catmandoo
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posted 11-30-2014 09:03 AM
It was so close and could have gone either way. The one good thing was the Cats fought hard and almost beat a ranked team at their field.
No matter what had happened before or during the game, Kentucky had a chance to beat Louisville here Saturday.
Forget the pregame scuffle between players that coaches and officials had to rush on the field to break up — three times. Forget the quick 13-0 lead UK got thanks to its defense and then let slip away when former Lexington Catholic star Kyle Bolin came off the bench to lead the Louisville offense after quarterback Reggie Bonnafon went down late in the first quarter.
Kentucky rattled off 13 straight points to go on top 33-28 with 9 minutes, 32 seconds to play. Louisville answered with a touchdown 94 seconds later on a 96-yard drive to regain the lead and then tacked off a field goal. But UK drove 75 yards in three plays to score on a not-to-be-denied run of 14 yards by Boom Williams for a 40-37 lead with 5:31 still to go.
It was the kind of pace the Kentucky-Louisville basketball game likely will be played at, but the Cats couldn’t hold on as Bolin led an 81-yard scoring drive to put the Cards back on top and then the Louisville defense held by picking off Patrick Towles’ fourth-down pass inside the final minute.
“There are several plays that are going to haunt,” a disappointed UK coach Mark Stoops said. “Good and bad, we had opportunities to change the game. We have to learn to make those plays.”
Louisville did even with Bolin — the No. 3 quarterback on the depth chart — pressed into duty. He did throw an interception that Fred Tiller returned 40 yards for a score, but he also completed 21 of 31 passes for 381 yards and three scores. When the Cards needed a play, he made it or let Devante Parker (six catches for 180 yards and three scores) make it.
Kentucky made big plays of its own like a 30-yard interception return by A.J. Stamps, Tiller’s pick six, a blocked punt by Javess Blue in Louisville territory, a forced fumble by Bud Dupree that Za’Darius Smith recovered and another forced fumble by Dupree that Mike Douglas returned 30 yards for a score.
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