What can be said... UMass finally breaks thru and gets a win on the season. They still made plenty of mistakes in this game, but made the biggest play of all to end things in OT. It started on the first possession of the game as UMass marched down the field and got a TD to go up 7-3. Liberty kicked a FG on their first drive. On Liberty's second possession they hit a huge pass play to go up 10-7 and then UMass had an awful miscue on the KO resulting in a safety. This had Liberty leading after 1 quarter 12-7. UMass score the next 14 points to go up 21-12 and felt pretty good about things, but Liberty wouldnt just let the half end. They would score cutting the lead to 21-19. Umass added a FG to make it 24-19 at halftime. The Minutemen would take the second half KO and put together a nice drive resulting in a 6 yard pass to TE Mazotti to go up 31-19. At this point UMass felt good this could be the day. Liberty quickly reminded UMass how nothing is over. On the next drive Libery hit a 19 yd TD cutting the lead to 31-26. UMass kicked a FG on the next drive going up 8. Liberty hit a bomb to make it 34-32 and then converted the 2pt conversion to tie things. Neither team was able to end things in regulation with several turnovers from both teams in the final 5 minutes of the 4th quarter. In OT UMass won the toss and put their tired defense out first, Liberty made short work of that scoring and going up 41-34. UMass had already decided if it came down to it they would go for two and the win as it would be the first time all season they could control whether they won or lost in a single play. First... they would need to find the endzone. On a 3rd and 3 from the Liberty 18, The UMass QB again found TE Mazotti open and he took it in for the score. The call was a toss on the 2pt play and RB John was able to clear the end and got in for the win. The UMass faithful errupted in jubilation as they tasted victory for the first time
GG coach, it was a great game to be a part of. GL in the rest of your games
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