Rice Owls at UTEP Miners

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Rice Owls

3-8, 1-5 Away

Final
28 - 38

UTEP Miners

7-4, 5-1 Home

Hardison's career-high leads UTEP past Rice 38-28

Hardison completed 23 of 35 passes and threw for two touchdowns. Jacob Cowling caught a career-high 11 passes for 170 yards.

After trailing 21-14 at halftime, UTEP (7-4, 4-3 Conference USA) took control with a short field goal followed by a succession of 1-yard touchdown runs by Calvin Brownholtz, Quardraiz Wadley and again by Brownholtz.

Jake Constantine threw two touchdown passes as the Owls scored 21 points in the second quarter to build their halftime lead. Constantine completed 14 of 25 passes for the Owls (3-8, 2-5), who have lost four in a row.

UTEP snapped a three-game losing streak.

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Scoring Summary

TD	1st Period 10:08	Jacob Cowing 7 Yd pass from Gavin Hardison (Gavin Baechle Kick)
TD	2nd Period 10:13	Ari Broussard 1 Yd Run (Christian VanSickle Kick)
TD	2nd Period 8:22	Justin Garrett 14 Yd pass from Gavin Hardison (Gavin Baechle Kick)
TD	2nd Period 1:03	Jack Bradley 6 Yd pass from Jake Constantine (Christian VanSickle Kick)
TD	2nd Period 0:12	Cedric Patterson III 33 Yd pass from Jake Constantine (Christian VanSickle Kick)
FG	3rd Period 5:51	Gavin Baechle 22 Yd Field Goal
TD	3rd Period 2:30	Calvin Brownholtz 1 Yd Run (Gavin Baechle Kick)
TD	4th Period 12:54	Quardraiz Wadley 1 Yd Run (Gavin Baechle Kick)
TD	4th Period 9:02	Calvin Brownholtz 1 Yd Run (Gavin Baechle Kick)
TD	4th Period 5:42	Luke McCaffrey 2 Yd Run (Christian VanSickle Kick)

Statistics

RICE		UTEP
22	1st Downs	23
4-16	3rd down efficiency	4-11
2-4	4th down efficiency	1-1
390	Total Yards	488
230	Passing	366
19/38	Comp/Att	23/35
6.1	Yards per pass	10.5
160	Rushing	122
34	Rushing Attempts	32
4.7	Yards per rush	3.8
3-35	Penalties	10-78
0	Turnovers	1
0	Fumbles lost	0
0	Interceptions thrown	1
28:50	Possession	31:10

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