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University of Massachusets Athletics
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Massachusetts Football Drops Season Finale to UConn, 31-18
November 25, 2023 | Football
Lynch-Adams logs 10th and 11th touchdowns of the season, becomes program’s FBS single-season rushing leader
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts football team dropped a 31-18 decision to the University of Connecticut on Saturday afternoon at McGuirk Alumni Stadium (12,291).
Redshirt junior Kay'Ron Lynch-Admas totaled two touchdowns and 51 yards rushing on the day. His two scores marked his 11th and 12th of the season, while his 51-yards added to his single-season total of 1,157 yards to become the program's leading rusher in the FBS era.
Quarterback Taisun Phommachanh threw for 230 yards on 18-for-30 passing with a touchdown. Anthony Simpson hauled in six passes for 107 yards with a 40-yard long reception. Gino Campiotti scored in his second consecutive game, catching a 10-yard touchdown pass, which marked his fourth touchdown of the season.
For the UMass defense, Nahji Logan matched his career-high with nine tackles, followed by Te'Rai Powell with eight and Tyler Rudolph with seven. Billy Wooden tallied 2.5 TFLs for 11 yards and a sack for seven yards. Jordan Mahoney had his first forced fumble of the season, as Rudolph came away with the recovery, marking his second recovery of the season.
How It Happened
Connecticut took a 6-0 lead on pick six by Mumu Bin-Wahad with 11:16 to play in the first quarter.
Te'Rai Powell and Dominic Schofield combined to stop UConn on fourth-and-one from the UMass five-yard line with 1:02 left in the first quarter but were unable to convert the stop into points the other way.
UConn's Joe McFadden added a pair of field goals and Victor Rosa had a touchdown to give the Huskies a 19-0 lead at the half.
On UConn's first play of the second half, Jordan Mahoney forced a fumble that Tyler Rudolph was able to recover. It set up a six play, 37-yard touchdown drive by the Minutemen, capped off by a 10-yard touchdown grab from Gino Campiotti with 11:58 left in the third quarter.
On the next drive, the Minutemen held the Huskies to a 47-yard field goal attempt that sailed wide right. But following a UMass punt, Cam Edwards finished off a nine-play, 70-yard drive with a touchdown run to move it to 25-6 with 1:08 left in the third quarter.
Massachusetts put together another touchdown drive early in the fourth quarter to make it a 25-12 game. The drive, which was five plays and 73 yards, included a 40-yard grab by Anthony Simpson and a one-yard Kay'Ron Lynch-Adams touchdown run.
Lynch-Adams added his second score of the day with another one-yard rush with 02:03 remaining in the contest.
Notes
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Billy Wooden and Josh Atwood served as the Massachusetts captains for the 12th consecutive game, while quarterback Taisun Phommachanh was a captain for the sixth game in a row.
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Kay'Ron Lynch-Adams posted his 11th and 12th rushing touchdowns of the season to set the season-best mark in Massachusetts' FBS era, passing Marquis Young (9 rushing TDs in 2017 and 2018).
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Lynch-Adams added 51 yards to his rushing total for the season to pass Ellis Merriweather (2018 – 1,138) for the top rushing season in the FBS Era (yards) with 1,157.
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Anthony Simpson totaled 107 yards receiving on the day to move his season total to 792, which moved him to seventh in UMass' FBS era (sixth among wide receivers):
1,698 – Andy Isabella (2018)
1,319 – Tajae Sharpe (2015)
1,281 – Tajae Sharpe (2014)
1,020 – Andy Isabella (2017)
808 – Adam Breneman (2016/TE)
801 – Andy Isabella (2016)
792 – Anthony Simpson (2023)
764 – Adam Breneman (2017/TE)
680 – Tajae Sharpe (2013) -
Tyler Rudolph came up with his second fumble recovery of the season.
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Jordan Mahoney recorded his first forced fumble of the season (fourth of his career).
Team Stats
CON 6, UMA 0
CON - Bin-Wahad,Mumu 45 yd interception ()
CON 9, UMA 0
CON - McFadden,Joe 31 yd field goal 6 plays, 15 yards, TOP 01:27
CON 12, UMA 0
CON - McFadden,Joe 30 yd field goal 7 plays, 33 yards, TOP 02:29
CON 19, UMA 0
CON - Rosa,Victor 17 yd run (McFadden,Joe kick), 3 plays, 27 yards, TOP 01:14
CON 19, UMA 6
UMA - Campiotti,Gino 10 yd pass from Phommachanh,Taisun () 6 plays, 37 yards, TOP 02:50
CON 25, UMA 6
CON - Edwards,Cam 4 yd run (), 9 plays, 70 yards, TOP 05:45
CON 25, UMA 12
UMA - Adams,Kay'Ron 1 yd run (), 6 plays, 73 yards, TOP 01:33
CON 31, UMA 12
CON - Edwards,Cam 8 yd run (), 12 plays, 77 yards, TOP 08:12
CON 31, UMA 18
UMA - Adams,Kay'Ron 1 yd run (), 4 plays, 78 yards, TOP 01:25
