtually unattainable.

The Jaguars (4-4, 4-2) are mathematically alive in the West Division race, but they need a series of improbable outcomes that they can’t control — as well a victory against the Golden Lions (1-7, 0-6) and two more after that.

“A lot of people understand that our chances are kind of slim, but we’re not demoralized,” running back Malcolm Crockett said. “We want to show people that we’re going to keep fighting. Just because the chances are slim, we’re not going to lay down. We’re going to keep finishing because you never know. Stuff might happen.”

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