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SHERMAN, Texas – Trailing for the entire game, Millsaps used 17 fourth quarter points, including a game-winning 27-yard field goal by junior \#Taylor Russolino\# with 2:07 remaining, to stun the homestanding Austin College Kangaroos at home 31-30 in a pair of Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference season-openers.
With the win, Millsaps fourth-year head coach Mike DuBose improved to 11-0 on the road in SCAC games and 20-1 overall, including winning the last nine in-a-row.
AC (2-1, 0-1 SCAC) took an early 14-0 lead behind a pair of Millsaps miscues, scoring on Brogan Funderburg's 1-yard run and QB Andy Braly's 39-yard scamper.
Millsaps (2-1, 1-0) scored on the ensuing kickoff after falling behind by two scores, using the third longest kick return in school history from \#Michael Galatas\#, a 92-yard return. The Majors would knot it at 14-14 on their next possession after the defense forced a three-and-out, scoring on a season-long 18-play, 74-yard drive capped by a \#Kenny Metzger\# 3-yard touchdown run.
The 'Roos responded to a long drive from Millsaps on their next drive, going 78 yards in 3:50 to retake the lead at 21-14 behind Andy Braly's 14-yard run. That's how the half would end, with AC up by a score.
John Reisig's 34-yard field goal with 55 seconds left in the third quarter provided the only scoring in the period, and stretched AC's lead to 24-14 heading into the fourth quarter.
Millsaps needed just four plays and 52 seconds to pull back within a score, using a 51-yard kick return from Shane Bowser to setup the Majors at the 'Roos 31-yard line. From there, \#Chris Graves\# hit \#Tye Menist\# from 5-yards out to make it 24-21 with 14:54 left.
The 'Roos continued to struggle to move the ball on offense, but got a big break with 5:10 to play when Kenneth Eneh deflected a pass into the hands of Evan Coachman on their own 26-yard line and took it the opposite way 74 yards for the touchdown to add to the Austin College lead. A botched extra point kept it a 30-21 game.
It didn't take long for the Majors to score on the ensuing possession, as Graves found Bowser in stride on 3rd-and-10 for a 50-yard touchdown pass to cut it to a 30-28 game.
With under four minutes to play and the 'Roos clinging to a two-point lead, a costly fumble gave the ball back to Millsaps at the AC 26-yard line. From there, the Majors milked the clock down to 2:07 before getting a 27-yard field goal from Russolino to give Millsaps its first lead of the game at 31-30.
With just one more chance in the game and no timeouts left, Braly's first pass on the ensuing possession for AC was picked off by \#Miles Sager\# to clinch the game for Millsaps and steal a come-from-behind win.
Graves completed 19-of-40 passes for 218 yards, two touchdowns and three picks, while Bowser rushed 15 times for 91 yards and added three catches for 56 yards and a touchdown. \#Will Hawkins\# led the Millsaps defense with nine tackles as Sager finished with eight stops, including two for loss, and an interception.
Millsaps will return to Jackson this weekend, hosting Trinity University (3-0, 1-0) in a rematch from a heartbreaking, 28-24 last second loss in 2007. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m.
