Dramatic End Puts USD in D1AA CRAA Final
Dramatic End Puts USD in D1AA CRAA Final
University of San Diego will be facing Iowa State in the CRAA D1AA final during the CRAA Finals Weekend.
The game itself will be held at about 1:30PM May 4.
Western Washington took on American River College in the Western semifinal on Saturday, beating ARC 35-3. This was still an excellent season for ARC, which is a new program. USD hammered a very good San Jose State team 53-7.
So that set up a final between the Toreros and the Vikings.
Led by a player-of-the-game effort from tighthead prop Torres Kapust, who was a workhorse for USD, and a big weekend from No. 8 Dylan Joven, USD won the final 25-24.
The game was, as you can expect, back-and-forth. San Diego lost captain Logan Tatum to an injury early on and it took a while for USD to get used to that. WWU ran out to a 21-8 lad.
However, the Toreros started to come back with two scored to make it 24-18 WWU with time running out.
San Diego pressured and got a penalty and they opted to kick at goal—it made sense ... make the kick and you're three points down, able to tie it with a kick or win with an unconverted try. And they would be receiving the restart.
But, in the end, WWU was pinned near theirn end and opted to kick clear. The kick attempt clanged off the goalposts. The ball bounced into in-goal and the USD chasers were the first to the ball. Try, and then conversion, and San Diego had won.
