{"id":35988,"date":"2013-11-09T19:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T02:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=35988"},"modified":"2013-11-10T01:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T08:00:40","slug":"azusa-pacific-vs-dixie-state-kick-off-630-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=35988","title":{"rendered":"Cacciatore, Cougars Get Their Kicks"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jamie<\/a>

Jamie Cacciatore boots home the game winner for the Cougars.<\/p><\/div>\n

(Glendora) \u2013 Azusa Pacific’s Jamie Cacciatore booted a 25 yard field goal as the clock hit zeroes to beat Dixie State 23-20 Saturday night at Citrus College. The Cougars scored ten points in the last two and half minutes to hold off Dixie and improve to 8-1 in the GNAC, 8-2 overall.<\/p>\n

The Cougars took their first lead of the game with 2:39 left in the fourth quarter on a three yard run by Ronald Douglas to make it 20-13, only to see Dixie State respond with a 44 yard pass from Griff Robles to Joel Davis to tie it at 20.<\/p>\n

***Dixie State called three consecutive timeouts in an attempt to freeze Cacciatore before the game winning kick.<\/p>\n

***Terrell Watson, who came into the game with 1,459 yards and 17 touchdowns finished with 129 yards and a score for APU. His longest run was 19 yards<\/p>\n

***Dasmen Stewart threw for 271 yards completing 23 of 34 including some big ones down the stretch.<\/p>\n

***Dixie State led 6-3 at the half and 13-3 early in the third quarter when Mitch Frei hauled in a ten-yard pass from Robles at the 10:01 mark.<\/p>\n

***Robles completed 19 of 32 for 263 yards and three touchdowns. He was also hurt by three picks.<\/p>\n

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\"Dasmen<\/a>

Dasmen Stewart was solid at the helm for APU<\/p><\/div>\n

***Sean Barber returned from injury and had an interception. Tyler Thornton had two picks for the Cougs.<\/p>\n

***Cacciatore also kicked field goals of 19 and 34 yards. \u201cIn knew they were going to do that. I say bring it on!\u201d Cacciatore said of the Dixie State freeze.<\/p>\n

***Watson scored on a five-yard run early in the fourth to tie the game at 13.<\/p>\n

***The total yard count was nearly identical. The Cougars had 414 while the Red Storm compiled 399.<\/p>\n

*** \u201cI feel blessed to do something great. I couldn’t be more happy. This is a proud school and I’m proud to be a part of it.\u201d said APU Coach Victor Santa Cruz of the Cougars season.<\/p>\n

***The game winning Azusa drive started at the APU 41 with 1:46 left in the clock. Stewart completed three straight passes and then four consecutive Watson runs moved the ball down to the Dixie State seven-yard line. An APU time out followed by three Dixie State timeouts set the stage for Cacciatore.<\/p>\n

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(Glendora) \u2013 Azusa Pacific’s Jamie Cacciatore booted a 25 yard field goal as the clock hit zeroes to beat Dixie State 23-20 Saturday night at Citrus College. The Cougars scored ten points in the last two and half minutes to hold off Dixie and improve to 8-1 in the GNAC, 8-2 overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-35988","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\/35988","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35988"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35994,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35988\/revisions\/35994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}