SHREVEPORT, La. – Grambling State ended the 2023 spring soccer season with a 49-7 loss to Southern within the forty seventh Bayou Basic at Independence Stadium.
“Hats off to Southern College, they did an superior job,” stated GSU Tigers head coach Broderick Fobbs. “It’s what it’s, however we’re not going to hold our heads at Grambling. There have been a variety of issues that occurred to us that not too many find out about, and on the finish of the day, I’m happy with my children for preventing the best way they fought within the midst of every little thing that they’ve needed to take care of behind closed doorways.”
The Tigers allowed 14 factors in every of the primary three quarters, however have been capable of reply early within the second half when quarterback Elijah Walker discovered redshirt senior Raylon Richardson on a 13-yard strike with an ideal back-shoulder move behind the tip zone on a sustained, seven-play 75-yard drive within the third quarter. Walker additionally related with Richardson on a 32-yard move earlier than redshirt freshman working again CJ Russell knifed by the Jags protection for a 20-yard run to arrange the landing move on the following play for Grambling.
Walker accomplished 9-of-14 passes for 65 yards and one passing landing to go together with 56 yards dashing, however misplaced a complete of 39 yards in sacks in his first Bayou Basic.
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“After the sport, I instructed my group that I’m happy with them,” expressed Fobbs. “It sounds loopy, however I’m happy with them. It is rather troublesome to return to work each day and take care of what our youngsters have needed to take care of, and a few of the issues which have been positioned in entrance of them, and the mere indisputable fact that they have been capable of overcome all of that, and nonetheless have a optimistic perspective and nonetheless work onerous and nonetheless come out right here and compete the very best that they presumably may, and to me that’s a win. Wins aren’t all the time on the scoreboard; after all we wish to win soccer video games and we wish to win championships, however to me championships begin from inside, and once you do the form of issues that I noticed our youngsters do within the final couple of weeks, it’s there. We simply must get the opposite items which might be already on the best way, and do what we’re purported to do.”
Richardson was named team-MVP for Grambling as he led the Tigers with three catches for 51 yards and a landing whereas GSU working again Lyndemain Brooks completed with 9 carries for a team-high 71 yards on the bottom. Redshirt freshman CJ Russell chipped in with 36 dashing yards and fellow Tiger senior tight finish Dorrell James added 18 receiving yards on three catches.
On the defensive finish, GSU redshirt sophomore Lewis Matthews generated a game-high 11 tackles whereas junior linebacker Joshua Reed, redshirt junior defensive again Anthony Boston and redshirt junior defensive lineman Cameron Richardson every added six tackles apiece within the loss. Boston completed with a game-high 5 solo tackles for the G-Males.
Grambling freshman punter Marquise McKnight produced a game-high 227 yards on six punts, together with a 56-yarder.
Courtesy: Grambling State Athletics
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