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MU rallies in 4th quarter, falls in 3 OT
RedHawks lose Brandon Murphy, Joey Hudson for Cincinnati game
Adam Hainsfurther
Issue date: 9/11/07 Section: Sports
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The RedHawks battled back from a 28-12 deficit late in the fourth quarter and sent the game into overtime, only to fall 41-35 in triple overtime to the Golden Gophers. It was the second triple overtime game in the history of Miami football.
After losing middle linebacker Joey Hudson in the second series to injury, the RedHawks defense opened up against the run. The Golden Gophers' Amir Pinnix ran for 126 yards and one touchdown, while quarterback Adam Weber's ran for 97 yards and a touchdown of his own.
"It's not just the linebackers, it's our four upfront," Miami Head Coach Shane Montgomery said. "We've got to find out who our best combinations are. Obviously when you go against a Big Ten team like that, you've got to find ways to stop the run. We've just got to keep getting our young guys upfront, keep getting them more experience, just keep using as many as we can and obviously get great production from our linebackers like we did the first ball game."
If losing Hudson wasn't enough for the RedHawks, after dealing with injuries all last season, running back Brandon Murphy went down in the fourth quarter with a knee injury. Although it doesn't look as serious as his season ending injury last year, Murphy had an MRI Monday, will receive results Tuesday and will most likely not play in this weekend's game against Cincinnati. Before leaving the game, Murphy ran for 78 yards on 12 touches.
"Obviously when you loose a guy like Brandon, he had a great year two years ago and he was running really well, obviously you feel bad for him, not just for us, but you feel bad for him because he worked really hard to get back to where he was," Montgomery said. "We're going to have some other guys pick it up."
Losing Murphy will give the majority of the rushes to Andre Bratton, who took over for Murphy and racked up 58 yards in the game and one touchdown.
"Obviously with Brandon, we felt good with where he had been, he ran really well the first two ball games," Montgomery said. "If he's going to be out right now then obviously Andre Bratton is going to have to pick up some of the slack and we're going to have to get some of the other guys ready."
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