{"id":2721,"date":"2019-09-22T13:36:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T17:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2019-09-22T13:36:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T17:36:40","slug":"seu-football-dominates-in-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/09\/22\/seu-football-dominates-in-home-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"SEU Football Dominates in Home Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">Fire record 635 yards on offense, and five sacks on defense<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70623857_10157556109099894_5462020084824276992_n.jpg?resize=960%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2722\" data-link=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?attachment_id=2722\" class=\"wp-image-2722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70623857_10157556109099894_5462020084824276992_n.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70623857_10157556109099894_5462020084824276992_n.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70623857_10157556109099894_5462020084824276992_n.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70990207_10157556109219894_857835523132096512_n.jpg?resize=960%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2723\" data-link=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?attachment_id=2723\" class=\"wp-image-2723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70990207_10157556109219894_857835523132096512_n.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70990207_10157556109219894_857835523132096512_n.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70990207_10157556109219894_857835523132096512_n.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70556960_10157556109349894_7576678594861072384_n.jpg?resize=960%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2724\" data-link=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?attachment_id=2724\" class=\"wp-image-2724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70556960_10157556109349894_7576678594861072384_n.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70556960_10157556109349894_7576678594861072384_n.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/70556960_10157556109349894_7576678594861072384_n.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a difference a week makes.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nAn offense that struggled last week at Point turned things around in a big way\nin the Southeastern University home opener, recording 635 yards in a 54-15 win\nover Georgetown College Saturday night.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nBig plays were a big key, recording 11 plays of 20+ yards.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\n&#8220;One of the things we stressed this week was that we weren&#8217;t just trying\nto beat a football team, we were trying to beat a program and a hall of fame\ncoach,&#8221; said coach&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/coaches.aspx?rc=273\">Keith\nBarefield<\/a>. &#8220;We had to mentally, emotionally, and spiritually prepare\nfor and our guys came out and played tonight.&#8221;<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nSophomore quarterback&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2374\">Cooper\nJones<\/a>&nbsp;had a career day, passing for 322 yards and four touchdowns and\nwas only sacked once.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\n&#8220;Everything clicked. We got started in the running game, the offensive\nline had a great push off the ball and opened up things for us in the passing\ngame,&#8221; said Jones. &#8220;We installed a lot of things in this game and I\nfeel like our practices were really good.&#8221;<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nJones found three different receivers for touchdowns, starting with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2358\">Evan Beal<\/a>&nbsp;with\n10:24 left in the first quarter to put the Fire up 7-0.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nWith 4:45 left in the second, Jones hit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2439\">Marquavis Myers<\/a>&nbsp;for\na 22-yard strike on third down to make it 14-0 at the break.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2359\">Bryan Bell<\/a>&nbsp;led a\nbackfield that compiled 305 yards and three scores. Bell rushed for 190 on 12\ncarries. Senior&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2379\">Lorine\nParker<\/a>&nbsp;found the endzone twice on runs of three and 20 yards.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nIn the third quarter, the Fire took it to another level, getting a 28-yard TD\npass from Jones to Wendell Harris, and a 20-yard run by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2379\">Lorine Parker<\/a>&nbsp;to go\nup 34-8. The defense also got involved with a 20 yard interception return for\ntouchdown by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2632\">Tyrail\nDavis<\/a>.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\n&#8220;We had a few things in the first half we&#8217;d like to have back, we felt\nlike we probably could have had a couple more scores, but went in at halftime\nand made some adjustments and our guys came out determined to make an\nimpact,&#8221; said Barefield.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nTo start the fourth quarter, the Fire held a 41-8 lead.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2422\">Eddie Jackson<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2459\">Tez Watts<\/a>&nbsp;each had\nsix total stops. Freshman&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2408\">Loobert Denelus<\/a>&nbsp;had\nfour tackles, 2.5 for loss, and was in on two of SEU&#8217;s five sacks.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\n&#8220;Our defensive coaches did a tremendous job,&#8221; said Barefield.\n&#8220;There are a lot of things that Georgetown does that are a little bit\nunconventional that you don&#8217;t necessarily see at first look, but when you start\nlooking at what they do, it&#8217;s very intricate and our guys work hard this week\nand were ready.&#8221;<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nThe GC offense was held to 331 total yards with just 41 rushing yards on 34\nattempts.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nSoutheastern will host Campbellsville in its final non-division game on\nSeptember 28th&nbsp;at 7 p.m. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire record 635 yards on offense, and five sacks on defense What a difference a week makes. &nbsp; An offense that struggled last week at Point turned things around in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"20","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seu-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}