COMMERCE – In a tight defensive battle throughout Saturday afternoon, the East Texas A&M University football team prevailed 10-7 over the Southeastern Louisiana Lions on Ernest Hawkins Field at Memorial Stadium as part of Haunt at The Hawk, presented by Hunt Regional Healthcare.
The win snaps a two-game losing skid for East Texas A&M, who improves to 3-6 on the season and 3-3 against Southland opponents, while Southeastern fell to East Texas A&M for the second time in five seasons and is now 4-5 overall and 2-4 in SLC action.
SLU came into the week receiving votes in both national polls, with ET now having recorded two wins over teams receiving votes this season.
Southeastern scored its only points of the afternoon with less than two minutes played in the game on a 58-yard touchdown run by Dkhai Joseph. The Lion defense did not allow a point for the rest of the game, while forcing four turnovers, including two in the red zone.
East Texas A&M tied the game at seven at the start of the second quarter on a 35-yard touchdown run by
Quay Middlebrooks (Tupelo, Miss.), with neither team scoring again until a 49-yard field goal with 1:55 left in the game by
Ozlo Rigby (Panama City Beach, Fla.).
Following the go-ahead field goal from ET, Southeastern threw an interception on its next drive, but got the ball at its own 25 with 20 seconds left and two catches by Joseph allowed SLU to attempt a 52-yard game-tying field goal, which sailed just left.
ET outrushed SLU, 147-111, but Southeastern threw for 188 on 21 completions, while East Texas A&M had 89 passing yards on 16 completions. The two teams combined for three interceptions.
Defensively for the Lions,
Colin Douglas (Brookville, Md.) had a fumble recovery as well as the interception in the fourth quarter to go along with seven tackles, while
Jamari Mosley (Birmingham, Ala.) had seven tackles as well, and picking off a pass near the SLU end zone.
Kai Baugh (Oroville, Calif.) and
Wesley York, Jr. (Austin – Bowie) both forced a fumble in the game.
Dylan Scott (Aubrey – Braswell) recovered the other fumble for the Lions.
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East Texas A&M begins the final stretch away of from home of the season at Nicholls next Saturday. Kick-off is set for 3 p.m. in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
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