{"id":441743,"date":"2026-09-20T06:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441743\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T06:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:26:10","slug":"houston-christian-football-huskies-lose-in-overtime-to-incarnate-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441743\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Christian football: Huskies lose in overtime to Incarnate Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0\u2014 Houston Christian rallied to take a fourth-quarter lead but couldn\u2019t hold off Incarnate Word, which won 30-23 in overtime Saturday night at Gayle &amp; Tom Benson Stadium.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>HCU (2-2, 1-1 Southland) trailed 20-10 at halftime but took a 23-20 lead with 5:59 left in the fourth quarter after Maddox Kopp\u2019s 53-yard touchdown pass to Ja\u2019Ryan Wallace. That capped a nine-play, 80-yard drive by the Huskies.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Cardinals (2-1, 1-0) tied the score on Joey Bryson\u2019s 24-yard field goal with 2:24 left in regulation.<\/p>\n<p>In overtime, the Cardinals got the ball first and scored on Emmett Brown\u2019s 10-yard TD run. On the ensuing possession, the Huskies drove to the Cardinals&#8217; 8-yard line. But Kopp threw incomplete on consecutive plays, allowing UIW to improve to 12-0 in the teams&#8217; all-time series.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace and Trayjen Llanas-Wilcox each caught a touchdown pass for HCU, with Cutter Stewart throwing the TD to Llanas-Wilcox. Champ Doziler added 86 yards on 20 carries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HCU\u2019s next game is a nonconference matchup at 6:30 p.m. Saturday against North Texas in Denton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO\u00a0\u2014 Houston Christian rallied to take a fourth-quarter lead but couldn\u2019t hold off Incarnate Word, which won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-441743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}