Nevada beats UNLV 27-20
Saturday, Sep. 29, 2007 @ 8:22 pm
The Fremont Cannon will stay blue for another year.
With the game tied at 20-20 and only 27 seconds remaining, Nevada’s Nick Graziano found Kyle Sammons streaking down the sideline for a 43-yard touchdown that gave the Wolf Pack a 27-20 victory over the UNLV Rebels in front of a sold out house of 25,728 fans.
“Its awesome, words can’t describe it,” Sammons said. “People dream of making catches like that. I’m living the dream right now.”
Nevada took a 20-13 lead over UNLV on a 15-yard touchdown pass to tight end Adam Bishop with 3:02 to play, and it looked as if the Rebels might fold.
But UNLV came roaring back and converted on two fourth-and-10 situations.
On the second fourth-and-10, freshman quarterback Travis Dixon hit Ryan Wolfe up the middle and Wolfe broke two tackles and dove in for a game-tying 30-yard touchdown.
“He started throwing the ball a lot better in the fourth quarter,” senior linebacker Ezra Butler said of Dixon.
Nevada’s offensive unit got the ball with only 1:02 to play, but went 65 yards in 35 seconds, culminating with the touchdown pass to Sammons.
“Kyle Sammons just kind of took over the field and took it upon himself to win for us,” junior wide receiver Mike McCoy said.
UNLV drove to Nevada’s 16-yard line and had one last chance to tie the game, but Dixon’s pass to Rodelin Anthony was too high and the clock ran out.
“That was one heck of a ball game,” Coach Chris Ault said. “We got a lot to work on, but the bottom line is you’ve got to find a way to win and we did.”
Nevada’s Nick Graziano threw for 330 yards and three touchdowns, including a long 90-yarder to Mike McCoy near the end of the first quarter
Graziano also threw a critical interception in the third quarter with Nevada on the 16-yard line and threatening to score.
“I thought Graziano played very, very average,” Ault said.
UNLV out-rushed Nevada 205-128 and was led by junior Frank Summers who had 120 yards rushing.
Luke Lippincott led the rushing for Nevada with 61 yards and was closely followed by Brandon Fraggerwith 52 yards.
UNLV led twice in the game, once after a opening drive field goal by Sergio Aguayo made it 3-0 and again in the fourth quarter after another Aguayo field goal made it 13-10.
Five minutes later Nevada’s Brett Jaekle tied the game at 13 with a 30-yard field goal and Nevada never trailed again.
Jaekle also had a career long 50-yard field goal early in the first quarter to tie it at 3-3.
Nevada improved to 2-2 and UNLV fell to 2-3.
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