Kingsville, Texas – A&M-Commerce scored 20 unanswered points to close out the final quarter and a half of play and road the legs of Richard Cooper – 158 yards – and Theo Wofford – 121 yards – to  the tune of 272 yards of rushing to claim its fourth straight Chennault Cup win over Texas A&M-Kingsville with a 37-17 win Saturday night in Javelina Stadium.
 
Turning Point
- Cooper plunged in from one-yard out to break a tie game at 17 and to open the scoring floodgates for the Lions midway through the third quarter. The Lions went on to reel off 13 more unanswered points in the 37-17 win over the Javelinas.
 
Highlights
- Cooper scampered for 158 yards on 28 carries to average 5.6 yards per carry.
 
- Wofford ran for 121 yards on 11 carries to average a whopping 11 yards per carry.
 
- Harrison Stewart finished the game 11-of-22 with three touchdown passes.  In the second half, Stewart was 8-of-12 for 122 yards.
 
- Derrick Macon caught three passes for 24 yards and two scores.
 
- Lance Evans caught three passes for a team-high 79 yards including a long of 54-yards.
 
- Charles Woods paced the Lions in tackles with nine including one and half tackles for loss.
 
- Tre'von Taylor and four other Lions, including Woods, had sacks in the game.
 
- Chris Smith and Michael Wallace each had an interception.
 
Summary
1st Quarter
- Wofford caught a three-yard pass from Stewart to cap off a 4-play, 35-yard drive that took 1:12 off the clock to get the scoring started. Wofford reeled off a 48-yard run to set up for the score on the drive.
 
- Cole Pitts broke up a screen pass with a hard hit, and Michael Wallace snagged the ball in midair and scampered six yards into the end zone. The score gave the Lions a 14-0 lead with 1:18 left in the first quarter.
 
2nd Quarter
- Julio De la Garza got the Javelinas on the scoreboard with a 22-yard field goal with 9:46 on the clock in the second quarter.   Myles Carr connected with Jordan Thomas for a 53-yard strike to open the 5-play, 57-yard scoring drive.
 
- Kristov Martinez connected on a 42-yard field goal to cap off an 8-play, 30-yard scoring drive that lasted 2:16. The field goal gave the Lions a 17-3 lead with 3:45 left before the half.
 
- Kingsville's Braedon Robinson forced a fumble on a sack, picked up the loose ball and rumbled 48 yards for the score to cut the lead down to 17-10 with 26 seconds left on the clock in the half.
 
3rd Quarter
- The Javelinas carried the momentum to open the third quarter knotting the game at 17 with a 26-yard pass from Carr to Thomas with 8:02 on the clock.
 
- The Lions answered the bell with a 7-play, 54-yard scoring drive that lasted 2:50 seconds and ended on a Cooper one-yard plunge into the endzone. Wofford set up the score with a 28-yard on the second play of the drive. Stewart found Hayden Marsh for 10-yards to pick up a big third down on the drive.
 
- Stewart found Evans for 54-yard on the ensuing Lion drive to set up an 8-yard TD pass from Stewart to Macon to give the Lions a 30-17 lead with 30 seconds left in the third.
 
4th Quarter
- Stewart found Macon for the game's final score with three minutes left in the game. This time it was a nine-yard fade to the corner of the endzone to give the game the final score of 37-17.  Hooks started the drive with a 33-yard end-around, and Cooper had a 29-yard run darting through traffic to set up for the score.
 
Inside the box score
- Wallace's 6-yard INT was the first of the freshman's career. It was also the first score of his career.
 
- The Wallace pick-6 was the first defensive score of the season for the Lions. It was the last Lion defensive score since the Heart of Texas Bowl to end the 2014 season when Dionte Taylor ran back an INT for a 95-yard score.
 
- Smith's INT was the second of his career and second of the season.  His first pick game against Adams State in the season opener.
 
- Davarus Shores finished with eight tackles, one off of his career-high of nine.
 
- Kingsville finished with 67 rushing yards on 31 carries. The Lion defense has not give up a 100 rushing game to an opponent through the first three games of 2015.  The Javelinas 339 yards of total offense was the least the Lions have given up this season.
 
- Coopers' 158 yards was a new career-high snapping his 149 yards against Delta State in the 2015 opener.  His 28 rushing attempts was also a career-best.  Cooper has now rushed for over 100 yards in the first three games of the season. He is the first Lion to rush for over 100 yards in three straight games through the 2000s.  Cooper has already rushed for 442 yards on the season.
 
- Theo Wofford picked up his first 100-yard rushing game of the season.  His 121 yards was a new career-high.  His 48-yard run was the longest of his career and the second longest run of the season for the Lions missing the season-high by one yard.  His 11.0 yards per carry average set a new A&M-Commerce school record for yards per rush. The old mark of 10.3 yard per carry was set by Joe Bergeron, 134 yards on 13 carries, against East Texas Baptist in the 2014 season opener.
 
- Macon scored his first and second career touchdowns while in a Lion uniform with his second half scores.
 
- A&M-Commerce earned its fourth straight Chennault Cup win Saturday pulling the Chennault Cup series to 13-6 in favor of Kingsville.  The win gets the Lions to 26-37-1 in the all-time series with Javelinas.
 
What's Next
- The Lions return to the friendly confines of Memorial Stadium Saturday, September 26 at 7 p.m. Looking ahead, the Lions are 13-15 all-time against the Greyhounds.
 
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