{"id":424555,"date":"2026-10-11T01:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T01:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424555\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T01:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T01:12:15","slug":"miami-ohio-holds-firm-denying-umass-2-point-conversion-attempt-in-20-19-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424555\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami (Ohio) holds firm, denying UMass 2-point conversion attempt in 20-19 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMHERST, Mass. (WGGB\/WSHM) &#8211; AMHERST, Mass. (AP) \u2014 Caleb Heavner and Scoop Smith each ran for touchdowns and Miami (Ohio) held on to beat UMass 20-19 in a contest that went down to the last offensive play of the game on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Redhawks (3-3, 1-1 Mid-American Conference) led 20-13 with 2:21 left to play. UMass (4-2, 1-2) took the possession and went on a nine-play, 70-yard drive that ended when backup quarterback Logan Inagawa threw a 21-yard touchdown to Max Dowling with a second left in regulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Opting to play for the win, the Minutemen\u2019s Reece Adkins was stopped by Miami\u2019s Malcolm McClain on the two-point conversion attempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Heavener\u2019s 7-yard touchdown run with 1:11 left in the first quarter ended a 7-all tie and the Redhawks led the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Heavener struggled from pocket completing just 6-of-20 passed for 95 yards but ran for 54 yards on 11 carries and the touchdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Aedan McCarty threw for 171 yards for UMass before being replaced by Inagawa, who went 6-for-6 passing for 83 yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The RedHawks have a 6-1 advantage in the 14-year-old series.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Miami hosts Akron next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UMass heads to Buffalo to face the Bulls next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Western Mass News (WGGB\/WSHM). All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMHERST, Mass. (WGGB\/WSHM) &#8211; AMHERST, Mass. (AP) \u2014 Caleb Heavner and Scoop Smith each ran for touchdowns and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[143,57,54979,123,125,124,20476,45059,167223],"class_list":["post-424555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-mac","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-university","tag-umass","tag-umass-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424555","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=424555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}