Tate Grad Racks Up Career High Game Rushing Yards For Wofford

October 5, 2015

Tate graduate Lorenzo Long had a career-high 187 yards rushing and a touchdown Saturday was the Wofford College football team beat Mercer University 34-33 in overtime.

Long, now a junior at the South Carolina school, ran for first downs to reach the red zone in the fist quarter, while in the second quarter had a run fall short on fourth-and-one before Wofford turned the ball over on downs.

Wofford used a 60-yard run by Long to set up a 27-yard field goal attempt that was blocked to end the first half.

An interception by the Terriers was dropped and Mercer went on to score on a two-yard touchdown run to make it a 20-17 game with 36 seconds left in the third quarter. Wofford wasted little time in responding, as Long went 53-yards up the middle for a touchdown. The Terriers had a 27-17 lead with 14:28 on the clock in the fourth quarter.

Of Long’s career-high 187 yards rushing  n a game, 121 came in the first half before a crowd of 10,489 at Mercer University in Macon, GA. It was his first 100-yard game this season and the sixth of his career.

Long, a 2013 Tate graduate, had 3,227 rushing yards on 423 carries, 37 touchdowns, and 3,826 all-purpose yards while in high school.

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