Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Sports News

NFL: Miami 27, Carolina 17

|
|
 
  
Published: Aug. 23, 2009 at 3:44 AM

MIAMI, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Chad Pennington completed 8-of11 passes for 105 yards and a touchdown Saturday as the Miami Dolphins downed the Carolina Panthers 27-17 in exhibition play.

Ronnie Brown carried the ball seven times for 31 yards and caught three passes for 43 yards and a TD, while Lex Hilliard ran 39 yards for a touchdown for the Dolphins, now 2-0 in pre-season play.

Josh McCown connected on 7-of-12 for 61 yards; Jake Delhomme, 5-of-7 for 47 yards, as the Panthers slipped to 0-2.

DeAngelo Williams rushed for 40 yards and a touchdown on eight carriers for Carolina, and DeCori Birmingham scored on a 2-yard run in the second quarter

Miami also scored a TD on a 2-yard pass from Chad Henne to Joe Kowalewski in the fourth quarter.

Conner Barth and Dan Carpenter hit field goals for the Dolphins, and John Kasay put one through the uprights for the Panthers.

Topics: Chad Pennington, Jake Delhomme, Josh McCown, Ronnie Brown
© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Super Bowl XLVI ticker tape victory parade N.Y. Giants win Super Bowl XLVI Cheerleaders of 2012
Additional Sports News Stories
1 of 25
Meryl Streep and Colin Firth attend the "BAFTA" ceremony in London
View Caption
fark
When you yell "bingo," you better be damn sure you have bingo. Cause if you don't, we will find...
Trading crack for a lapdance, yelling racial slurs, assaulting police, spitting blood, and beating...
History will remember George H.W. Bush for his part in the first Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin...
And now, pictures of dogs underwater
There are many layers to the OWS onion, and each one is more difficult than the last to peel back....
Remember that YouTube Dad who shot daughter's laptop? Apparently some of the local city leaders...