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Box Score 2 San Antonio - The Trinity football team broke
its two-game losing streak with a strong 38-28 victory over
previously unbeaten Birmingham-Southern College on Saturday
afternoon.
Trinity (2-2, 0-2 SCAC) used a 21-point second quarter to pull
ahead for good in the game, which was the first road game of the
season for the Tigers.
Preseason All-American Garrett Biel
kicked the third-longest field goal in Trinity history to put the
Tigers up 3-0 late in the first quarter. It is his third
field goal of 40 or more yards this season.
After the Panthers took the lead on a 14-play drive early in the
second quarter, Trinity answered less than 90 seconds later with a
touchdown from senior running back Kyle
Lewis.
Lewis enjoyed a career day on the ground for Trinity, racking up
160 rushing yards and two touchdowns on just 25
carries.
Later in the quarter, quarterback Robert
Davidson plunged across the goal line from a yard out to make
it 17-7 in favor of Trinity, but Birmingham-Southern answered back
with a 59-yard catch-and-run that put the home team right back in
the game just 2:34 before halftime. That would prove to be 25
seconds more than Trinity would need for another score, as
Tiger first-year running back Desmond King caught
a 47-yard touchdown pass from Davidson to make it 24-14.
Neither team was able to do much until late in the third quarter
when Lewis scored his second touchdown of the day to put the Tigers
in control.
Birmingham-Southern did make a late push, scoring early in the
fourth quarter, but King scored his second touchdown of the day -
this on a 30-yard run - with 3:20 remaining to put the Tigers up
38-21. The Panthers added a score with 35 seconds left, and
also got the onside kick, but the Tigers had already sealed the
win.
Three first half turnovers plagued Birmingham-Southern, leading
directly to 10 of Trinity's 24 points in the first two
quarters. The Tiger offense piled up 412 yards of offense,
including 248 on the ground. Birmingham-Southern was held to
just 297 yards of offense and only 176 passing on 16-24
attempts.
Ben
Robinson and Jarrod Burns
finished with 12 tackles each to lead Trinity's defensive effort,
and both Burns and Greg Kerr
recorded sacks in the game. Robinson finished with 3.0
tackles for loss to lead the Tigers.
King finished with 66 yards rushing on 11 carries, as well as
catching two passes for 52 yards. He scored both a rushing
and receiving touchdown in his first game with the Tigers.
Davidson finished 5-10 passing for 75 yards and a touchdown, and
both Caleb Urban
and Daniel South
caught three passes each. One of South's receptions came on a
41-yard connection with Urban, who finished with 30 yards
receiving, 41 yards passing, and 17 yards rushing in the game.
Trinity will be on the road again next week, but will stay in
the state of Texas. The Tigers travel to nearby Seguin to
face off with Texas Lutheran University at 1:00 p.m.