{"id":424589,"date":"2026-10-11T02:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T02:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424589\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T02:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T02:24:17","slug":"umass-football-loses-to-miami-ohio-on-last-second-2-point-conversion-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424589\/","title":{"rendered":"UMass football loses to Miami (Ohio) on last-second 2-point conversion failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMHERST, Mass. \u2014 Caleb Heavner and Scoop Smith each ran for touchdowns and Miami (Ohio) held on to beat UMass 20-19<\/a> in a contest that went down to the last offensive play of the game on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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 third-string quarterback Logan Inagawa threw a 21-yard touchdown to Max Dowling with a second left in regulation.<\/p>\n

Opting to play for the win, the Minutemen\u2019s Reece Adkins was stopped by Miami\u2019s Malcolm McClain on the 2-point conversion attempt.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll week as a staff \u2014 this is true \u2014 we said it was a race to 21,\u201d UMass head coach Joe Harasymiak said. \u201cThat would have been 21.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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Heavener struggled from pocket completing just 6 of 20 passes for 95 yards but ran for 54 yards on 11 carries and the touchdown.<\/p>\n

Aedan McCarty threw for 171 yards for UMass before he suffered an injury and was replaced by Inagawa, who went 6 for 6 passing for 83 yards and the last-second touchdown to Dowling.<\/p>\n

The Minutemen were playing without top quarterback Pop Watson<\/a>, who has an ankle injury and was seen on the sideline with a walking boot. Wide receiver Joseph Griffin Jr., who ranks third on the team with 134 receiving yards, was out with an injury as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cPop\u2019s going to be hopefully evaluated next week,\u201d Harasymiak said. \u201cHe kind of tweaked an injury against Sac State … We have to get him healthy. I just don\u2019t think he was in a position to play. The young man did literally everything possible to try and go.\u201d<\/p>\n

The RedHawks have a 6-1 advantage in the 14-year-old series.<\/p>\n

UMass will look to get back to winning when they head to Buffalo to face the Bulls next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMHERST, Mass. \u2014 Caleb Heavner and Scoop Smith each ran for touchdowns and Miami (Ohio) held on to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-424589","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\/424589","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=424589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}