"But I'm not just going to just flush this down the toilet, either. "We'll let it sting, then we'll look at film and make the necessary corrections. "I wouldn't say we just forget about this and move on," O'Neal said of the loss. next Saturday against the Sioux City Bandits at Tony's Pizza Events Center, then finish up at Wichita on June 26. The Liberty play their final regular-season home game at 6:30 p.m. But the Beef would have to win both remaining games and have the Liberty lose its last two to tie for the regular-season title. With the victory, Omaha remained in second place in the CIF at 5-3, 6-3 overall. Byrd had nine catches for 96 yards to pace the Liberty, with Tyler Jones grabbing six for 59 yards and Rashad Pargo - another former Liberty standout - catching four for 55 yards and a score. Kidd, who made his second straight start at quarterback in place of Tyrie Adams, completed 19 of 30 passes for 196 yards and four touchdowns - all four to Byrd - and rushed for another score, while Jackson was 22 of 31 for 202 yards and three scores.īrooks led Salina on the ground with 38 yards on eight carries, while Deshawn Jones ran for 19 yards and a touchdown on eight carries for Omaha. Statistically, the game was a near-dead heat, with Salina picking up 232 yards total offense to 230 for the Beef. The Liberty picked up a first down to the Omaha 19-yard line with 3 seconds on the clock, but Kidd's pass toward Chad Steinwachs went wide out of bounds as time expired. Jackson hit Norman Darden for 5 yards to the 5, and Omaha used its final timeout with 18 seconds left, and after he threw incomplete to Montero Debose at the 15-second mark, he found Jones over the middle for the game winner. That's what it came down to," O'Neal said of the Liberty's failure to touch Jones down after the catch. On the first play, he hit Jones near midfield for what turned into a back-breaking 28-yard gain when Jones got up after a diving catch and advanced the ball to the 10-yard line. That was all Jackson, who led the Liberty to a division title in 2019, needed. Omaha used two timeouts and the one-minute warning, leaving 51 seconds on the clock after Kidd's lunge for the first-down marker came up literally one inch short. Tracy Brooks then picked up 2 yards on the ground, Kidd threw and ran for 6 yards on third down to the Beef 13, setting up a crucial fourth-and-2. The Liberty then picked up a big first down on Kidd's 10-yard completion to Byrd with under two minutes left. Salina still led 35-32 after Norman Darden scored on a 6-yard run for Omaha with 5:33 left. More: Salina Liberty quarterbacks Tyrie Adams and Mitch Kidd are an effective one-two punch "I'd never put that on one person," O'Neal said.
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