MOBILE, Ala. — The 16-month wait which followed Savannah State’s celebratory, breakthrough football season, finally ended Saturday with a special arranged game.
What it yielded at Mobile’s Ladd-Peebles Stadium gave the Tigers a mix of hope and sobering reminder of the short separation between success and frustration.
Leading 28-24 in a back-and-forth battle, Savannah State committed a trio of fourth-quarter kicking game errors, leading into the University of West Alabama’s eventual 36-28 victory in the third annual Gulf Coast Challenge.
Preview:The long wait is over for Savannah State with football game Saturday
“Just super, super disappointed we lost the game,” said Savannah State coach Shawn Quinn, whose first season in 2019 resulted in the Tigers’ first winning record (7-3) since 1998. “We had the lead in the fourth and let it slip away. We had three bad plays on special…
