Andrew Body threw two touchdown passes — including a 65-yarder to AJ Bennett — and...
HOUSTON — Andrew Body threw two touchdown passes — including a 65-yarder to AJ Bennett — and Texas Southern breezed to a 41-7 victory over Grambling State on Saturday night.
LaDarius Owens gave Texas Southern a 7-0 lead midway through the first quarter on a 1-yard scoring run. Freshman Julian Calvez fired a 37-yard scoring strike to Joshua Johnson four minutes later to pull Grambling even. Body needed just 1:48 to march 54 yards, hitting Tavaris Achane for a 15-yard touchdown with 23 seconds left in the period. Body's long touchdown pass to Bennett was the only score of the second quarter and the Tigers took a 21-7 lead into intermission.
Isaiah Hamilton picked off a Quaterius Hawkins pass and returned it 12 yards for a score and Kevin Harris added a 1-yard touchdown run with five seconds left in the third quarter to put Texas Southern up 33-7. Daveon Ford scored from a yard out on a fourth-quarter run to end the scoring.Calvez and Hawkins combined to complete 10 of 23 passes for 118 yards with an interception apiece for Grambling's Tigers.
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