Showing posts with label extra point. Show all posts
Showing posts with label extra point. Show all posts

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Female kicker makes historic extra point for Kent State football team (VIDEO)


The kick wasn't perfect, but that hardly mattered to April Goss when she finally got her big chance to get on the football field. In doing so, Goss made the extra point — and history.


A four-year member of Kent State's football team, Goss kicked the extra point in the first half Saturday in a 45-13 win over Delaware State, becoming the second woman to score in a major college football game. 

Katie Hnida kicked a pair of extra points for New Mexico in 2003. Goss, who was a soccer player in high school before deciding to try football, appears to be the only woman currently on a Division I roster.

Wearing No. 91, Goss made the kick with 4:30 left in the second quarter, giving the Golden Flashes a 29-6 lead.




"I was a little disappointed I didn't make a better kick. I was sure it was going right, but it did go through," said Goss after the game. "I'll probably beat myself up for that for a little while, but it was awesome."



Thursday, September 25, 2014

High School team scores extra point off opponent's helmet (VIDEO)

A high school football team scored an extra point after the ball bounced off a defender's helmet to help it get over the crossbar.



The freak play began when the ball was snapped low to the holder and kicker Keegen Hemenway had to make an awkward kick for the point. Hemenway's line-drive kick was low but ricocheted off a defender's head before sailing through the uprights.

The lucky bounce gave Dell Rapids High School a 38-0 lead over their South Dakota rivals Milbank High School.

And no, the defender doesn't get an assist on the play.

Big Sioux Media’s Matt Larson had live-streamed the game and while his call of the play is no "Do you believe in miracles," it's still pretty funny.