{"id":470589,"date":"2026-10-19T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470589\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:00:08","slug":"uiw-cardinals-defeat-utrgv-vaqueros-41-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470589\/","title":{"rendered":"UIW Cardinals defeat UTRGV Vaqueros 41-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cardinals were finally at home after almost a month<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros were in the Alamo City on Saturday to take on the University of the Incarnate Word Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">In the first quarter, the Cardinals\u2019 defense made things difficult for UTRGV. Vaqueros quarterback Aidan Jakobsohn dropped back and threw downfield, but UIW\u2019s Patrick Batiste came up with the interception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The Cardinals capitalized on the turnover. Quarterback Emmett Brown handed the ball off to Lontrell Turner, who found a gap and scored to put UIW on the board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The Vaqueros looked to respond, but the Cardinals gave them another chance to take the ball away. Brown scrambled and launched a pass, but UTRGV defensive back Jordan Ford stepped in front of his receiver for the interception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The Cardinals held UTRGV to a field goal following the turnover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">After that, UIW took control and defeated the Vaqueros 41-16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Read also: <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorAshley Gonzalez headshot<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BCOBS4335VD2VIEQRHJRJZFCEM.png\"\/><a class=\"sc-bmzYkS fERtCt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/AG6ELR3ORTCVQVQELW28BYGYW7\/\" title=\"View Ashley Gonzalez&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Gonzalez<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ctDavV cigBRW\">Ashley Gonzalez is a sports reporter at KSAT. She joined the team from Jacksonville, Florida, where she was the weekend sports anchor.<\/p>\n<p>Before her time in Jacksonville, she was in Corpus Christi at KIII. There, she became the first woman sports anchor in the station&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez is from the Rio Grande Valley and grew up in Weslaco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals were finally at home after almost a month SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The UT Rio Grande Valley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[261,29245,82,84,83,154,1702,18824],"class_list":["post-470589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-college-football","tag-ksat-sports-now","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-sports","tag-uiw","tag-utrgv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470589","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=470589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}