EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS4) \u2014 Herschel Turner rushed for 192 yards and a touchdown to lead the Nevada Wolfpack to a 30-13 victory over the UTEP Miners at the Sun Bowl on Saturday. <\/p>\n
UTEP falls to 1-5 (0-2 Mountain West). Nevada moves to 2-3 (1-1 Mountain West). <\/p>\n
In the first half, UTEP struggled mightily on offense. The Miners only racked up 40 total yards and trailed 13-7 at the half. In the third quarter, Turner took off for a 72 yard touchdown to put the Wolfpack up 23-7. In the fourth, Nevada extended their lead to 30-7 with a 6-yard touchdown run from Dominic Kelley. With less than three minutes to go, Raymond Moore III connected with Cash Cheeks for a touchdown and the game ended 30-13.<\/p>\n
For UTEP, Moore, who started in place of the injured EJ Colson, finished 16 of 26 for 132 yards and two touchdowns. Moore also carried the ball 15 times for 65 yards. <\/p>\n
Jaden Smith caught four passes for 65 yards and a touchdown. <\/p>\n
UTEP finished with only 9 net rushing yards. <\/p>\n
For Nevada, Carter Jones was 11 of 19 for 82 yards and touchdown with a lost fumble. <\/p>\n
Turner had 19 carries for the 192 yards and the touchdown. <\/p>\n
Kelley had 22 carries for 99 yards and the touchdown. <\/p>\n
Next Saturday, UTEP will host San Jose State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS4) \u2014 Herschel Turner rushed for 192 yards and a touchdown to lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-462741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462741","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=462741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}