OXFORD, OH \u2013 The Miami (OH) RedHawks got the game-winning field goal with 1:58 left in the fourth quarter to deal the visiting UConn Huskies a 24-21 loss in front of 18,180 at Fred C. Yager Stadium Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
UConn quarterback Kalieb Osborne<\/a> threw for 215 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 84 yards and ran for one in the loss. The Huskies finished with 377 total yards.<\/p>\n The Huskies took opening kick-off and went 75 yards in eight plays capped by an Osborne to Javon Brown<\/a> seven-yard touchdown pass for the early 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n UConn defense forced a three-and-out and the Huskies offense kept the fast start going. Facing a fourth-and-one on the Miami 38-yard line, Osborne faked off a hand-off and broke off the right side untouched all the way for his fifth touchdown of the season and a 14-0 lead at 6:23 of the first quarter.<\/p>\n The RedHawks cracked the scoreboard at 5:56 in the second quarter as quarterback David McComb engineered a 90-yard drive in eight plays, capping it off with a 10-yard scamper off the left side for six to pull within 14-7.<\/p>\n McComb and the RedHawks knotted the game up at 14-14 with 1:50 left in the first half on another long scoring drive, this one covering 87 yards. McComb lofted a pass to tight end Brendan Loftus who hauled it in one-handed and sprinted past the defense for a 58-yard score. The Huskies had a chance for points at the end of the half but a Jack O’Connor<\/a> field goal attempt from 46 yards was wide-right.<\/p>\n Miami’s opening drive of the second half stalled out on the UConn 26 but a 44-yard field goal attempt by Kellan McLaughlin bounced off the crossbar, no good. The RedHawks made it 21-straight points on their next drive however when McComb hooked-up with Scoop Smith for an 11-yard touchdown to cap a nine-play, 83-yard drive for a 21-14 lead with 3:48 left in the third.<\/p>\n UConn tied the game up at the end of the quarter as an Osborne 53-yard pitch-and-catch to Shamar Porter<\/a> put the ball deep in Miami territory and Cyncir Bowers<\/a> capped the drive with a one-yard plunge to make it 21-21 with 48 seconds left in the third.<\/p>\n The RedHawks had a chance to retake the lead early in the fourth but a drive stalled out to set up a second attempt by McLaughlin, this time from 40 yards but it sailed wide left, leaving the game tied at 21-21.<\/p>\n McComb was forced from the game on the next drive with injury, giving way to senior back-up Caleb Heavner. \u00a0The RedHawks came up with a big turnover in the UConn end as CJ Young picked off Osborne and set up Miami on the UConn 44-yard line.<\/p>\n The RedHawks used 11 plays and 6:49 on the clock to set up the go-ahead field goal and Brady Stidham drilled a 33-yard attempt with 1:58 left to go up 24-21. The Huskies went into their two-minute offense looking to tie or take the lead but the Miami defense held and forced a turnover on downs at their own 38-yard line to seal away the win.<\/p>\n Miami finished with 414 yards of total offense with McComb throwing for 312 yards and two scores.<\/p>\n Up Next: The Huskies return home to Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field on Saturday, October 3 to host the Syracuse Orange. Kick-off is 12 noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, OH \u2013 The Miami (OH) RedHawks got the game-winning field goal with 1:58 left in the fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-411714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}