UConn beats Carolina in Fenway Bowl, dominates Bill Belichick’s next team

Joe Fagnano threw for 151 yards and two touchdowns to assist UConn beat North Carolina within the Fenway Bowl on Saturday, 27-14, embarrassing Invoice Belichick’s new workforce in his previous yard.

Belichick was not noticed within the residence of the Boston Red Sox, about an hour north of the stadium the place he and Tom Brady hung six Tremendous Bowl championship banners. Interim coach Freddie Kitchens, who, like Belichick, is a former Cleveland Browns coach, took over when Mack Brown was fired and dealt with the bowl preparations.

On a day that was positively not baseball climate, UConn followers took over the house of the Pink Sox, and their workforce was simply as dominant on the sector. Mel Brown rushed for 96 yards for the Huskies.

The Tar Heels (6-7) scored on Chris Culliver’s 95-yard kickoff return however had no actual offense till working again Caleb Hood, who just isn’t listed as a quarterback on the depth chart, took over within the fourth quarter. He ran 5 occasions for 64 yards earlier than throwing a 17-yard landing cross to John Copenhaver that made it 27-14.

Skyler Bell caught three passes for 77 yards for UConn (9-4), together with a 38-yard landing that gave the Huskies a 10-0 first-quarter lead. Culliver took the following kickoff again for the rating, however that will be Carolina’s solely manufacturing within the first half.

Fagnano hit Alex Honig for a 4-yard landing and Cam Edwards ran it in from 2 yards out to offer UConn a 24-7 lead within the second quarter. The Tar Heels didn’t get their initital first down till there have been 24 seconds left within the half, on an encouraging 2-minute drill that introduced them into UConn territory for the primary time earlier than Michael Merdinger‘s blooper of a cross was intercepted by Tui Faumuina-Brown.

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The sport began in rain, however the subject principally held up. There have been only some calls from the grounds crew to come back out and tamp down the sod alongside the basepaths and pitcher’s mound. Snow was piled up alongside the proper subject line, by the Pesky Pole, and in left in entrance of the Inexperienced Monster.

The guide scoreboard was transformed from innings and outs to quarters and downs, and the previous Fenway Bowl champions have been listed the place the AL East standings often go. The bullpen partitions have been eliminated to offer a bit extra space for the Carolina finish zone and goalposts.

“Candy Caroline” performed throughout a TV timeout within the fourth quarter.

Reporting by The Related Press.

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