Bearcats Open Season Against The Towson State Tigers With A 35-20 Victory 38-20

 

 

The University of Cincinnati Bearcats put their 22-game streak of season opening wins on the line against the Towson University Tigers.

It is the Bearcats second season in the Big 12 Conference. They start the season with a transfer quarterback from Indiana, Denton, Texas native, Brendon Sorsby, who started seven games for the Hoosiers last season.

Sorsby ran two yards for the touchdown on the Bearcats' first possesion. The drive was seven plays, 75 yards in 3:43.

Towson recovered a fumbled punt on the Cincinnati, 20 but settled for a  32-yard field goal by Keegan Vaughn.

Sorsby connected with Xzavier Henderson for a 42-yard touchdown with 6:50 left in the first quarter, for a 14-3 lead.

Sterling Berkhalter caught a 61-yard bomb with 3:13 for Cincinnati's third touchdown of the quarter.

Towson drove 63 yards to the Cincinnati two but Jared Bartlett stopped.Devin Mathews on the two.

Towson's Carlos Davis found the speedy Jaceon Doss 10 yards past the line of scrimmage. Doss produced lots of daylight between the the defender and himself on the way to a 76-yard touchdown with 9:54 left in the half.

Sorsby ran 12 yards for the Bearcats fourth touchdown of the half.

Davis hit John Dunmore with a jump ball pass to beat Ormanie Arnold with a 28-yard touchdown pass with :19 seconds left to close the halftime gap to 28-17.

Towson closed the gap to eight points with a Keegan Vaughn 31-yard field goal with 10:10 left in the thrid quarter.

Evan Pryor ran 64 yards for a touchdown on the first play from scirmmage after the kickoff.

The Bearcats ate 63 yards in 11 plays to set up Carson Brown's 36-yard field goal.

"That is awesome to start the season 1-0. It is nothing we take for granted. We had a great start to the game. We got out offensively man and hit on all cylinders. It's hard to maintain that the whole game. We are disappointed with turnover we had on the long run. I do think Brendan played a good game. He could have played a lot better. I think there are a couple plays he'd like to have back for sure. Overall was pleased with the way he played."

Cincinnati put up 658 yards and gave up 438.