10/28/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
28 October 2024 Sports
Backup Malik Willis completed a 51-yard pass to Jayden Reed that set up Brandon McManus’ second winning kick in as many weeks, a 24-yarder that lifted the Green Bay Packers to a 30-27 victory at Jacksonville on Sunday.
Willis rallied the Packers (6-2) to their fourth consecutive win, this one with Jordan Love watching from the sideline. Willis completed 4 of 5 passes for 56 yards, with a touchdown and the biggest completion of the day.
Willis found Reed wide open down the left sideline after safety Andre Cisco fell down in coverage. It was all the Packers needed to rebound from Trevor Lawrence’s perfectly placed, 14-yard touchdown pass to Evan Engram that helped tie the game.
Engram caught the ball between three defenders and gave the Jaguars (2-6) all the momentum. But Packers coach Matt LaFleur dialed up a gut-punch to Jacksonville on second down.
Josh Jacobs ran for 127 yards and two touchdowns for Green Bay, which lost Love to a left groin injury in the third quarter. Love dropped to the ground near the sideline following a second down throw to Jacobs. Jaguars defensive end Travon Walker bumped Love after the play, but the quarterback had been hobbled most of the game.
Love seemed to tweak his groin on the opening drive of the game. He started favoring his left leg after an incomplete pass. He ended up in the medical tent and had his upper leg wrapped when he came back out.
He wasn’t the same the rest of the day and struggled to move in the pocket. The team said he was questionable to return. He completed 14 of 22 passes for 196 yards, with an interception – his league-leading ninth of the season.
The Jaguars lost all three of their starting receivers: Brian Thomas Jr. (chest), Christian Kirk (shoulder) and Gabe Davis (shoulder). Kirk was quickly ruled out after he injured his left shoulder trying to make a diving catch.
Jacksonville also lost cornerback Ronald Darby (hip), right guard Brandon Scherff (knee) and left guard Ezra Cleveland (ankle). Scherff was the only one able to return.
Green Bay’s Tucker Kraft became the latest tight end to hurt the Jaguars. Kraft had a 67-yard reception in the second quarter in which he broke one tackle and stiff-armed another defender to set up a field goal. He added a 3-yard touchdown catch in the fourth.
Kraft’s performance was no surprise considering how many of his colleagues have made similar big plays against Jacksonville in recent weeks. New England’s Hunter Henry had eight receptions for 92 yards last week. Chicago’s Cole Kmet had five catches for 70 yards and two scores the week before. And Indianapolis’ Mo Alie-Cox started the trend with two receptions for 37 yards and a score earlier this week.
McManus returned to the place where he played last season and delivered three field goals in the victory.
The Packers lost rookie safety Evan Williams to a hamstring injury.
The Packers host NFC North rival Detroit (5-2) next Sunday.
Elsewhere in the NFC North the Lions rolled over the Titans 52-14 to improve to 6-1, while the Bears lost to the Commanders 18-15 and drop to 4-3,
In Sunday Night Football the 49ers beat the visiting Cowboys 30-24 and tonight the Giants are at the Steelers.
Tonight, the Yankee’s host the the Dodgers in game three of the World Series.. LA leads 2-0 after a 4-2 win Saturday night. That followed a dramatic 6-3 victory in game one Friday night, when Freddy Freeman hit a grand-slam home run in the bottom of the 10th inning to win it for the Dodgers. It was the first walk-off grand slam home run in World Series history.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Beau Pribula performed in relief of injured quarterback Drew Allar, Jaylen Reed scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 19-yard interception return and No. 3 Penn State rallied to beat Wisconsin 28-13 on Saturday night.
Allar went into the locker room before his teammates in the final minute of the first half after he landed a little awkwardly while getting sacked on Penn State’s last series of the second quarter. Allar came back onto the field for the second half wearing a brace around his left knee, but he remained on the sideline for the rest of the night.
Penn State (7-0, 4-0 Big Ten) trailed 10-7 at the time of Allar’s exit. The Nittany Lions also played much of the game without star defensive end Dani Dennis-Sutton, who got hurt in the first half and briefly returned in the third quarter before leaving for good.
Reed and Pribula helped make sure the Nittany Lions remained unbeaten anyway.
Pribula went 11 of 13 for 98 yards through the air, including a 1-yard touchdown to Khalil Dinkins. He also rushed for 28 yards on six carries as Penn State outscored Wisconsin 21-3 in the second half to snap the Badgers’ three-game winning streak.
But it was Reed who delivered the biggest play of the night.
Throwing from his own end zone on third-and-14 from the 8, Braedyn Locke sent a pass across the middle that went directly to Reed. The Penn State safety then raced into the right corner of the end zone to put the Nittany Lions ahead 14-10 with 6:29 left in the third quarter.
Locke bounced back on Wisconsin’s next series by throwing a 33-yard pass to CJ Williams that set up a Nathanial Vakos 32-yard field goal, cutting Penn State’s advantage to 14-13. Pribula answered by leading Penn State into the end zone on each of its next two series.
Pribula capped a 13-play, 81-yard drive by finding a wide-open Dinkins in the back of the end zone with 10:01 left in the game. After Wisconsin (5-3, 3-2) went three-and-out on its next series, Penn State scored again on Kaytron Allen’s 24-yard scamper with 3:10 remaining.
Before leaving the game, Allar went 14 of 18 for 148 yards in the first half with a 6-yard touchdown pass to Nick Singleton, who made a one-handed grab. Allar also fumbled away a fourth-and-inches snap on the Wisconsin 28 to thwart a scoring opportunity on the Nittany Lions’ opening series.
Wisconsin led 10-7 at the half thanks to a Vakos 50-yard field goal on the game’s first series and a Tawee Walker 1-yard touchdown run with 1:23 left in the second quarter. Vakos’ field goal followed a 15-yard run by Atticus Bertrams on a fake punt.
Locke ended up going 22 of 42 for 217 yards and the interception to Reed. Penn State limited Walker to 59 yards on 22 carries.
Next up, Wisconsin visits Iowa on Saturday.
RV Lake Forest College 66, Ripon College 0-The Red Hawks fall to 2-5 overall and 2-4 in the conference
UW-Oshkosh 42, UW-Stevens Point 7-The Titans improve to 5-2 and 3-1 in conference play.
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