The Southeastern Louisiana football team heads to Lorman, Miss. for its final road game of the season as the Lions take on the Braves of Alcorn State Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. in Jack Spinks Stadium.
The radio broadcast of the game will be available in the Hammond area on 1400AM and in Mandeville/Covington on 104.7 FM but is not scheduled to be televised. The game audio will also be available on the internet at www.LionSports.net.
The Lions (3-6), who are a solid 3-1 at home including a 68-10 Homecoming win over Webber International, will be looking for their first win on the road before heading back home to close out the season with back-to-back home contests in Strawberry Stadium.
Alcorn State (3-5), coming off an upset win over 13th ranked Southern University last Saturday night in Baton Rouge, will be playing only its third home game of the season.
Southeastern is led by true freshman quarterback Martin Hankins who has already surpassed nearly all the Lions' single-season and career passing marks and has his sights set on NCAA Division I-AA Freshman Passing marks as well.
He has already surpassed the freshman marks for single season attempts (436) and should surpass the record for single season completions (255) against Alcorn State needing just 14 to clear the hurdle. Hankins (436-242-16, 20 TD) is 142 attempts shy of the all classification I-AA attempts record and needs to average about 47 attempts per game to eclipse the mark. The most passes completed in a season by a freshman QB at any NCAA collegiate level was Kentucky QB Jared Lorenzen who notched 321 in 2000 under Mumme and that mark is also within Hankins' reach with three solid performances down the stretch.
But wins and losses mean more to head coach Hal Mumme and his squad than individual accomplishments and to finish with a .500 season, the Lions need to win their final three games beginning with Alcorn State.
"There's no doubt it's going to be a tough test for our young squad," remarked Mumme. "Alcorn is much better than their 3-5 record and they showed that last week against Southern. But I expect this game to be a shootout and hopefully we can keep up, get to the fourth quarter and have a chance to break serve."
Alcorn State is led by their outstanding quarterback Donald Carrie whose 24-yard strike with 40 seconds remaining gave the Braves the win over Southern. Carrie is 228-123-13 with 12 TDs on the year. On the ground, Andrew Burks leads the way with 478 yards on 93 attempts but five different players have over 25 carries on the season.
