Mercer Bears @ Austin Peay Governors

1-0, 1-0 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Mercer MER	0	7	7	14	28
Austin Peay PEAY	0	7	0	0	7

Austin Peay GovernorsAustin PeayPEAY

0-1, 0-1 Home

Lakes runs for 159 yards as Mercer tops Austin Peay 28-7

Alex Lakes ran for 159 yards and two touchdowns to lead Mercer to a 28-7 victory over Austin Peay in the season opener for both teams Saturday.

Sep 5, 2015, 09:11 pm - Associated Press

Play-By-Play

2nd Quarter

Touchdown

13:41 - 2nd

MER

PEAY

Alex Lakes 1 Yd Run (Jagger Lieb Kick)

11 plays, 73 yards, 4:46

Touchdown

2:38 - 2nd

MER

PEAY

Jared Beard 22 Yd pass from Trey Taylor (Logan Birchfield Kick)

8 plays, 62 yards, 3:47

3rd Quarter

Touchdown

11:08 - 3rd

MER

PEAY

Alex Lakes 1 Yd Run (Jagger Lieb Kick)

9 plays, 62 yards, 3:42

4th Quarter

Touchdown

6:26 - 4th

MER

PEAY

Tee Mitchell 42 Yd pass from John Russ (Jagger Lieb Kick)

8 plays, 78 yards, 3:30

Touchdown

1:49 - 4th

MER

PEAY

Tee Mitchell 1 Yd Run (Jagger Lieb Kick)

5 plays, 78 yards, 3:05

Data is currently unavailable.

FCS

Southern Conference	CONF	OVR
Chattanooga	0-0	0-0
East Tennessee State	0-0	0-0
Furman	0-0	0-0
Mercer	0-0	0-0
Samford	0-0	0-0
Tennessee Tech	0-0	0-0
The Citadel	0-0	0-0
VMI	0-0	0-0
Western Carolina	0-0	0-0
Wofford	0-0	0-0

United Athletic Conference	CONF	OVR
Abilene Christian	0-0	0-0
Austin Peay	0-0	0-0
Central Arkansas	0-0	0-0
Eastern Kentucky	0-0	0-0
North Alabama	0-0	0-0
Tarleton State	0-0	0-0
West Florida	0-0	0-0
West Georgia	0-0	0-0

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