Tigers Fight Back With Second-Half Surge To Defeat Southern
BATON ROUGE, La. – A 21-point second half swing by Texas Southern paved the way for the team’s first win in Baton Rouge since 2010 over Southern on Saturday.
Southern struck first in the first quarter as Ashton Strother threw a 51-yard touchdown reception for a 7-0 lead following the PAT with 9:49 left. TSU would fight back as Roriyon Richardson caught a 57-yard reception to set up nine-yard touchdown pass from KJ Cooper to Trenton Leary. Christian Avelar’s PAT knotted the score at 7-all at the 7:41 mark. Southern would use another big play to move ahead 14-7 as Dupree Fuller caught a short pass from Strother and raced 54 yards to the endzone.
Southern would add another touchdown after a 15-play, 95-yard drive midway through the second quarter. The Tigers would respond with a…
