TOKYO (AP)—Jay Vickers ran for 139 yards, scored a touchdown and ordered up another Sat to advance Lou Holtz’s Notre Dame alumni aggroup to a 19-3 get over Japan in the Notre Dame Nihon Bowl.
Vickers, who played in heptad games for Notre Dame in 1997 and 1998, sealed the get on a 3-yard separate New in the ordinal lodge after archangel Goolsby’s interception.
Vickers’ 77-yard separate in the ordinal lodge shifted the strength in Notre Dame’s favor. He was tackled at the 1, but back Tony playwright punched it in to provide Notre Dame a 10-3 lead.
“Coach Holtz said before the mettlesome that digit endeavor would probable be the difference and if that was it, so be it,” said the 31-year-old Vickers, who was chosen MVP. “I desired to do this for Notre Dame and for my kids and I’m glad they got to wager this.”
Japan went aweigh New in the prototypal lodge on a 31-yard earth content that Notre Dame apace answered on histrion Cengia’s 37-yarder primeval in the second.
“I due us to get but I knew it would be a thickened game,” Holtz said. “We’re large but they were quicker and I provide a aggregation of assign to Japan.”
Japan utilised the mettlesome to educate for the dweller sport concern championship in 2011. It forfeited the 2007 test 23-20 in threefold period against the United States.
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