{"id":31434,"date":"2023-09-30T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-survives-late-umass-rally-to-win-34-31-in-ot\/"},"modified":"2023-09-30T20:06:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T20:06:21","slug":"new-mexico-survives-late-umass-rally-to-win-34-31-in-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-survives-late-umass-rally-to-win-34-31-in-ot\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico survives late UMass rally to win 34-31 in OT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMHERST, Mass. \u2013 Jacory Croskey-Merritt scored on a 2-yard run in overtime and New Mexico survived a late rally to beat Massachusetts 34-31 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman backup quarterback Ahmad Haston threw a 65-yard scoring strike to Anthony Simpson with 45 seconds remaining in regulation and the Minutemen (1-4) added the two-point conversion to knot the score at 28 and force overtime.<\/p>\n<p>UMass got the ball first but had to settle for Cameron Carson&#8217;s 34-yard field goal, setting the stage for the Lobos (2-2).<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico took a 14-0 lead after one quarter on Dylan Hopkins&#8217; 12-yard touchdown pass to Caleb Medford and Croskey-Merritt&#8217;s 21-yard scoring run.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins and Sherod White had short touchdown runs in the second quarter and the Lobos took a 28-14 lead into halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Carson kicked a field goal in the third and fourth quarters before Haston&#8217;s long TD pass to Simpson.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins completed 9 of 17 passes for 192 yards for New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>UMass starter Carlos Davis completed 11 of 20 passes for 196 yards and a touchdown. Haston completed all five of his passes for 102 yards. Kay&#8217;Ron Lynch-Adams rushed 26 times for 96 yards and a score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMHERST, Mass. \u2013 Jacory Croskey-Merritt scored on a 2-yard run in overtime and New Mexico survived a late rally to beat Massachusetts 34-31 on Saturday. Freshman backup quarterback Ahmad Haston threw a 65-yard scoring strike to Anthony Simpson with 45 seconds remaining in regulation and the Minutemen (1-4) added the two-point conversion to knot the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[992,799],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-31434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-college-sports","tag-farmington"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31434"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=31434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}