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09/07/20 - CB Duron Lowe, rSr/2022, Liberty

First UTEP avoided embarrassment in a 24-14 season-opening victory against Stephen F. Austin. Then they generated some real reason for hope. After digging an early 14-3 hole against the Football Championship Subdivision Lumberjacks, the Miners didn't give up a point in the final 42 minutes while forcing two turnovers and slamming the door shut for the win. Quarterback Gavin Hardison made good use of his primary targets Jacob Cowing and Justin Garrett, and tailback Deion Hankins, a Parkland alum, flashed some moments of brilliance that made him one of the great tailbacks in El Paso high school history. "Our defense started playing at a dominant level," coach Dana Dimel said after winning an opener for the second consecutive season. "You could see how much more athletic we are defensively with what we're doing, so much more quick twitch on our football team. "I noticed how much faster we were playing, how more physical we were playing. We're in that stage where we're learning how to win football games. Offensively we had some play makers step up and make some plays for us."

The defense turned the game around with a turnover to set up a go-ahead touchdown at the end of the first half. UTEP turned a 14-3 deficit into a 17-14 halftime lead in the space of two and a half minutes, then got a Duron Lowe end zone interception in the fourth quarter when SFA seemed poised to retake the lead. "That was a great play and it wasn't easy," Dimel said of Lowe's interception that was the play of the game. "That was a winning play, a big difference in this ball game." "They are a big smash-post-corner team in the red zone," Lowe said. "I saw No. 1 (Jermiah Miller) run a smash route, I sunk and made a play on the ball. That got us the ball back." - El Paso Times

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