Dec. 30—ATLANTA — Penn State’s best player Saturday was sitting alone at a table in one corner of an interview room Saturday.
No one was paying much attention to Gov Mifflin product Nick Singleton, despite him gaining 147 all-purpose yards, scoring one touchdown and catching a two-point conversion pass in the Nittany Lions’ 38-25 loss to Ole Miss in the Peach Bowl.
“It hurts losing a game like this,” Singleton said. “We have to look in the mirror, fix what went wrong and learn from it. We gotta bounce back. We were ready to play, but we made too many mistakes.”
He played superbly. He rushed eight times for 50 yards, caught four passes for 86 yards and one touchdown and returned a kickoff 11 yards. He averaged more than 11 yards on 13 touches.
“I was just really playing,” Singleton said. “The coaches put me in a great position. I was just trying to gain yards and help my team win.”
Late in the second quarter, backup quarterback Beau Pribula entered the game on first down from the Ole Miss 48 with starting quarterback Drew Allar split to the left.
Pribula faked a handoff and found Singleton alone downfield. He caught the pass, turned and sprinted into the end zone to cut the Rebels’ lead to 20-17 at the half.
“We’ve been repping that play forever,” Singleton said. “We ran it in the game and it worked. Beau threw a good ball. I just started running.”
He didn’t do much running despite averaging 6.2 yards a carry. He ran for a 1-yard loss inside the 5 on the first play of the second quarter and carried it just once, for 6 yards, the next two quarters.
“I don’t know,” he said when asked why he didn’t get more runs. “It’s hard to tell. It depends on where the ball was and the down. We can’t blame the coaches.”
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Author : Reading Eagle, Pa.
Publish date : 2023-12-31 04:50:00
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