Wake Forest Demon Deacons vs Louisville Cardinals Match Player Stats On Dec 12, 2020

Freshman running back Jalen Mitchell rushed for168 yards, Hassan Hall scored two touchdowns and Louisville shrugged off a slow start Saturday to rout visiting Wake Forest, 45-21, in an Atlantic Coast Conference game.

Quarterback Malik Cunningham went 16-of-22 passing for 195 yards and two touchdowns as the Cardinals finished their season 4-7 overall and 3-7 in the conference. Louisville finished with 453 yards of total offense and went 7 of 14 on third-down conversions.

Sam Hartman went 17-of-41 passing for 224 yards with two scores and an interception for Wake Forest (4-4, 3-4). Hartman saw a string of 242 passes without an interception end late in the second quarter.

The Demon Deacons trailed just 28-21 after Hartman found Jaquarii Roberson for a 37-yard touchdown pass with 13:24 left in the game. But the Cardinals blew it open with a 23-yard touchdown run by Jordan Watkins, a 40-yard James Turner field goal and Cunningham's 22-yard scoring strike to Marshon Ford in the last 7:17.

Playing for just the second time since Oct. 31, Wake Forest initiated scoring on a 10-yard touchdown pass from Hartman to Taylor Morin with 8:04 left in the first quarter. The Demon Deacons only needed to drive 24 yards after a high snap forced punter Ryan Harwell to run for a 2-yard loss on fourth down.

Louisville's offense sputtered in the first quarter, but Hall evened the score at 7 midway through the second quarter with a 2-yard run, capping an eight-play, 80-yard drive.

After Nick Sciba's 45-yard field goal restored a lead for Wake, the Cardinals scored two touchdowns in the final 4:09 of the half. Cunningham's 5-yard run gave them their first lead, and Hall punched in from the 1, five plays after Monty Montgomery ended Hartman's interception-less streak.

Louisville upped the margin to 28-10 with 8:03 left in the third quarter when Cunningham fired a 4-yard scoring strike to Francis Sherman, but the Deacons responded with Sciba's 31-yard field goal less than two minutes later.

--Field Level Media