COLLEGE PARK — The Maryland football team secured its first win of the season in October when Minnesota’s kicker missed a game-tying extra point in overtime. Its last setback of the regular season will be remembered for a wayward kick in overtime, too.
Sophomore kicker Joseph Petrino’s 50-yard field-goal attempt would have tied the score and sent Saturday’s regular-season finale into a second overtime period. Instead, the kick sailed wide left, and the short-handed Terps allowed visiting Rutgers to leave Maryland Stadium with a 27-24 win.
“To lose any game is disappointing, but to lose in that fashion hurts you even a little bit more,” sophomore quarterback Eric Najarian said.