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The Arizona game is a sellout. Nice.
Tonnemaker picks up 12 on his first carry.
4th and 2 at the 47. Arizona goes for it and gets 3 through the air.
QB Brian Thomas completes his first 4 passes.
But they punt on 4th and 1 from our 35.
Morris picks up 9 on the ground on 3rd and 7.
Another 3rd down pickup for Morris.
We botch a handoff on 3rd and 1 at the 17.
Ellis kicks a 35 yard field goal. 3-0, 6:41 left in the quarter.
DE Randy Gajan leaves the game with an elbow injury.
3 and out for the Wildcat offense.
DT Chuck Wayne sustains an injury.
C Nick Moore is out for the game with an elbow injury.
3 and out for the offense.
Arizona has a false start on 3rd and 1, then fails to pick up the 3rd down. Punt.
31 yard pass play to Martin as the CB went for the pick.
Morris takes a pass down to the 3 yard line.
3 yard TD pass to Voight. 10-0, 0:12 left in the 1st quarter.
Huge kick return for Arizona, down to our 16.
Tonnemaker picks up 13.
The QB throws a TD, picking up the remaining 3 yards. Extra point is missed! 10-6, 14:23 left in the half.
16 yard run for Morris. He now has 67 yards on 13 carries.
Rattay is sacked on 1st down.
A holding call goes against our backup center.
14 yard pass to Martin sets up 3rd and 14 at the 44.
8 yard pass - we punt from their 36.
Arizona will start at their 5.
Taz Simms gets a sack while stuffing an option play.
3 and out for Arizona - we should have good field position.
And we start at our 45.
15 yard pass to Olsen.
22 more yards to Olsen, down to the 16.
3 straight incompletions at that point. Ellis misses a 34 yard field goal. I hate him.
Arizona gets 21 on 3rd and 10 - up to midfield.
CB J.R. Jackson makes a great interception. We start at our own 39.
3rd and 10 - 14 yard pass from Rattay to Voight.
An illegal motion penalty wipes out a 35 yard TD pass.
37 yard TD pass to TE Gene Fortunato! 17-6, 1:01 left in the half.
Arizona is not able to make anything happen in that final minute.
Halftime Notes:
- We are playing pretty good football, but allowing the Wildcats to hang around. Only TD was because of bad kickoff coverage. We missed a field goal. We had a TD called back (ended up getting it anyways). Just not quite the execution we want.
- Tonnemaker only has 42 yards on 7 carries.
- Arizona is only 1-7 on 3rd down.
WR Martin leaves the game with a sternum injury.
35 yards from Rattay to Voight, down to the 19.
The drive dies inside the 10. Sack on 3rd down. 32 yard field goal is good. 20-6, 9:55 left in the 3rd.
3 and out, no touches for Tonnemaker.
11 yards to Olsen on 3rd and 10.
We punt from their 46.
Tonnemaker sees the ball more on this drive. He picks up first downs both via run and reception.
6 yards for Floyd on 3rd and 2.
We lose FS Barron Starr to a finger injury.
4th and 4 from the 25. 43 yard field goal. 20-9, 1:24 left in the 3rd.
We take over on the 48 after a return + face mask.
24 yard TD pass to Voight, who breaks free of coverage with a double move. 27-9, 0:21 left in 3rd.
Rattay now has 310 yards passing.
45 yard pass play, Thomas to Martin. Ball spotted at our 21.
20 yard TD pass to Leigh. 27-16 with 12:48 remaining.
Bad kickoff goes out of bounds. We'll have the ball at the 40.
12 yard pass to Olsen.
RB Morris picks up 11. Then 6 on next carry - he is up to 99 yards.
Rattay is sacked, knocking us out of field goal range.
We pin them at the 3.
The Arizona QB is really beating our secondary badly now. He hit a pair of 20+ passes to drive them past midfield.
4th and 6 at our 39 - they punt with 8:22 remaining.
We are pinned at our 4 yard line.
Morris runs for 3 on 3rd and 2.
Pass play on 3rd and 1 - and Dan Campbell is open for a 22 yard gain.
Good time-consuming drive. Morris has another first down on 12 yard run.
Rattay is intercepted by FS Mike Hall, who returns it for 6! A two-point conversion makes the score 27-24 with 3:04 left.
Jackson returns the kick out to the 48.
Play calling is very conservative - 3 straight runs are stuffed.
The punt puts Arizona at the 16 with 1:36 to play and all their timeouts.
Incomplete.
Sack by Wilson for -3 yards.
19 yard completion to WR Stewart.
8 yards to WR Pierce Stewart.
21 yard pass to TE Joshua Lloyd.
Incomplete. Now 2nd and 10 at the 39 with 0:38 remaining.
J.R. Jackson picks off a deep pass!!!
That was a win that got too close at the end ...
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