Staff report

SALISBURY — Livingstone College’s football team will look to make it two wins in a row on Saturday at 6 p.m. when the Blue Bears welcome the Allen University Yellow Jackets to Alumni Memorial Stadium.

Livingstone (1-1) pulled away from Virginia University at Lynchburg in the fourth quarter for a 37-9 home victory last week.

Livingstone’s defense was in control throughout. The offense got rolling later, as VUL wore down.

The next opponent is expected to offer a meatier challenge for the Blue Bears. While Livingstone was heavily favored to handle VUL, the Blue Bears are favored by seven points by the Massey Ratings against Allen’s Yellow Jackets.

Allen is a Division II HBCU school in Columbia, S.C., and competes in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, known as the SIAC. It’s a deeper-south counterpart to the CIAA, which draws most of its membership from North Carolina and Virginia.

Livingstone and Allen played a thriller in 2021, with Allen taking a 34-32 victory at home.

Allen (0-1) lost on the road at Clark Atlanta last week, falling 26-22 in a thriller, but did enough to win two SIAC weekly awards.

One award went to punter Trevor Bywater, who was solid and put two punts inside the Clark Atlanta 20.

The other award went to Jamir Dismukes, the SIAC Newcomer of the Year.

He’s a junior, a transfer from Wheeling University. At 5-foot-10, he’s not a prototype QB, but he was 21-for-28 for 263 yards in the loss to Clark Atlanta. He accounted for most of the Yellow Jackets’ offense with two touchdown passes and a rushing TD, so he’ll be the obvious focal point of Livingstone’s defensive game plan.

This will be the third straight home game for the Blue Bears. Then they’ll have two straight long road trips to Bowie State and Lincoln.