SWAC: Football Recap - Grambling, PVU, TSU Get Wins

Courtesy SWAC.org Courtesy: SWAC.org View Photo Football Recaps: October 17 Courtesy SWAC.org Sat, October 17, 2015 Grambling State 35, Alcorn State 34 Box Score LORMAN, Miss. -- Martez Carter scored on a one yard run and then booted the extra point in overtime as Grambling State rallied to defeat Alcorn State 35-34 and rise to 5-0 in conference. The Braves scored on a seven yard run by John Gibbs Jr. but Haiden McCraney's PAT kick was blocked. GSU (5-2, 5-0)  is now the only undefeated team in conference play and tops the SWAC West.  ALCN (4-2, 3-1) still leads the East. Carter earned his second-straight 100-yard game, rushing for 133 yards on 11 carries. Gibbs rushed for 96 yards and two TDs, and passed for 222 yards with another score as the Braves scored four touchdowns to lead 28-14 at halftime. The Tigers scored twice in the third quarter to tie things at 28-28. Alcorn gained 218 yards on the ground with rushing touchdowns from Gibbs, Aaron Baker and Darryl Ragsdale. Texas Southern 49, Mississippi Valley State 21 Box Score Itta Bena, Miss. - Texas Southern scored 21 points in the second quarter which proved to be the difference in a 49-21 victory over Mississippi Valley State. Averion Hurts had a career afternoon at quarterback for the Tigers passing for 311 yards and six touchdowns.  Hurts also rushed for a score giving him seven on the day. MVSU scored the first points of the contest on a 14-yard pass from Thurston Rubin, Jr. to Natron Brooks to take a 7-0 lead. TSU tied the game at seven with just under five minutes remaining, The Tigers scored three more times in the second, before the Delta Devils found the end zone again. Thomas Stokes, Jr. pulled down a 13-yard pass making the score 28-14 in favor of TSU at the break. MVSU's Keenan Daniels scored on a 15-yard pass, Piraquive added the extra point before conceding 14 straight points to the Tigers. TSU scored oncre more the in the fourth for their final score. Thurstin completed 17 of his 33 passing attempts for 209 yards and three touchdowns but was also intercepted twice. Defensively Darion Claiborne led TSU with five tackles, Charles Moore tallied 10 total tackles to lead MVSU. Alabama A&M 28, Jackson State 22 Box Score NORMAL -- Damion May passed for two touchdowns and Octavious Miles returned had a 99-yard kickoff return as Alabama A&M downed Jackson State 28-22 Saturday at Louis Crews Stadium. The win improved Alabama A&M to 2-2 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference and 2-4 overall. The Tigers fall to 1-3, 1-5. Miles' score, his second career kickoff return for a touchdown, came after Jackson State's Ryan Deising kicked a 41-yard field goal to give the Tigers a 9-0 lead. Earlier, quarterback LaMontiez Ivy connected with Jairus Moll on a seven-yard touchdown pass but Diesing's point-after attempt hit the upright. Miles took the ensuing kickoff at the 1, ran up the sidelines and broke to the middle, outrunning the JSU defenders. May, who started in place of the injured De'Angelo Ballard, found Juaquin Davis on a 16-yard pass in the second quarter to give the Bulldogs a 13-12 lead. A two-point conversion failed when May was wrapped up by the JSU defense. Jarius Moore  scored on a 4-yard run to put JSU about midway through the third quarter for a 19-13 lead. With 6:98 left in the game, May found Jonathan Dorsey for an 18-yard TD pass and recaptured the lead at 20-19. But Jackson State regained the lead on a Deising field goal with about three minutes to play. However, Harvey Harris scored the game-winner on a three-yard run and the two-point conversion provided the final 28-22 score. Prairie View 47, Southern 42 Box Score BATON ROUGE, La. -- Johnta Hebert caught two touchdown passes, ran for two more and Prairie View overtook Southern in the fourth quarter for a 47-42 win Saturday. Hebert, who averages 85.6 rushing yards per game, racked up 114 yards on 17 carries and added 170 more with 10 receptions. Trey Green threw for 339 yards and the two TD throws to Hebert, De'Auntre Smiley ran in two touchdowns and Fred Anderson had a TD as well for PVAMU (4-2, 4-1). Trailing 30-27 early in the fourth quarter, the Panthers recovered a fumble at Southern's 1-yard line and Smiley punched it in for the score, taking the lead and triggering a 20-12 run to cement the win. SUBR (3-3, 3-1) edged the Panthers 520-517 in total yards but had six fumbles to PVAMU's two. Austin Howard was 18 for 28 and 377 yards, including three touchdowns and a fourth rushing TD.