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JOPLIN, Mo. -- The Washburn Ichabods scored three fourth quarter touchdowns and twice rallied from four-point deficits to top Missouri Southern 30-14 at Fred Hughes Stadium. Washburn will have a short week of practice as they will host Missouri Western on Thursday night in Yager Stadium.

The game was game was delayed one hour and 19 minutes after lightning was in the area and each team had roughly 30 minutes to get warmed up on the field.

The Ichabods took the first lead of the game in the first quarter and Jeremy Linn connected of 29-yards with 7:16 to play capping a 11-play, 40-yard drive. Missouri Southern would then take the lead on a 99-yard, 11-play drive when Collin Howard hit Ne'Ronte Threat from 5-yards out as the Lions took a 7-3 lead into the half.

Halftime was reduced to from 20 minutes to 12 minutes to try to beat the potential thunderstorms which were coming into the area.

Washburn took the lead on a 19-yard touchdown from Dane Simoneau to DeJuan Beard with 1:05 to play in the third.

The Lions regained their lead on their next possession when Kyle Webster scored from 2-yards out putting the Lions back up 14-10 with 14:23 to play in the game. From that point on it was all Washburn as the Ichabods scored the next 20 points of the game.

The Ichabods took the lead for good on a Simoneau to Ronnell Garner 20-yard touchdown pass reception. After holding the Lions on a fourth down attempt, Simoneau connected on a 30-yard pass to Tore Hurst with 5:29 to play and then Simoneau threw for his third touchdown pass of the final quarter when he hit Beard for his second touchdown hook up of the night stretching the Washburn lead to 30-14.

Simoneau finished 23 of 41 from the field for 274 yards and four touchdown passes with one interceptions. Beard finished with 141 yards through the air with nine receptions. Matt Kobbeman had four catches for 37 yards. Justin Cooper had 83 yards on the ground on 19 carries.

Bryce Atagi led the Ichabods with 10 tackles with 2.5 tackles for loss. Willie Williams had nine tackles and Dakota Palan-Johnson with two for loss including two sacks.

Washburn had 26 first downs recording 367 total offensive yards while the Lions were held to 264.