Edmond, Okla. -- Sophomore quarterback Brayden Scott was responsible for five total touchdowns, but the Missouri Southern football team fell 63-21 today at Central Oklahoma. 

Southern (1-7, 1-7 MIAA) got a career-day from Scott as he went 20-32 with four touchdowns and 287 yards. He also rushed for 32 yards with a score. Scott becomes the first Lions quarterback to throw four touchdowns in a game since Collin Howard against Southwest Baptist in 2011. 

Jocqui Davis caught six passes for 95 yards and two touchdowns, while Anthony Cannon had four receptions for 87 yards and a score. Josiah Bennett had a touchdown reception and Scott Lathrop had nine catches for 56 yards. Josh Hadley had a rushing touchdown of his own with six carries for 25 yards. 

Defensively Justin Legier led the team with ten tackles, five solo. Chris Goss III had seven stops, while Alexander Wade and Akel Beard had six tackles each. 

The Lions went down 28-0 early, before Scott hooked up with Anthony Cannon on a 24-yard pass to end a 12-play, 87-yard drive to make the score 28-7 with 4:14 left in the second quarter. 

UCO (2-6, 2-6 MIAA)  answered back with another score to make it 35-7 with 57 seconds to go. The Lions, however, would not be denied and on the ensuing kickoff Terrell Crawford ran it back 52 yards, giving the Lions the ball on the UCO 36-yard line with 47 seconds left to go. Scott hit Jordan Morrison for a 22 yard catch and then hit Davis with a seven yard catch, putting the ball at the UCO seven-yard line with 11 seconds. A timeout from the Lions stopped the clock at seven seconds.

The Lions threw two incomplete passes on their next two passes, but each time, UCO was flagged for pass interference, the second time setting the Lions up at the one-yard line with four seconds to go. Southern called a timeout and out of the timeout, Scott hit the quarterback sneek for the touchdown, to make the score 35-14 at the half. 

UCO scored first after the halftime break, to go up 42-14, but the Lions answered right back with a 14-yard rush from Hadley to make the score 42-21 with 9:20 left in the third. The third would end with the same score. 

Both teams scored right after each other on their next possessions, the Lions scoring on a 53-yard touchdown pass from Scott to Davis. Southern got another pass from Scott to Davis, as well as a late score from Scott to Bennett, but the Lions could not stop the Bronchos offense. 

The Lions out passed UCO 316-267, but the Bronchos out gained the Lions 600-412 overall. The 42 points were the most scored by the Lions so far this season and the most since Southern scored 55 against Lindenwood-Belleville in 2013. 

Southern will be back in action next weekend when the Lions will play host to Northeastern State. Kickoff from Fred G. Hughes Stadium inside the Robert W. Plaster Sports Complex is slated for 2 pm.