Massachusetts Football Concludes 2018 Season at No. 5 Georgia

Team	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Final F
Massachusetts	7	6	7	7	27
Georgia	14	28	17	7	66

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ATHENS, Ga. – Senior wide receiver Andy Isabella set the University of Massachusetts football single-season and career receiving yards records during a 15-catch, 219-yard, two-touchdown outing as the Minutemen fell at No. 5 Georgia, 66-27 on Saturday afternoon.

Isabella needed 16 yards to reset the team's single-season total and 179 for the career record. He capped his career with 3,526 receiving yards on 231 receptions, including 30 for touchdowns. The 5-foot-10 speedster posted 102 catches for 1,698 yards and 13 touchdowns as a senior.

Isabella's career and single-season totals bested former teammate Tajae Sharpe's career mark (3,486 from 2012-15) and Jimmy Moore's single-season record-setting year in 1998 of 1,494 yards on 92 catches.

Isabella's 102 receptions in 2018 and 231 career grabs rank as the second-most respectively. His 30 touchdown receptions and his 13 scoring catches in 2018 are also second-most and tied for the second-best in team history.

Ross Comis started at quarterback and was 23-of-31 for 278 yards passing, two touchdowns and one interception in his final collegiate game. Senior running back Marquis Young totaled 32 yards and a touchdown on seven carries and had three receptions for 13 yards in his final college game as well.

Seventh-year middle linebacker Bryton Barr led the defense with 10 tackles while junior cornerback Isaiah Rodgers added nine in the secondary. Barr's 10 tackles boosted his single-season total up to 147 on the year, tied for the sixth-most in one season in team history and the top mark of the FBS era.

Junior kicker Cooper Garcia was 2-of-2 on field goals from 32 and 34 yards, and 2-for-2 on extra point tries. Garcia finished the year 9-of-11 on field goals (81.1 percent) while he went a perfect 37-of-37 on extra points. Redshirt senior Theo Yongue connected on the final extra point attempt of the year.

Georgia scored the first two touchdowns of the game on runs by Tyler Simmons and Elijah Holyfield before Massachusetts responded with a rushing touchdown of its own.

After Bulldogs return man Terry Godwin muffed a punt return which UMass rookie Joseph Norwood recovered at the Georgia 16 yard line. Five plays later, Young bounced in from five yards away as UMass pulled within 14-7 with 1:52 remaining in the quarter.

Garcia converted both of his field goals in the second quarter as he put through his 34 yard attempt with 7:19 to go in the half before he capped the frame with a 32-yard make as time expired. However, the Georgia offense posted four more scores of its own in half and took a 42-13 lead into the break.

Isabella notched both of his touchdowns in the second half, one each in the third and fourth quarters, on big-gain plays.

The Mayfield, Ohio, native hauled in a 75-yard play as time expired in the third as he weaved his way to a touchdown. Officially, the play, and the entire scoring drive, took only one second as the series started with only a single tick left on the scoreboard.

Isabella added his second touchdown via a 45-yard catch as he carried a defender into the endzone with him at the 8:55 mark of the final frame.

Massachusetts ends its 2018 season with four wins, tied for the most in the program's FBS era alongside the 2017 campaign.

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