54 sports is sponsored by Alpha Insurance. Good evening and welcome to sports for the second year in a row. North Alabama football opened their season in the F CS kickoff. It's also the third time. The last calendar year the Lions have played in front of a national TV audience including last season's regular season finale at Florida State. But let's head on to Montgomery, go down to the Gump and kick off the second year of the Brent Dearman era. Southeast Missouri State would be the foe and they took an early seven nothing lead their first drive with UN A up the field here late in the first quarter, Jon Allen sprinting 62 yards. Little giddy up. He's finally brought down the Redhawks 17 yard line five plays in 1/4 down conversion later, Allen gets to finish what he started pushing it across scoring the Lions first touchdown of the season. UN A goes for two. They get it. They lead 8 to 7 at the end of the first period. Second period we go see has the ball deep UN a territory but Gregory Reddick, the quarterback and the ball is free. It's recovered after being bobbled around a couple of times by the Lions and momentum is going in the way of the team in purple. So you and a now has the ball, they march all the way down the 11 yard line on four plays. A new quarterback, he's the new starter are put to, he'll take it himself. He's in for six touchdown. Lions. They go up 15 to 7 after the extra point but right before the half, Lions defense, a 10 play 46 yard touchdown drive which included a conversion on 3rd and 17 and the Red Hawks went to the locker room down just two points. It was 15 to 13 still in favor of you at that point. Let's take a look at your final score. Red Hawks, they retook the lead with 15 seconds to go in the third quarter and didn't look back. 29 unanswered points gets them to a 3715 final score.