MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Junior
Chance Clowers (Monroe, La.) hit classmate
Patrick McRaney (Waveland, Miss.) with a 19-yard TD pass with 58 seconds left to push Millsaps College past Rhodes College, 20-19, in a Southern Athletic Association football game. The score completed a 13-point fourth quarter comeback for the Majors that was the difference in their second straight conference win.
Millsaps (3-2, 2-1 SAA) intercepted three passes in the fourth quarter, with the second by junior
Malcom Ben (New Orleans, La.) giving the Majors the ball on its own 35 trailing by six with 3:17 left. The Majors faced a fourth and eight, but Clowers found senior
Tanner Menist (Jackson, Miss.) for a 15-yard gain that kept the drive alive. Two plays later Clowers connected with McRaney for the game-winner, with the extra point by sophomore
Hunter Sellen (Covington, La.) putting Millsaps on top.
Rhodes (2-3, 1-2 SAA) managed to get the ball on the Millsaps side of the 50 in a final attempt to pull the game out, but freshman
Hooch Jeansonne (Covington, La.) picked off PJ Settles and the Majors ran out the clock to come away with the thrilling victory.
Rhodes got on the board first in the game when Settles scampered 19 yards for a score with 4:59 left in the first quarter. Millsaps answered midway through the second when junior
Andrew Warren (Ocean Springs, Miss.) took it in from 11 yards out to knot the score at 7-all.
From there on Kyle Edmiston, the Rhodes place kicker, was the only person to score points for the remainder of the second quarter and all of the third. He booted a pair of field goals in the second and the third, including one from 41 yards, that had the Lynx on top 19-7 going into the final 15 minutes of action.
Millsaps had a field goal blocked in the first minute of the final quarter, but the Majors saw junior
Gary Roberts (New Iberia, La.) intercept a pass to stop the first drive by Rhodes in the quarter. Millsaps then pinned Rhodes back on its own 13 on its next drive and held the Lynx to a three-and-out, giving the Majors the ball on its own 41. Millsaps then put together a 10-play drive that was culminated by a one-yard TD pass by senior
Bubba White (High Point, N.C.) to freshman
Kolbe Leary (Oxford, Miss.), setting up the exciting finish for the Majors.