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pe soto appeal Tuesday October 2015 17 --i' y-'ir 'Vs I A V'V I IT- MO NORTHPOINT 21 LAUSANNE 14 Saulsberry has big night made the open field tackle a great football said Northpoint head coach Greg Wallace this entire team pulled together tonight They did a great job around him Our quart erback did a great job We had some mistakes in the but we played TYo-i football and overcame FI command the defensive side and the offensive side When I go they When the TYojans needed yards on the ground Saulsberry gained them When the Trojans needed a play in the passing game Saulsberry was involved When the Tkojans needed to stop star quarterback Mario No-lan-Dillard Saulsberry ond half one thing that I will say about him tonight is Christian played for liis Wallace said showed me character than not many players with his ability have" The passing game never found consistency Nolan-Dillard was l-of-ll passing in the second He finished 6-of-18 for 42 yards one touchdown and two interceptions Despite the struggles Nolan-Dillard showed a lot of determination on his final With the ball on his own 3-yard line Nolan-Dillard found an on the right side the field and raced down the sideline But it was Christian Saulsberry who stopped what been the game-tying touchdown at midfield Lausanne would be stopped on downs in the red zone and North-point ran out the clock and remained undefeated on the season try not to focus on the whale record Saulsberry said "We proach every game li By Jason Williams MUvndmOQpniljCom WHSHNN Christian Saulsberry is listed as a S-foot-8 running back and defensive back but the most apt description of Saulsberry is simple: a football player Saulsberry seemed to be around the ball all night leading his squad to a 21-14 victory over Lausanne (3-3) and improving record to 7-0 going to be a leader on the said the senior athlete going to stopped him Wheat i the TYojans needed someone to stop Nolan-Dillard down the right sideline in an attempt to tie the game Saulsberry TEXAS 30 MISSISSIPPI STATE 17 front ofthe crowd waving his arms and received a loud ovation Seals-Jones took to TVritter late in the game retweeting a tweet that questioned the call on his hit and included a video of it i Prescott extended his streak of passes without an interception to 225 The longest such streak almost came to an end early injthe -minutes trading touchdowns quarter when Garrett with the Conquistadors (3-3 tipped one of his passes at 1-1) DeSoto Central 42 Hon Late 28: Alan Lamar scored five touchdowns four on runs a fifth by air as the Jaguars defeated the Eagles In a Class 6A-1 district contest Lamar'S 48-yard touchdown run broke a 7-all tie midway through the first quarter He would catch Cameron Bowman's second TO pass of the night a M-yarder then score on a 1-yard plunge to make it 28-7 after one quarter That score came moments-after a 53-yard dash by the star back who would score on two more short runs In the second half Markarius Lee caught other scoring pass a 13-yarder to open the scoring for DeSoto Central (5-3 1-1) Peyton Logan scored twice for Horn Lake (2-5 0-2) Hernando 31 Southaven 38 (2 flrnt Robert Wllcke found Quentin Frazier In the comer of the end zone on a fourth-down pass that tied the game and the Tigers (fr-11-1) hit the extra point to edge the Chargers (3-3L 0-2) In a 6A-1 test The teams traded field goals in the first overtime and Southaven had taken a 30-24 lead on a 10-yard TD pass from sophomore Matthew Martin to Devan Hollins to open the second OT Martin ran for a first-quarter touchdown and hit two third-quarter TD passes to put Southaven on top 21-7 But Hernando rallied on touchdown runs of 32 yards by Frazier and 14 by Wllcke South Panola 47 Otfve Branch 29: The Tigers (6-0 3-0 In 6A-1) took a 20-7 first-half lead and spent the final 24 Late Cormorant 42 Lewfsburg The Gators (5-2 2-0 In Class 5A-1) Jumped to a 21-0 first-quarter lead and heid on for their third straight win' while toe Patriots (2-5 0-2) lost their fourth straight Gator wideout Carlos Hicks caught touchdown passes of and 72 yards from Will Guest sandwiching a 3-yard Benny Benson scoring run after a fumble Benson scored twice In the opening half as Lake Cormorant led 35-21 at the break Anthony Hayes also scored twice forthe Gators his second on a fourth-quarter rpn that proved to be the game-winner Center HB 35 Hew Hope 21: The Mustangs (4-2 2-0 In 5A-1) kept a share of the top fcpot in the district with the road victory over the Trojans i(l-5 0-2) I Compiled by Pete Wickham WGHWAY510BRO0KHAVEN SOUTHAVEN 662403-2810 KM mmMMCWRB MEM Texas quarterback Kyle Allen (10) avoids the tackle attempt by Mississippi State linebacker Beniquez'Brown (42) during game In College Station Texas not going to work out for Allen had to work for more thaw half nf the game without starting receiver Ricky Seals-Jones who was ejected for targeting midway through the second quarter that made it The 6-foot-5 240-pound The Bulldogs weredriv- Seals-Jones leveled 5-11! ing again on drive of the second half But Donovan Wilson stripped theball and recovered it for the Aggies Texas offense stalled on ensuing and tied for a Saulsberry finished with 142 rushing yards and two touchdowns 52 receiving yards and a 35-yard touchdown pass Defensively he added two interceptions in the sec down arpass to lead defense He has 7 12 sacks this season Daeshon Hall added a sack for the Aggies to give him five this season when he shed a blocker and took down Prescott for a five-yard loss in the second quarter had too many third and longs and now in a drop back game against the two best pass-rushing d-ends in Mullen vl BMeSnidy-WM --t Maniai Wonhip-lftlSini 1 i Tit 74M Getwel Rd i tMm wwwbriihi wHmfcin the second to help to the win Prescott threw for 210 yards and ran for 96 more the little things you have to do to win a game we do them tonight and not going to win that Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said just not going to Myles Garrett had sev-en 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