Baylor comes up short against Connecticut

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EAST HARTFORD, Conn. | With a national spotlight on them, Connecticut tailback Donald Brown and Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin weren’t disappointing.

Brown ran for 150 yards and two touchdowns, and Connecticut held off Baylor 31-28 on Friday night for its second straight 4-0 start.

Griffin, a freshman, threw for 208 yards and three touchdowns and ran for another. He consistently scrambled his way out of trouble and drove the Bears, 2-2, to the UConn 39 with less than a minute to play before his fourth-down pass fell incomplete.

“Good teams are going to have to win some close games,” UConn coach Randy Edsall said. “We did that. We stepped up on defense when we needed to.”

UConn quarterback Tyler Lorenzen showed he can run, too. Lorenzen carried the ball eight times for 73 yards and two touchdowns, including a 34-yard draw that gave the Huskies a 24-21 lead.

There were six lead changes, the final one when Brown took a toss and ran 3 yards for a touchdown with just more than 6 minutes remaining. The run completed a 30-yard drive set up by Connecticut’s defense, which almost caught Griffin in the end zone for a safety. UConn instead forced a punt and got the ball back at the Baylor 30 after a penalty on the Bears for interfering with the returner.

A pass-interference penalty on Dwain Crawford put the ball at the 9. Lorenzen and Brown did the rest.

“It was a bad sequence of events,” Baylor coach Art Briles said. “Their defense did a great job in stopping (Griffin).”

Posted on Fri, Sep. 19, 2008 10:15 PM

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