BATON ROUGE, LA – Southern (3-4, 3-0 SWAC) extended its three game winning streak Monday afternoon blowing out Mississippi Valley State (0-12, 0-4 SWAC) 102-61.
Six Jaguars scored in double figures led by junior Samkelo Cele who recorded a career-high 18 points, seven rebounds on 15 minutes of play. Graduate transfer Harrison Henderson chipped in 12 points and nine rebounds finishing one rebound shy of recording his third straight double-double. Junior Jayden Saddler added 12 points, seven assist while redshirt senior Lamarcus Lee contributed 12 points and seven rebounds. Redshirt senior Ahsante Shivers finished with 10 points and five rebounds. Senior Andre Allen finished with a career-high 10 points and 10 rebounds recording his first double-double in a SU uniform.
MVSU scored the first basket of the game taking their only lead of the afternoon 3-0 before SU went on a 10-0 run capped off by Allen layup with 16:00 left in the half. Cele came off the bench and connected on a jumper from the left wing followed by a three pointer with 13:39 left in the half starting the Jaguars on a 16-8 run. Allen jumper at the 1:10 mark caped off SU 51 point half and taking the lead into the locker room 51-38.
In the second half the Jaguars picked up right where they left off, stretching the lead to 65-42 before the 16:00 media timeout. The Jaguars largest lead was 44 points.
Southern shot 55.7% from the field (34-61), 42.9% from behind the arc (9-21), shot 83.3% from the free throw line (25-30) while MVSU was 37.3% from the floor and SU defense held the Devils to 30.3% from behind the three point line. SU out rebounded the Devils 44-18.
Caleb Hunter led MVSU with 23 points, Terry Collins finished with 15 points and Treylan Smith added 11 points for the Delta Devils.
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The Jaguars will return to action on Saturday, Jan. 23 when they travel to Alabama A&M for a 2:00 pm tip-off in Huntsville.
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