Friday, September 6, 2013

WSSU comes up short against UNC Pembroke

25-21 loss ends 20-game, regular-season winning streak

PEMBROKE, North Carolina  -- Winston-Salem State’s 20-game regular-season winning streak is history.

The upstart UNC Pembroke Braves answered every Rams’ challenge to come away with a 25-21 win in front of a Grace P. Johnson Stadium record crowd of 7,849.


Capitalizing on miscues by the Rams on special teams — and a costly interception thrown by quarterback Anthony Carrothers in the fourth quarter — the Braves pulled off the upset.

"We didn’t play Ram football, that’s all there is to it,” said linebacker Carlos Fields of WSSU, which is ranked fifth in NCAA Division II. “We’re not used to this, so I’m having trouble really saying anything. It’s just disappointing.”

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