{"id":212264,"date":"2025-12-31T00:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/212264\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:19:09","slug":"football-comes-up-short-in-independence-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/212264\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Comes Up Short in Independence Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/_ingame-13.JPG\" alt=\"Tad Hudson - 2025 Independence Bowl \"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        Football&#13;<br \/>\n                        12\/30\/2025 6:25:00 PM&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                  &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/goccusports.com\/documents\/2025\/12\/30\/ltu_VS_ccu.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Game Book (PDF) &#8212; Independence Bowl<\/a> &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"288\" data-start=\"99\">Shreveport, La. \u2013 Coastal Carolina opened the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl with a strong first half but fell 23\u201314 to Louisiana Tech on Tuesday afternoon at Independence Stadium.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"645\" data-start=\"290\">The Chanticleers struck first in the opening quarter when quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/goccusports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/tad-hudson\/20401\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20401\" target=\"_blank\">Tad Hudson<\/a> connected with <a href=\"https:\/\/goccusports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/dominic-knicely\/20498\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20498\" target=\"_blank\">Dominic Knicely<\/a> on a 20-yard touchdown pass to cap a crisp opening drive. Coastal continued to build momentum in the second quarter, as Hudson found <a href=\"https:\/\/goccusports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/robby-washington\/20511\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20511\" target=\"_blank\">Robby Washington<\/a> in the end zone from 16 yards out to give the Chanticleers a 14\u20133 lead heading into halftime.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"955\" data-start=\"647\">Coastal&#8217;s offense moved the ball efficiently through the air in the first half, while the defense limited Louisiana Tech to a pair of field goals over the first three quarters. The Bulldogs closed the gap with scores late in the third and early in the fourth quarter before pulling ahead in the final period.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1241\" data-start=\"957\">Hudson finished the afternoon with over 300 passing yards, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/goccusports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/staff\/grayson-mccall\/2007\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2007\" target=\"_blank\">Grayson McCall<\/a> as the only Coastal quarterbacks to have reached that mark.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goccusports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/bryson-graves\/20391\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20391\" target=\"_blank\">Bryson Graves<\/a> led the receiving corps with a team-high total in catches and yards, while the Chanticleers&#8217; defense recorded four takeaways.<\/p>\n<p>Coastal ends the 2025 season (6-7).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Football&#13; 12\/30\/2025 6:25:00 PM&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-212264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}