UAPB football ends season with overtime win

TTA BENA, Mississippi — Arkansas-Pine Bluff did the only thing it could to remotely end the 2015 season on a positive note.

It won.

For just the second time this year, the Golden Lions were in the win column after taking down Mississippi Valley State, 25-19, in overtime on Saturday in Rice-Totten Stadium.

Brian Handley’s 8-yard touchdown run on second-and-goal ended the game and UAPB’s otherwise disappointing season. The Lions finished 2-9 overall and 1-8 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. The team’s only other win came in a three-overtime affair with Morehouse College back in Week 2.

Saturday’s contest, though, momentarily put those struggles on the back-burner, as two evenly matched teams (both entered with 1-9 records) played an even game.

UAPB for the fifth time in SWAC play took a two-score lead to open the game. But unlike the previous four times, the Lions were able to make it hold up — barely.

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