The Lions defeated FACS 13-6 to earn a trip to the Blue Cross Bowl DII A at MTSU Nov. 25 at 1:00pm
You can see pictures of the game and the celebration by following theses links:
Pictures from the game and after
Sights from the Semi-Final Night
Read the article from the Commercial Appeal
View the statistics from the game
The Lions will take on the winner of this Friday’s 4/5 matchup between St.George’s/FACS. The state semi-final game will be at Harding Nov. 14 @ 7PM
The Lions traveled to Rossville for the final regular season game and rolled over the Rebels. With SBEC beating FACS, the Lions are the #1 seed in the State Playoffs. The Lions will host the winner of FACS vs St. George’s on November 14 for the right to head to Nashville for The 2008 Division II A BlueCross Bowl.
HARDING 56, ROSSVILLE CHRISTIAN 14
Harding 14 21 14 7 — 56
Rossville Christian 7 7 0 0 — 14
R — Joshua Watts 70 fumble recovery (Dean Helton kick)
H — James Adkins 7 run (Connor Ragin kick)
H — Drew Chick 3 run (Connor Ragin kick)
R — Logan Johns 15 pass from Greg Sheehan (Dean Helton kick)
H — James Adkins 7 run (Connor Ragin kick)
H — Drew Chick 19 run (Connor Ragin kick)
H — Phillip Branch 2 run (Connor Ragin kick)
H — Phillip Branch 6 run (Connor Ragin kick)
H — Austin Mitchell 44 pass from Phillip Branch (Connor Ragin kick)
H — Stephen Hannah 1 run (Connor Ragin kick)
H R
First downs 20 7
Net yards rushing 249 49
Net yards passing 203 187
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING — Harding, Phillip Branch 13-96.
PASSING — Harding, Phillip Branch 12-17-203-0. Rossville Christian, Greg Sheehan 16-29-187-3.
RECEIVING — Harding, Keilan Stittiams 3-42, James Adkins 3-35, Austin Mitchell 3-71. Rossville Christian, Chase Templeton 5-59, Dean Helton 3-19, Joshua Watts 4-72.
RECORDS — Harding 8-2 (6-1, Division 2-A), Rossville Christian 0-10 (0-7, Division 2-A).
Harding took care of business by winning the football game for Homecoming 2008.
The Lions dropped a hard fought battle to the Crusaders 21-14.
You can view pictures of the contest by clicking the link on the right
The Lion’s defeated Bishop Byrne to set up next week’s clash with FACS at Harding. Harding used a balanced attack to run through the Knights.
Read the Commercial Appeal’s story
The Lion’s traveled to Nashville to notch their biggest win to date rolling over DCA 35-27. The win keeps the Lions undefeated in their Division with FACS. The Lions will be on the road again next Friday at Bishop Byrne
They say Marlon can not pass, watch the story done by ABC24 Sports
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The Lions put on a show for Fox 13 Game of the Week crew. Harding scored on their first two offensive plays and added a fumble recovery touchdown to jump out to a 20-0 lead before St. George’s knew what hit them.
Check out Channel 24’s recap of the game and the first two TD’s
The Lions lost their first game of the season Friday night. The Bruins of USJ, behind the passing of Jake Overby, with 295 yds passing and 3 touchdowns scored in the last minutes of the game to break a 24 all tie. Drew Chick passed for 287 yds and Marlon Brown caught 11 passes for 185 yds and two touchdowns. The Lions host St. George’s this Friday night (Sep. 19) in a very important conference game.