Heroic LSU players Brandon Harris, Malachi Dupre dive into water to help flood victims BATON ROUGE – LSU quarterback Brandon Harris and wide receiver Malachi Dupre had quite a weekend. On Saturday night, Harris, a sophomore from Bossier City, threw for a career high 286 yards and tied a career high with three touchdown passes as the Tigers defeated Western Kentucky, 48-20, in Tiger Stadium. Dupre, a sophomore from New Orleans, caught a career long 55-yard touchdown pass from Harris and had two other catches for 86 yards in all. Then on Sunday – about a block from Tiger Stadium on Burbank Drive near Walk-On’s restaurant – Harris and Dupre helped a woman and her young diabetic son whose car was overtaken by flood waters that plagued areas in Baton Rouge after two days of hard rain. Both players dove into water to get inside the car to retrieve insulin for the boy, according to LSU coach Les Miles and sports information director Michael Bonnette. LSU’s Brandon Harris shines in the rain “I’m told that two of our guys during that monsoon had stepped in and helped a stranded motorist and her child,” Miles said to reporters after practice Tuesday night. “Basically they went into a car that had insulin in it for a diabetic son, went under water and got it. That was Brandon Harris and Malachi Dupre doing good things on their own without direction.” Harris and Dupre called an audible. “In fact, I would’ve probably told them to stay out of the water,” Miles said. “But truth of the matter is that they knew better. Great that everybody’s healthy, and it was a great move. But you know what, there’s a lot of real quality people on this team. It’s a football team brought together to get an education and play championship football, but there’s a lot of stories like that go untold that are pretty special.” http://sports.usatoday.com/2015/10/27/heroic-tigers-dive-into-water-to-help-flood-victims/
