BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Lenorris Footman came on for injured starter John Gibbs and accounted for six Alcorn State touchdowns as the Braves rolled past Southern, 48-7 Saturday at a rain-soaked A.W. Mumford Stadium.

Marquis Warford raced 78 yards for the game’s first score and Footman ran 44-yards for his first with 2:06 left in the first quarter. Footman found Jordan Payne from 29-yards out to start the second, staking the Braves (5-2, 4-1 Southwestern) to a 21-0 lead.

Lenard Tillery punched over from the 1 for the lone Southern (4-4, 4-2) touchdown in the second to make it 21-7 at intermission.

Footman scampered 17 yards for a touchdown and fired a 38-yard strike to Brandon Campbell in the third quarter to make it 35-7, then capped his day with touchdown runs of 30- and 60-yards in the fourth.

Footman finished with 274 yards rushing and was 3-of-7 passing for 71 yards. He rushed the ball in the end zone four separate times and scored twice in the air. Warford added another 93 yards on the ground with three attempts.

On the other side of the field, Austin Howard and Deonte Shorts combined for 5-14 for 40 yards. Jarrad Hayes and Gregg Pittman combined for another four passes for the Jaguars.

The Braves defense was able to get around the Tigers offensive line to bring Howard done for three sacks and a loss of 20 yards.

Tillery finished the game with 151 rushing yards on 32 carries.

He led the Jaguars on the ground followed by Malcolm Crocket adding 91 yards and Shorts just recording 12.

Alcorn more than doubled the total number of yards against Southern earning 555 to the Jaguars 260. Of which, the Braves accounted for 484 yards on the ground. They also made 6-of-7 extra point attempts after having two blocked against Grambling two weeks ago.

This win puts Alcorn at the top of the East division in the SWAC and third in the conference behind Grambling State and Prairie View A&M.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report