PASADENA, CA: A season in the past, Coastal Carolina quarterback Grayson McCall threw 24 landing passes with solely two interceptions. On a tough Saturday night time on the Rose Bowl, McCall matched his interception complete from 2022 whereas being battered and bruised by UCLA’s protection in a 27-13 loss to the Bruins. Coastal turned the soccer over thrice, with McCall additionally fumbling as soon as, as CCU was unable to reap the benefits of three compelled turnovers by its personal protection. The loss spoiled the debut of Tim Beck as Chanticleers head coach and was the primary non-conference common season setback for Coastal since 2019.
Going into the sport, UCLA head coach Chip Kelly had a fierce quarterback competitors on his palms. Kelly settled on a veteran, beginning redshirt junior switch Ethan Garbers. The previous Washington Huskie repaid his coach’s religion by main UCLA on a 78-yard scoring drive on the sport’s first possession. Garbers’ 21-yard TD cross capped the drive and gave the Bruins a 7-0 lead simply over two minutes into the sport.
The rating remained 7-0 coming into the second quarter as each offenses discovered the going powerful. Nonetheless, CCU was capable of break by with a 16-play, 75-yard march that resulted in a 22-yard FG by Liam Grey to chop the Bruins’ result in 7-3 with 11:12 remaining within the half. That’s when Kelly turned to his younger hotshot.
Extremely touted freshman QB Dante Moore got here into the sport and instantly made an influence. The Detroit, Michigan, product led his group on a fast six-play drive that resulted in a 14-yard TD cross to push UCLA’s benefit to 14-3 late within the second interval. Moore completed the sport 7-of-12 passing for 143 yards with two touchdowns and one interception.
CCU countered with one other subject purpose by Grey as time expired to ship the sport to halftime with the Bruins out in entrance, 14-6.
The Chanticleers got here out swinging within the second half and lower the result in one with a nifty 75-yard drive in 9 performs that ended with McCall’s solely TD cross of the night time to Greenwood’s Sam Pinckney. Pinckney led all receivers with 9 catches for 139 yards and the rating. Alas, that was the ultimate time CCU would dent the scoreboard.
UCLA added a landing and two subject targets within the fourth quarter to ease away from the guests and decide up the win.
Within the loss, Coastal’s Clayton Isbell tied a faculty report with three interceptions. In line with CCU, Isbell matched Dontavius Johnson (2012), Josh Norman (2009), and Marrio Norman (2007) as Chanticleer gamers with a trio of interceptions in a single sport. McCall accomplished 27-of-42 passes for 271 yards with 1 TD and a pair of INTs. He was additionally sacked 4 occasions and hurried quite a few different occasions.
UCLA completed with 417 yards of complete offense whereas holding the Chanticleers to 345 and simply 56 on the bottom.
Coastal will return to Conway to host Jacksonville State subsequent Saturday at 7pm.
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