ABILENE – The Howard Payne Yellow Jackets suffered their third consecutive defeat Saturday afternoon, dropping their American Southwest Conference football opener at the d3football.com No. For the Yellow Jackets, Blessing Ngene gained 110 rushing yards and a touchdown while JC Mays tacked on 63 yards. Bryan Elizalde collected a team-high nine tackles for the HPU defense followed by eight each from Cade Rochinski and Roderick Mapps. Hardin-Simmons’ Kyle Brown passed for 351 yards and four touchdowns while Ty Thompson added 92 yards and a scoring toss. Asa Osbourn led the Cowboy ground game with 130 yards and three touchdowns and Kamerin Ferguson picked up 100 yards rushing and cross the goal line once.