{"id":26149,"date":"2012-08-30T18:30:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T01:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=26149"},"modified":"2012-08-31T17:21:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T00:21:49","slug":"uc-davis-7-apu-0-1st-qtr-450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=26149","title":{"rendered":"Aggies Take it to Cougars, 41-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26176\" style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/APUDavis2-e1346458797336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26176\" class=\" wp-image-26176  \" title=\"APUDavis2\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/APUDavis2-e1346458797336-1024x744.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quarterback Nick Owens went 9 of 16 for 81 yards. He was sacked twice. Terrell Watson is carrying the ball in the background. (Photo courtesy of Ken Williams)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Davis,CA)- The excitement was legit, understandable, but 4:27 into the first quarter Azusa Pacific University knew it was playing a team from another level. UC Davis went 74-yards to paydirt on its first drive and cruised to a 41-3 victory over APU on Thursday night in the season opener for both schools.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Cougars, playing their first D-IAA opponent since 2007 and without NFL prospect Luke Marquardt at left tackle (nursing a leg injury), quickly found themselves outmatched in the trenches.<\/p>\n<p>Starting the contest at its 26, Davis covered 74 yards in 9-plays. Quarterback Randy Wright went four for four on the drive with key completions to Alex Cannon and Anthony Soto to set up fullback Dalton Turay\u2019s 3-yard scoring run. The drive was also aided by a pass interference penalty on a third and two from the Cougar 13.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the ball APU went three and out on its first, second, third, and fourth possessions.<\/p>\n<p>The Aggies continued to grow their lead. Wright went 37-yards to tight end Taylor Sloat and Brady Stuart added a pair of field goals to build the advantage to 20-0 in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars, on their fifth drive with 8:31 to play in the half, found some traction. Tailback Terrell Watson broke off a 32-yard run. Two plays later Watson converted a Nick Owens pass into 23-yards and a first down at the Davis 28. On a third and 10 Watson took another Owens pass 15-yards to the Aggie 13. Here the march stalled and Jamie Cacciatore salvaged three points with a 31-yard field goal.<\/p>\n<p>Colton Silveria\u2019s 4-yard run with 52 seconds left in the second made the score 27-3 in favor of Davis at the break. They would add scores in the third and fourth quarter to finish out the scoring.<\/p>\n<p>For APU Watson was the bulk of the offense rushing for 146 yards on 17 carries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Davis,CA)- The excitement was legit, understandable, but 4:27 into the first quarter Azusa Pacific University knew it was playing a team from another level. UC Davis went 74-yards to paydirt on its first drive and cruised to a 41-3 victory over APU on Thursday night in the season opener for both schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26149"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26195,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26149\/revisions\/26195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}